{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "title": "Times of Palestine", "home_page_url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/", "feed_url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/feed.json", "language": "en", "items": [ { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/43476b7f0f.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/43476b7f0f.html", "external_url": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiswFBVV95cUxPTXhrcGVTQXJtc25JdVdZeTl1V2NCQWNLYmhpS1BhbEpzT0w1M1l5aXpnZEJGVVgwMnhWQ3VkdUV3d2hkLXFsNlI0VXJsWklxWlBUZExQRHZ4X3JiYnhFRWNVSzhPa0JRa0VCUUZjMHU4V05MeldrYW8zY29fOEFjRFR0VXMzMjVJcG1IN0QwOF9GaHBtVG9TQTZEMEg4aXl3YnhrclFmWFROTUJtSXU5d012cw?oc=5", "title": "Gaza Health Ministry reports 61% of cancer drugs depleted under blockade", "summary": "The Gaza Health Ministry warned that 61 percent of cancer medications have run out of stock, according to Palestine Chronicle. The depletion occurs as Israel maintains a siege on the enclave, restricting the entry of medical supplies and pharmaceuticals into Gaza.\n\nThe shortage leaves cancer patients across the territory without access to critical treatment options. The crisis compounds an already fragile healthcare system struggling to operate under the blockade. Health officials have not specified which particular drugs are affected or provided details on the scale of patient impact, though the loss of such a substantial portion of oncology medications signals a severe breakdown in the availability of life-saving treatments.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T22:07:30Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "palestinechronicle.com", "url": "https://news.google.com/" } ], "tags": [ "health" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-health.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/9d539d96c8.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/9d539d96c8.html", "external_url": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DR60l-K8vnyi99NZovm9HlXyZwQ85GMDxiwJWzoasZYCUrPuUM_P_4Rb7ei03j-0nRs0c4F=w16", "title": "Israel halts crocodile breeding plan over animal welfare concerns", "summary": "Israel has suspended a plan to breed crocodiles, citing animal welfare as the reason for the decision, The New Arab reported. The project had faced criticism from various quarters, though the stated rationale focused on conditions for the reptiles rather than other potential concerns that observers had raised about the initiative.\n\nDetails of the breeding program and its original purpose remain unclear from the decision announcement itself. The halt marks a reversal of what officials had previously authorized, though the timing and circumstances surrounding the reversal have not been fully disclosed. The decision underscores tensions between development projects and animal protection standards in the region.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T22:03:46Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "The New Arab", "url": "https://www.newarab.com/" } ], "tags": [ "gaza" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-gaza-b.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/105257d84d.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/105257d84d.html", "external_url": "https://shehabnews.com/post/161559/%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%B2-%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%82-657-%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%83-%D8%A7-%D8%B1%D9%82%D9%85%D9%8A-%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D8%AD%D9%82-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%AE%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%AA%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B2", "title": "Center documents 657 digital violations against Palestinians in July", "summary": "A monitoring center documented 657 digital violations targeting Palestinians during July, according to Shehab Wire. The violations spanned multiple online platforms and digital spaces, affecting Palestinians across different regions and communities.\n\nThe tally represents a systematic effort to track and record cyber abuses directed at Palestinian users and content creators. Digital violations have become an increasingly documented phenomenon affecting Palestinian presence and expression online.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T21:56:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Shehab Wire (EN)", "url": "https://shehabnews.com/" } ], "tags": [ "news" ], "image": "https://shehabnews.com/thumb/1200x630/uploads/images/2026/08/0h5wm.jpg?v=1" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/8c81a54978.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/8c81a54978.html", "external_url": "https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/08/us-supreme-court-wont-halt-655-million-judgment-against-palestinians-over-attacks", "title": "Supreme Court declines to block $655 million Palestinian damages judgment", "summary": "The U.S. Supreme Court will not halt a $655.5 million damages judgment against Palestinian authorities, Justice Sonia Sotomayor ruled Monday. The award stems from a civil lawsuit filed by plaintiffs in connection with attacks that killed and injured people, according to Al-Monitor. Sotomayor's decision preserves the lower court's judgment without addressing the underlying legal questions in the case.\n\nThe ruling allows the damages to stand pending any further appeals or legal proceedings. Palestinian authorities had sought to block the judgment, which represents one of the largest civil awards against a Palestinian entity in U.S. courts.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T21:46:40Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Al-Monitor", "url": "https://www.al-monitor.com/" } ], "tags": [ "news" ], "image": "https://www.al-monitor.com/sites/default/files/styles/social_media_share/public/2026-08/2026-08-03T210227Z_4_LYNXMPEM721MG_RTROPTP_4_USA-COURT-PALESTINIANS.JPG?h=687ade0d&itok=gN2crYjm" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/bfdf807368.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/bfdf807368.html", "external_url": "https://shehabnews.com/post/161558/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%AD%D8%AB-%D9%85%D8%B9-%D8%B1%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%B3-%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A-%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%B6%D8%A7%D8%B9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9", "title": "Hamas leader meets Turkish intelligence chief on Gaza situation", "summary": "Hamas political bureau chief Khaled al-Hayya met Monday with Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin to discuss recent political and military developments related to the Palestinian cause, Shehab Wire reported. The meeting brought together senior officials from the Islamist movement and Ankara's intelligence apparatus at a moment of continued tensions in Gaza.\n\nThe two officials reviewed the latest developments on the ground and broader political dimensions of Palestinian affairs during their encounter. No statement was immediately issued describing the substance of their discussions or any specific outcomes from the talks between the Hamas leader and the Turkish intelligence official.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T21:46:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Shehab Wire (EN)", "url": "https://shehabnews.com/" } ], "tags": [ "gaza" ], "image": "https://shehabnews.com/thumb/1200x630/uploads/images/2026/08/9hBji.jpg?v=1" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/fe21967588.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/fe21967588.html", "external_url": "https://shehabnews.com/post/161556/%D8%AB%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AB-%D8%A5%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%AE%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%82%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B7%D9%82%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%85%D9%86-%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%B3", "title": "Israeli forces wound three Palestinians in Nablus raid", "summary": "Three Palestinians sustained injuries during an Israeli military incursion into the eastern sector of Nablus, Shehab Wire reported. The operation occurred in a populated area of the West Bank city, though the specific timing of the raid was not indicated in initial reports.\n\nThe identities of the three wounded Palestinians and their medical conditions remained undisclosed. No statement was immediately available regarding the stated objectives of the military operation or circumstances that preceded the incursion into the eastern neighborhoods.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T21:18:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Shehab Wire (EN)", "url": "https://shehabnews.com/" } ], "tags": [ "westbank" ], "image": "https://shehabnews.com/thumb/1200x630/uploads/images/2026/07/vN94z.jpg?v=1" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/604a0c55bf.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/604a0c55bf.html", "external_url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/video/inside-story/2026/8/3/will-israel-withdraw-from-gaza-if-hamas-disarms?traffic_source=rss", "title": "Israel expresses doubt Hamas will disarm from Gaza", "summary": "Israel has expressed skepticism that Hamas will agree to lay down its weapons, raising questions about whether the country would follow through on a conditional withdrawal from Gaza, Al Jazeera English reported. Israeli officials have tied any potential pullout from the territory to the Palestinian group's disarmament, but indicated they hold little confidence in the likelihood of such a development.\n\nThe statement reflects broader uncertainty surrounding postwar security arrangements in Gaza and the practical feasibility of any agreement that would require Hamas to surrender its military arsenal. Israeli policymakers have made the group's disarmament a threshold condition for Israel's departure, even as they acknowledge deep reservations about whether negotiations could produce such an outcome.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T21:05:11Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Al Jazeera English", "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/" } ], "tags": [ "gaza" ], "image": "https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-1785790776.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&quality=80" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/3d5d915650.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/3d5d915650.html", "external_url": "https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/arab-league-chief-condemns-israeli-attacks-gaza-attempt-sabotage", "title": "Arab League chief condemns Israeli attacks as ceasefire sabotage", "summary": "The Arab League secretary general has strongly condemned Israeli attacks on Gaza, accusing Israel of attempting to sabotage the ceasefire agreement, Middle East Eye reported. The official statement delivered a sharp rebuke of Israeli military operations during the truce period and called for adherence to the deal's terms.\n\nThe condemnation reflects deep divisions over how the ceasefire is being implemented on the ground. Arab League officials have previously warned that violations by either party could collapse the fragile agreement, and the statement signals mounting frustration with Israeli military activity since the truce took effect. The timing of the rebuke comes as international mediators work to stabilize the ceasefire between Israel and Gaza.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T20:55:28Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Middle East Eye", "url": "https://www.middleeasteye.net/" } ], "tags": [ "gaza" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-gaza.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ff195db3fa.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ff195db3fa.html", "external_url": "https://shehabnews.com/post/161557/%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D8%B8%D9%86%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%87-%D9%82%D8%B5%D9%81-%D8%A7-%D8%B2%D9%84%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%84-%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1-%D9%8A%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85-%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%89-%D9%85%D8%A7-%D9%8A%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%87-%D8%A3%D9%87%D9%84-%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B0-%D8%A3%D9%83%D8%AB%D8%B1-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%81-%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85", "title": "Earthquake shakes Gaza, Egypt, and regional neighbors", "summary": "An earthquake struck Egypt and was felt across Gaza and several neighboring countries, lasting only seconds before subsiding, Shehab Wire reported. The tremor was brief enough that residents initially mistook the shaking for something else entirely, sparking immediate conversation across social media platforms in Gaza as people sought to confirm what they had experienced.\n\nThe seismic event drew swift attention on messaging apps and social networks, with residents sharing observations and questions about the source of the disturbance. The brief but noticeable shaking reached multiple countries across the region, making it a notable occurrence for populations already navigating daily uncertainty.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T20:55:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Shehab Wire (EN)", "url": "https://shehabnews.com/" } ], "tags": [ "gaza" ], "image": "https://shehabnews.com/thumb/1200x630/uploads/images/2025/01/mUX4V.webp?v=1" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/473f76d4db.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/473f76d4db.html", "external_url": "https://zeteo.com/p/what-happened-in-gaza-is-coming-to", "title": "Experts warn West Bank faces Gaza-style violence from settlers", "summary": "Zeteo convened a town hall featuring analysts and Palestinian rights advocates to examine what they described as \"settler terror\" in the occupied West Bank, drawing parallels to the destruction in Gaza. Panelists including Diana Buttu and Fadi Quran discussed U.S.-funded Israeli settlements, patterns of sexual violence against Palestinian women, and what they characterized as Israeli impunity across both Democratic and Republican administrations.\n\nThe discussion addressed how settlement expansion and settler violence operate alongside military occupation, with speakers warning that conditions in the West Bank may escalate toward Gaza-level violence. Participants examined the role of U.S. funding in supporting settlements and questioned accountability mechanisms under both Biden and Trump administrations.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T20:47:39Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Zeteo", "url": "https://zeteo.com/" } ], "tags": [ "women" ], "image": "https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WsgY!,w_1200,h_600,c_fill,f_jpg,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-video.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fvideo_upload%2Fpost%2F209679857%2F688410d6-95ce-419c-9393-9b57b336797b%2Ftranscoded-141334.png" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/564b7cfacf.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/564b7cfacf.html", "external_url": "https://shehabnews.com/post/161555/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D9%8A%D8%B5%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7-%D9%85%D8%B4%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D8%B4%D8%A3%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B5%D9%84%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9", "title": "Egypt, Qatar, Turkey condemn ongoing Israeli violations in Gaza", "summary": "Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey issued a joint statement condemning Israeli violations in Gaza, Shehab Wire reported. The three nations, acting as mediators, expressed strong denunciation and rejection of what they described as continuous Israeli breaches occurring in the enclave.\n\nThe statement was released as the mediator countries maintain their involvement in diplomatic efforts related to the Gaza conflict. Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey have played central roles in negotiation processes between the parties. The joint condemnation reflects their shared position on the matter and their continued engagement in regional dynamics surrounding the territory.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T20:12:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Shehab Wire (EN)", "url": "https://shehabnews.com/" } ], "tags": [ "gaza" ], "image": "https://shehabnews.com/thumb/1200x630/uploads/images/2026/08/xvL8M.png?v=1" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/2fc24ae725.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/2fc24ae725.html", "external_url": "https://shehabnews.com/post/161554/%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B5-%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%88-%D9%84%D9%80-%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84-%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%BA%D9%84-%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%82%D8%A9-%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7-%D8%AA%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A8-%D9%82%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A8-%D9%85%D8%B9-%D8%AC%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AF-%D9%88%D9%82%D9%81-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86", "title": "Israeli occupation exploits Gaza for electoral gains, analyst says", "summary": "Political analyst Dhaw al-Faqar Swirjo told Shehab Wire that Israeli occupation forces will show no near-term willingness to respond to ceasefire efforts or initiatives from various parties aimed at halting the assault on Gaza, despite ongoing diplomatic discussions about forthcoming agreements to end the bombardment.\n\nSwirjo characterized the occupation's approach as instrumentalizing the Gaza situation for electoral purposes, a strategy that signals entrenched positions unlikely to shift substantially in the foreseeable future. The analyst's assessment reflects widespread skepticism among Palestinian observers about the prospects for meaningful progress on ceasefires, even as international diplomatic efforts continue to push for an end to hostilities.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T20:04:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Shehab Wire (EN)", "url": "https://shehabnews.com/" } ], "tags": [ "gaza" ], "image": "https://shehabnews.com/thumb/1200x630/uploads/images/2026/08/9CKIG.jpg?v=1" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/156bad5d0a.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/156bad5d0a.html", "external_url": "https://www.maannews.net/news/2166314.html", "title": "Israeli army sets three red lines for Gaza ceasefire deal", "summary": "Israel's military has established three red lines that must be respected in any ceasefire agreement for Gaza, the Ma'an news agency reported. The specified conditions represent core demands the Israeli military leadership considers non-negotiable as negotiations over the conflict continue.\n\nDetails of the three conditions were not immediately disclosed in available reporting. The move signals that the Israeli military intends to maintain firm positions on certain core issues as discussions proceed with other parties involved in potential ceasefire talks.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T19:59:24Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Maan Wire (EN)", "url": "https://www.maannews.net/" } ], "tags": [ "gaza" ], "image": "https://cdn4.telesco.pe/file/p_BqTyAVq1FX-tZuI48BSaBgJLmuWygcGsd_2A-1HiNKiHwDyp2bGEcWeYu8v1ROMxtuGWdR5RHoZ6VyjSSBgES8eMiFSZoHm0fGrqHZlgJuIl6D0zXrxnN-9OYt_xfjuc4GyOvgzif7lQJYhPg7hQLN-9K6MvcoAv-KrLveNgYoDSrZ54LngOPsQEsKSz_R52V49dFmpxF-2y5yym6-6ZWedS87gm6UDFaojLkQ8foy-cstgT-fxczAah0IYKWb8zl1ChkI45xLvar89IrqPImn0p58T-lib31qbtA7LBkJZYXlNmSnd7eVSK1Jfyj2-EtI3NRdWib4L7Af0jEwQg.jpg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/28b213ce89.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/28b213ce89.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Aid agencies reach a fraction of Gaza's traumatised children", "summary": "UNICEF says every child in the Gaza Strip now needs some form of mental health and psychosocial support — about 1.1 million children. UNICEF also says its play-based and recovery services in Gaza reach more than 30,000 children a month.\n\nThat is the gap the ceasefire has exposed rather than closed.\n\nThe World Health Organization's Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said last October, in figures relayed by OCHA, that the number of people in Gaza needing mental health care had more than doubled over two years of hostilities, from about 485,000 to more than a million. WHO's 2026 health emergency appeal for the occupied Palestinian territory repeats the estimate of one million people in need of mental health and psychosocial support, alongside more than 18,500 patients waiting for medical evacuation and over 5,000 amputations.