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  "title": "Times of Palestine",
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    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/boycott-calls-over-gaza-stance-threaten-ed-sheeran-46a1f52dbb.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/boycott-calls-over-gaza-stance-threaten-ed-sheeran-46a1f52dbb.html",
      "external_url": "https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/09/doom-loop-ed-sheeran-struggles-against-gaza-tide",
      "title": "Boycott calls over Gaza stance threaten Ed Sheeran's career",
      "summary": "British singer Ed Sheeran faces mounting boycott calls and artist desertions over his stance on Gaza, according to Al-Monitor. The controversy has created what observers describe as a career crisis for one of the world's biggest musical stars, reflecting broader divisions over the conflict.\n\nThe situation illustrates how even globally prominent figures are being drawn into political divisions surrounding Gaza, with consequences for their professional standing and public support.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-18T01:30:34Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "arts"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.al-monitor.com/sites/default/files/styles/social_media_share/public/2026-09/000_c6vb6hf.jpg?h=69f2b9d0&itok=CtkkiTVx"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/youtube-educator-ms-rachel-matches-macklemore-s-1m-52654841dc.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/youtube-educator-ms-rachel-matches-macklemore-s-1m-52654841dc.html",
      "external_url": "https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/sep/17/ms-rachel-macklemore-palestine-donation",
      "title": "YouTube educator Ms Rachel matches Macklemore's $1m Palestine donation",
      "summary": "YouTube personality and educator Ms Rachel said she is matching rapper Macklemore's $1 million donation to organizations supporting Palestinians, according to The Guardian. Ms Rachel described the contribution as a \"moral obligation\" and called on other wealthy white celebrities to make similar donations.\n\nThe matching pledge comes as Macklemore announced his own $1 million commitment to Palestinian aid organizations. Ms Rachel's call for other public figures to donate reflects growing pressure on celebrities to take financial stands on the humanitarian situation in Gaza.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-18T01:00:45Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
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        "politics"
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    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-army-warns-netanyahu-security-lines-unsustainable-51c909f266.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-army-warns-netanyahu-security-lines-unsustainable-51c909f266.html",
      "external_url": "https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/report-israels-security-lines-cannot-be-maintained-amid-financial-crisis",
      "title": "Israeli army warns Netanyahu security lines unsustainable without more funding",
      "summary": "The Israeli military has warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that it cannot maintain security operations on three fronts without a significant budget increase, Middle East Eye reported. The army indicated it requires \"billions of shekels\" to sustain defensive positions, citing an ongoing financial crisis as the obstacle to continued operations.\n\nThe warning comes as Netanyahu's government faces pressure to allocate additional resources to military operations while contending with broader economic constraints.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-18T00:18:16Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/2026-09/Untitled_0.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestinian-man-collapses-after-hours-of-israeli-detention-dc9b8753a8.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestinian-man-collapses-after-hours-of-israeli-detention-dc9b8753a8.html",
      "external_url": "https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-man-faints-after-being-detained-and-handcuffed-hours-israeli",
      "title": "Palestinian man collapses after hours of Israeli detention in handcuffs",
      "summary": "A Palestinian man fainted after Israeli forces detained him and kept him handcuffed for several hours in Masafer Yatta, the occupied West Bank, according to Middle East Eye. Video footage documented the incident showing the man losing consciousness while restrained.\n\nThe detention occurred in Masafer Yatta, a South Hebron Hills area where Palestinian communities face ongoing pressure from Israeli military operations and settlement expansion.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-17T23:34:43Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "westbank"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-westbank.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-forces-and-settlers-attack-west-bank-residents-f532c74892.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-forces-and-settlers-attack-west-bank-residents-f532c74892.html",
      "external_url": "https://imemc.org/article/israeli-forces-colonizers-attack-across-west-bank",
      "title": "Israeli forces and settlers attack West Bank residents across territory",
      "summary": "Israeli occupation forces and illegal settlers carried out coordinated attacks across the occupied West Bank on Thursday, IMEMC News reported. The operations included abductions of Palestinians, establishment of military roadblocks, deployment of tear gas, and assaults on residents, vehicles, and agricultural areas.\n\nThe incidents occurred in multiple locations throughout the territory, reflecting an escalation of violence by both state military units and paramilitary settler groups operating in Palestinian areas.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-17T21:52:44Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "westbank"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/u-s-treasury-sanctions-iranian-crypto-exchange-for-1291bd5dda.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/u-s-treasury-sanctions-iranian-crypto-exchange-for-1291bd5dda.html",
      "external_url": "https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/treasury-sanctions-iran-bitcoin-exchange",
      "title": "U.S. Treasury sanctions Iranian crypto exchange for IRGC bitcoin transfers",
      "summary": "The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned BitBank, an Iranian cryptocurrency exchange, over its role in facilitating bitcoin transfers to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to Bitcoin Magazine. The action represents Washington's effort to disrupt Tehran's use of digital assets for financial activity involving the military organization.\n\nThe sanctions target BitBank's operations as the Treasury continues to focus on cryptocurrency as a channel through which Iran circumvents traditional financial restrictions tied to the IRGC, designated a terrorist organization by the United States.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-17T21:48:51Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "bitcoin"
      ],
      "image": "https://bitcoinmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Pics-1-8.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/netanyahu-vows-to-complete-military-missions-in-iran-f6b305f895.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/netanyahu-vows-to-complete-military-missions-in-iran-f6b305f895.html",
      "external_url": "https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/netanyahu-says-mission-must-be-completed-iran-lebanon-and-gaza",
      "title": "Netanyahu vows to complete military missions in Iran, Lebanon, Gaza",
      "summary": "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened his Likud party's election campaign Thursday, declaring that the \"mission must be completed\" across three fronts, Middle East Eye reported. Netanyahu claimed that he and his party \"are the only ones\" capable of prosecuting the military operations, without providing specifics on what completion would entail.\n\nThe remarks signal Netanyahu's intention to continue military engagement in Gaza, where an Israeli offensive has persisted for months, as well as escalating tensions with Lebanon and Iran.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-17T21:06:14Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "gaza"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/000_C8MA8VU.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/kyrie-irving-pays-nfl-player-s-fine-for-08f49c8536.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/kyrie-irving-pays-nfl-player-s-fine-for-08f49c8536.html",
      "external_url": "https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/kyrie-irving-offers-pay-nfl-players-fine-palestine-solidarity-defies-corporate-pressure",
      "title": "Kyrie Irving pays NFL player's fine for Palestine solidarity statement",
      "summary": "NBA star Kyrie Irving offered to cover an NFL player's financial penalty for expressing support for Palestine, Middle East Eye reported. The gesture signals growing willingness among high-profile athletes to absorb costs associated with taking public stances on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, despite potential corporate repercussions.\n\nThe move comes as some athletes increasingly accept financial consequences for activism. Irving's backing of Azeez al-Shaair follows a pattern of established stars using their resources to shield peers from penalties tied to political speech.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-17T19:09:27Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "news"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/crop_16_9/public/images-story/HSWmE13XYAAGsY2.jpg.jpg?itok=LRsFtilr"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/state-department-bars-palestine-delegation-from-un-general-28577f58e0.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/state-department-bars-palestine-delegation-from-un-general-28577f58e0.html",
      "external_url": "https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/09/us-state-department-must-reverse-decision-to-ban-palestine-delegation-from-attending-unga-session-in-new-york",
      "title": "State Department bars Palestine delegation from UN General Assembly session",
      "summary": "Amnesty International called on the US State Department to reverse its decision to prevent a Palestinian high-level delegation, including President Mahmoud Abbas, from attending the UN General Assembly session in New York. The ban marks the second consecutive year the US has blocked Palestinian officials from the gathering.\n\nThe rights organization did not specify what prompted the reversal demand or detail the State Department's stated rationale for the exclusion in its statement yesterday.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-17T18:41:24Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/319318-1024x432.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ireland-boycotts-eurovision-again-over-gaza-deaths-c508e85c4a.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ireland-boycotts-eurovision-again-over-gaza-deaths-c508e85c4a.html",
      "external_url": "https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/sep/17/ireland-to-boycott-eurovision-again-over-ongoing-deaths-in-gaza",
      "title": "Ireland boycotts Eurovision again over Gaza deaths",
      "summary": "Ireland will skip the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest in protest of Israeli participation and the continuing death toll in Gaza, The Guardian reported. The country's national broadcaster made the decision citing the \"appalling\" ongoing killing in the Palestinian territory.\n\nThis marks Ireland's second consecutive Eurovision boycott. The Dutch broadcaster has also refused to participate in the 2027 contest, joining Ireland in its protest against Israeli involvement in the annual song competition.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-17T17:32:23Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "gaza"
