Stop Killing Children in Gaza

Dec. 6, 2023 A woman carries the body of her child, who was killed in an airstrike on a house in Gaza.Credit…Haitham Imad/EPA, via Shutterstock Share full article 1.4K By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist Sign up for the Israel-Hamas War Briefing.  The latest news about the conflict. Get it sent to your inbox. Consider this: The most dangerous

US Must Recognize Palestine

By R. David Harden and Larry Garber Mr. Harden is a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama’s special envoy for Middle East peace. Mr. Garber served as the USAID mission director to the West Bank and Gaza. It is time. The United States should recognize the state of Palestine and join the 139 other countries that have done so.

Mayor of Gaza City on Destruction of Gaza

Dec. 24, 2023 By Yahya R. Sarraj, mayor of Gaza City and a former rector of the University College of Applied Sciences there. He wrote from Gaza City. As a teenager in the 1980s, I watched the construction of the intricately designed Rashad al-Shawa Cultural Center in Gaza City, named after one of Gaza’s greatest public

Israeli Army Kills Three Hostages

Israeli soldiers in December in northern Gaza. By Roni Caryn Rabin/ Reporting from Jerusalem/ Jan. 4, 2024 The news that three Israeli hostages were mistakenly shot and killed last month in Gaza by soldiers meant to save them outraged many in Israel, who have since demanded answers about how the army conducts itself on the battlefield

Resigned from State Department to Protest US Aid to Israel

Nov. 17, 2023 By Josh Paul, a former director in the State Department’s political-military affairs bureau, which oversees U.S. arms transfers. On Oct. 18, I resigned from the State Department because I could not support the provision of U.S. weapons into the conflict in Gaza, where I knew that they would be used to kill thousands

Gaza: ‘Graveyard’ for Children

By Raja Abdulrahim/ Photographs by Samar Abu Elouf and Yousef Masoud Nov. 18, 2023/NYT Barefoot and weeping, Khaled Joudeh, 9, hurried toward the dozens of bodies wrapped in white burial shrouds, blankets and rugs outside the overcrowded morgue. “Where’s my mom?” he cried next to a photographer for The New York Times. “I want to see my mom.”

Children of Gaza Devastated by Israel

By Catherine Russell/ the executive director of UNICEF. It is hard to describe what it means for someone to be “severely wasted,” but when you hold a child who is suffering from this most lethal form of acute malnutrition, you understand, and you never forget. In Afghanistan last year, I met a 3-month-old girl named Wahida who

Putin ignores Israel in its conflict with Hamas

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at a regional summit in Kyrgyzstan on Friday, in a photo released by Russian state media. President Putin of Russia has long cast himself as a friend of Israel and the Jewish people. He helped establish visa-free travel between Russia and Israel in 2008, presided over the construction of

We Must Not Kill Gazan Children to Try to Protect Israel’s Children

Oct. 21, 2023 In Gaza, children inspect damage from an Israeli bomb. By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist, reporting from Tel Aviv The crisis in the Middle East is a knotty test of our humanity, asking how to respond to a grotesque provocation for which there is no good remedy. And in this test, we in the

The New York Times Editorial on Gaza on Oct 14

Oct. 14, 2023 By The Editorial Board The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. Israel stands on the verge of invading Gaza in response to the terrorist attacks by Hamas that many, including Israel’s leaders, have compared

Gaza Proves the Collapse of the Global System & Values

The wounded and their families arriving inside Al Shifa Hospital. Hundreds of people injured in Israeli airstrikes and attacks now have no where to go for treatment and even safety. Hospitals in Gaza are now almost non-existent, with a few overfilled ambulances and sharing bloodied gurneys at the entrances. Workers and bystanders rush to carry

230 Palestinians Killed in Gaza: Children of Gaza are Crying Out

By Moushira khattab Since May 10, 2021, at least 230 Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank have been killed, including more than 67 children in Gaza and 3 children in the West Bank. And more than 8,130 Palestinians were injured, including 540 children in Gaza and 210 children in the West Bank, according to the