\n\nPrevalence figures for children come from separate studies rather than any single population survey. A review of research from 2024 and 2025 published in", "date_published": "2026-08-03T19:53:20.856473Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "health" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-gaza-mental-health-generation-2026-08-03-19-lede.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/b03d4bf7b6.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/b03d4bf7b6.html", "external_url": "https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-set-fire-palestinian-land-south-nablus", "title": "Israeli settlers torch Palestinian farmland near Nablus", "summary": "Israeli settlers set fire to agricultural land in the town of Beita south of Nablus on Monday night, Middle East Eye reported. The arson attack damaged crops and farm infrastructure in the area. The incident was one of several assaults on Palestinians that night, with settlers also attacking Palestinian vehicles in coordinated violence across the region.\n\nThe attack in Beita follows a pattern of settler violence targeting Palestinian communities near Israeli settlements. Such incidents have accelerated in recent years, with Palestinian farmers and property owners frequently facing damage to crops, equipment, and vehicles during night raids by armed settlers.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T19:45:29Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Middle East Eye", "url": "https://www.middleeasteye.net/" } ], "tags": [ "westbank" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-westbank.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/13df3b9e0d.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/13df3b9e0d.html", "external_url": "https://imemc.org/article/occupation-forces-widen-demolitions-bulldoze-west-bank-lands", "title": "Israeli forces demolish structures across three West Bank districts", "summary": "Israeli occupation forces carried out coordinated demolitions across three West Bank districts on Monday, destroying agricultural structures, a home under construction, a horse farm, and multiple commercial facilities, IMEMC News reported. The synchronized operation targeted properties in separate locations across the occupied territory.\n\nThe demolitions marked an expansion of Israeli demolition activity in the West Bank. Authorities did not announce advance notice of the operations. The destroyed structures included both residential and commercial properties, along with agricultural installations serving Palestinian communities in the affected districts.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T19:30:20Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "IMEMC News", "url": "https://imemc.org/" } ], "tags": [ "westbank" ], "image": "https://imemc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/demilish-e1785785386588.jpg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/eb18db4ce2.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/eb18db4ce2.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Ali Al Thawadi brokers both Gaza's ceasefire and the Iran deal", "summary": "The negotiations that could end the American-Iranian war are due to resume this afternoon. If they produce an agreement, one of the men who built it will be Ali Al Thawadi, Qatar's minister of state for strategic affairs — the official President Donald Trump named, alongside heads of state, as having \"largely negotiated\" his deal with Iran.\n\nA year ago almost nobody outside Doha knew his name. The Telegraph has since called him the mysterious fixer who saved the Gaza deal from disaster.\n\nFor Palestinians the file matters twice over. The man holding Qatar's seat on the board that oversees Gaza's reconstruction is the same man Washington and Tehran trust with their deal, and the two files move together or stall together.\n\n![Ali Al Thawadi's two files: Gaza and Iran, joined in Doha](times-of-palestine-thawadi-doha-channels.svg)\n\n## An attack called off, talks back on\n\nThe past two days show how fast this file swings. On Saturday, Trump said he had called off what he described as the bigge", "date_published": "2026-08-03T18:30:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "politics" ], "image": "/media/ali-al-thawadi-un-2026.jpg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/f709b024f9.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/f709b024f9.html", "external_url": "https://imemc.org/article/soldiers-colonizers-escalate-attacks-across-west-bank-2", "title": "Israeli forces and settlers escalate West Bank raids overnight.", "summary": "Israeli occupation forces and illegal settlers carried out widespread attacks across the occupied West Bank overnight into Monday, IMEMC News reported. The operations included invasions of towns and refugee camps, home break-ins, resident abductions, and property demolitions spanning multiple locations throughout the territory.\n\nThe coordinated escalation involved both military units and paramilitary settler groups operating simultaneously across the region. Soldiers entered residential areas under cover of darkness, detaining residents and conducting searches of homes. Settler groups engaged in parallel operations, destroying property and attacking Palestinian communities.\n\nThe scale of the overnight campaign represented a significant intensification of Israeli military and settler activity in the West Bank, though comprehensive figures on arrests, demolitions, and specific targeted locations remained unclear in initial reports.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T18:18:46Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "IMEMC News", "url": "https://imemc.org/" } ], "tags": [ "westbank" ], "image": "https://imemc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/invade_soldiers-e1785776017468.jpg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/b92085737a.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/b92085737a.html", "external_url": "https://t.me/maannews/36034", "title": "Trump pledges US commitment to controlling and developing Gaza", "summary": "Trump announced the United States' commitment to controlling and developing the Gaza Strip, the Ma'an news agency reported. The declaration represents a stated shift in American policy positioning toward the territory's future governance and reconstruction efforts.\n\nThe announcement did not specify details regarding the timeline for implementation, the scope of American involvement, or the mechanisms through which the United States would exercise control or direct development projects in Gaza. Trump's statement comes amid ongoing regional developments and international debate over Gaza's administrative and economic future.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T18:16:07Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Maan Wire (EN)", "url": "https://www.maannews.net/" } ], "tags": [ "gaza" ], "image": "https://cdn4.telesco.pe/file/s1qBR5LmddG0osMOlb3_X-8nJ980AU3F9tM94HOzsUZkgWEdywRHjZBqMC7zpEja6EUPeK8k_Cv7RQzjEHq2meyWQjAeOTyA11J1f2ybwrTBLcPVOPxJJCc1bbgg9n1VdyCJ3TlB4hGJ9FaTwbMLa28yzShqSTxAI2z868Dw-WbkSCDvPInNWkLtGW5n_By9HCWYX1SAUpuASMU7Mp_xqCFzQUlChFlWj21xW-B5_q1yMRKWKAJdNBZ4Z96ZP4L5H6UtscOsEnzXVS5ty3Xo5FE1q2VK4Kl9i7HpuZCqFKJX3wzRwJdBgnEkgrTRwWGU0kz7ZtxZxRR2R_BsQAXbqA.jpg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/fc73efb48b.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/fc73efb48b.html", "external_url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/8/3/can-netanyahu-survive-israels-most-consequential-election?traffic_source=rss", "title": "Israelis vote in first election since Gaza war began", "summary": "Israelis will head to the polls in October for the country's first election since the war in Gaza began, according to Al Jazeera English. The vote represents a critical juncture for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces the electorate for the first time since military operations in the territory commenced months earlier.\n\nThe election takes place against a backdrop of sustained conflict and deepening domestic political divisions. Netanyahu's handling of the Gaza campaign and its toll on Israeli society will likely dominate campaign messaging as voters weigh the direction of the country's leadership and foreign policy. The outcome could reshape Israel's political landscape and determine whether Netanyahu remains in office.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T18:16:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Al Jazeera English", "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/" } ], "tags": [ "gaza" ], "image": "https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/no-title-1785780721.png?resize=1920%2C1080&quality=80" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/3c72663ea5.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/3c72663ea5.html", "external_url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/8/3/israel-top-court-hears-challenge-to-unrwa-ban?traffic_source=rss", "title": "Israel's top court hears constitutional challenge to UNRWA ban", "summary": "Israel's Supreme Court heard arguments challenging legislation that would ban the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees from operating in the country, Al Jazeera English reported. The case tests whether the government's authority to restrict the humanitarian organization complies with Israel's basic laws and international obligations regarding refugee assistance.\n\nThe court's decision will determine the fate of UNRWA operations serving Palestinian refugees in Israeli territory. The agency has faced mounting political pressure from Israeli lawmakers and ministers who have called for its shutdown, citing security concerns and disputes over its mandate and neutrality.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T18:13:43Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Al Jazeera English", "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/" } ], "tags": [ "news" ], "image": "https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-1785780797.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&quality=80" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/853683e284.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/853683e284.html", "external_url": "https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/trumps-board-peace-says-israeli-withdrawal-gaza-reliant-complete-hamas", "title": "Trump's peace board ties Israeli Gaza withdrawal to total Hamas disarmament", "summary": "President Donald Trump's \"Board of Peace\" said Monday that Israel's withdrawal from Gaza depends on Hamas undergoing \"complete\" disarmament, according to Middle East Eye. The condition was presented as an essential prerequisite for any Israeli pullout from the territory, where fighting has continued since October 2023.\n\nThe board's statement frames disarmament as a gateway to Israeli troop departure. The announcement signals the Trump administration's position that military objectives against Hamas must be achieved before withdrawal becomes possible. No details have been provided about how such disarmament would be verified or the timeframe for implementation. The statement comes amid ongoing negotiations over the future of Gaza and the terms under which Israel might end its military operations there.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T18:07:31Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Middle East Eye", "url": "https://www.middleeasteye.net/" } ], "tags": [ "gaza" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-gaza.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/b89e74ca44.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/b89e74ca44.html", "external_url": "https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-foreign-minister-says-israeli-settler-violence-driving-force", "title": "Palestinian minister says settler violence enables settlement expansion", "summary": "Palestinian Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin said Monday that Israeli settler violence functions as a \"complementary pillar\" of settlement expansion in occupied Palestinian territory, according to Middle East Eye. He characterized the pattern of attacks by settlers as structurally linked to the broader territorial project of establishing and enlarging settlements across the West Bank.\n\nThe minister's statement reflects Palestinian arguments that settler aggression and official settlement construction operate in coordination. Together, they contend, these mechanisms displace Palestinians from their land while consolidating Israeli presence in areas claimed by the Palestinian Authority. Aghabekian Shahin's framing positions settler violence not as incidental to expansion but as integral to its execution.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T17:59:15Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Middle East Eye", "url": "https://www.middleeasteye.net/" } ], "tags": [ "westbank" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-westbank.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/93b6417fbb.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/93b6417fbb.html", "external_url": "https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-attack-west-bank-villages-pepper-spray-elderly", "title": "Israeli settlers pepper-spray elderly Palestinian in West Bank attack", "summary": "An elderly Palestinian was injured after Israeli settlers attacked him with pepper spray while he stood on his own land in the Abu Njeim area, southeast of Bethlehem, Middle East Eye reported. The assault occurred as settlers carried out a broader campaign of violence against Palestinian communities across the West Bank.\n\nThe incident marked the latest in a series of attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in occupied territory. Settlers have increasingly targeted Palestinian villages and farmland in the region, with residents facing harassment, property damage, and physical assault. The elderly man's injuries came as tensions remain high in areas where Israeli settlement expansion continues to encroach on Palestinian land.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T17:48:22Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Middle East Eye", "url": "https://www.middleeasteye.net/" } ], "tags": [ "westbank" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-westbank.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/659940f659.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/659940f659.html", "external_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B2GPDx3X-Y", "title": "Israel develops AI chatbots to shape Gaza conflict messaging", "summary": "Israel is developing artificial intelligence chatbots programmed to manage online discussion of the Gaza conflict, the Quincy Institute reported. The chatbots are designed to generate talking points and respond to criticism of Israeli military operations across digital platforms, part of a broader effort to counter narratives unfavorable to Israel's conduct in the territory.\n\nThe initiative represents an escalation in digital information campaigns surrounding the conflict. The system would allow automated responses to emerge across social media and other online spaces where public debate over Gaza takes place. No details were provided about the program's funding, scope, or timeline for deployment.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T17:46:14Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Quincy Institute", "url": "https://quincyinst.org/" } ], "tags": [ "research" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-research-b.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/a80265f201.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/a80265f201.html", "external_url": "https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/lebanon-arrests-former-palestinian-ambassador", "title": "Lebanon arrests ex-Palestinian ambassador on corruption charges", "summary": "Lebanese authorities arrested the former Palestinian ambassador to Beirut on Monday, ahead of his extradition to Palestine to face corruption charges, according to Middle East Eye citing a Lebanese judicial official. The official provided no immediate details on the specific allegations or the diplomat's identity.\n\nThe arrest marks an escalation in efforts by Palestinian authorities to pursue officials accused of financial misconduct. Extradition proceedings between Lebanon and Palestine have been uncommon, reflecting the limited diplomatic coordination between the two territories on law enforcement matters. The case underscores ongoing anti-corruption efforts within Palestinian institutions.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T17:29:03Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Middle East Eye", "url": "https://www.middleeasteye.net/" } ], "tags": [ "accountability" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-accountability.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/87403627f6.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/87403627f6.html", "external_url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/8/3/new-illegal-israeli-outpost-spotted-in-occupied-west-bank?traffic_source=rss", "title": "Israeli settlers establish new outpost in occupied West Bank", "summary": "Israeli settlers have established a new illegal outpost in the occupied West Bank, according to Al Jazeera English. Palestinians reported the settlement near the villages of Arabuna, Deir Ghazala, and Faqqua. The new construction marks the latest expansion by settlers in the territory, where such outposts have proliferated despite international legal challenges.\n\nUnauthorized Israeli settlements remain a contentious issue in the West Bank. While Israel's government has not formally sanctioned the new outpost, such structures often operate with de facto protection from Israeli security forces. Palestinian communities have consistently documented settler expansion as an obstacle to peace efforts and territorial control.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T17:07:37Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Al Jazeera English", "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/" } ], "tags": [ "westbank" ], "image": "https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-1785776836.jpg?resize=1920%2C1080&quality=80" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/92989d4c4c.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/92989d4c4c.html", "external_url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/8/3/inside-the-palestine-action-protests?traffic_source=rss", "title": "UK proscribes Palestine Action, arrests thousands in crackdown", "summary": "The UK designated Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, triggering the arrest or investigation of thousands of members and supporters, according to Al Jazeera English. The proscription represents the first time Britain has outlawed a group primarily engaged in direct-action protest campaigns rather than armed operations.\n\nPalestine Action had staged repeated demonstrations and disruptions at facilities operated by arms manufacturers and military suppliers. The group's tactics included occupying factory sites and targeting companies involved in weapons production destined for Israeli military use. The designation enables police to prosecute individuals for membership or financial support of the organisation, significantly restricting the movement's ability to operate openly in Britain.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T16:30:56Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Al Jazeera English", "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/" } ], "tags": [ "news" ], "image": "https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/no-title-1785774550.png?resize=1920%2C1080&quality=80" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/a0e4edfed2.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/a0e4edfed2.html", "external_url": "https://imemc.org/article/nineteen-palestinians-killed-in-gaza-since-sunday", "title": "Israeli forces kill nineteen Palestinians in Gaza since Sunday", "summary": "Israeli occupation forces killed nineteen Palestinians in Gaza since Sunday through sustained artillery fire, drone activity, and live-fire attacks across multiple areas of the enclave, IMEMC News reported. The deaths occurred as forces continued military operations despite an agreement meant to halt the conflict in the besieged territory.\n\nThe killings represent an ongoing breach of the ceasefire terms governing Gaza. Artillery bombardments and drone strikes persisted throughout Monday across several locations within the territory, according to the report. The violence followed a deadly twenty-four-hour period that preceded Sunday, underscoring the intensity of the military campaign despite the ceasefire framework.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T16:23:52Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "IMEMC News", "url": "https://imemc.org/" } ], "tags": [ "gaza" ], "image": "https://imemc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshot-2026-08-03-120726-e1785773298756.jpg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/38a8727aa6.