“It turns out you can’t just walk out and shut the gate behind you on a small, crowded piece of land you ruled for 40 years, especially not when you’re still calling the shots on how many trucks can come in and out, or how much water and electricity is supplied to the people living in the enclosure you wanted to erase from your mind. Gaza and its two million residents cannot be made to disappear, not literally and not figuratively,” writes Hagai El-Ad.

The water from Gaza’s taps is unsafe to drink because it contains dangerous levels of chlorine and sulphate.

Israeli human rights organizations demand High Court order the state to revoke the rules of engagement that permit shooting unarmed demonstrators.

The current wave of protests – a Palestinian initiative bookended by Land Day on one side and Nakba Day on the other – is compelling the world, Israelis included, to see Gaza and pay attention to its residents.

Sar-Shalom Jerbi, director of the National Civil Service Administration, has summoned the director of B’Tselem to a meeting about rescinding the organization’s national service position.

The High Court ruled on Monday that a Palestinian who was wounded in border clashes with IDF soldiers and had his right leg amputated must be permitted to travel to the West Bank for treatment to save his other leg.

Teenage settlers who erected an illegal outpost in the northern West Bank attacked Israeli soldiers who came to evacuate them.

An Israeli court ruled Monday that it is permitted for visitors to the Temple Mount compound to call out, “Am Yisrael chai” (“The people of Israel live”), because it is a patriotic slogan rather than prayer.

US Senator Bernie Sanders on Monday castigated Israel for its handling of recent clashes at the Gaza border, telling the liberal Mideast advocacy group J Street that Israel “massively overreacted” to the protests.

The Palestine Liberation Organization’s envoy to the US capital said Monday that Palestinians would “celebrate the Jewish connection to Jerusalem” once a Palestinian state was established with East Jerusalem as its capital.

A senior Hamas delegation was scheduled to arrive in Cairo on Tuesday amid reports that Egypt has been exerting pressure on the Palestinian terror group to halt the weekly “March of Return” mass demonstrations along the Israeli border.

A workers’ union says it is a deliberate move to increase pressure on Hamas, but Palestinian Authority says delay in paying its Gaza employees’ salaries is a ‘technical issue’, soon to be resolved.

Long hailed as the ‘moderate’ voice among Trump’s envoys to the Middle East, Jason Greenblatt’s blanket support for the Israeli government has disqualified him from playing any meaningful role as a fair arbitrator.

U.S. special Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt fired back after Palestinian official Saeb Erekat circulated a letter to foreign diplomats stationed in Ramallah, accusing the American diplomat of being a mouthpiece for Israel.

From Boston to San Francisco, young activists from IfNotNow demonstrate outside the offices of prominent Jewish institutions and senators, demanding they condemn Israel’s violence against Gaza protesters.

The City Council in Durham, North Carolina, has voted unanimously to bar the city’s police department from international exchanges in which the officers receive “military-style training” in a slap at such programs held with the Israeli army and police.