      ],
      "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bb12c55882877de8f3159627b5ed57cef2831725/206_0_3724_2981/master/3724.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ccc5714fe9b167619a2369c7d2dd6b8c"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/international-agencies-agree-on-emergency-plan-for-gaza-68e6602325.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/international-agencies-agree-on-emergency-plan-for-gaza-68e6602325.html",
      "external_url": "https://shehabnews.com/post/164271/%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%82-%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%B3%D8%B3%D9%8A-%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A-%D9%88%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%85%D9%8A-%D9%88%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%AE%D8%B7%D8%A9-%D8%B7%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A6-%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A9-%D8%A3%D8%B2%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A2%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%82%D9%88%D8%B7-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9",
      "title": "International agencies agree on emergency plan for Gaza's collapsing buildings",
      "summary": "International, UN, and Arab institutions have reached consensus on an emergency plan to address the crisis of structurally unsound buildings in Gaza, according to Shehab Wire. The agreement was reached following calls from Palestinian government ministries and institutions to coordinate a response to the deteriorating housing situation.\n\nDetails of the plan's specific provisions and implementation timeline were not disclosed in the announcement.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-17T17:26:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "gaza"
      ],
      "image": "https://shehabnews.com/thumb/1200x630/uploads/images/2026/09/7NyVe.jpg?v=1"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/music-industry-silences-palestine-advocacy-critics-say-d1e57f73a2.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/music-industry-silences-palestine-advocacy-critics-say-d1e57f73a2.html",
      "external_url": "https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/ed-sheeran-macklemore-and-the-music-industrys-habit-of-choosing-white-feelings-over-black-and-brown-lives",
      "title": "Music industry silences Palestine advocacy, critics say",
      "summary": "Macklemore was removed from Ed Sheeran's tour after calling for Palestinian freedom, according to Mondoweiss, which attributed the decision to pressure from New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. The outlet reports the incident illustrates how the entertainment industry enforces political silence on Palestinian rights while permitting other forms of political speech.\n\nCritics argue the removal reflects what Mondoweiss characterizes as the industry's historical pattern of suppressing voices addressing racial injustice and colonialism. The outlet draws parallels to Billie Holiday's 1930s performance of \"Strange Fruit,\" a protest song about lynching, suggesting contemporary suppression of Palestine advocacy follows the same logic of selective censorship based on whose lives and suffering the industry chooses to amplify.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-17T16:44:32Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "opinion"
      ],
      "image": "https://mondoweiss.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/shutterstock_2288599865.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestinian-journalists-syndicate-demands-urgent-evacuation-of-c1d090dfa0.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestinian-journalists-syndicate-demands-urgent-evacuation-of-c1d090dfa0.html",
      "external_url": "https://english.pnn.ps/news/48302",
      "title": "Palestinian Journalists Syndicate demands urgent evacuation of wounded Gaza reporters",
      "summary": "The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate called for the immediate medical evacuation of dozens of injured and ill reporters from Gaza, citing \"exceptionally harsh conditions\" facing journalists and media workers during the ongoing war, the Palestine News Network reported. The syndicate characterized the situation as critical for news staff unable to access adequate medical care.\n\nDozens of Gaza's press corps are operating under active conflict while attempting to document events in the territory, with limited access to medical facilities.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-17T16:28:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "health"
      ],
      "image": "https://media.pnn.ps/english/storage/images/media/2026/1789662648-1514697251.jpeg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/lebanon-counts-8-953-dead-30-643-wounded-1a49532755.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/lebanon-counts-8-953-dead-30-643-wounded-1a49532755.html",
      "external_url": "https://shehabnews.com/post/164269/%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86-8953-%D8%B4%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7-%D9%8830643-%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AD%D8%A7-%D8%AD%D8%B5%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A",
      "title": "Lebanon counts 8,953 dead, 30,643 wounded from Israeli assault",
      "summary": "Lebanon's Health Ministry reported 8,953 deaths and 30,643 wounded from Israeli military operations, Shehab Wire reported. The toll reflects months of cross-border strikes that intensified following the October 7 attack on Israel and subsequent operations in Gaza.\n\nThe casualty figures represent one of the highest death counts Lebanon has recorded during the conflict, with wounded far exceeding fatalities across hospitals and medical facilities nationwide.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-17T16:19:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "news"
      ],
      "image": "https://shehabnews.com/thumb/1200x630/uploads/images/2026/05/DLDc6.webp?v=1"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/north-gaza-education-authority-opens-palestine-phoenix-school-ed0d00fc6b.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/north-gaza-education-authority-opens-palestine-phoenix-school-ed0d00fc6b.html",
      "external_url": "https://shehabnews.com/post/164267/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85-%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%AA%D8%AA%D8%AD-%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%A9-%D8%B9%D9%86%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A8%D8%AC%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7",
      "title": "North Gaza education authority opens Palestine Phoenix school in Jabalia",
      "summary": "The Education Directorate in northern Gaza opened a new school named \"Palestine Phoenix\" in Jabalia, according to Shehab Wire. The facility's name references the mythical bird that rises from ashes, symbolizing renewal and resilience in Palestinian contexts.\n\nDetails about the school's capacity, grade levels served, or operational timeline were not immediately available. The opening comes as Gaza's education system continues to face significant challenges following months of conflict.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-17T16:05:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "gaza"
      ],
      "image": "https://shehabnews.com/thumb/1200x630/uploads/images/2026/09/yX4XQ.jpg?v=1"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-holds-39-journalists-in-detention-including-rimawi-ab9e9110f8.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-holds-39-journalists-in-detention-including-rimawi-ab9e9110f8.html",
      "external_url": "https://shehabnews.com/post/164265/%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%8A-39-%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%B3%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84",
      "title": "Israel holds 39 journalists in detention, including Rimawi",
      "summary": "Journalist Alaa al-Rimawi has been arrested, bringing the total number of media workers held in Israeli detention to 39, Shehab Wire reported. The arrests reflect an ongoing crackdown on press freedom in occupied Palestinian territories and Israeli prisons.\n\nThe detention of journalists has raised concerns among media advocacy groups about access to news coverage and the ability of Palestinian outlets to report on conditions under occupation.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-17T15:32:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "prisoners"
      ],
      "image": "https://shehabnews.com/thumb/1200x630/uploads/images/2023/06/hg1k8.jpg?v=1"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-s-new-school-year-opens-in-tents-45ea6bde53.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-s-new-school-year-opens-in-tents-45ea6bde53.html",
      "external_url": "https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/the-new-school-year-in-gaza-begins-in-tents",
      "title": "Gaza's new school year opens in tents as Israel's war destroys classrooms",
      "summary": "Hundreds of thousands of Gazan children began the school year in fabric shelters and makeshift wooden structures rather than classrooms, Mondoweiss reported. The shift marks the fourth consecutive year students have foregone traditional school buildings, as the territory's education infrastructure has sustained devastating damage.\n\nIsrael's military campaign has destroyed much of Gaza's school system, leaving educators and families to improvise learning spaces in displacement camps and emergency shelters. Students are attempting to continue their education amid ongoing displacement and resource scarcity.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-17T15:25:23Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "gaza"
      ],
      "image": "https://mondoweiss.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/120926_Gaza_BO_0011-1024x683.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/survivor-describes-ai-algorithms-selecting-gaza-victims-82dc597b2d.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/survivor-describes-ai-algorithms-selecting-gaza-victims-82dc597b2d.html",
      "external_url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/17/naza-film-documentary-killing-gaza",
      "title": "Survivor describes AI algorithms selecting Gaza victims",
      "summary": "A documentary screening revealed how artificial intelligence systems may determine who lives and dies in Gaza, according to The Guardian. Mahmoud Mushtaha, a survivor who lost family and friends in the territory, described watching the film as glimpsing \"the machinery of killing\" — the algorithmic processes underlying military targeting decisions. He said the experience answered long-standing questions about survival, suggesting the difference between life and death often came down to computational selection rather than chance.\n\nThe account raises questions about the role of automated systems in military operations in Gaza and their opacity to those affected by their outcomes.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-17T12:30:49Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "gaza"
      ],
      "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fea179ca4370b289ddaa4593dbad723ca235287f/1053_0_5600_4480/master/5600.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ea1e19ab1ce16b1f27567f79816d8f38"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/activist-group-targets-biden-officials-over-gaza-policy-a376eee2e2.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/activist-group-targets-biden-officials-over-gaza-policy-a376eee2e2.html",