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/38a8727aa6.html", "external_url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/8/3/how-israel-and-the-european-far-right-tried-to-exploit-ceuta?traffic_source=rss", "title": "Israel and European far-right groups weaponize migration narrative against pro-Palestinian activism", "summary": "Al Jazeera English reported that Israel and European far-right organizations are promoting a narrative linking migration to anti-Semitism, attempting to undermine pro-Palestinian solidarity movements. The coordinated messaging strategy appears designed to exploit migration concerns in order to discredit pro-Palestinian advocacy and shift public discourse away from Palestinian rights issues.\n\nThe effort reflects a broader attempt to reframe debates around migration and marginalization by connecting them to allegations of anti-Semitism, according to the outlet. The tactic targets activists and solidarity campaigns by conflating separate political issues and creating associations meant to isolate pro-Palestinian movements from broader social justice coalitions.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T15:41:20Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Al Jazeera English", "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/" } ], "tags": [ "opinion" ], "image": "https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2026-08-01T064529Z_78665281_RC2IPMAWYYRE_RTRMADP_3_MIGRATION-EUROPE-SPAIN-CEUTA-1785771482.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/3f210ca894.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/3f210ca894.html", "external_url": "https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-us-trump-talks-gaza-israel-strikes-deal-cuba-electricity-blackout", "title": "Iran denies Trump claim of ongoing negotiations", "summary": "Iran has denied assertions by former U.S. President Donald Trump that the two countries are engaged in talks, Drop Site News reported. Trump had claimed negotiations were underway, but Iranian officials rejected the characterization of any active dialogue between Tehran and Washington.\n\nIsraeli strikes on Gaza have killed more than 30 people since Friday, according to the report. The deaths occurred despite claims of a ceasefire or agreement in the territory.\n\nCuba's electrical grid has experienced another widespread collapse, the outlet reported. The Caribbean nation's power infrastructure has continued to face critical failures.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T15:33:29Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Drop Site News", "url": "https://www.dropsitenews.com/" } ], "tags": [ "gaza" ], "image": "https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PyvL!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e97a663-5b56-48ff-97ae-ff3b0e4f54b6_6720x4480.heic" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/4fdf0b6410.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/4fdf0b6410.html", "external_url": "https://mondoweiss.net/2026/08/israel-kills-19-palestinians-in-gaza-hours-after-trump-announces-his-latest-peace-plan", "title": "Israel kills 19 in Gaza hours after Trump peace plan announcement", "summary": "Israel killed 19 Palestinians in Gaza hours after Donald Trump announced a \"historic\" agreement calling for Hamas disarmament and Israeli withdrawal from the territory, Mondoweiss reported. The strikes came shortly after Trump's public unveiling of his latest proposal for resolving the conflict.\n\nA Gaza resident expressed deep skepticism about the announcement in the wake of the military operation. \"We don't trust Israel, and we don't trust America,\" the resident said. The killings occurred as Trump's plan was being presented as a potential breakthrough toward ending the war, though Palestinians questioned whether either party would honor such terms given the immediate resumption of attacks.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T14:53:12Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Mondoweiss", "url": "https://mondoweiss.net/" } ], "tags": [ "gaza" ], "image": "https://mondoweiss.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/280726_Gaza_AN_005-1024x683.jpg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/d5c01696fa.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/d5c01696fa.html", "external_url": "https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/08/after-deadly-day-gazans-say-trumps-touting-plan-jars-grim-reality", "title": "Gazans reject Trump plan as deadly Israeli strikes continue", "summary": "Palestinians in Gaza rejected Donald Trump's promotion of a ceasefire deal on Monday, saying his optimistic messaging clashed with the harsh reality on the ground, Al-Monitor reported. The criticism came after Israel killed 18 people in one of the deadliest single days since fighting escalated in the territory.\n\nResidents expressed frustration that diplomatic initiatives promoting disarmament and war's end bore little relation to their immediate circumstances. Gazans described the timing of Trump's statements as tone-deaf given the scale of casualties and destruction unfolding in their neighborhoods. The gap between international negotiations and conditions facing civilians caught in the conflict remained stark as fighting continued.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T14:46:59Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Al-Monitor", "url": "https://www.al-monitor.com/" } ], "tags": [ "gaza" ], "image": "https://www.al-monitor.com/sites/default/files/styles/social_media_share/public/2026-08/2026-08-03T135407Z_1_LYNXMPEM7215L_RTROPTP_4_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-GAZA.JPG?h=b5378509&itok=2-QeIoRl" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/497adaf60d.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/497adaf60d.html", "external_url": "https://zeteo.com/p/today-1pm-et-settler-terrorism-in", "title": "Zeteo hosts live town hall on escalating West Bank settler violence", "summary": "Zeteo will host a live town hall today at 1 p.m. ET to examine what organizers characterize as \"all-time high\" settler violence in the West Bank, the outlet announced. The discussion will feature Diana Buttu, Jasper Nathaniel, and Fadi Quran in conversation with host Mehdi to break down recent trends in the territory.\n\nThe event frames the violence as \"settler terrorism\" and comes as clashes between Israeli settlers and Palestinians have intensified. Organizers aim to provide analysis and context around the escalating incidents affecting West Bank communities.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T14:21:35Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Zeteo", "url": "https://zeteo.com/" } ], "tags": [ "westbank" ], "image": "https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cQVG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68869533-91aa-4ca4-af1c-463c3bd4f541_1280x720.jpeg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/78062ebb37.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/78062ebb37.html", "external_url": "http://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/3/killing_of_awdah_hathaleen", "title": "Israeli settler kills Palestinian activist and documentary producer Hathaleen", "summary": "An Israeli settler shot and killed Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen in the occupied West Bank one year ago, Democracy Now! reported. Hathaleen, an English teacher and father of three young children, played a key role in producing the Oscar-winning documentary \"No Other Land,\" which examines life under Israeli occupation.\n\nThe killing occurred during a period of escalating violence in the West Bank targeting Palestinian activists and civilians. Hathaleen's death represented a significant loss for Palestinian documentary filmmaking and grassroots activism, removing a prominent voice from efforts to document conditions in occupied territories through film and community organizing.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T12:28:30Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Democracy Now!", "url": "https://www.democracynow.org/" } ], "tags": [ "arts" ], "image": "https://www.democracynow.org/images/story/80/82980/w320/seg-Odeh.jpg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/0a9002d266.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/0a9002d266.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Volunteer doctors' WhatsApp groups carry Gaza's remote medical care", "summary": "The most substantial documented telemedicine link between Gaza's hospitals and specialists abroad during the war was not a funded platform or a hospital-twinning agreement. It was a WhatsApp group.\n\nThat is the finding of a case series published in The Lancet in August 2024, written by clinicians led by Khaled Alser, which describes how the surgical team at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis shared images and details of weapon-inflicted injuries with specialists outside Gaza for advice. The paper states that the group grew into a community with more than 15 specialty and injury-oriented subgroups and over 1,000 members who joined without targeted recruitment, and that all cases were discussed after verbal consent from patients.\n\nThe authors' own conclusion is cautious. Peer-to-peer telemedicine \"holds promise\" for surgeons in high-risk, low-resource settings, the paper says, but may be of reduced utility in extremely austere ones — the options open to a health system that is underst", "date_published": "2026-08-03T12:28:13.025878Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "health" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-gaza-telemedicine-lifeline-2026-08-03-12-lede.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/dfdf8c5274.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/dfdf8c5274.html", "external_url": null, "title": "French judge blocks Aurillac's Palestine concert cancellation", "summary": "A French administrative judge suspended the city of Aurillac's last-minute cancellation of a Palestine solidarity concert, ruling that the municipality had seriously and manifestly violated the organisers' freedom of assembly.\n\nThe 27 June emergency order did more than settle access to one small concert hall. It drew a practical boundary around a recurring European dispute: a city may keep its own public services institutionally neutral, but it cannot automatically impose that neutrality on associations using municipal space. Political support for Palestine, the judge found, was not by itself a lawful reason to cancel an agreed booking.\n\n## At a glance\n\n- Aurillac granted MRAP Cantal use of the municipal Sismographe hall on 26 May, then cancelled the agreement on 25 June, two days before the event.\n- The planned programme combined a 16-member choir and instrumental ensemble, Palestinian and regional music, and a shared Palestinian meal.\n- The city cited institutional neutrality, politi", "date_published": "2026-08-03T12:07:26Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "diaspora" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-aurillac-concert-freedom-2026.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/c4d04b7114.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/c4d04b7114.html", "external_url": "https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/08/1168067", "title": "Israel kills 26 Palestinians, breaches Lebanese airspace repeatedly", "summary": "Israeli forces killed more than two dozen Palestinians in Gaza and violated Lebanese airspace over 100 times during weekend operations, UN News reported Monday. The strikes occurred despite active ceasefire agreements governing both regions.\n\nUN agencies and peacekeepers documented the violations across the two fronts. The weekend casualties in Gaza followed months of intense fighting, while the repeated incursions into Lebanese airspace drew immediate concern from United Nations observers stationed along the border. The violations underscored mounting tensions even as diplomatic efforts continued to stabilize the ceasefire frameworks.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T12:00:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "UN News", "url": "https://news.un.org/" } ], "tags": [ "gaza" ], "image": "https://global.unitednations.entermediadb.net/assets/mediadb/services/module/asset/downloads/preset/Collections/Embargoed/27-01-2025-WHO-Gaza-02.jpg/image560x340cropped.jpg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/5eff5dddcc.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/5eff5dddcc.html", "external_url": "http://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/3/headlines", "title": "U.S. delays Iran military action while nuclear negotiations advance", "summary": "The United States will postpone military strikes against Iran as diplomatic talks over Tehran's nuclear program continue, Democracy Now! reported. The decision to hold back reflects ongoing efforts to reach a negotiated settlement on the disputed atomic issues between the two nations.\n\nIsraeli airstrikes struck Gaza over the weekend, killing at least 25 Palestinians in the bombings. The attacks marked another escalation in the conflict affecting the territory.\n\nActing Attorney General Blanche formally wound down a fund the Trump administration had established to combat what officials termed weaponization of the justice system. The termination of the so-called anti-weaponization initiative represents a shift in prosecutorial priorities under the new leadership.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T12:00:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Democracy Now!", "url": "https://www.democracynow.org/" } ], "tags": [ "gaza" ], "image": "https://assets.democracynow.org/assets/default_content_image-354f4555cc64afadc730d64243c658dd0af1f330152adcda6c4900cb4a26f082.jpg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/fb0c7036d4.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/fb0c7036d4.html", "external_url": "https://www.maannews.net/news/2166278.html", "title": "Nablus residents hold solidarity rally for Palestinian prisoners", "summary": "Residents of Nablus organized a support and solidarity rally for Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli detention facilities, the Ma'an news agency reported. The gathering brought together community members to express backing for inmates across the occupation's prison system.\n\nThe demonstration underscored ongoing Palestinian concern over conditions and treatment of detainees held in Israeli custody. Solidarity actions for prisoners have become routine across Palestinian towns and cities as families of the detained seek to maintain public attention to their cases.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T11:12:34Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Maan Wire (EN)", "url": "https://www.maannews.net/" } ], "tags": [ "westbank" ], "image": "https://cdn4.telesco.pe/file/NVAqIN2g489TWhSML2oZt0btRW-nirJNkzicntvj6v20PX_utK5uyK6_qYwVZ6-230UUfy0eZbzC_rM_F9T3hJ0o8t91RYGr7vmTC8WK7DEPkZMUXoLOYYvVir7NDlcWxUb1nt6Ze9gbGbiN21k8AnKXhrAaQdkgMvWo9Gr-id3OBNBS54aZTbyBUQj_yW_rAB8_RUKZYolpKWxDKMFJXpsC5GmsOHTrADCxa9hMMvprYgBi0U7UOZYcoQ8xpl5QJuSvL7-7NkHf2lBD5fTVUH1Sa2SI3Hft8hzYIJgeN8jzulmNwTwrI5iWv62fIl3t87HlIBELagW2zw9gZCfM7w.jpg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/a53a109efd.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/a53a109efd.html", "external_url": "https://www.maannews.net/news/2166275.html", "title": "Palestinian investment fund balances growth with economic resilience during crisis", "summary": "The Palestinian investment fund has emerged as an organized strategy to rebuild economic strength during one of the most challenging economic and political periods in modern Palestinian history, according to Maan Wire. Officials behind the initiative aim to maximize investment returns while simultaneously bolstering the local economy's capacity to withstand ongoing pressures and structural vulnerabilities.\n\nThe fund represents a systematic approach to addressing fiscal constraints and development obstacles that have limited Palestinian economic opportunities. Policymakers designed the strategy to navigate compounding political and economic challenges while creating conditions for sustainable local growth and institutional stability during a period marked by severe external and internal constraints.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T11:00:59Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Maan Wire (EN)", "url": "https://www.maannews.net/" } ], "tags": [ "economy" ], "image": "https://cdn4.telesco.pe/file/kBzsR91HSKNUbxWIWHbWwmo0p5kGWHxRx5CIY-DtW9JYTnq7dly34E204EWMy9E8GR1v9MPw40TpKphIXElRkl9eYl6ij_LhEUkwQPfAs76fLVJL5pqnxLzFLY-Tvhm9VTFyMaoi6SReU-fsh7Df1dgiPfG5svNP3IaKeS8UYDjhK3QZ0KvOgRvWrtCmI6ApHNZBiH9aS4BIwN918WbZ_kO2F-ZcvvCJQxyir1Uha92WE2CGlcz2jXK5aHd-RQkyEhux32GAvj83-ypbpGhTVf8Ap57Lt9Tn0O-hbYdVhvyvFNv0R5ALKdZtiIvvhn_mmidqhoVrBVoHjf79VgHk6A.jpg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/8fe3bda521.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/8fe3bda521.html", "external_url": "https://www.maannews.net/news/2166274.html", "title": "Gaza records 19 deaths and 35 wounded in single day", "summary": "Israeli strikes across Gaza killed 19 people and injured 35 others over a 24-hour period, the Ma'an news agency reported. The casualties represent the latest toll documented amid the ongoing military operations in the territory, which has faced sustained bombardment.\n\nThe reports did not specify the precise locations of the strikes or provide details on the circumstances surrounding individual deaths and injuries. Medical sources in Gaza have been tracking casualty figures as operations continue across multiple areas of the enclave.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T10:23:44Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Maan Wire (EN)", "url": "https://www.maannews.net/" } ], "tags": [ "gaza" ], "image": "https://cdn4.telesco.pe/file/TG8eLw5dTNrOIJuQoc4vmgEEx5gIW9Pbvy0TxRO8kv-TKR8ZyGCHfcPiJ4IbMFy1HL5WdY83DIdPbCpZVvTysUdVXa1BzzNLeIV2InLdS20YCbSzcKgwySt6DJFnFJ7sLeEhoaoRSnqP9dAG2sGqcc19FBtWbA98KagM1g_yG8FL_csfGIb_Aw2wDt7qJdt3GMeURQr_mOiMhJ3O3H2MNpnbI4YpDWkjAxBKKT-l1NHXeo5JD0hRqAjxK3YqYi6guJxiS6es4Q9jIfEkbDDs8YG_hAtr5h7lSzsWFidAXNB3HJBtthyTnx8e3WAfW8RUNZm0XCu7k3K3yoKHDWS5yA.jpg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/02056f38d7.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/02056f38d7.html", "external_url": "https://t.me/maannews/36028", "title": "Attacks on water infrastructure worsen summer shortages in southern West Bank.", "summary": "Intensifying attacks on water lines have exacerbated summer water shortages across the southern West Bank, according to Ma'an Wire. The damage to supply infrastructure has reduced access to drinking water during peak demand months, affecting multiple communities throughout the region as the season progresses.\n\nLocal water authorities have struggled to maintain adequate service levels as repair efforts lag behind the mounting infrastructure damage. The recurring disruptions compound the region's existing seasonal scarcity, leaving residents without sufficient water supplies during the hottest months when demand reaches its annual peak. Authorities have not announced plans to address the underlying vulnerability of water systems to attack.", "date_published": "2026-08-03T10:07:24Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Maan Wire (EN)", "url": "https://www.maannews.net/" } ], "tags": [ "westbank" ], "image": "https://cdn4.telesco.pe/file/h4yexGfdszT1Onjc-TscPV5olMlvvY7GSIagpunE_bHhshRUWJ_WbdwUJHwXlCGaYF4HXLuw4-E3TebzKEPSZe_o83vkz3spEPJyh0dCuPnSU2uY8xtKSwd2WoNTMBmXJm4McHCYzQ7DMP_alSyg9-W0pnSlOHed9HDn3HMhrq6MqczYp9blT13PE1oy8m6j-K1bWzFYgBCdFe7hd2_U-JJdI3rzRf99iTLjSgVGmkwMtz0u-4j2U7DhWRRYi1VM-d5dES6RoajB7y9lOliNO6i1CGnI3ZgI_emJMGJMubG6d1goPsdmJWPGVN9jEeevetmPvCpZE_mDIwPLoHnffw" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/9e1282cd19.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/9e1282cd19.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Gaza engineer Azza Hamid rebuilds work and wins", "summary": "Gaza engineer Azza Hamid won first place in Palestine’s 2026 Business Women Excellence Award after rebuilding an architecture and engineering business that she says lost its office, equipment and members of its team during the war.\n\nThe [official award programme](https://bwf.ps/award/) was organised by the Business Women Forum–Palestine with Bank of Palestine. [WAFA’s account of the ceremony](https://wafa.ps/news/2026/6/14/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%B1%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%A5%D8%B7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%82-%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B2-%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84-2026-%D9%88%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B2-%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-148906) confirms that a woman from Gaza took first place. A subsequent [Raya interview](https://www.raya.ps/news/1219455.html) identifies her as Hamid and her project as Render Group, an arts centre for", "date_published": "2026-08-03T03:40:23Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "women" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-azza-hamid-cover-2026.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/1f98a0dbd0.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/1f98a0dbd0.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Morocco funds summer schools for 3,000 Jerusalem children", "summary": "Moroccan funding is providing summer schools for more than 3,000 children across Jerusalem, with local associations offering education, sport, art and psychosocial support to participants aged four to 17.\n\nThe programme is run by the Bayt Mal Al-Quds Acharif Agency, the executive arm of the Al-Quds Committee chaired by Morocco’s King Mohammed VI. A [22 July field report from the agency](https://www.bmaq.org/fr/2026/07/22/une-delegation-de-lagence-bayt-mal-al-qods-acharif-visite-les-ecoles-dete-de-jerusalem-et-reaffirme-son-soutien-aux-enfants-et-aux-institutions-communautaires/) says participating associations received school materials, educational and sports equipment, art supplies, theatre activities, psychosocial workshops and sessions on technology and life skills.\n\nA [local report by Al-Quds newspaper](https://www.alquds.com/ar/posts/251315) documented the programme operating at the Arab Orphan School and said activities extend through the Old City, Silwan, Ras al-Amud, Wadi al-Jo", "date_published": "2026-08-03T03:40:23Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "arabaid" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-morocco-jerusalem-schools-cover-2026.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/b3e5760d28.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/b3e5760d28.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Nablus union builds Palestine’s first childcare cooperative", "summary": "A trade-union building in Nablus is becoming the test site for Palestine’s first childcare cooperative, a nonprofit nursery designed to make paid work more accessible to parents while giving care workers formal jobs.\n\nThe [United Nations country team’s 2025 results report](https://palestine.un.org/sites/default/files/2026-06/UNCT%20Results%20Report%202025.pdf) records the cooperative as established and describes it as a community childcare model supporting working parents and decent employment. The [International Labour Organization’s care-policy portal](https://webapps.ilo.org/globalcare/south-4-care/16?language=en) provides the operating design: premises supplied by the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions, rehabilitation and transition funding from the ILO, a director already appointed and capacity for 50 children.\n\nThose records make the project more than a proposal, but they describe different stages. The UN report uses “established”; the ILO portal says the application ", "date_published": "2026-08-03T03:40:23Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "women" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-nablus-childcare-cover-2026.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/845f4437d2.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/845f4437d2.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Saudi partnership restores maternal care for 20,400 in Gaza", "summary": "A $1.5 million Saudi-funded partnership restored maternal and newborn services at three Gaza health facilities, trained 120 frontline workers and delivered reproductive healthcare to more than 20,400 women and girls, the United Nations Population Fund reported.\n\nThe figures turn a 2024 pledge into a record of completed work. [UNFPA’s January 2026 delivery report](https://palestine.unfpa.org/en/news/unfpa-and-ksrelief-partnership-restores-critical-maternal-and-newborn-health-services-gaza) says Al Khair Hospital and the Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society Hospital were restored to operational capacity and Al Rasheed Primary Health Care Centre was newly established. Equipment included delivery and examination beds and fetal monitors.\n\n![From Saudi funding to maternal-health services in Gaza](times-of-palestine-saudi-maternal-care-flow-2026.svg)\n\nThe King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre, known as KSrelief, supplied the funding and UNFPA led implementation with local health prov", "date_published": "2026-08-03T03:40:23Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "arabaid" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-saudi-maternal-care-cover-2026.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/880f3c157a.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/880f3c157a.html", "external_url": null, "title": "UN Women counts NIS 297 million annual violence cost", "summary": "Violence against women costs Palestinian households, workplaces and public services an estimated NIS 297.45 million, or $86.47 million, every year, according to the first national economic costing released by UN Women in April.\n\nThe estimate turns harm that is usually described through individual cases into a public balance sheet. [UN Women said](https://palestine.un.org/en/313006-sawasya-jp-through-un-women-launches-new-study-economic-cost-violence-against-women) it includes money paid by survivors and their households, lost income and productivity, unpaid care, and the expenses incurred by institutions and service providers. It is not a count of compensation owed to survivors, a forecast of government spending or a valuation of a woman’s life. It is an estimate of economic activity and resources lost or redirected because violence occurred.\n\n![What the NIS 297.45 million estimate includes](times-of-palestine-women-violence-cost-chart-2026.svg)\n\n## The cost reaches far beyond a police", "date_published": "2026-08-03T03:40:23Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "women" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-women-violence-cost-cover-2026.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/550b8b9e6d.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/550b8b9e6d.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Yemeni and Kuwaiti donors keep Gaza health students enrolled", "summary": "Donors in Yemen and Kuwait have paid separate grants for Gaza nursing and medical students, moving Arab educational support from appeals into university accounts and students’ hands.\n\nThe two programmes differ in scale and disclosure. The [Islamic University of Gaza reported on 18 July](https://www.iugaza.edu.ps/p33855/) that Al-Aqsa Association in Yemen funded tuition support for nursing students affected by the war, supervised by Al Khair International. The university documented a distribution ceremony and beneficiaries but did not publish the number of students or total value.\n\nAt Al-Azhar University–Gaza, the [university reported on 2 March](https://www.alazhar.edu.ps/arabic/newsdetails.asp?id_no=88094) that the Kuwait Campaign to Support Gaza provided $300 to each of 100 new medical students through Midad Palestine. That makes the disclosed distribution $30,000.\n\n## Two grants, two levels of transparency\n\nBoth universities describe money already distributed, not a future fundraisi", "date_published": "2026-08-03T03:40:23Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "arabaid" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-arab-health-students-cover-2026.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/5413c2b68c.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/5413c2b68c.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Saifedean Ammous frames Palestinian dispossession through property rights", "summary": "Saifedean Ammous has spent years arguing that sound money begins with rules a ruler cannot bend. In his recent interviews about Palestine, the Palestinian economist applies a parallel test to land: who owned it, who took it, and whether the same property rights are enforced for everyone.\n\nThe result is a striking bridge between the author of *The Bitcoin Standard* and the country of his birth. Across a lecture and two podcast episodes released from November 2025 to June 2026, Ammous argues that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is best understood as a systematic denial of Palestinian property rights. His [June 23 interview with Mario Nawfal](https://saifedean.com/podcast/331-palestine-israel-property-rights---interview-with-mario-nawfal) and a [June 2 lecture episode](https://saifedean.com/podcast/328-property-rights-the-root-cause-of-the-palestinian-israeli-conflict) describe that as a “Misesian” case — an argument grounded in the liberal economics of Ludwig von Mises, not a judgment o", "date_published": "2026-08-03T01:35:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "bitcoin" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-saifedean-property-rights.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/bed8e4d587.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/bed8e4d587.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Palestinian economist Saifedean Ammous reshaped Bitcoin’s intellectual canon", "summary": "Before Bitcoin became a balance-sheet asset, a national policy experiment or a permanent fixture on financial television, a Palestinian economist helped give it a historical story. Saifedean Ammous’s 2018 book *The Bitcoin Standard* did not invent Bitcoin and was not the first attempt to explain it. Its influence came from a different achievement: it recast a technical network as the latest chapter in the long contest over what makes money credible, scarce and resistant to political control.\n\nThat framing made Ammous one of the most widely read intellectuals produced by the Palestinian diaspora. [Wiley’s publication announcement](https://investors.wiley.com/news/news-details/2018/The-Bitcoin-Standard-The-Decentralized-Alternative-to-Central-Banking-2018-5-23/default.aspx) described the book as a history of monetary technologies and a case for Bitcoin as a politically neutral, free-market alternative to central banking. Ammous’s own [translation catalogue](https://saifedean.com/translat", "date_published": "2026-08-03T01:30:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "bitcoin" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-saifedean-ammous-profile.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/d907e519f4.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/d907e519f4.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Times of Palestine opens Her Story for Palestinian women's accounts", "summary": "UN Women counted more than 38,000 women and girls killed in Gaza between October 2023 and December 2025 — over 22,000 women and 16,000 girls, an average of at least 47 a day. Nearly 11,000 more were wounded into lifelong disability. Roughly 16,000 women lost their husbands, and one in seven families in Gaza is now led by a woman. Nearly 790,000 women and girls have faced crisis or catastrophic food insecurity, and close to a million have been displaced, many of them four times over. Pregnant women, the agency reported this spring, are three times more at risk than they were a year earlier.\n\nThose are the figures. They are not the story. Behind each of them is a woman who had a name, a trade, a home she furnished, an opinion about the war and about the men conducting it — and who, in the overwhelming majority of the world's reporting, appears only as a number in a casualty line or a figure weeping in the background of someone else's photograph. Times of Palestine opens **Her Story** — «", "date_published": "2026-08-03T00:40:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "women" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-her-story-2026.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/0e8894f5ee.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/0e8894f5ee.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Israeli forces have killed 1,233 Palestinians since the ceasefire began", "summary": "Two hundred and ninety-four days into Gaza's ceasefire, the Palestinian side's nightly ledger to the mediators records 1,233 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces since the guns were supposed to fall silent last October — among them 266 children, 131 women and 37 elderly people — and 4,076 wounded, according to the latest report shared with the mediators and obtained by Drop Site News. Children, women and the elderly account for 35.1 per cent of the dead and 49.1 per cent of the wounded. The report counts 4,034 recorded violations of the agreement — 1,784 airstrikes and shelling attacks, 1,570 live-fire incidents, 169 military incursions, 430 home demolitions and 81 detention raids — an average of 13.7 violations for every day the ceasefire has stood.\n\nSaturday's page of the log alone lists 21 violations, seven Palestinians killed and 23 wounded, ten of them children. The names run through the day like a clock. At 10:30 in the morning, a drone strike near a pharmacy on Third Street in ", "date_published": "2026-08-03T00:20:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "gaza" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-gaza-ceasefire-day294.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/57556717e7.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/57556717e7.html", "external_url": null, "title": "The ICC holds Netanyahu's warrant as Washington sanctions its judges", "summary": "Twenty-one months after it was signed, the arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu is still in force — and the fight over it has reshaped two courts. The International Criminal Court's Pre-Trial Chamber I issued warrants on 21 November 2024 for Netanyahu and his then defence minister Yoav Gallant, finding reasonable grounds to believe they bear criminal responsibility for the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution and other inhumane acts committed against Gaza's population from 8 October 2023 to at least 20 May 2024. The chamber rejected Israel's challenges to the court's jurisdiction when it issued the warrants, and the court's judges have since refused every Israeli attempt to undo them, ruling in 2025 that Israel's framing of the question was not even subject to appeal and recalling that the court's jurisdiction extends to Gaza and the West Bank alike. Roughly 124 states parties to the Rome Statute remain legally obliged t", "date_published": "2026-08-02T23:45:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "accountability" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-icc-icj-warrant-2026.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/53f549543a.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/53f549543a.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Al-Sharaa says the al-Durrah image set his course in Damascus", "summary": "Syria's president has placed a Palestinian image at the origin of his own story. In the long interview he gave Al Jazeera's al-Muqabala program — more than seven hours with presenter Ali al-Dhafiri, recorded on 25 July in Damascus, partly in Mezzeh, the neighbourhood where he grew up, and broadcast in parts from late July — Ahmed al-Sharaa returned to the second Palestinian intifada and to the scene that opened it: Muhammad al-Durrah, twelve years old, dying in his father's arms at Gaza's Netzarim junction on 30 September 2000. The president recalled that image, and the uprising it came to stand for, as the force that shaped his early years and his thinking in Damascus, before he left Syria for Iraq in 2003.\n\nThe al-Durrah footage, filmed by the Palestinian cameraman Talal Abu Rahma for the French broadcaster France 2, went around the world in a day and became the defining image of the intifada's outbreak. Jamal al-Durrah waving desperately over his son's body was replayed on every Ara", "date_published": "2026-08-02T22:39:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "politics" ], "image": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ahmed%20al-Sharaa,%20President%20of%20Syria,%20in%20March%202026.jpg?width=640" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/deb5abcd9c.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/deb5abcd9c.html", "external_url": null, "title": "A US House report called Ceuta Moroccan weeks before the surge", "summary": "A week after tens of thousands of people surged across Morocco's border into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, the claim that Rabat engineered the crisis in coordination with Israel to punish Madrid for its defense of Palestine is hardening from a social-media narrative into a political argument made on the floor of the US Congress. The first edition of this brief reported that no published evidence connected Rabat to Tel Aviv. That remains true of the surge itself — nobody has produced proof that anyone coordinated it. But the fuller record, assembled here, shows something the first edition understated: a documented American and Israeli paper trail running alongside the crisis, laid down before, during and years ahead of it.\n\n![The crisis and the narrative: what is documented and what is not](times-of-palestine-ceuta-narrative-2026.svg)\n\n## The crisis\n\nIn the final days of July, Spanish authorities counted tens of thousands of crossings into Ceuta — roughly 50,000 by early counts, with la", "date_published": "2026-08-02T21:02:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "politics" ], "date_modified": "2026-08-02T21:10:00Z", "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-ceuta-narrative-2026.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/24e403139d.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/24e403139d.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Board of Peace envoy mourns Gaza strikes without naming Israel", "summary": "Nickolay Mladenov, the Bulgarian diplomat who runs the Board of Peace charged with delivering President Trump's Gaza plan, responded on Sunday to two days of Israeli strikes that killed civilians and destroyed medical stockpiles — in a statement that does not name Israel, the Israeli military, or any author of the strikes at all, anywhere in its text.\n\n\"Two days of strikes across Gaza have killed civilians and destroyed medical supplies that people depend on,\" Mladenov wrote on X, in remarks carried by the Times of Israel and the Anadolu agency. The strikes, he continued, came after intense efforts by the Board and the mediators — Egypt, Türkiye, Qatar and the United States — to bring the Palestinian factions to agree to a roadmap for implementing the plan, handing over civilian governance and decommissioning their weapons. \"Both parties carry obligations,\" he wrote, adding that his team was \"working around the clock with the parties, the mediators and regional partners to de-escalate,", "date_published": "2026-08-02T20:45:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "politics" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-mladenov-grammar-2026.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/596cc09b7b.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/596cc09b7b.html", "external_url": "https://quincyinst.org/2026/08/02/the-pro-israel-hobby-has-swayed-us-presidents-since-truman-it-must-end-with-trump", "title": "Zionist lobbyists influenced Truman's 1948 Palestine policy", "summary": "Pro-Israel advocacy groups shaped U.S. foreign policy toward Palestine beginning in 1948, the Quincy Institute reported. President Harry Truman confronted competing pressures from Zionist lobbyists and other political forces as war erupted in Palestine that year, trapped between conflicting interests demanding his attention and support.\n\nThe episode established a precedent in which pro-Israel constituencies wielded influence over American presidential decisions on Middle East affairs. This dynamic, evident during Truman's tenure, would define U.S. engagement with the region through subsequent administrations. The pattern demonstrated how organized advocacy on behalf of Israel gained traction within American politics at a formative moment, shaping the trajectory of American policy for decades to come.", "date_published": "2026-08-02T20:32:57Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Quincy Institute", "url": "https://quincyinst.org/" } ], "tags": [ "research" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-research.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/aac47267b0.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/aac47267b0.html", "external_url": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiVkFVX3lxTE9OS2tFRjBwaVdfTVFqNmtOYTNEVlE5cjlQZzJkaTVfUDl1V095Z1VEcFBOaXZMdFBQSm40b1F6Z1FETFl4NmZVQXFaNmNQSUU4X2d2b1l3?oc=5", "title": "IDF rebuilds Bedouin battalion after Gaza smuggling scandal", "summary": "The Israeli military has launched a comprehensive effort to reconstruct a Bedouin battalion following a smuggling operation linked to Gaza, Ynetnews reported. The IDF's initiative addresses command and operational deficiencies within the unit after the scandal damaged its institutional credibility and raised questions about internal discipline and oversight mechanisms.\n\nThe rebuilding project comes as the military seeks to restore confidence in the unit's leadership structure and operational readiness. Details on the specific charges related to the smuggling case and the full scope of restructuring measures remain undisclosed. The move reflects broader efforts by the IDF to address misconduct and strengthen accountability across its ranks.", "date_published": "2026-08-02T19:15:38Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Ynetnews", "url": "https://news.google.com/" } ], "tags": [ "health" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-health-b.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/c9c7c352c7.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/c9c7c352c7.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Dahlan accuses Netanyahu of a massacre to kill Gaza's ceasefire chance", "summary": "Mohammad Dahlan, the exiled Fatah leader whose channel to Washington carried yesterday's promise of a halt, accused Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday evening of committing a massacre in Gaza to destroy the ceasefire opportunity — and recast the diplomacy behind it as President Trump's work with Egypt, Qatar and Turkey, with no mention of the Kushner assurance at the center of his statement a day earlier.