      "external_url": "https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-bidens-genocide-accomplices",
      "title": "Activist group targets Biden officials over Gaza policy with accountability campaign",
      "summary": "A new initiative called #DroptheGenocide20, reported by Zeteo, is demanding that Biden administration officials involved in Gaza policy not be appointed to positions within liberal institutions and spaces. The campaign specifically targets what organizers characterize as complicity in the Gaza conflict.\n\nThe effort draws parallels to JD Vance's own career trajectory, noting that Vance sought roles in liberal circles in 2016 despite his stated opposition to Trump at that time. The campaign reflects ongoing tension within progressive movements over Biden administration officials' involvement in Middle East policy.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-17T11:37:48Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "gaza"
      ],
      "image": "https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Lq2p!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4fb4a7f0-56ba-4779-af64-5d21093ea847_1024x683.jpeg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-s-health-system-faces-collapse-as-medical-9a4aff7b15.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-s-health-system-faces-collapse-as-medical-9a4aff7b15.html",
      "external_url": "https://t.me/maannews/36843",
      "title": "Gaza's health system faces collapse as medical infrastructure deteriorates",
      "summary": "The health system in Gaza is approaching systemic failure, according to Ma'an Wire, with medical infrastructure suffering severe degradation amid ongoing operational constraints. Hospitals and clinics across the territory face critical shortages of supplies, fuel, and personnel, leaving medical staff unable to provide adequate care to the population.\n\nThe deterioration has created a cascade of failures across primary and secondary healthcare services, compounding existing humanitarian challenges in the territory. Medical facilities continue to operate under severely restricted conditions, with many unable to maintain basic functions or treat patients effectively.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-17T11:28:01Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "gaza"
      ],
      "image": "https://cdn4.telesco.pe/file/dOJNWTe0fLhCM9kvoemvFCSao1ihzAGaeFfAJV_NfFslaxGGZ6hTdmI7N0F4eCnhbPJrnAxy5yXnUOGbc1PZ0IgbiWbzSynNYjWUN7wLo7W56ADTbmDsLRMuzXpSPIxyVkMAb-qkQr3Cv-FUb00BETWjfFU-2zjjbYgfiyy0OWMbVjO0W4gb_bqoYiHLG1UQYdoMmk4MCr8os5NYO8Xvqgpwoeolboo_C3cuuTBnHO4nrTe0qntCrzHfcW1SHjqKGAkf-LiiNX7H7Vw-yuB8-Octqz-APjuLK1gF95GdBPEFxDzbJc5l9dEgO75ssq0Ej9euSieruxlfth3Y_IQ87w"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestinian-auto-firm-opens-showroom-for-im-and-d31884d687.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestinian-auto-firm-opens-showroom-for-im-and-d31884d687.html",
      "external_url": "https://t.me/maannews/36842",
      "title": "Palestinian auto firm opens showroom for IM and MG vehicles in Ramallah",
      "summary": "The Palestinian Company for Cars inaugurated a new dealership in Ramallah to display and sell IM and MG brand vehicles, the Ma'an news agency reported. The showroom marks an expansion of the company's retail presence in the West Bank.\n\nThe company celebrated the opening as it seeks to broaden its market reach for the two vehicle brands in Palestinian territory.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-17T10:45:57Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "arts"
      ],
      "image": "https://cdn4.telesco.pe/file/cR7T5MI_gr4lJT2uvvRbq7F_RIO370L5QUQVMmBhsjctozp_SeJc-ckp0G2HTsxpUjxI4tW7hkV2AZpRJxOtH4whrh8xRvbe2piMxlr3JKc_52q3NJFIX3AbuZkwjLQwsG6SDWyHFn39P68-oisA52uBY8f3wQwTKZwr_f5npJk-jn3GDU097BJ2JZg44_z5EL9EwMyTPpEEhPB1kjtIgE9MUuJcaF1uAdBIz3TGQqnE1-j4UKILUy44WGiPpXqf2yCt1dFTP9qkFrv8wgKZU-GuKX_02ouIEG7G6Cl9Y9UDitSuhpViZnlNzXAHYiTTYXsAUktM1TaR1Ks30zMo2g"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-accelerates-settlement-unit-approvals-in-e1-project-ffcf1a0459.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-accelerates-settlement-unit-approvals-in-e1-project-ffcf1a0459.html",
      "external_url": "https://www.maannews.net/news/2168886.html",
      "title": "Israel accelerates settlement unit approvals in E1 project",
      "summary": "Israel is fast-tracking procedures to advance 2,167 settlement units in the E1 project, according to Ma'an. The expansion plan represents one of the most contested settlement initiatives in the occupied West Bank.\n\nE1, located between Jerusalem and Jericho, has long been viewed by Palestinians and the international community as a strategic corridor that would further fragment Palestinian territory and complicate the viability of a future Palestinian state.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-17T10:04:25Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "westbank"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-westbank.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-education-ministry-sets-school-year-start-date-2ba5ee4c97.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-education-ministry-sets-school-year-start-date-2ba5ee4c97.html",
      "external_url": "https://www.maannews.net/news/2168889.html",
      "title": "Gaza education ministry sets school year start date",
      "summary": "The Palestinian Ministry of Education announced the beginning of the new academic year in Gaza, according to the Ma'an news agency. The ministry set a specific date for schools across the territory to resume operations following the disruption of classes.\n\nNo additional details were provided regarding which grades would begin classes first or any conditions that might affect the return to schooling in the enclave.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-17T10:03:27Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "gaza"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-gaza.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-forces-continue-gaza-ceasefire-violations-on-343rd-a2e400c05c.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-forces-continue-gaza-ceasefire-violations-on-343rd-a2e400c05c.html",
      "external_url": "https://imemc.org/article/israel-continues-gaza-ceasefire-violations",
      "title": "Israeli forces continue Gaza ceasefire violations on 343rd consecutive day",
      "summary": "Israeli occupation forces shelled and opened fire on multiple areas of Gaza on Thursday, according to IMEMC News, marking the 343rd consecutive day of ceasefire violations. The incidents targeted various locations across the coastal enclave.\n\nThe reported violations occur amid an ongoing dispute over the terms and implementation of ceasefire agreements between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups in Gaza.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-17T09:58:29Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "gaza"
      ],
      "image": "https://imemc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Screenshot-2026-09-17-023723-1-e1789638832217.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-forces-demolish-homes-and-livestock-shelter-in-0ae17fbcba.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-forces-demolish-homes-and-livestock-shelter-in-0ae17fbcba.html",
      "external_url": "https://www.maannews.net/news/2168884.html",
      "title": "Israeli forces demolish homes and livestock shelter in Anata",
      "summary": "Israeli occupation forces demolished five residential structures and a sheep pen in the village of Anata, the Ma'an news agency reported. The operation also included assaults on residents during the demolitions.\n\nDetails of casualties or the number of people displaced were not immediately available. Anata, located northeast of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, has faced repeated demolition operations by Israeli forces.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-17T09:01:16Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "news"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-news.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestine-rejects-us-expansion-of-sanctions-against-officials-88de4d9a5a.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestine-rejects-us-expansion-of-sanctions-against-officials-88de4d9a5a.html",
      "external_url": "https://www.maannews.net/news/2168883.html",
      "title": "Palestine rejects US expansion of sanctions against officials and liberation organization members",
      "summary": "Palestine has rejected an extension of American sanctions targeting its officials and members of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Ma'an news agency reported. The statement did not detail which specific individuals or measures the rejection concerned.\n\nThe U.S. has previously imposed sanctions on Palestinian leadership figures and PLO members, citing security concerns and allegations of incitement. Palestinian officials have consistently characterized such measures as counterproductive to peacemaking efforts and infringements on Palestinian sovereignty.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-17T08:42:07Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-politics.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/uk-envoy-tells-palestinian-ambassador-arms-curbs-on-a038c43a07.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/uk-envoy-tells-palestinian-ambassador-arms-curbs-on-a038c43a07.html",
      "external_url": "https://zeteo.com/p/palestinian-ambassador-says-uk-government",
      "title": "UK envoy tells Palestinian ambassador arms curbs on Israel are coming",
      "summary": "Palestinian Ambassador Husam Zomlot said the UK government has indicated it will impose tougher restrictions on arms sales to Israel, Zeteo reported. Speaking with the outlet, Zomlot discussed new sanctions on illegal West Bank settlements and his personal observations of the conflict.\n\nThe ambassador's statement comes as pressure mounts on Western governments to limit military support to Israel amid the ongoing war in Gaza and concerns over settlement expansion in occupied Palestinian territory.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-16T21:00:42Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "westbank"
      ],
      "image": "https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4PWn!,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%2F215988329%2F65c6e75d-6e4e-4d96-a683-0edeb6ee2001%2Ftranscoded-39731.png"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-ministers-activists-threaten-gaza-documentary-directors-2d71f3b382.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-ministers-activists-threaten-gaza-documentary-directors-2d71f3b382.html",
      "external_url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/16/threats-against-israeli-directors-gaza-documentary-naza",
      "title": "Israeli ministers, activists threaten Gaza documentary directors",
      "summary": "Directors of a Guardian-produced documentary about Gaza are facing intensified threats from Israeli government officials and far-right activists, rights groups reported. The film, titled NAZA, has drawn condemnation from Israeli political figures since its release.\n\nHuman rights organizations have rallied behind the directors in response to the threats. The documentary examines civilian casualties in Gaza, including attacks on residential areas with families inside.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-16T20:54:11Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "arts"
      ],
      "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ad22f1b6a2f1da8a981a117334dee03072d5cb3b/560_0_3750_3000/master/3750.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=09ae37bf9b7c24386a03c749245be4d8"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/german-activists-on-trial-for-vandalism-at-israeli-21bcd7b79e.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/german-activists-on-trial-for-vandalism-at-israeli-21bcd7b79e.html",
      "external_url": "https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/ulm5-elbit-israel-gaza-germany",
      "title": "German activists on trial for vandalism at Israeli weapons factory",
      "summary": "Five activists face prosecution in Ulm, Germany, after vandalizing a facility operated by Elbit Systems, an Israeli weapons manufacturer, Drop Site News reported. The defendants plan to use their trial to challenge Germany's role in supplying arms used in Gaza operations.\n\nThe case centers on accusations that Germany facilitates Israeli military actions through weapons sales and exports. The activists' legal strategy aims to highlight the connection between German-made weapons and alleged violations in Gaza, transforming what authorities treat as a property crime into a debate over state complicity.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-16T20:18:56Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "gaza"
      ],
      "image": "https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5qiU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e2fab64-6943-4e78-8f9f-7f3383c3d754_2048x1365.jpeg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestinian-family-flees-ancestral-home-after-settler-threats-2732b1d650.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestinian-family-flees-ancestral-home-after-settler-threats-2732b1d650.html",
      "external_url": "https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/inside-a-palestinian-familys-agonizing-decision-to-abandon-their-home-under-threat-of-israeli-settler-violence",
      "title": "Palestinian family flees ancestral home after settler threats",
      "summary": "OUTLET: Mondoweiss reported on Ali Abu Khdeir's family abandoning their house in Deir Jarir, where his grandfather had lived for three generations. Israeli settlers' threats of violence made remaining in the residence untenable, forcing the family to leave property they had occupied for decades.\n\nThe departure has heightened fears among other residents of Deir Jarir, who worry they may face similar pressure to abandon their homes. The case reflects an escalating pattern of settler activity targeting Palestinian communities in the West Bank.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-16T18:17:37Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "westbank"
      ],
      "image": "https://mondoweiss.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/DSC00936-1024x683.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/trump-administration-approves-2-8-billion-arms-package-43f6cb3ffe.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/trump-administration-approves-2-8-billion-arms-package-43f6cb3ffe.html",
      "external_url": "https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/trump-arms-deal-israel-gaza-building-collapse-us-diesel",
      "title": "Trump administration approves $2.8 billion arms package for Israel",
      "summary": "The Trump administration has approved a $2.8 billion arms deal for Israel that includes 40,000 bombs, Drop Site News reported. The sale marks one of several military aid packages the U.S. has authorized for Israel in recent months.\n\nA building collapse in Gaza has killed at least 21 people, according to reports. The cause of the collapse was not immediately determined.\n\nU.S. diesel prices have climbed above $6.30 per gallon, reflecting broader fuel cost pressures across the American economy.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-16T15:34:28Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "gaza"
      ],
      "image": "https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WBmD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc2cedf2-6a83-482b-8626-229e36ed7082_8192x5464.heic"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-forces-arrest-palestinian-american-journalist-covering-e2d82de6be.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-forces-arrest-palestinian-american-journalist-covering-e2d82de6be.html",
      "external_url": "https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/palestinian-american-journalist-naqaa-hamed-arrested",
      "title": "Israeli forces arrest Palestinian-American journalist covering settler violence",
      "summary": "Palestinian-American freelance journalist Naqaa Hamed was detained by Israeli authorities after returning from covering Israeli settler attacks in Masafer Yatta, Drop Site News reported. Hamed, a contributor to the outlet, was arrested as she documented the violence targeting the area.\n\nThe journalist was apprehended while reporting on the settler assault, which occurred in the South Hebron Hills region where Palestinians face ongoing pressure from Israeli settlement expansion and related security operations.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-16T15:04:45Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "women"
      ],
      "image": "https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wsNr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa85f9b26-5412-431a-9356-4570886d7351_1600x900.jpeg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-forces-kill-16-palestinians-in-gaza-in-0e01372a9e.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-forces-kill-16-palestinians-in-gaza-in-0e01372a9e.html",
      "external_url": "https://pchrgaza.org/israel-continues-to-kill-displaced-palestinians-as-nowhere-is-safe-in-gaza",
      "title": "Israeli forces kill 16 Palestinians in Gaza in four days",
      "summary": "Israeli Occupation Forces killed at least 16 Palestinians, including a woman and her unborn child, in a series of attacks across the Gaza Strip between 11 and 15 September, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights reported. Field researchers documented the incidents, which the organization said demonstrate continued and widespread targeting of civilians.\n\nThe killings occurred in multiple locations throughout Gaza during the four-day period, according to PCHR's documentation.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-16T14:13:37Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "research"
      ],
      "image": "https://pchrgaza.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/140926_Khan_Yunis_TM_0014.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-rights-group-b-tselem-documents-systematic-dismantling-d7376846ca.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-rights-group-b-tselem-documents-systematic-dismantling-d7376846ca.html",
      "external_url": "http://www.democracynow.org/2026/9/16/btselem",
      "title": "Israeli rights group B'Tselem documents systematic dismantling of Palestinian West Bank life",
      "summary": "B'Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization, released a report titled \"The Elimination Project\" accusing Israel of dramatically intensifying attacks on every aspect of Palestinian life in the West Bank, Democracy Now! reported. The group documented what it characterized as systematic dismantling across multiple dimensions of Palestinian existence in the territory.\n\nThe report details intensified Israeli actions affecting Palestinian communities, though specific findings and scope remain to be detailed in full documentation.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-16T12:26:46Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "westbank"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.democracynow.org/images/story/86/83586/w320/Seg2-Settler-terrorism-splits.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/building-collapse-kills-at-least-20-in-gaza-ea1fc19b49.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/building-collapse-kills-at-least-20-in-gaza-ea1fc19b49.html",
      "external_url": "https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/09/1168346",
      "title": "Building collapse kills at least 20 in Gaza City",
      "summary": "Search and rescue operations continued in Gaza City on Wednesday following the collapse of a bombed-out building that killed at least 20 people, UN News reported. Rescue teams worked through the rubble as authorities searched for additional survivors trapped beneath the structure.\n\nThe collapse occurred in a previously damaged building, adding to the toll of destroyed infrastructure across the enclave.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-16T12:00:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "gaza"
      ],
      "image": "https://global.unitednations.entermediadb.net/assets/mediadb/services/module/asset/downloads/preset/Collections/Production%20Library/2026/09/16-09-2026-Gaza-UNRWA-01.jpg/image560x340cropped.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/pchr-director-raji-sourani-wins-international-hrant-dink-bac808d25d.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/pchr-director-raji-sourani-wins-international-hrant-dink-bac808d25d.html",
      "external_url": "https://pchrgaza.org/pchr-director-receives-the-international-hrant-dink-award",
      "title": "PCHR director Raji Sourani wins International Hrant Dink Award",
      "summary": "Raji Sourani, director of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, received the International Hrant Dink Award on September 15, 2026, at a ceremony in Istanbul. The award recognized his decades of human rights advocacy in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.\n\nThe ceremony took place at the Harbiye Muhsin Ertuğrul Stage in Turkey and drew attendance from multiple participants, according to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-16T11:02:24Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "research"
      ],
      "image": "https://pchrgaza.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/0P8A8854-scaled-e1789556620649.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestinian-youth-poised-to-vote-in-first-election-6e40c5ccbd.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestinian-youth-poised-to-vote-in-first-election-6e40c5ccbd.html",
      "external_url": "https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/palestinian-youth-may-soon-get-to-vote-for-the-first-time-few-believe-it-actually-matters",
      "title": "Palestinian youth poised to vote in first election since Gaza war",
      "summary": "Palestinian authorities announced elections for November, potentially allowing millions of young people to cast ballots for the first time, Mondoweiss reported. With 64 percent of Palestinians under 30, the vote would engage a generation that has never participated in elections and has lived through successive rounds of conflict, including the recent war in Gaza.\n\nThe announced elections face widespread skepticism among young Palestinians, who view the political system as having repeatedly failed them before, during, and after the conflict. Many doubt the vote will produce meaningful change in their circumstances or governance.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-16T11:00:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "gaza"
      ],
      "image": "https://mondoweiss.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/250426_Deir_al-Balah_HD_0041-1024x683.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-s-parties-filed-their-final-slates-and-8d5ff4a289.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-s-parties-filed-their-final-slates-and-8d5ff4a289.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israel's parties filed their final slates and the blocs stayed tied",