\n\n\"We understood since yesterday that Netanyahu would do everything in his power to kill the opportunity that President Donald Trump worked on in cooperation with Egypt, Qatar and Turkey,\" Dahlan wrote on his verified Facebook page. \"We worked for weeks and warned of the occupation's criminal conduct and what Netanyahu might do. Today the entire world sees the enormity of the massacre he committed to cut off the road to the most favorable opportunity yet to begin ending the war and bringing safety to our people in Gaza and to all parties.\" He closed with a pledge: \"We promise our people to w", "date_published": "2026-08-02T18:55:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "politics" ], "image": "/media/mohammad-dahlan-facebook-post-2026-08-02.jpg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/77b6ac7393.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/77b6ac7393.html", "external_url": null, "title": "AIPAC turns from kingmaker to liability in the 2028 presidential race", "summary": "For half a century the safest bet in American politics was that pro-Israel lobby money helped a career and never hurt one. The Guardian's new interactive investigation, published Saturday, lands on a race where that law is breaking: as the 2028 presidential field forms, the money is still flowing — but for the first time, the candidates themselves are treating it as something to disown. Governor Gavin Newsom now declares he has \"never accepted and never will accept\" AIPAC's support; Senator Cory Booker, whose career total from pro-Israel political committees stands at some $846,000 on the Track AIPAC scoresheet, cut off the group's funding this year. The lobby that could once end a career in a primary is discovering that its endorsement has become the thing candidates apologize for — and for Palestinians watching the capital that will decide Gaza's reconstruction and statehood's fate, both halves of that sentence matter.\n\n![The ledger meets the race: lobby money to the 2028 contenders]", "date_published": "2026-08-02T18:35:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "accountability" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-israel-lobby-2028-2026.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/369ad953f1.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/369ad953f1.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Admiral Brad Cooper runs the military machinery beneath Gaza's ceasefire", "summary": "The Board of Peace gives the speeches, but the machinery beneath Gaza's ceasefire answers to a four-star American admiral. Charles Bradford Cooper II — Brad Cooper, commander of US Central Command since August 2025 — runs the Civil-Military Coordination Center, the headquarters in Israel through which the ceasefire's monitoring, Gaza's aid streams and the incoming international stabilization force all flow. For Palestinians, no foreign officer's decisions currently touch daily life in Gaza more directly: how fast the trucks move, how incidents on the ground are adjudicated, and how the force that may soon police the ceasefire actually deploys all run across his operations floor. This deep dive traces who Cooper is, what he did during the war, and what his command is doing now — because our readers should know the machinery, not just the communiqués.\n\n![The stabilization architecture: the board above, Cooper's coordination center at the hinge](times-of-palestine-cooper-cmcc-2026.svg)\n\n#", "date_published": "2026-08-02T17:00:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "politics" ], "image": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Admiral%20Brad%20Cooper%20(Charles%20B.%20Cooper%20II),%20Commander%20of%20United%20States%20Central%20Command%20on%20August%208,%202025%20(cropped).jpg?width=640" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/54e1802864.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/54e1802864.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Times of Palestine maps the world's scholarships for Palestinian students", "summary": "More than a hundred universities in at least twenty-five countries currently fund Palestinian students — bachelor's, master's and doctoral, in every field from medicine to music — yet no single Palestinian front page has kept the map in one place, updated, in both languages. This guide is that page. The community database Academic Solidarity with Palestine alone lists around one hundred and fifty scholarship schemes; the British Council's HESPAL program has sent two hundred and fifty-six Palestinian scholars to British universities — one hundred ninety-six master's degrees and sixty PhDs — and currently places its scholars across thirteen UK institutions at once. Times of Palestine will keep this guide alive as a standing service: deadlines refreshed as they move, new programs added as they open, dead ones retired. Verify every deadline on the program's own page before planning around it — windows shift year to year — and check back here as cycles open.\n\n![The scholarship map: routes f", "date_published": "2026-08-02T16:30:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "social" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-scholarships-2026.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ce365d7b97.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ce365d7b97.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Blind Palestinian boy Saif Abu Karsh voices Japan's anime heroes", "summary": "Some talents are so improbable that they rearrange your sense of what a person can do. Saif Abu Karsh is a Palestinian boy who has never seen the anime characters he loves — he is blind — and who has learned them anyway, by ear, so completely that he can summon their voices at will: the battle cries, the catchphrases, the whole vocal architecture of Japan's animated heroes, reproduced by a child who knows them as pure sound. Palestine TV told his story in a report now circulating in Arabic, and Times of Palestine features him today because his gift is its own headline — no war frame required, though he carries that too, as every Palestinian child does. Watch him perform, then try to remember that he has never seen a single frame of what he is voicing.\n\n!video[Palestine TV's report on Saif Abu Karsh, the blind Palestinian boy who reproduces the voices of Japanese anime characters](https://youtu.be/MqNDO0FjZxs)\n\n## An ear where the eyes should be\n\nWhat Saif does belongs to a demanding cr", "date_published": "2026-08-02T16:15:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "humans" ], "image": "https://img.youtube.com/vi/MqNDO0FjZxs/hqdefault.jpg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/e1b6b8bbbc.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/e1b6b8bbbc.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Times of Palestine opens a standing ledger of Arab support for Palestinians", "summary": "What the Arab world does for Palestinians is one of the most consequential and least systematically tracked stories in the region: pledges are announced at summits and forgotten by the next news cycle, field hospitals treat their thirty-thousandth patient without a headline, and a scholarship that changes a Gaza student's life never makes the wires at all. Times of Palestine today opens a standing division to change that — Arab Support («الإسناد العربي»), a section that follows what Arab states, institutions and societies are doing for Palestinians politically, economically, financially, in aid, in education and in culture, with one editorial rule above all: a pledge is news twice — the day it is announced, and the day it is or is not paid. This launch report sets the ledger's opening balance.\n\n![The Arab support ledger: reconstruction, medicine, education, politics](times-of-palestine-arab-support-2026.svg)\n\n## Money: the plan and the pledges\n\nThe financial architecture of Arab suppor", "date_published": "2026-08-02T15:55:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "arabaid" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-arab-support-2026.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/49c65215d4.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/49c65215d4.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Haya Washington feeds Gaza's orphan camps and builds them a school", "summary": "In the displacement camps of southern Gaza there are children whom the war has left entirely alone — hundreds of them, gathered in encampments that aid workers have come to call the orphan cities, where every meal, every jerrycan of clean water and every tent is something a humanitarian volunteer carried in. One of the organizations carrying is Haya Washington, a nonprofit registered in the American capital that has been running relief on the ground in Gaza since 2023, and whose quiet, practical record — food, clean drinking water, emergency shelter and medical care for orphaned children, delivered through the war's most dangerous stretches — has earned it a circle of partners ranging from American military veterans to university students hosting charity iftars. This profile continues Times of Palestine's coverage of the diaspora institutions doing the unglamorous work that keeps people alive.\n\n![At the Life School's entrance, beneath its hand-lettered sign, on registration day. Photo:", "date_published": "2026-08-02T15:00:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "diaspora" ], "date_modified": "2026-08-02T15:36:00Z", "image": "/media/haya-washington-life-school-triptych-2026.jpg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/d75779c35b.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/d75779c35b.html", "external_url": "https://pchrgaza.org/israeli-extermination-of-palestinian-families-continues-by-targeting-homes-and-civilian-gatherings-in-gaza-strip", "title": "Israeli strikes kill Palestinians in Gaza homes, gatherings", "summary": "Israeli forces have escalated attacks on inhabited homes, civilian gatherings, and displacement tents across the Gaza Strip, killing Palestinians inside their residences and eliminating entire families, according to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights. The strikes have struck residential areas where civilians sheltered, resulting in multiple fatalities among household members caught in their homes.\n\nThe rights organisation documented a recurring pattern of such attacks across the territory. The group characterised the killings as crimes against the civilian population under Israeli occupation, pointing to what it described as systematic targeting of Palestinian families and their living spaces.", "date_published": "2026-08-02T14:51:32Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Palestinian Centre for Human Rights", "url": "https://pchrgaza.org/" } ], "tags": [ "research" ], "image": "https://pchrgaza.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/020826_Gaza_MF_006.jpg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/8d5ff4a289.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/8d5ff4a289.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Eisenkot's new party overtakes Netanyahu's Likud in Israel's election race", "summary": "Israel votes on 27 October, and for the first time since the war on Gaza began the man to beat is not Benjamin Netanyahu. Gadi Eisenkot — the former army chief of staff who resigned from Netanyahu's war cabinet and built a new party, Yashar, around the accusation that the prime minister prolonged the war for his own survival — now tops the seat projections: Israel's Channel 12 put Yashar first at 24 seats in its late-July survey, one ahead of Likud's 23, and the Jerusalem Post reported Eisenkot's widest lead yet over Netanyahu on the direct question of who should be prime minister, with Likud at its lowest polling in more than a year. Yet the same surveys show why the race remains unresolved: the anti-Netanyahu bloc reaches roughly 58 seats and Netanyahu's bloc roughly 52, and the ten seats that separate both camps from a 61-seat majority belong to the Arab parties that each camp insists it will not govern with. Times of Palestine opens its standing election watch with this report and ", "date_published": "2026-08-02T13:45:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "politics" ], "image": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gadi%20Eizenkot,%20November%202020%20(GPOMN1%209040)%20(cropped).jpg?width=640" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/6545db9377.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/6545db9377.html", "external_url": "https://mondoweiss.net/2026/08/why-theater-workers-are-boycotting-the-play-birthright", "title": "Theater workers boycott production over Israel-Palestine politics", "summary": "Theater Workers for a Ceasefire is calling for a boycott of MCC Theater's production of \"Birthright,\" according to Mondoweiss. The group contends that the arts serve as a vehicle for supporting Israel's ongoing oppression of Palestinians and that cultural institutions bear responsibility for the role they play in that dynamic. The boycott reflects broader activism within the cultural sector over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and institutional choices around artistic programming.\n\nThe action joins a wave of organizing by theater workers on questions of institutional responsibility during the current period of Israeli-Palestinian tensions. Activists have increasingly focused on what they see as the political dimensions of arts institutions' decisions about which productions to mount and support, particularly regarding works and institutions connected to Israel.", "date_published": "2026-08-02T13:30:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Mondoweiss", "url": "https://mondoweiss.net/" } ], "tags": [ "politics" ], "image": "https://mondoweiss.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IMG_9451-1024x916.jpg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/01f3517708.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/01f3517708.html", "external_url": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMivgFBVV95cUxQc1JFNTREQTVoTnJLZ1p3REVYTlNjV2paTU56MWRZaG44TGxFMFpGRlZnSENKNTU5dzdJTHBvTnNBUGU5MGJzRmRsQ3UxOWtYZzBrMWxZUW1GUmlZeThMU2ZMUS1wa3FweVZhMWR5dzlDU0txdkhJV1V1cXVrclhOUFVDSVBHSmhhVHFuTWMtVExNVURwOWV1djhIc2NrNElVSkFQbDh0dUt4NzdTZmRJUTFucjdCNHExS3VOenJB?oc=5", "title": "Jordan initiative fits prosthetic limbs for injured Gaza children", "summary": "A Jordan-based initiative is providing prosthetic limbs and rehabilitation services to children injured in Gaza, the Jordan News Agency reported. The program addresses the acute medical needs of young amputees across the Palestinian territory who require mobility assistance and physical recovery support.\n\nThe initiative combines prosthetic fitting with comprehensive rehabilitation to help injured children regain function and independence. The program operates across Gaza, where conflict-related injuries have created significant demand for pediatric prosthetic care and post-operative rehabilitation. The Jordan-based organization works to restore mobility to children dealing with limb loss.", "date_published": "2026-08-02T10:24:56Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "وكالة الانباء الاردنية", "url": "https://news.google.com/" } ], "tags": [ "health" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-health.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/4d1f7ce79d.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/4d1f7ce79d.html", "external_url": "https://pchrgaza.org/iofs-targeting-of-medicine-warehouse-at-al-aqsa-martyrs-hospital-aggravates-destruction-of-gazas-healthcare-system-as-part-of-the-ongoing-crime-of-genocide", "title": "Israeli forces strike medicine warehouse at Gaza hospital", "summary": "The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights condemned the Israeli Occupation Forces' targeting of a medicine and medical supplies warehouse at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, according to PCHR. The organization said the strike demonstrated Israel's intent to dismantle the remaining functional parts of Gaza's healthcare system.\n\nPCHR characterized the attack as the latest in a sustained campaign against medical facilities and infrastructure across the territory. The warehouse destruction compounds existing shortages of medicines and supplies that have crippled hospital operations throughout Gaza. The organization described the incident as part of ongoing crimes affecting civilian populations and essential services in the enclave.", "date_published": "2026-08-02T09:28:26Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Palestinian Centre for Human Rights", "url": "https://pchrgaza.org/" } ], "tags": [ "research" ], "image": "https://pchrgaza.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/f1ba6502-b4ca-4eb2-ba0f-49394ebf6031.jpeg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/5b83c1338c.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/5b83c1338c.html", "external_url": null, "title": "US courts revive $655 million in terror judgments against the PA", "summary": "On Thursday, lawyers for the Palestinian Authority and the PLO filed an emergency application at the United States Supreme Court with an extraordinary admission inside it: enforcement of a single American judgment — 655.5 million dollars, awarded to victims of Jerusalem-area attacks a quarter-century old — could push the Authority toward collapse. The filing, addressed to Justice Sonia Sotomayor and reported by US News among others, asks the court to freeze enforcement while the PA seeks full review. It is the sharpest moment yet in a legal siege that has been building for two decades in American courts, is mirrored by billions in Israeli court judgments deducted at the source from Palestinian tax revenue, and is spreading into Europe as an audit of the Authority's word. This report opens Times of Palestine's standing docket tracker: every consequential case against the PA, followed to judgment, in both languages.\n\n![The docket against the Palestinian Authority](times-of-palestine-pa-l", "date_published": "2026-08-02T03:30:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "accountability" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-pa-litigation-docket.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/acb7b93de4.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/acb7b93de4.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Palestine's ambassadors turn delegations into embassies after the recognition wave", "summary": "For decades the brass plates read \"General Delegation\" or \"Mission\" — the vocabulary of a state the host country would not quite name. The recognition wave of 2024 and 2025 is rewriting them: when the United Kingdom recognised the State of Palestine in September 2025, the London mission was raised to a full embassy in January 2026; Paris followed in March, upgrading the Mission of Palestine to an embassy of the state France now recognises. More than 150 countries recognise Palestine today, and in each of their capitals a small staff carries the state that does not yet control its own borders. This is Times of Palestine's guide to that diplomatic corps — the most prominent ambassadors, the missions they run, and where readers anywhere in the world can find their nearest one.\n\n![Palestine's embassies around the world](times-of-palestine-embassies-2026.svg)\n\n## The dean in New York\n\nThe corps's face to the world is Riyad Mansour, Palestine's permanent representative at the United Nations ", "date_published": "2026-08-02T03:00:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "research" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-embassies-2026.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/906aa59f99.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/906aa59f99.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Abbas appoints every man who runs Palestinian security", "summary": "Behind every question this newspaper has covered this week — who succeeds the president, who polices Gaza's transition, whether November's election happens — stands a small group of men in uniform whom almost no Palestinian could name. They command the forces that guard the president, question the detained, patrol the cities and coordinate, controversially, with the occupier. Every one of them was appointed by presidential decree; no parliament has reviewed a single security appointment since 2007, because no parliament has sat. This report profiles the commanders of the Palestinian security establishment: who they are, where they came from, and how long they have held the guns of the Authority.\n\n![The Palestinian security establishment, mapped](times-of-palestine-security-chiefs-2026.svg)\n\nThe architecture first. The Palestinian security forces — employing tens of thousands and consuming, as budget analyses have long noted and this paper's own budget investigation echoed, one of the l", "date_published": "2026-08-02T02:40:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "research" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-security-chiefs-2026.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ae28dde09b.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ae28dde09b.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Citizen Lab hunts the spyware that hunted Palestinian rights defenders", "summary": "In November 2021, forensic researchers confirmed something Palestinian civil society had long suspected: the phones of staff at Palestinian human-rights organisations — the same six organisations Israel had just designated \"terrorist\" — were infected with Pegasus, the military-grade spyware sold by Israel's NSO Group. The verification came from Front Line Defenders working with the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, and it turned an unprovable fear into a documented fact: the people documenting the occupation were themselves being watched through their own pockets — among them a researcher for Al-Haq, the director of the Bisan Center, and the Jerusalem lawyer Salah Hammouri, who was later stripped of residency and deported. This report profiles the laboratory behind that finding, the researcher who has become mercenary spyware's most relentless public adversary, and a fight that, in 2026, they are visibly winning.\n\n![The lab that catches Pegasus](times-of-palestine-citizen-lab-p", "date_published": "2026-08-02T02:30:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "accountability" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-citizen-lab-pegasus.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/3e14ae6bd4.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/3e14ae6bd4.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Rajoub demands a presidential vote and says Abbas fears a coup", "summary": "Jibril Rajoub, the secretary-general of Fatah's Central Committee and one of the movement's most senior figures, has publicly demanded that Palestinians elect a president before they elect a parliament — and, in a sentence of colloquial bluntness that has ricocheted through Palestinian media, named the fear he says stands in the way: \"Abu Mazen is afraid we'll stage a coup against him.\"\n\nSpeaking at a meeting with youth activists organised by the Palestinian Peace Coalition in Ramallah, in remarks carried by Al-Quds, the Raya news agency and Middle East Monitor, Rajoub argued the sequence decreed by President Mahmoud Abbas has the constitution backwards. Abbas's 9 July decree set legislative elections for 28 November 2026 — the first in two decades — with a presidential vote to follow only in 2027. \"The Palestinian political system is a presidential system,\" Rajoub said; a president should therefore be elected first, and the factions should agree on a consensus national figure for the ", "date_published": "2026-08-02T02:25:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "politics" ], "image": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jibril%20Rajoub.jpg?width=640" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/f0f99b71f8.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/f0f99b71f8.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Israel, Washington and its own decay lock the PA out of Gaza", "summary": "Read back this week's diplomacy and notice who is missing from every sentence. Hamas signed the disarmament framework with the Board of Peace. The factions approved the fifteen-clause implementation document. Jared Kushner promised, through Mohammad Dahlan, that Israel's attacks would stop by morning. Egypt hosted, Abu Dhabi financed, Washington drafted, and a technocratic committee prepared to administer. The Palestinian Authority — the government of the state that more than 150 countries now recognize, the institution the world has said for two decades must one day govern Gaza — appears nowhere: not as a signatory, not as a guarantor, not as an administrator, not even as a witness. This report sets out the anatomy of that absence, and the three forces that produced it.\n\n![The empty chair: Gaza's table without the Palestinian Authority](times-of-palestine-pa-empty-chair-2026.svg)\n\nThe absence is structural, not rhetorical. The Board of Peace established under Security Council Resoluti", "date_published": "2026-08-01T23:50:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "accountability" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-pa-empty-chair-2026.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/58dcff80c9.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/58dcff80c9.html", "external_url": null, "title": "UAE backing carries Mohammad Dahlan into Kushner's Gaza back channel", "summary": "When Mohammad Dahlan announced on Saturday that Jared Kushner had personally assured him Israel's attacks on Gaza would stop the next morning, the most striking thing was not the promise. It was the messenger. The man relaying the word of the American president's son-in-law holds no office in the Palestinian Authority, no seat in the PLO, and no position in any government. He was expelled from Fatah fifteen years ago, convicted in absentia by Palestinian courts, and has not set foot in Gaza — the place that made him — since 2007. Yet when the Board of Peace needed Hamas's signature on the most consequential Palestinian document of the decade, the channel that delivered it ran through an office in Abu Dhabi. This is an account, from the record, of how that came to be — and why the road from Washington to Gaza now passes through the United Arab Emirates.\n\n![The Abu Dhabi–Washington–Gaza triangle](times-of-palestine-dahlan-triangle-2026.svg)\n\n## The breakthrough and the man credited with ", "date_published": "2026-08-01T23:40:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "research" ], "date_modified": "2026-08-02T01:20:00Z", "image": "/media/mohammad-dahlan-facebook-post-2026-08-02.jpg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/c1d37f9e61.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/c1d37f9e61.html", "external_url": null, "title": "A single attacker drains 1,082 bitcoin from flawed Coldcard wallets", "summary": "In forty-one minutes before dawn on Wednesday, an attacker emptied 1,196 bitcoin addresses belonging to users of the Coldcard — one of the most trusted hardware wallets in bitcoin — sweeping roughly 1,082 bitcoin, around 70 million dollars at current prices, in a single automated run between 01:10 and 01:51 UTC on 30 July, according to on-chain analyses reported by CoinDesk and The Hacker News. The theft is among the largest ever traced to a hardware-wallet defect, and its cause was not a hack of any single device but a mathematical failure quietly shipped in firmware more than five years ago.\n\n![The Coldcard entropy failure](times-of-palestine-coldcard-entropy-2026.svg)\n\nThe flaw, disclosed in a security advisory by Coldcard's maker Coinkite, sat in the way affected devices generated the \"seed\" — the master secret from which every key and address in a wallet is derived. Beginning with firmware version 4.0.0, released in March 2021, affected devices could skip their dedicated hardware ", "date_published": "2026-08-01T22:40:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "bitcoin" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-coldcard-entropy-2026.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/793114fa62.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/793114fa62.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Dahlan says Kushner confirmed Israel will halt Gaza attacks from Sunday", "summary": "Mohammad Dahlan, the exiled Fatah leader whose back channel to Washington helped unlock the latest Gaza breakthrough, said on Saturday that US envoy Jared Kushner has confirmed to him that Israel agreed to halt its attacks on Gaza from Sunday morning, now that Hamas and the Palestinian factions have approved the fifteen-clause implementation document.\n\n\"After Hamas and the Palestinian factions approved the fifteen-clause document, the success of the agreement depends on Israel's full commitment to halting the bombing, the killing, the assassinations and the daily attacks in Gaza,\" Dahlan wrote on his verified Facebook page minutes after the factions' approval was announced. \"Mr. Jared Kushner confirmed to us that he has agreed with the Israeli side to halt the attacks on Gaza as of tomorrow morning, while we continue our intensive contacts with the American side to guarantee full and secure implementation of the agreement.\"\n\n![Mohammad Dahlan's statement, as posted on his verified Face", "date_published": "2026-08-01T21:15:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "politics" ], "date_modified": "2026-08-02T18:05:00Z", "image": "/media/mohammad-dahlan-facebook-post-2026-08-01.jpg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ffc815d6e2.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ffc815d6e2.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Times of Palestine names the 100 most influential Palestinians of 2026", "summary": "Fourteen million Palestinians live in the homeland and across every continent, and no year has tested their public figures like this one. Times of Palestine today publishes its first annual TOP 100 — the hundred Palestinians, at home, inside the Green Line and throughout the diaspora, whose work moved the world most over the past year. The measure is influence, not endorsement: presidents and prisoners, laureates and negotiators, surgeons and strikers appear here because their decisions and their witness shaped Palestinian life, whatever this newspaper or its readers make of them. No one paid to be listed and no one could pay to be left off. The list will return every August; readers can propose names for next year's edition through the newsroom's tip line.\n\n![The TOP 100: the most influential Palestinians of 2026](times-of-palestine-top100-2026.svg)\n\n## The Leaders\n\n![The Leaders](times-of-palestine-top100-cat-leaders.svg)\n\n1. **Mahmoud Abbas** — President of the State of Palestine an", "date_published": "2026-08-01T20:05:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "research" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-top100-2026.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/0f05fd045f.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/0f05fd045f.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Palestine's flagship companies post a recovery from the war's worst year", "summary": "The numbers that describe corporate Palestine in 2026 should not, by any textbook, coexist. The World Bank recorded an 83 per cent collapse in Gaza's economy in 2024 and a slow, partial West Bank rebound in 2025; unemployment reached 69 per cent in Gaza and 29 per cent in the West Bank. Yet 47 companies still trade on the Palestine Exchange with a combined market value above 3 billion dollars, the banking sector earned 46 million dollars in the first half of 2025 — an almost fivefold jump from the same period a year earlier, the Sada news agency reported from exchange disclosures — and the largest Palestinian firms closed their books, paid their people and kept their networks running through the most destructive period in their history. This is a balance-sheet tour of the companies that carry the Palestinian economy.\n\n![Palestine's stock market, stacked](times-of-palestine-top-companies-2026.svg)\n\n## Paltel Group, the market's anchor\n\nPalestine Telecommunications Company is the heavies", "date_published": "2026-08-01T18:50:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "economy" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-top-companies-2026.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/abec2a6d03.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/abec2a6d03.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Ten Palestinian business leaders keep a wartime economy standing", "summary": "No wealth registry counts Palestinian fortunes, and the men who hold the largest of them mostly refuse to count in public. What can be counted is what their money built: the banks that kept paying out through a war, the telecom towers that kept Gaza reachable, the factories, planned cities and trading houses that still employ tens of thousands while the World Bank records the deepest economic contraction in Palestinian history. This list ranks no one by net worth — no audited number exists for most of these men, and several dispute the labels attached to them. It profiles, instead, the ten figures whose enterprises carry the most weight in Palestinian economic life in 2026, at home and across a diaspora that stretches from Riyadh to Houston.\n\n![The builders of Palestinian capital](times-of-palestine-business-leaders-2026.svg)\n\n## Munib al-Masri, the patriarch of Nablus\n\nMunib al-Masri, born in Nablus in 1934 and trained as a geologist at the University of Texas, made his first fortune ", "date_published": "2026-08-01T18:45:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "research" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-business-leaders-2026.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/7183ffd6e0.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/7183ffd6e0.html", "external_url": "https://zeteo.com/p/this-week-in-palestine-israeli-settlers-c92", "title": "Israeli settlers torch mosques, loot Palestinian homes in West Bank", "summary": "Zeteo reported that Israeli settlers set fire to mosques and ransacked Palestinian homes across the West Bank in a fresh wave of attacks on Palestinian communities. The incidents occurred amid Israel's ongoing military operations in Gaza and the enforcement of policies in occupied territories.\n\nThe destruction targeted religious and residential structures in multiple locations. Settler violence against Palestinians has accelerated during the current conflict, with incidents ranging from property damage to looting of civilian homes and places of worship across the West Bank.", "date_published": "2026-08-01T17:03:03Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Zeteo", "url": "https://zeteo.com/" } ], "tags": [ "gaza" ], "image": "https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MjKe!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f81ab5b-2683-4c2d-85ac-fde8c66f7d69_5810x3873.jpeg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/4d4be087b1.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/4d4be087b1.html", "external_url": "https://mondoweiss.net/2026/08/book-review-grief-and-resistance-for-palestine", "title": "Hanhan's poetry collection examines Palestinian grief and political resistance", "summary": "Ramsey Hanhan's book \"Palestine Bleads for You\" offers a sensitive and astute expression of grief and resistance to oppression, according to Mondoweiss. The collection uses poetic form to engage with Palestinian experiences of loss and suffering in the context of ongoing political conflict.\n\nThe work draws on personal and collective narratives to articulate responses to systematic inequities and occupation. Through its verses, the book frames grief not merely as emotional response but as a form of political witness and defiance against oppressive structures.", "date_published": "2026-08-01T15:20:23Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Mondoweiss", "url": "https://mondoweiss.net/" } ], "tags": [ "news" ], "image": "https://mondoweiss.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/NA_BE00-12-1024x666.jpg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/d0d5f71db9.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/d0d5f71db9.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Israeli import controls keep prosthetic limbs from Gaza's amputees", "summary": "Of 2,277 people with amputated limbs assessed in Gaza between September 2024 and May 2026, 502 have been fitted with a permanent prosthesis, according to World Health Organization data reported by Euronews Arabic on 15 July.\n\nSciDev.Net reported in June, citing WHO, that fewer than a quarter of roughly 2,300 amputees assessed over the same period had received permanent limbs, attributing the shortfall to a severe shortage of prosthetic materials and components.\n\nThe assessed caseload is a fraction of the total. OCHA's humanitarian update of 9 October 2025 reported, citing WHO, that nearly 42,000 Palestinians in Gaza had sustained life-changing injuries over two years of war, one in four of them children, including more than 5,000 amputations.\n\nThe counts diverge by source. B'Tselem reported in July 2025 that data supplied by the health ministry in Gaza to Physicians for Human Rights–Israel recorded more than 4,700 limb amputations, including over 940 children and about 370 women, while", "date_published": "2026-08-01T12:07:30.437315Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "health" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-gaza-prosthetics-pipeline-2026-08-01-12-lede.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/d30be62c60.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/d30be62c60.html", "external_url": "https://arablit.org/2026/08/01/forthcoming-august-2026-plays-by-mahfouz-fiction-from-palestine", "title": "English translations bring Mahfouz plays and Palestinian fiction to readers", "summary": "ArabLit announced two Arabic works arriving in English translation in August 2026: a collection of one-act plays by Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz and a novel by Palestinian author Sara Abu Ghazal. The Mahfouz plays represent a portion of his dramatic output that has remained largely unavailable to English readers, while Abu Ghazal's fiction offers a contemporary voice from Palestinian literature.\n\nBoth titles join a growing catalog of Arabic literature in English translation, expanding the range of voices and genres available to English-language audiences. The dual releases this summer reflect publisher interest in bringing works across the Arab world—from Egypt's canonical figures to emerging Palestinian writers—to new readers.", "date_published": "2026-08-01T05:23:36Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "ArabLit", "url": "https://arablit.org/" } ], "tags": [ "arts" ], "image": "https://i0.wp.com/arablit.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Forthcoming-November-2025-10.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/70a5a1a93a.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/70a5a1a93a.html", "external_url": null, "title": "St. Louis dabke troupe funds West Bank autism therapy", "summary": "A children's dance troupe in suburban St. Louis staged a two-hour Palestinian folk-dance production on Saturday to pay for autism diagnosis, parent training and therapy in the West Bank — services the organisation receiving the money says the Palestinian government does not supply at all.\n\nThe show, \"Jafra,\" ran from 4 to 6 p.m. on 1 August at the Purser Center at Logan University, 1851 Schoettler Road, Chesterfield, Missouri, according to St. Louis Public Radio, which reported that the performance would support autistic children and their families in the West Bank through the nonprofit Autism Superhero Palestine. The broadcaster described the production as an exploration of regional dabke styles, a UNESCO-recognised Levantine tradition that St. Louis Public Radio traced to a yearly roof-packing practice in which villagers stomped mud in unison to seal their homes before winter.\n\nThe claim the fundraiser rests on is a gap in the public record itself. On its GoFundMe charity page, Autis", "date_published": "2026-07-31T19:15:57.915923Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "diaspora" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-stl-dabke-autism-jafra-2026-07-31-19-lede.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/90a058947f.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/90a058947f.html", "external_url": "https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/07/31/israeli-defense-ministry-plan-suggests-potential-war-crimes", "title": "Israeli defense minister orders military takeover of West Bank refugee camp", "summary": "Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz instructed the military on July 28 to take control of another Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank, without specifying which one, Human Rights Watch reported. The directive raised war crimes concerns, though the report did not detail the specific allegations or legal basis for those concerns.\n\nThe order follows a pattern of short-term access permits issued to residents of Tulkarem refugee camp in June, when Palestinians were allowed briefly to collect belongings from evacuated homes. The designation of a target camp was not disclosed in Katz's instructions to the Israeli military.", "date_published": "2026-07-31T19:11:53Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Human Rights Watch", "url": "https://www.hrw.org/" } ], "tags": [ "research" ], "image": "https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/styles/opengraph/public/media_2026/07/202607mena_palestine_west%20bank_Tulkarem.jpg?h=40dc845e&itok=Jno2A6p0" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/8cc0c9ad85.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/8cc0c9ad85.html", "external_url": "https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/us-sanctions-iran-companies-using-bitcoin", "title": "US pursues Iran's Bitcoin holdings under expanded sanctions", "summary": "The United States is targeting Iran's cryptocurrency reserves as part of intensifying sanctions against the country, Bitcoin Magazine reported. The action follows American efforts to freeze Iran's other digital assets, marking an expansion of financial pressure into the cryptocurrency sector alongside traditional banking restrictions.