      "summary": "Israel votes on 27 October. The parties filed their final candidate lists before the 10 p.m. deadline on 8 September — 38 lists in all, and, the Times of Israel reported, no last-minute mergers among them.\n\nThe five polls published in the day that followed left the race where it has sat all summer. Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar led four of them and Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud the fifth, and in none of them did either bloc reach the 61 seats needed to govern.\n\nThrough the second half of August every poll had put Yashar ahead of Likud — by three seats in Kan's survey of 30 August, by five in Haaretz's of 26 August and by six in the Maariv-Lazar poll of 19-20 August. On 1 September Bezalel Smotrich signed a joint run with Moshe Feiglin's Zehut to keep Religious Zionism above the threshold.\n\nEisenkot built his party, Yashar, around the accusation that Netanyahu prolonged the war on Gaza for his own political survival. Through July that argument carried him to first place: Channel 12 put Yashar at ",
      "date_published": "2026-09-16T09:30:00Z",
      "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://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/rats-and-insects-plague-gaza-s-displacement-camps-4be6073ee6.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/rats-and-insects-plague-gaza-s-displacement-camps-4be6073ee6.html",
      "external_url": "https://dawnmena.org/rats-insects-unbearable-nights-gazas-tents-offer-little-protection-for-the-displaced",
      "title": "Rats and insects plague Gaza's displacement camps amid sanitation crisis",
      "summary": "Rodents and insects have become a constant threat in Gaza's overcrowded displacement camps, where deteriorating sanitation has created conditions that harbor pests throughout shelter tents, Dawn reported. Shereen Abed, a 26-year-old displaced mother, said she listens nightly for rats moving through food bags, clothing and plastic containers inside her family's tent. The infestation has become a regular part of life for many families sheltering in the camps.\n\nThe spread of rodents and insects through crowded shelters has added another layer of hardship to conditions already strained by displacement, compounding health risks and living difficulties for vulnerable families in Gaza.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-15T20:39:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "research"
      ],
      "image": "https://dawnmena.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-2275733179-web.webp"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/columbia-graduate-sues-university-over-anti-palestinian-97050c7cb3.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/columbia-graduate-sues-university-over-anti-palestinian-97050c7cb3.html",
      "external_url": "https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/mahmoud-khalil-sues-columbia-university-discrimination",
      "title": "Columbia graduate sues university over anti-Palestinian discrimination",
      "summary": "Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate, filed a federal civil complaint against the institution and SIPA Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo alleging persistent discrimination against Palestinians, Drop Site News reported. The lawsuit invokes Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on national origin at federally funded institutions.\n\nKhalil filed the complaint alongside other graduates, targeting what they characterize as systemic anti-Palestinian bias within the university's policies and practices. The case centers on alleged violations at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-15T20:23:12Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "news"
      ],
      "image": "https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Uetg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5ef31fa3-183e-4baf-a979-c36b2ea44b41_1038x578.png"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/british-tv-host-says-network-removed-her-over-8961364431.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/british-tv-host-says-network-removed-her-over-8961364431.html",
      "external_url": "https://zeteo.com/p/meet-the-british-tv-host-who-says",
      "title": "British TV Host Says Network Removed Her Over Gaza Stance",
      "summary": "Actress Nadia Sawalha has claimed she was taken off air from ITV's \"Loose Women\" over her position on Gaza, according to Zeteo. In the premiere of the podcast \"Sangita Meets…,\" Sawalha discussed her removal from the daytime show and her anti-Zionist views with host Sangita Myska.\n\nSawalha said she followed her \"moral compass\" in taking her stance, though she did not detail the specific circumstances or timeline of her departure from the long-running panel show.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-15T20:00:47Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "gaza"
      ],
      "image": "https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Of7e!,w_1200,h_600,c_fill,f_jpg,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-video.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fvideo_upload%2Fpost%2F215714739%2F040a573b-4d8f-417f-b038-da8c5efc5672%2Ftranscoded-1789487429.png"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/sheeran-removes-macklemore-from-tour-over-palestine-remarks-15e834bb6b.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/sheeran-removes-macklemore-from-tour-over-palestine-remarks-15e834bb6b.html",
      "external_url": "https://zeteo.com/p/ed-sheeran-isnt-staying-out-of-politics",
      "title": "Sheeran removes Macklemore from tour over Palestine remarks",
      "summary": "Ed Sheeran dropped rapper Macklemore from his upcoming tour dates after Macklemore posted \"Free Palestine\" on social media, Zeteo reported. The removal follows criticism that Sheeran, who is backed by a pro-Israel billionaire investor, is effectively taking a political stance by excluding the artist for his statement on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.\n\nSheeran's decision to remove Macklemore constitutes a political choice regardless of claims to neutrality, the outlet noted. The move reflects influence from Sheeran's financial backers and demonstrates how major artists' tour decisions are shaped by investor priorities rather than remaining apolitical.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-15T16:00:36Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "news"
      ],
      "image": "https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rb0j!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc60d0aab-2415-472d-927f-739c1864cfe4_1080x620.png"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/amnesty-calls-von-der-leyen-to-ban-israeli-10b84335e1.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/amnesty-calls-von-der-leyen-to-ban-israeli-10b84335e1.html",
      "external_url": "https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/09/von-der-leyens-failures-on-israel-must-end-starting-with-a-settlement-trade-ban",
      "title": "Amnesty calls Von der Leyen to ban Israeli settlement trade",
      "summary": "Amnesty International is pressing European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to follow through on her proposal to suspend trade provisions in the EU-Israel Association Agreement and impose sanctions on Israeli ministers and settlers, according to the human rights organization. Von der Leyen made the proposals in last year's State of the European Union speech, which drew widespread attention for marking a shift in EU rhetoric on Israel policy.\n\nThe call represents Amnesty's assessment that von der Leyen has not acted sufficiently on her stated positions regarding Israeli actions and settlement expansion. The organization frames implementation of the trade suspension and sanctions as essential steps the Commission president must take.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-15T13:22:59Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "westbank"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/316829-1024x433.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/klein-and-taylor-warn-of-billionaire-backed-fascism-08cc93e9fe.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/klein-and-taylor-warn-of-billionaire-backed-fascism-08cc93e9fe.html",
      "external_url": "http://www.democracynow.org/2026/9/15/klein_taylor_end_times_fascism",
      "title": "Klein and Taylor warn of billionaire-backed fascism amid Gaza war",
      "summary": "Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor launched their new book, \"End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World,\" on Democracy Now!, examining connections between billionaire power, far-right movements, and geopolitical crises. The authors explored how wealthy elites are preparing bunkers and alternative systems while ordinary people face instability from Gaza to economic collapse.\n\nThe discussion connected technological disruption, artificial intelligence, and authoritarian politics as interrelated threats to democratic governance. Klein and Taylor framed their analysis as a warning about how billionaire interests intersect with fascist movements and environmental destruction in an era of cascading global crises.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-15T12:17:11Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "gaza"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.democracynow.org/images/story/56/83556/w320/SEG1-guest-split-highres-book.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/un-rights-chief-says-gaza-devastation-points-to-18f4296f9f.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/un-rights-chief-says-gaza-devastation-points-to-18f4296f9f.html",
      "external_url": "https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/09/1168335",
      "title": "UN rights chief says Gaza devastation points to possible war crimes",
      "summary": "Bodies continue to emerge from rubble in Gaza more than three years after Israeli bombardment destroyed entire neighbourhoods, UN News reported. The dead pulled from the wreckage are overwhelmingly women and children, according to the UN rights chief, who linked the ongoing recovery efforts to potential war crimes.\n\nThe scale of destruction across Gaza has persisted despite the passage of years since the initial bombardment campaign. The UN official's assessment suggests systematic patterns in the targeting or effects of military operations that may warrant investigation under international humanitarian law.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-15T12:00:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "gaza"
      ],
      "image": "https://global.unitednations.entermediadb.net/assets/mediadb/services/module/asset/downloads/preset/Collections/Embargoed/06-05-2024_UNRWA_Gaza-02.jpg/image560x340cropped.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/congress-to-vote-on-cryptocurrency-bill-benefiting-trump-589ecff517.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/congress-to-vote-on-cryptocurrency-bill-benefiting-trump-589ecff517.html",
      "external_url": "https://zeteo.com/p/will-dems-help-supercharge-trumps",
      "title": "Congress to vote on cryptocurrency bill benefiting Trump and industry executives",
      "summary": "Congress is set to vote Tuesday on legislation that critics say would benefit cryptocurrency executives and President Trump, according to Zeteo. The bill's passage would require Democratic support to advance, raising questions about whether the party will back the measure.\n\nRapper Macklemore has faced consequences for expressing support for Palestine, according to Zeteo. The incident reflects ongoing friction around public statements on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-15T11:07:53Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "accountability"
      ],
      "image": "https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!45qs!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4181b728-f6ed-45b6-9e13-b7cf50652b10_1024x683.jpeg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/dead-phone-battery-blocks-woman-s-escape-from-acd0c0a5fd.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/dead-phone-battery-blocks-woman-s-escape-from-acd0c0a5fd.html",