\n\nThe effort indicates U.S. officials view Bitcoin and other digital currencies as material Iranian assets warranting seizure or restriction. Iran has previously accumulated cryptocurrency holdings as a potential hedge against international financial isolation and traditional sanctions targeting its banking system.\n\nThe move reflects a broadening strategy to constrain Tehran's access to financial resources by targeting alternative payment systems and stores of value beyond conventional foreign exchange reserves and bank accounts.", "date_published": "2026-07-31T16:20:58Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Bitcoin Magazine", "url": "https://bitcoinmagazine.com/" } ], "tags": [ "bitcoin" ], "image": "https://bitcoinmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/US-Closes-In-of-Irans-Bitcoin-Insurance-Policy-in-strait-of-hormuz.jpg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/0fb8e214d8.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/0fb8e214d8.html", "external_url": "https://pchrgaza.org/as-part-of-the-ongoing-genocide-israeli-occupation-forces-intensify-assaults-on-lives-and-property-of-civilians-in-gaza-strip", "title": "Israeli forces intensify attacks on Gaza civilians and homes", "summary": "The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights reported that Israeli occupation forces are conducting widespread and systematic attacks against Palestinian civilians throughout the Gaza Strip, targeting homes, displacement tents, shelters, civilian gatherings, and vehicles. The organization said these operations form part of a comprehensive policy aimed at destroying essential services and infrastructure across the territory through mass killings and large-scale destruction.\n\nThe assaults have affected both residents in residential areas and displaced persons sheltering in tents, the rights group stated. The campaign encompasses strikes on civilian infrastructure alongside direct attacks on population centers, according to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights assessment of the military operations in Gaza.", "date_published": "2026-07-31T08:21:19Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Palestinian Centre for Human Rights", "url": "https://pchrgaza.org/" } ], "tags": [ "research" ], "image": "https://pchrgaza.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/300726_Bureij_HJ_0019.jpg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/966022edb6.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/966022edb6.html", "external_url": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMidEFVX3lxTE82UnpaR0hfRzJyTmpnczgwMGZ3aFdtWjMwdkFsTUYzZ2V5SzJ1NG9aenhiSDdKUmxVRlVzU0dLaERNaEdONnpVQndURmlCZFZJbjNWVjBaZW4yZWkxVndZOWtXX2JJdzVwUFlFQWpqVHF2dko4?oc=5", "title": "Palestinian drama lands international distribution deals", "summary": "The Palestinian drama \"Thank You For Banking With Us\" has secured sales across multiple territories, according to IMDb. The deal marks a commercial milestone for the production and reflects growing market appetite for Palestinian-produced films on the international circuit.\n\nThe film joins a widening slate of Palestinian dramatic works gaining traction beyond regional markets. Its distribution success underscores shifting dynamics in global media consumption and the expanding reach of Palestinian storytelling in mainstream distribution channels. Specific details on the territories covered by the agreements and the distributors involved have not been disclosed.", "date_published": "2026-07-31T06:38:25Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "IMDb", "url": "https://news.google.com/" } ], "tags": [ "humans" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-humans-b.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ff5f265ea5.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ff5f265ea5.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Omar Suleiman asks what America owes the victims of Graham's wars", "summary": "Eighteen days after Senator Lindsey Graham's death, the American imam whose refusal to mourn him drew a censure motion in Congress has returned with a longer answer. In an essay published Thursday by Religion News Service, Omar Suleiman argued that remembering the dead truthfully is itself a moral obligation — and that the people killed in the wars Graham championed, from Gaza to Lebanon to Iran, are owed at least as much remembrance as the senator himself.\n\nThe essay, titled \"What do we owe the victims of Lindsey Graham's wars?\", reframes a controversy that has followed Suleiman since the night Graham died. Its case is not that the dead should be spoken of harshly, but that the living are not permitted to erase one set of dead to protect the reputation of another. \"Forgetting the victims in order to preserve the reputations of the powerful in the name of decency is its own form of injustice,\" Suleiman wrote, setting what Americans owe the dead in terms of decorum against what they owe", "date_published": "2026-07-31T00:40:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "accountability" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-graham-wars-memory.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/0f8dfab889.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/0f8dfab889.html", "external_url": "https://dawnmena.org/the-gaza-flotilla-was-more-than-a-humanitarian-mission-it-was-a-challenge-to-israels-impunity", "title": "Global Sumud Flotilla sails from Barcelona to challenge Gaza blockade", "summary": "The Global Sumud Flotilla set sail from Barcelona in early April with the declared aim of breaking Israel's blockade of Gaza and establishing a humanitarian corridor, Dawn reported. Saif Abu Keshek, a member of the organizing committee, said the voyage was designed to expose what he described as international complicity in Israeli crimes against Palestinians. The flotilla's organizers acknowledged that participants faced significant dangers in attempting to reach Gaza.\n\nThe mission represents the latest in a series of efforts to challenge the blockade that Israel has maintained around the coastal territory for years. Previous flotillas attempting to breach the blockade have encountered Israeli military resistance. The current voyage seeks to force open supply routes for humanitarian aid delivery to Gaza's population and draw international attention to conditions under the blockade.", "date_published": "2026-07-30T22:37:20Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "DAWN", "url": "https://dawnmena.org/" } ], "tags": [ "research" ], "image": "https://dawnmena.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2276087118-web.webp" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/cd7700e1da.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/cd7700e1da.html", "external_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KP-XiDER5M", "title": "Israel manipulates AI chatbots to skew Gaza coverage, research finds", "summary": "The Quincy Institute has documented a coordinated effort to poison artificial intelligence chatbot responses regarding Israel-Palestine issues, according to the organization's research. The manipulation includes injecting biased prompts and training data designed to slant coverage of Gaza and related topics in favor of Israeli narratives. Researchers identified patterns suggesting systematic attempts to embed pro-Israel framing into widely used AI systems.\n\nThe findings raise concerns about how automated information tools shape public understanding of the conflict at scale. The campaign highlights vulnerabilities in AI systems to coordinated influence operations, particularly regarding geopolitical disputes where competing actors seek to control narrative outputs. The research underscores how machine learning models trained on compromised datasets can perpetuate distorted representations of contested events and populations.", "date_published": "2026-07-30T15:12:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Quincy Institute", "url": "https://quincyinst.org/" } ], "tags": [ "research" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-research-b.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/fe357eade7.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/fe357eade7.html", "external_url": null, "title": "East Asian partners list 47 Palestine development projects", "summary": "East Asian governments have put 47 Palestine development projects into a single public inventory, turning a regional pledge of solidarity into a list that readers can begin to track.\n\nThe [project list published by Japan’s Foreign Ministry](https://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/files/101063882.pdf) spans health, water, education, agriculture, public administration, technology, business and youth development. Nine partner countries registered bilateral and triangular initiatives carried out since October 2023, as well as work planned for the years ahead.\n\nThe list is useful precisely because the 47 entries are not all at the same stage. Some record completed courses or scholarships already in progress. Others describe multi-year programmes running as late as 2032. Several future courses are marked “TBD,” meaning that their dates, participants or implementation still need to be confirmed.\n\nThat distinction does not diminish the cooperation. It shows where delivery is visible and where the next pr", "date_published": "2026-07-30T12:58:49Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "economy" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-east-asia-palestine-projects-2026.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/5e03868fc8.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/5e03868fc8.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Madrid puts Palestinian culture on the agenda; delivery comes next", "summary": "Twenty-eight governments and the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization have taken a significant diplomatic step by signing a declaration for an international pact to protect Palestinian culture. Their agreement puts cultural survival, recovery and creative life on a shared international agenda.\n\nThe [two-page declaration adopted in Madrid on 16 July](https://www.cultura.gob.es/dam/jcr%3Af57d3f1f-beb4-40bf-96ca-3fb2f85d6415/conference-palestinian-culture----final-declaration.pdf) calls on states, international organizations, financial and philanthropic institutions, cultural bodies and civil society to work toward an International Pact for the Resilience of Palestinian Culture. It says the pact should mobilize political commitment, expertise and resources.\n\nThe declaration deliberately starts with shared principles. At this founding stage, the amount to be raised, the body that will hold or distribute funds, Palestinian leadership arrangements, a start date and p", "date_published": "2026-07-30T10:30:21Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "arts" ], "date_modified": "2026-07-30T11:08:00Z", "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-madrid-palestinian-culture-pact-accountability.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/213bcad714.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/213bcad714.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Palestinian market concentration is visible at the top, unmeasurable below it", "summary": "Concentration in the Palestinian economy can be measured at the top of the market and almost nowhere else. PADICO Holding states on its own website that the market value of the group and its companies listed on the Palestine Exchange is $1.8 billion, \"about 40% of the market value of the stock exchange\". A World Economic Forum profile of Paltel Group puts that single company at 31 per cent of the exchange's total capitalisation. Because PADICO's count includes companies within the Paltel group, the two figures cannot be added, and neither is dated in the published versions.\n\nBelow the level of listed companies, the same exercise is not possible. Jamal Abu Farha, director general of the Competition General Directorate in Palestine, told an OECD competition event in July 2020 that \"Palestine does not have a competition law at the moment\", according to an account of the event published by the Kluwer Competition Law Blog, which records that efforts to finalise such a law have run since 200", "date_published": "2026-07-30T05:01:01.282911Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "accountability" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-accountability.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/4ce0685410.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/4ce0685410.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Chile's Palestinian friendship day is stuck in an unfinished bill", "summary": "Chile’s Senate has approved a national day of friendship and solidarity with the Palestinian people, but the proposal has not yet become law.\n\nThe distinction matters. On 20 May, senators approved an amended version of the bill without a dissenting vote and returned it to the Chamber of Deputies. As of 30 July, the [Chamber’s official tracker for Bulletin 16.577-24](https://www.camara.cl/legislacion/ProyectosDeLey/tramitacion.aspx?prmID=17145) still listed the measure in its third constitutional stage. That means the lower house must consider the Senate’s changes before the legislation can advance.\n\nThe proposed date, 7 January, commemorates Chile’s recognition of the State of Palestine in 2011. The bill would allow public institutions to hold commemorative activities linked to friendship, solidarity and human rights. It would not, on its face, create a paid holiday, a spending programme or a new legal right.\n\nIts unfinished journey nevertheless documents something larger: how a migrat", "date_published": "2026-07-30T04:49:47Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "diaspora" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-chile-palestinian-friendship-day-timeline.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/40cbfece1f.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/40cbfece1f.html", "external_url": null, "title": "France freezes Gaza scholars' files, and the court stays silent", "summary": "France’s emergency programme for scientists and artists in exile suspended new applications from Gaza because selected recipients could not be evacuated. When universities, cultural institutions and rights groups asked France’s highest administrative court for urgent relief, the judge rejected their case without deciding whether the exclusion itself was lawful.\n\nSix days later, the French Foreign Ministry said it hoped evacuations connected to medical care, government scholarships and the PAUSE programme could resume by September.\n\nThe two official records expose a gap between being selected for protection and being able to reach it. The programme can finance a position in France, but it does not itself move a laureate out of Gaza. French authorities say departures require approvals from multiple institutions. The court treated that separation as a reason not to order the programme reopened on an emergency basis.\n\n## Key findings\n\n- **The suspension is documented, not alleged.** A [17 ", "date_published": "2026-07-30T02:49:16Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "diaspora" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-france-pause-gaza-timeline.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/7c751a9c6d.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/7c751a9c6d.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Palestinian 4G slips into 2027 while Gaza remains trapped on 2G", "summary": "A [newly published corporate filing](https://www.ooredoo.ps/cached_uploads/download/2026/07/27/financial-statement-h1-2026-1785140476.pdf) puts the clearest date yet on Palestine's long-delayed mobile upgrade: Ooredoo Palestine's financial model assumes a 4G rollout beginning in the West Bank in 2027 and in Gaza in the middle of that year. It is an accounting assumption, not a public launch promise—and it comes after an Israeli approval in January prompted expectations that service could arrive within months.\n\nThe disclosure sharpens a basic accountability question: after licenses, approvals and tens of millions of dollars in payments, what exactly still stands between Palestinian subscribers and a live 4G network?\n\n## Key findings\n\n- **Ooredoo's latest filing assumes 2027, not 2026.** Its unaudited financial information for the six months ending 30 June models rollout beginning in the West Bank in 2027 and in Gaza in mid-2027.\n- **The dates are financial assumptions, not guarantees.**", "date_published": "2026-07-30T01:32:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "research" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-research.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/258a3e39d4.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/258a3e39d4.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Gaza transfer plans renamed, not retired, as displacement figures hold", "summary": "The Israeli plan to move Palestinians out of Gaza has been renamed rather than withdrawn. Israel's Channel 13 reported in late June that political and security bodies were instructed to stop saying \"voluntary migration\" and to use \"free movement plan\" instead, language officials hoped would be, as the channel put it, more acceptable internationally. The report was carried by the Times of Israel, Middle East Monitor, Yeni Şafak and Al Jazeera, which noted the government had decided to rebrand the agency handling the file.\n\nThe agency exists in law. Haaretz reported in March 2025 that Israel's security cabinet approved a \"Voluntary Emigration Bureau for Gaza residents interested in relocating to third countries,\" which Defence Minister Israel Katz said would operate in line with Israeli and international law. Israeli outlet Mako reported the plan, prepared by the military's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, envisaged exits by land through Kerem Shalom, by air throu", "date_published": "2026-07-29T22:10:42.239479Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "gaza" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-gaza.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/75b7de703a.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/75b7de703a.html", "external_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc1allqadgY", "title": "Tucker Carlson Network airs ex-CIA agent discussing controversial theories.", "summary": "Tucker Carlson Network posted a video featuring a former CIA agent discussing Building 7, the \"dancing Israelis,\" and the Kennedy assassination. The network promoted the conversation as available to watch in full on its platform.\n\nThe segment was presented as part of a paid partnership arrangement, according to the feed summary. Additional details about the ex-agent's specific claims or arguments were not included in the promotional material.", "date_published": "2026-07-29T22:00:18Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Tucker Carlson Network", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/@TuckerCarlson" } ], "tags": [ "news" ], "date_modified": "2026-07-29T22:03:52Z", "image": "https://i4.ytimg.com/vi/Cc1allqadgY/hqdefault.jpg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ff96288fc4.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ff96288fc4.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Agora’s Palestine Aid Fund Tests Bitcoin’s Borderless Promise", "summary": "Agora, a fundraising platform built on Bitcoin and the decentralized Nostr communications protocol, has opened a $25,000 collective fund for humanitarian aid to Palestinians, presenting the campaign as a way to move support across borders without relying on banks or conventional payment processors.\n\nThe [Agora Humanitarian Aid for Palestine Fund](https://agora.spot/agora/agora-humanitarian-aid-for-palestine-fund), first published on July 7, links five separate campaigns created by Palestinians in Gaza. They seek help for Sami and his family’s daily needs; Mohanad’s effort to rebuild after displacement and loss; parkour athlete Ahmed’s attempt to rebuild his life in Gaza City; another father named Ahmed who says he is separated from his wife and children in Egypt; and Omar, who describes surviving with an extended family of 23 people in Sheikh Radwan.\n\nThe accounts in those individual campaigns are self-published. Times of Palestine has not independently verified their personal details ", "date_published": "2026-07-29T21:23:34Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "bitcoin" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-bitcoin.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/9fcc6c767d.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/9fcc6c767d.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Israel's Civil Administration speeds weekly West Bank land registration", "summary": "Land in the occupied West Bank now changes hands through a documented sequence of administrative steps — declaration, planning, tender, road-building and designation — that in 2024 and 2025 ran at the fastest rate recorded since the Oslo Accords, according to figures published by Peace Now, the European Union and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.\n\nThe first step is the declaration of \"state land.\" Peace Now reported that on 29 February 2024 the Custodian of Government Property in the Civil Administration declared 2,640.3 dunams in the villages of Abu Dis and el-Azariya as state land, followed by 8,000 dunams on 20 March, 170 dunams near Herodium, and 12,700 dunams in the Jordan Valley on 25 June.