      "external_url": "https://english.pnn.ps/news/48299",
      "title": "Dead Phone Battery Blocks Woman's Escape from Gaza",
      "summary": "Badria Saeed, 37, missed an opportunity to leave Gaza when her phone's battery died at a critical moment, the Palestine News Network reported. She had waited years for the chance to depart the territory but lost it due to the dead device, according to the account by Fedaa al Qedra.\n\nDepartures from Gaza are tightly restricted, and windows to leave are rare and often short-lived.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-15T07:07:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "gaza"
      ],
      "image": "https://media.pnn.ps/english/storage/images/news/2026/1789456892-809464534.JPG"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/hani-almadhoun-says-us-screening-flagged-him-at-5fa61177b3.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/hani-almadhoun-says-us-screening-flagged-him-at-5fa61177b3.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Hani Almadhoun says US screening flagged him at every step",
      "summary": "Hani Almadhoun raises money in Washington to feed people in Gaza. He is a US citizen, vice-president of philanthropy at UNRWA USA, and co-founder of the Gaza Soup Kitchen — the operation his brother Mahmoud ran out of Beit Lahia until an Israeli drone killed him thirty yards from the shelter where his seven children were waiting, in November 2024.\n\nOn 4 July, Almadhoun set out from Reagan National airport with his wife, their children and his in-laws, on a family trip to Houston. He had a Department of Homeland Security redress number attached to the reservation, sent to him by his congressional office after he asked for help.\n\nHe wrote that he walked into the terminal feeling almost light. \"We thought that piece of paper meant no more of this.\" Instead, he wrote, \"the system found us at every single step.\"\n\n## What he says happened in the terminal\n\nIt began at the check-in kiosks. His wife's boarding pass slid out, then his in-laws', then his children's — paper after paper, easy, inst",
      "date_published": "2026-09-14T13:00:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "diaspora"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-almadhoun-screening-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/nadia-bilbassy-will-publish-her-gaza-to-white-8b2ae1219d.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/nadia-bilbassy-will-publish-her-gaza-to-white-8b2ae1219d.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Nadia Bilbassy will publish her Gaza-to-White-House memoir in January 2027",
      "summary": "Nadia Bilbassy-Charters, who began in journalism at a news agency in Gaza and now runs Al Arabiya's Washington bureau, will publish her memoir with HarperCollins at the start of January 2027. She announced the book, \"From Gaza to the White House,\" in a post written in Arabic to her followers, and said she would give the pre-order date soon.\n\n\"This is not a book of history, nor an analysis of current foreign policy,\" she wrote. \"It is a journalistic and human memoir of a journey that stretched across continents, wars and several American administrations.\"\n\nThe journey she describes opens in Gaza, at her first steps in the profession with Agence France-Presse. It runs on through Southeast Asia and then through long years in Africa as a war correspondent — southern Sudan, the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, Rwanda and the tragedies of the genocide, South Africa and a meeting with Nelson Mandela — and through the war in Iraq.\n\nThe last four chapters are set in the White House, where she ",
      "date_published": "2026-09-14T10:30:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "women"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-bilbassy-memoir-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-papers-report-a-galilee-land-grab-and-b163a21efd.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-papers-report-a-galilee-land-grab-and-b163a21efd.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israeli papers report a Galilee land grab and a Jenin shooting",
      "summary": "What the Israeli front pages carried Sunday, for Palestinian readers.\n\n**Haaretz** reported that young settlers from West Bank settlements pitched a residential camp on Jewish National Fund land inside the jurisdiction of Majd al-Krum, an Arab town in the Galilee, drawing a weekend protest from dozens of residents and a police deployment. One resident told the paper: \"They think they'll do here what they do in the West Bank. This won't pass in silence.\"\n\n**Ynet** reported that the army is investigating whether a soldier \"deviated from open-fire procedures\" when he shot a Palestinian near Faqqua, east of Jenin, over the weekend. A security source said the man was hit \"without apparent reason\"; the army's own account says soldiers fired after Palestinians gathered around a settler-run farm's shepherd.\n\n**Maariv's** breaking-news desk reported army units were en route to Wadi al-Balat, on the Ramallah–Nablus road, after Palestinian accounts said right-wing activists set fire to agricultur",
      "date_published": "2026-09-13T11:50:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "israelipress"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-israeli-press.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/settler-youths-build-galilee-camp-on-land-near-38f5042aad.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/settler-youths-build-galilee-camp-on-land-near-38f5042aad.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Settler youths build Galilee camp on land near Majd al-Krum",
      "summary": "Young settlers from West Bank settlements have set up a residential camp on land within the jurisdiction of Majd al-Krum, an Arab town in the Galilee, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported Sunday, prompting a weekend protest by dozens of local residents and a police deployment over fears of clashes.\n\n## What Haaretz found\n\nThe land belongs to the Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF), which had leased it out for grazing, Haaretz reported. The young settlers pitched large tents and brought in refrigerators, gas canisters, stoves, furniture and an Israeli flag — but Haaretz noted no livestock was visible at the site, calling the stated grazing purpose into question.\n\nA local resident told Haaretz: \"They think they'll do here what they do in the West Bank. This won't pass in silence.\"\n\nDozens of Majd al-Krum residents went to the site over the weekend to protest, and police units were sent in on fears the standoff would turn into a physical confrontation, according to the report.\n\n## A West Bank pr",
      "date_published": "2026-09-13T11:40:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "israelipress"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-israeli-press.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-investigates-soldier-who-shot-palestinian-near-jenin-1d99e860f6.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-investigates-soldier-who-shot-palestinian-near-jenin-1d99e860f6.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israel investigates soldier who shot Palestinian near Jenin",
      "summary": "The Israeli army is investigating whether a soldier \"deviated from open-fire procedures\" when he shot a Palestinian near the village of Faqqua, east of Jenin, over the weekend, the Israeli news site Ynet reported Sunday, citing a security source.\n\n## What the source told Ynet\n\nThe source said the Palestinian was shot \"without apparent reason\" and that the case is under review to establish whether the soldier exceeded the army's open-fire regulations. An initial inquiry found the friction began when several Palestinians gathered around a shepherd in the area, according to Ynet.\n\nYnet reported the army's own account separately: a settler working an olive grove on a farm near Gilboa said dozens of Palestinians from Faqqua had attacked the shepherd, and that three soldiers stationed nearby responded by firing first into the air, then toward the approaching group, hitting the lower body of one man.\n\nThe wounded Palestinian was treated by the Palestine Red Crescent Society and taken to hospi",
      "date_published": "2026-09-13T11:30:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "israelipress"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-israeli-press.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/washington-wakes-up-to-a-gaza-force-debate-6e2f7c466b.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/washington-wakes-up-to-a-gaza-force-debate-6e2f7c466b.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Washington wakes up to a Gaza force debate and a trade fight",
      "summary": "The American front pages, read from Palestine. Sunday's American papers stayed fixed on the widening Iran war — Hormuz tanker attacks, a Saudi pipeline strike, Gulf states meeting Iran on de-escalation — but two threads from Washington's foreign-policy press reached directly into Gaza and the West Bank's future.\n\nThe Quincy Institute's Responsible Statecraft carried Anchal Vohra's argument that the European Union, not Britain, holds the trade leverage that could actually move Israeli settlement policy — Britain's new import ban coordinated with eleven other countries, but the EU's own €43 billion-a-year trade relationship with Israel remains untouched by anything beyond sanctions on a dozen individuals.\n\nFDD's Long War Journal, a hawkish voice on the region, reported Kosovo's 7 September signing to join the International Stabilization Force assembling for postwar Gaza, with Albania in talks to follow.\n\nMiddle East Eye's separate reporting carried the other side: eight UN experts callin",
      "date_published": "2026-09-13T09:40:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uspress"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-us-press.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-s-water-engineers-rebuild-wells-from-scavenged-3dc674216d.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-s-water-engineers-rebuild-wells-from-scavenged-3dc674216d.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Gaza's water engineers rebuild wells from scavenged parts",
      "summary": "Tareq Shuhaibar fixes water networks in a city with almost nothing left to fix them with. A maintenance engineer working Gaza's damaged pipes, he told reporters he spends as much time searching the city's outskirts for scrap pipe, connectors and fittings as he does on the repair itself — recycling whatever the war left behind because almost nothing new gets in.\n\n## A trade rebuilt from what survives\n\nThe scale of what he and colleagues across Gaza are working against is documented by Médecins Sans Frontières, which found in an April 2026 report that about 90 percent of the Strip's water, sanitation and hygiene infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed. Israeli restrictions on the entry of spare parts and construction materials have slowed even basic rehabilitation of the networks that remain, aid groups working in the sector say.\n\nWassem Mushtaha, who leads Oxfam's Gaza response, described the job as \"solving a moving puzzle under the siege and restrictions to make the wells operati",
      "date_published": "2026-09-13T09:20:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humans"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-humans.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/kosovo-signs-up-to-join-the-international-force-8556c7b831.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/kosovo-signs-up-to-join-the-international-force-8556c7b831.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Kosovo signs up to join the international force for Gaza",