\n\nPeace Now's annual review recorded 24,258 dunams declared as state land in 2024, which it described as approximately half of all land declared since the Oslo Accords. The European Union's 2025 settlement report put the following year's figure at 25,959 dunams, also d", "date_published": "2026-07-29T21:17:38.006578Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "westbank" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-westbank-b.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ed453db542.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ed453db542.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Gaza's labour market has stopped functioning as Israel registers West Bank land", "summary": "Gaza's labour market has ceased to function in any measurable sense. The World Bank's economic monitor for the West Bank and Gaza, published in May, put unemployment in Gaza at 78 per cent in 2025 — close to a fourfold rise on already high pre-war levels — and found that more than 90 per cent of working-age people in Gaza have no job. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said in July that the rate had passed 80 per cent, against 29 per cent in the West Bank.\n\nThe scale of the reversal is not disputed. The World Bank recorded an 83 per cent year-on-year contraction in Gaza's GDP in 2024 and a further 12 per cent fall in the first quarter of 2025, and found that by the end of 2024 real GDP across the occupied territories had fallen back to 2009 levels, with nominal GDP per capita at roughly $2,600 — below the $2,900 recorded in 2011.\n\nThe two main sources of figures disagree on 2025. The World Bank estimates Gaza's real GDP grew by about 30 per cent, attributing this to a low bas", "date_published": "2026-07-29T19:03:12.469522Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "politics" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-politics.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/51b9301154.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/51b9301154.html", "external_url": null, "title": "An order to empty a fourth camp reveals displacement machinery", "summary": "Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has said he instructed the army to prepare to take over another West Bank refugee camp and expel its residents, adding a fourth camp to three that have been emptied of most of their people since the start of 2025.\n\nA statement from his office said the decision was intended to \"expand the scope of offensive operations\" and followed a security meeting attended by Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir and senior police and security officials. Haaretz reported that security sources say the security cabinet is discussing widening the operation to further camps.\n\n## Why this matters\n\nThe order does not stand alone. It sits on top of a structure built over four years: settlement expansion at a scale without precedent, the transfer of civil powers from the army to a ministry run by a civilian minister, and a pattern of daily violence that empties small communities before the army reaches them at all.\n\nThe result is that displacement in the West Bank is no longer an exc", "date_published": "2026-07-29T18:43:56Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "westbank" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-westbank.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/02904be464.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/02904be464.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Donor aid to Palestinians rose while money reaching the treasury collapsed", "summary": "Two official ledgers describe the same year in figures that differ by a factor of four.\n\nThe OECD's Development Assistance Committee, in its preliminary summary of 2023 aid levels, put net official development assistance for the West Bank and Gaza at $1.4 billion, a 12 per cent increase on 2022, of which $758 million was humanitarian aid — a 91 per cent rise in a single year.\n\nUNCTAD, reporting to the UN Trade and Development Board in July 2024 on the basis of Palestinian fiscal data, recorded total donor aid to the Palestinian government in 2023 at $358 million, equal to 2 per cent of GDP, of which $206 million was budget support.\n\nThe two numbers are not in conflict. They measure different things. The OECD figure counts what donors spent on Palestinians, including money disbursed by their own agencies and implementing partners. The UNCTAD figure counts what arrived as government revenue. The distance between them is the shift in mechanism that has taken place since 2013.\n\nThe Secreta", "date_published": "2026-07-29T18:04:08.801907Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "economy" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-economy.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/de501e0aa0.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/de501e0aa0.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Palestinian Authority deficit now financed by unpaid wages and supplier arrears", "summary": "The Palestinian Authority's deficit is no longer being financed. It is being deferred onto its own employees, its suppliers and its pension fund.\n\nThe World Bank's quarterly review of Palestinian fiscal performance for July to September 2025 records arrears to the private sector of US$1.65 billion and arrears to public employees of US$2.5 billion as of September 2025, with total PA debt at US$4.79 billion. Six months earlier, the Bank's January to March 2025 review put employee arrears at US$1.8 billion and debt at US$4.2 billion as of April 2025 — a rise of roughly US$700 million in each line over five months.\n\nThe World Bank's West Bank and Gaza country page reports domestic bank borrowing of US$3.3 billion as of December 2025, and states that the PA expanded that borrowing beyond prudential limits while continuing to accumulate arrears to public employees, the private sector and the pension fund. The 2025 Investment Climate Statement published by the US State Department reports appr", "date_published": "2026-07-29T17:06:23.973916Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "economy" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-economy-b.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/c85ab12745.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/c85ab12745.html", "external_url": null, "title": "After Abbas: Who Gets Power First—and Who Gets to Keep It?", "summary": "Palestinian rules point to Hussein al-Sheikh as temporary president if the office becomes vacant today. But permanent power is supposed to come from voters—and three promised ballots collide with competing laws, new appointments, occupation, fragmentation and deep public distrust.\n\nFour names dominate talk about the day after Mahmoud Abbas: Hussein al-Sheikh, Marwan Barghouti, Yasser Abbas and Abbas himself.\n\nBut succession is not one race.\n\nIt is a collision between **the person who could take office temporarily**, **the people who carry weight inside Fatah**, and **the voters who are supposed to choose a permanent president**.\n\n## Why this matters\n\nThe next transition could decide more than who occupies the presidential office. It could shape the first national elections since 2006, the balance among the Palestinian Authority, PLO and Fatah, and whether Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem and the diaspora receive a meaningful vote.\n\n## At a glance\n\n- **Hussein al-Sheikh ha", "date_published": "2026-07-29T12:14:03Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "politics" ], "image": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mahmoud%20Abbas.jpg?width=640" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/8a303ed60d.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/8a303ed60d.html", "external_url": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMizgFBVV95cUxNRGNodmxwUmZQZDdCVHc4X2cyMTNCejBfTndiT2cxYmFqb2NVSTVKM0N6a3RVQzc1N2pfb3JIcmVoRVZ2RmJJeFk3QjdaZXp6RF9jLUVncmczdE5ON0RlM04yUE9YWm9YbnhDWWxvM2pFRmtZaVdTeDFaMV9hbWlHdDBLTjlqMERubWdIVlg2SXdzcFZOQnN4cms5SVRoWVZNeV85cExlN2JNM0hUYUU4NTJ6YVFOaWhWT01jdEc3WjRqTHl1Z01fbGg5cnJjZw?oc=5", "title": "St. Louis dance troupe backs autism advocacy in West Bank", "summary": "A Palestinian dance group based in St. Louis is supporting autism advocacy efforts in the West Bank, according to STLPR. The troupe has leveraged its platform to raise awareness and mobilize resources for individuals with autism in the territory, connecting cultural performance with health activism.\n\nThe initiative demonstrates how diaspora communities are channeling artistic work toward social causes abroad. By directing attention to autism advocacy, the dance ensemble has linked its St. Louis base to Palestinian disability awareness campaigns, bringing visibility to underserved populations in the West Bank through performance and community engagement.", "date_published": "2026-07-29T10:00:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "STLPR", "url": "https://news.google.com/" } ], "tags": [ "arts" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-arts.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ff8bcf0053.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ff8bcf0053.html", "external_url": null, "title": "When the Internet Goes Dark: Why Bitchat Matters for Palestinians", "summary": "Palestinians know better than almost anyone on earth what it means for the internet to disappear. Gaza has endured repeated communications blackouts — telecom infrastructure destroyed or switched off, families unable to learn whether relatives were alive, paramedics unable to be dispatched, journalists unable to file. In the West Bank, connectivity runs through infrastructure Palestinians do not control. When the network is a weapon, the ability to communicate without it becomes a matter of survival.\n\nThat is why a small app called Bitchat deserves Palestinian attention. Launched in July 2025 by Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, Bitchat is an encrypted messaging app that works with no internet, no SIM card, no phone number, no account, and no servers. Phones connect directly to each other over Bluetooth, forming a mesh: each device relays messages to the next, hop by hop, across a range of roughly 100 to 300 meters per link. The more people run it, the farther the mesh reaches.\n\n", "date_published": "2026-07-28T18:30:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "bitcoin" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-bitchat-app.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/6a3b10a25c.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/6a3b10a25c.html", "external_url": null, "title": "In Gaza, reaching your own money costs forty percent", "summary": "In Gaza, the price of your own money can run to forty percent. That is the fee human rights monitors report Palestinians are paying to informal cash brokers simply to convert the balance in their bank account — money they already own — into the physical banknotes needed to buy food, water, or medicine.\n\nThe Human Rights Foundation, which tracks financial repression worldwide in its Financial Freedom Report, has documented the machinery of this collapse. Gaza's banks have effectively ceased to function: branches destroyed or shuttered, ATMs dead, and inflation surging as high as 240 percent. Depositors report that the Bank of Palestine froze accounts without warning, leaving families unable to reach their savings at the moment they needed them most. Into the vacuum stepped unofficial cash brokers, who now govern access to money itself — at rates that can consume nearly half of whatever a family has left.\n\nSet this beside the West Bank's mirror-image crisis, which this section has report", "date_published": "2026-07-28T18:00:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "bitcoin" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-bitcoin.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/104d6baea0.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/104d6baea0.html", "external_url": null, "title": "Locked out of their own money in the West Bank", "summary": "In the occupied West Bank, money itself has become a front line. Gas stations have refused customers' banknotes because their banks will no longer accept deposits. Businesses pay to guard cash they cannot bank. And the institution responsible for Palestinian monetary stability says openly that the system has been turned into a weapon. \"The banks have been shackled,\" Mohammad Manasra, deputy governor of the Palestinian Monetary Authority, told The Associated Press this month. \"What is being practiced in the West Bank is economic warfare.\"\n\nThe mechanics are simple and suffocating. Palestinians have no currency of their own; the Oslo-era arrangements left the West Bank running on the Israeli shekel, with no Palestinian say over the monetary policy that governs it. Workers employed in Israel and its settlements are paid in cash. Palestinian citizens of Israel add more banknotes when they cross to shop. All of that paper flows into Palestinian banks — and very little of it is allowed back ", "date_published": "2026-07-28T17:30:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "bitcoin" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-bitcoin-b.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/8f00aad86f.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/8f00aad86f.html", "external_url": null, "title": "In Gaza, Twenty Young Volunteers Train to Preserve Palestinian Memory", "summary": "Twenty young volunteers in Gaza completed the first training workshop held by Mena'a Ltd on Sunday, a session devoted to field documentation, occupational safety and digital security — skills the organization says are the foundation of responsible documentation work.\n\nThe workshop combined practical, hands-on training with discussions of ethics, safety and the protection of sensitive information, preparing participants for future fieldwork. Mena'a's team in Gaza — Salem El Rayyes, Osama Hamid and Asil Almanssi — led the training on the ground, while the organization's leadership joined the session by video link from Ramallah.\n\nMena'a describes the workshop as only the beginning. The organization says it plans to expand opportunities for young Palestinians to build practical research and documentation skills while contributing to work that preserves important visual records of Palestinian life for future generations — one shared commitment, in its words, to preserving memory through res", "date_published": "2026-07-28T10:45:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Times of Palestine" } ], "tags": [ "humans" ], "image": "/media/times-of-palestine-cover-humans.svg" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/58eb45c4a3.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/58eb45c4a3.html", "external_url": "https://arablit.org/2026/07/28/on-the-new-platform-palestine-is-everywhere", "title": "Editors launch platform to commission Palestinian and diaspora writers", "summary": "Editors Skye Arundhati Thomas, Edwin Nasr, and Gloria Habsburg have launched a new \"Palestine is Everywhere\" platform following their anthology of the same name, according to ArabLit. The digital space will host a series of monthly commissions intended to create an ongoing venue for supporting and amplifying voices from Palestinian writers and those in the diaspora.\n\nThe initiative builds on the success of the 2023 anthology, which gathered essays, poetry, and reportage addressing Palestinian experience and solidarity across geographic and temporal boundaries. The platform aims to sustain the editorial work begun in the collection by regularly publishing new commissioned work that expands conversations around Palestine beyond the constraints of a single bound volume.", "date_published": "2026-07-28T05:05:51Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "ArabLit", "url": "https://arablit.org/" } ], "tags": [ "arts" ], "image": "https://i0.wp.com/arablit.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/On-the-New-Platform-Palestine-is-Everywhere.png?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/07abcd2c0a.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/07abcd2c0a.html", "external_url": "https://pchrgaza.org/palestinian-human-rights-organisations-and-civil-society-institutions-call-on-the-international-community-to-fulfil-its-duties-in-protecting-the-palestinian-people", "title": "Palestinian groups demand international action against settler violence", "summary": "Palestinian human rights organizations are calling for international intervention over escalating violence by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights reported. The organizations said that on July 24, 2026, settler attacks driven by religious Zionist ideology intensified, with Israeli occupying forces present during the incidents.\n\nThe attacks targeted Palestinians who were attempting to protect themselves and their communities. Following the incidents, Israeli officials and media outlets characterized what had occurred in accounts that differed markedly from descriptions provided by Palestinians and observers on the ground, according to the Centre's documentation of the events.", "date_published": "2026-07-27T21:07:00Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Palestinian Centre for Human Rights", "url": "https://pchrgaza.org/" } ], "tags": [ "research" ], "image": "https://pchrgaza.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/phroc-pngo-1785161339-1.png" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/192c3756db.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/192c3756db.html", "external_url": "https://dawnmena.org/yemen-should-not-be-a-bargaining-chip-in-the-u-s-israel-war-on-iran", "title": "Houthis declare maritime embargo against Saudi Arabia", "summary": "The Houthi armed group imposed a maritime embargo on Saudi Arabia on July 20, Dawn reported. The blockade represents the latest maneuver by local Yemeni factions leveraging regional tensions to advance domestic interests amid broader U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran.\n\nThe embargo reflects how competing powers in Yemen have instrumentalized the country's civil conflict, using regional upheaval as cover to consolidate local leverage. Saudi Arabia's role as a primary combatant in Yemen's war has made it a natural target for groups seeking to extract concessions or demonstrate strength to domestic constituencies.", "date_published": "2026-07-23T19:11:15Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "DAWN", "url": "https://dawnmena.org/" } ], "tags": [ "research" ], "image": "https://dawnmena.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2286281443-web.webp" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/441cc7fffc.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/441cc7fffc.html", "external_url": "https://dawnmena.org/coalition-of-20-organizations-urges-u-s-to-rescind-sanctions-on-gaza-flotilla-activists", "title": "Twenty groups demand U.S. lift sanctions on Gaza flotilla activists", "summary": "Twenty civil society organizations, including Dawn, issued a joint call for the U.S. government to immediately rescind sanctions imposed on four activists who participated in a flotilla attempting to challenge Israel's blockade of Gaza. The groups warned that the penalties represent an escalating effort to silence advocacy for Palestinian rights and represent a troubling use of national security authority against human rights work.\n\nThe sanctioned individuals were involved in efforts to breach Israel's naval blockade of the territory, according to Dawn. The organizations urged the administration to cease weaponizing national security measures as a tool to target humanitarian and rights activists. The statement comes as pressure mounts globally over restrictions on aid access to Gaza.", "date_published": "2026-07-22T20:25:07Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "DAWN", "url": "https://dawnmena.org/" } ], "tags": [ "research" ], "image": "https://dawnmena.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2281453541-web.webp" }, { "id": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/cae21aba8f.html", "url": "https://timesofpalestine.com/en/story/cae21aba8f.html", "external_url": "https://dawnmena.org/israels-elections-will-not-end-its-genocidal-and-expansionist-policies", "title": "Israel sets October 27 elections under Netanyahu's full term", "summary": "Israel has scheduled national elections for October 27, the latest permissible date under Israeli election law, according to DAWN. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government will complete a full four-year term, a rare occurrence in Israeli politics that has happened only once before in the country's history.\n\nThe election announcement comes as Netanyahu's coalition has remained intact through the current parliamentary session. Political analysts and opposition figures are now positioning their campaigns ahead of the autumn vote, with attention turning to whether the election will produce significant shifts in government policy or allow Netanyahu's priorities to shape the coming term.", "date_published": "2026-07-21T14:14:34Z", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "DAWN", "url": "https://dawnmena.org/" } ], "tags": [ "research" ], "image": "https://dawnmena.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2285736819-web.webp" } ] }