      "summary": "Kosovo signed a Participating Country Agreement on 7 September to join the International Stabilization Force (ISF) being assembled for postwar Gaza under President Trump's peace plan, the Board of Peace announced, in a ceremony in Pristina covered by the hawkish Washington think tank FDD's Long War Journal.\n\n## What was signed, and by whom\n\nKosovo's defense minister, Ejup Maqedonci, and the Kosovo Security Force commander, Lt. Gen. Bashkim Jashari, signed alongside Major General Jasper Jeffers, the ISF's commanding officer, FDD reported.\n\nThe Board of Peace, the body the US and UN backed to oversee Gaza's transition, said Kosovo \"will provide critical support\" for the plan, building on a role its forces have played since spring 2026 in logistics, civil affairs and unexploded-ordnance clearing, according to the board's own statement carried by FDD.\n\nA day later, Jeffers met Albania's foreign and defense ministers to discuss Tirana's own contribution, the Board of Peace said — part of a ",
      "date_published": "2026-09-13T09:20:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uspress"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-us-press.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-convicts-palestinian-citizens-for-chanting-wartime-c0dd0814f3.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-convicts-palestinian-citizens-for-chanting-wartime-c0dd0814f3.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israel convicts Palestinian citizens for chanting wartime slogans",
      "summary": "A Haifa court convicted two Palestinian citizens of Israel, the activist Mohammad Taher Jabareen, 31, and the attorney Ahmad Khalifa, 42, on 29 April over slogans they chanted at an anti-war protest in Umm al-Fahm — the first such conviction Adalah, the Haifa-based legal center, says it has documented since 7 October 2023.\n\n## What they were convicted for\n\nThe protest, on 19 October 2023, followed the explosion at Gaza's al-Ahli Hospital.\n\nProsecutors charged the two men with \"indirect incitement to terrorism\" and \"identification with a terrorist organization,\" carrying a combined maximum of eight years, over two chants: \"With soul and blood, we redeem you, oh Gaza\" and \"There is no solution except uprooting the occupier.\" Proceedings ran more than 30 months, during which both men spent time in administrative detention before house arrest, Adalah's documentation shows.\n\n## What Adalah and rights advocates say it means\n\n\"This decision is a continuation of the policy of persecuting Pales",
      "date_published": "2026-09-13T09:00:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "pal48"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-pal48.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/analyst-says-eu-s-israel-trade-dwarfs-britain-08804d3a3f.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/analyst-says-eu-s-israel-trade-dwarfs-britain-08804d3a3f.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Analyst says EU's Israel trade dwarfs Britain's new ban",
      "summary": "Britain's ban on imports from Israel's West Bank settlements is a moral statement, but the European Union holds the economic leverage that could actually change Israeli policy, Anchal Vohra, a Brussels-based columnist, argued in a piece carried by the Quincy Institute's Responsible Statecraft on 11 September.\n\n## The argument\n\nVohra, who writes on European affairs for Foreign Policy, laid out the gap in scale: the EU is Israel's largest trading partner, with roughly €43 billion a year in trade between them, dwarfing Britain's own commercial exposure.\n\nEleven countries have coordinated with London's restrictions on settlement goods, and nine more have signaled they are considering similar bans, but the EU bloc itself has so far enacted only narrow sanctions — on 12 individuals and 9 entities.\n\n\"The EU has long discussed a hierarchy of possible measures … but has dithered on moving forward,\" Vohra wrote, attributing the delay to the unanimity or qualified-majority support a bloc-wide tra",
      "date_published": "2026-09-13T09:00:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uspress"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-us-press.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/west-bank-widows-carry-households-alone-after-israeli-b8ceffbc90.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/west-bank-widows-carry-households-alone-after-israeli-b8ceffbc90.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "West Bank widows carry households alone after Israeli raids",
      "summary": "Shami was in labor at a Nablus hospital on 3 May when Israeli forces shot and killed her husband, 25-year-old Nayef Samaro, on a crowded shopping street minutes from where she was giving birth, NPR reported.\n\nShe knelt over his body for a last goodbye, then was taken to the maternity ward; their son, Yaman, was ten days old before she could bring him home to her mother's house, where she was still recovering from a cesarean section when NPR spoke to her.\n\n## A widening group with the thinnest income\n\nThe Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics counted 12 percent of West Bank households as female-headed even before the past two years of raids added to their number, and its most recent labor figures put women's West Bank workforce participation at about 19 percent against 72 percent for men — a gap that turns a husband's death into an economic collapse, not only a personal one.\n\nWomen's unemployment in the West Bank stood at 27 percent, PCBS found, roughly level with the 28 percent reco",
      "date_published": "2026-09-13T08:40:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "women"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-women.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/bank-of-palestine-posted-57-million-profit-as-786ee13ad1.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/bank-of-palestine-posted-57-million-profit-as-786ee13ad1.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Bank of Palestine posted $57 million profit as Gaza accounts froze",
      "summary": "Bank of Palestine reported a $57.0 million profit for 2025, of which $53.4 million was attributable to shareholders, and its board asked and won approval to pay out $21.5 million in dividends — 8 percent of paid-up capital — according to the bank's own consolidated financial statements for the year. Total assets grew 27.4 percent to $10.65 billion.\n\n## Who owns Gaza's largest bank\n\nThe bank's founding Shawa family has historically held roughly a third of its shares, with the rest split between Palestinian institutional and individual investors and a foreign minority. Hashim Shawa, who became chairman and chief executive in 2007 after his father's death, still leads the bank.\n\nIn 2025 the ownership base widened further: the bank raised fresh capital through a private share offering that brought in three international development lenders as strategic partners — France's Proparco, the International Finance Corporation and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, with the EBRD",
      "date_published": "2026-09-13T08:20:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "accountability"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-accountability.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/smotrich-signs-waiver-keeping-shekel-payments-open-past-04ed2eafda.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/smotrich-signs-waiver-keeping-shekel-payments-open-past-04ed2eafda.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Smotrich signs waiver keeping shekel payments open past 2026",
      "summary": "Two Israeli banks, Discount and Hapoalim, told their Palestinian counterparts this month they would stop the correspondent-banking services that let Palestinian banks process shekel transactions — Discount from 1 September, Hapoalim from 1 October — before Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich signed an indemnity waiver keeping both arrangements open through the end of 2026, the Times of Israel reported.\n\n## Why a signature can halt an economy\n\nAlmost every wage, invoice and import bill in the West Bank is priced in shekels, a currency the Palestinian Authority does not issue and cannot settle on its own. To move money between the Palestinian banking system and anywhere else, an Israeli bank has to stand in the middle, and those banks have spent years asking Israel to indemnify them against lawsuits arising from that role.\n\nDiscount Bank said it had \"complied for years with requests of Israeli authorities to continue providing these services on a temporary basis\" — a description of a syste",
      "date_published": "2026-09-13T08:00:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "economy"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-economy.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/who-counts-12-913-gaza-patients-evacuated-since-4f822662d4.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/who-counts-12-913-gaza-patients-evacuated-since-4f822662d4.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "WHO counts 12,913 Gaza patients evacuated since October 2023",
      "summary": "The World Health Organization put the number of patients medically evacuated from Gaza since October 2023 at 12,913, including 6,186 children, together with roughly 16,000 companions, WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic said on 11 August, in remarks carried by the Palestinian news agency WAFA. He said evacuations were running three to four times a week.\n\nThe last country-by-country breakdown to circulate publicly is nearly a year old. Médecins Sans Frontières, citing WHO figures as of 21 October 2025, reported 3,995 patients taken by Egypt, 1,499 by the United Arab Emirates and 970 by Qatar — the three largest Arab receiving states at that point.\n\nEgypt's own count is of a different order, and measures something different. Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar told the Egyptian cabinet's weekly meeting on 5 February 2025 that Egypt had received about 103,400 Palestinian cases since October 2023, with 164 referral hospitals ready and some 35,000 doctors and 39,000 nurses available. The Egyp",
      "date_published": "2026-09-12T12:11:18Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "arabaid"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-arab-medical-corridors-delivery-audit-2026-09-12-12-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/western-nations-tighten-economic-sanctions-against-israel-fc25a29614.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/western-nations-tighten-economic-sanctions-against-israel-fc25a29614.html",
      "external_url": "https://dawnmena.org/sanctions-on-israel-are-poised-to-get-stronger-the-west-must-get-them-right",
      "title": "Western nations tighten economic sanctions against Israel",
      "summary": "The United Kingdom announced a new sanctions framework against Israel on September 8, as Western governments move to strengthen economic pressure on the country, Dawn reported. Israel's heavy dependence on global market access gives sanctions their potency. Israeli banks, insurers and major companies rely substantially on international commerce to operate, making them vulnerable to trade restrictions and financial measures.\n\nThe businesses, developers and institutions sustaining Israel's settlement enterprise depend in turn on this financial system and those major companies for funding and support. That structural interdependence gives Western governments considerable leverage as they introduce or expand sanctions regimes targeting Israeli economic interests.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-11T21:25:20Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "research"
      ],
      "image": "https://dawnmena.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-2290107308-web.webp"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ala-a-al-qaisi-puts-gaza-s-karate-e47763c380.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ala-a-al-qaisi-puts-gaza-s-karate-e47763c380.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Ala'a Al Qaisi puts Gaza's karate champion on Melbourne stages",
      "summary": "The clip that changed the direction of Ala'a Al Qaisi's work was shot on somebody's phone in Gaza. A father sat at a hospital bed beside his daughter and described the right leg she had lost.\n\nAl Qaisi, a Palestinian writer and director who grew up in Jordan and has lived in Australia since 2010, told the Arabic service of the Australian broadcaster SBS that she recognised her own father in the man on the screen. She had buried him two months before the war began.\n\n\"My eye fell on a video of Nagham Abu Samra's father beside her, telling her story, the story of her amputated right leg, and I saw my own father in him,\" she said in that interview, published in January last year. \"In that moment I chose to carry Nagham's story, and I began to write.\"\n\nWhat she wrote is now a play called *The Return*, and this week it opens on a circuit no metropolitan arts page had on its schedule. A nineteenth-century mechanics institute in Brunswick, a community centre in the outer-southeastern Melbourne",
      "date_published": "2026-09-11T17:50:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "diaspora"
      ],
      "image": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brunswick%20Mechanics%20Institute%20001.JPG?width=640"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/audits-trace-2026-donor-money-only-to-palestinian-55697f7df1.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/audits-trace-2026-donor-money-only-to-palestinian-55697f7df1.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Audits trace 2026 donor money only to Palestinian Authority salaries",
      "summary": "The money donors have sent the Palestinian Authority this year can be followed as far as the payroll and no further. Every tranche disbursed in 2026 is documented on the giver's side, and the two largest channels, the European Union's PEGASE mechanism and the World Bank's trust funds, publish audited proof that their money paid vetted teachers, nurses and civil servants.\n\nWhat the rest of the treasury spent, and on what, rests on ministry tables that the US State Department rated incomplete in August.\n\nThe scale is set by last year's ledger. The Israeli Institute for National Security Studies, in a July study of how the Authority survives, put foreign aid to the treasury at NIS 2.74 billion in 2025, up from NIS 2.52 billion in 2024 and NIS 755 million in 2023, while the tax revenue Israel collects on the Authority's behalf fell to NIS 6.16 billion.\n\nMinistry of Finance data reported by Sada News on 7 December 2025 broke the first ten months of last year down by donor. External support ",
      "date_published": "2026-09-11T13:58:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "accountability"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-pa-donor-money-2026-09-11-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-author-s-book-reaches-spain-despite-israeli-1a42bdfb1b.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-author-s-book-reaches-spain-despite-israeli-1a42bdfb1b.html",
      "external_url": "https://wearenotnumbers.org/el-libro-de-gaza-the-book-that-crossed-the-blockade",
      "title": "Gaza author's book reaches Spain despite Israeli blockade",
      "summary": "A Palestinian writer contributed to a book about Gaza that was published in Spain, yet has been unable to obtain a copy due to the Israeli blockade, We Are Not Numbers reported. The author remains unable to physically access the work despite its successful publication abroad, a consequence of restrictions on movement and commerce that limit Palestinians' ability to receive materials crossing in and out of the territory.\n\nThe book, titled \"El Libro de Gaza,\" represents a rare instance of Palestinian voices reaching international audiences through foreign publication channels. The author has not yet touched a copy of their own contribution.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-11T13:00:18Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humans"
      ],
      "image": "https://wearenotnumbers.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Ojood-working-e1788453770285.jpeg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-keeps-gaza-on-2g-as-mesh-messaging-abf4dfc122.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-keeps-gaza-on-2g-as-mesh-messaging-abf4dfc122.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israel keeps Gaza on 2G as mesh messaging spreads elsewhere",
      "summary": "Mesh messaging — phone-to-phone relay over Bluetooth, with no towers and no servers — has been adopted at scale in at least four countries since mid-2025, and almost all of the download figures in circulation come from the developers of the apps themselves rather than from independent measurement.\n\nThe demand is not in doubt. Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition, in a report titled \"Rising repression meets global resistance: Internet shutdowns in 2025\" released on 31 March 2026, documented more than 313 shutdowns across 52 countries, surpassing the 2024 record of 304 shutdowns in 55 countries, and found that for the third consecutive year conflict was the leading trigger. The report states that in 2025 it documented 70 shutdowns coinciding with grave human rights abuses in 21 countries, including airstrikes on homes, hospitals and schools and the blocking of entire populations from humanitarian aid. TechRadar, reporting on the same publication in April 2026, noted that not a single d",
      "date_published": "2026-09-11T12:09:35Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "bitcoin"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-bitcoin-mesh-adoption-worldwide-2026-2026-09-11-12-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/lebanese-debate-deepens-over-hezbollah-s-role-and-5849c29661.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/lebanese-debate-deepens-over-hezbollah-s-role-and-5849c29661.html",
      "external_url": "https://dawnmena.org/four-lebanese-debate-hezbollah-israel-and-who-decides-lebanons-future",
      "title": "Lebanese debate deepens over Hezbollah's role and Israel policy",
      "summary": "Four Lebanese voices reflect competing visions for their country's future, with divisions centering on Hezbollah's military presence and relations with Israel, according to Dawn. The competing camps project starkly different views on war, peace and sovereignty, while Lebanon's central government remains caught between them in an increasingly precarious position.\n\nLebanese society lacks consensus on fundamental political questions. Citizens disagree sharply over whether Hezbollah strengthens or threatens national security, and over what approach the state should take toward Israel, with no clear resolution emerging from Lebanon's fractured political landscape.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-10T20:01:26Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "research"
      ],
      "image": "https://dawnmena.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-2289788178-web-1.webp"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-import-limits-shorten-the-night-shift-that-f91e697e47.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-import-limits-shorten-the-night-shift-that-f91e697e47.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israeli import limits shorten the night shift that feeds Gaza",
      "summary": "Gaza's overnight economy has contracted again since the regional escalation that began on 28 February 2026, with border crossings closed or running at reduced capacity, according to Willy Niyeko, emergency coordinator and head of the World Food Programme office in Gaza, in remarks distributed by UN media on 8 May 2026.\n\nNiyeko said that after the October 2025 ceasefire all crossings opened, commercial and humanitarian goods increased, bakeries restarted and famine was reversed. Since late February, he said, the territory has entered a phase of fragility \"with a very negative outlook.\"\n\nThe bakeries are the clearest measure of what that means after dark. Ovens are fired before dawn so bread reaches counters at first light, and they run on wheat flour and cooking gas that enter only through the crossings Israel controls.\n\nWFP reported that an estimated 700,000 people receive fresh bread daily through 17 WFP-supported bakeries, nine in south and central Gaza and eight in the north, agains",
      "date_published": "2026-09-10T19:08:12Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humans"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-gaza-night-workers-2026-09-10-19-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-kills-10-palestinians-including-family-of-four-0e48cb6029.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-kills-10-palestinians-including-family-of-four-0e48cb6029.html",
      "external_url": "https://pchrgaza.org/israel-kills-10-palestinians-including-a-couple-and-their-two-children-and-injures-dozens-in-gaza",
      "title": "Israel kills 10 Palestinians including family of four in Gaza",
      "summary": "Israeli forces killed 10 Palestinians, including a couple and their two children, during a series of attacks across Gaza between September 7 and 10, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights reported. The strikes wounded dozens of additional civilians and destroyed residential structures including homes and tents, forcing families to flee their dwellings.\n\nResearchers from PCHR documented the incidents during the four-day period. The organization provided no further detail on specific locations, dates, or operational circumstances surrounding individual attacks. The reported toll adds to the broader toll of violence in the territory.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-10T16:21:47Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "research"
      ],
      "image": "https://pchrgaza.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/090926_Gaza_BO_001.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/washington-wakes-up-to-arms-flights-and-a-18c31906c0.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/washington-wakes-up-to-arms-flights-and-a-18c31906c0.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Washington wakes up to arms flights and a Hormuz war",
      "summary": "The American front pages, read from Palestine. Wednesday's split screen: a Republican midterm convention in Dallas, and a widening war whose fuel runs through the region that decides Gaza's fate.\n\nThe New York Times and The Hill led on Iran's retaliation after the US struck five Iranian oil tankers, with missiles fired at a US base in Jordan and Brent crude crossing $100 a barrel for the first time since July — a spike Axios and The Hill both said is now a drag on Republican midterm messaging. Foreign Policy's Middle East columnists asked \"How Could Iran Happen?\", tracing the escalation to purges of the US national-security bureaucracy.\n\nAway from the war room, The Intercept published an investigation, reported by Noah Hurowitz, finding that United Airlines resumed carrying F-35 parts, tank components and ammunition-handling systems to Israel aboard ordinary passenger flights on 9 September, after a six-month pause — cargo researchers traced to Elbit Systems and Lockheed Martin's Israe",
      "date_published": "2026-09-10T11:20:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uspress"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-us-press.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/united-airlines-resumes-shipping-f-35-and-tank-69623b64d3.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/united-airlines-resumes-shipping-f-35-and-tank-69623b64d3.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "United Airlines resumes shipping F-35 and tank parts to Israel",
      "summary": "United Airlines resumed carrying military hardware to Israel aboard its ordinary passenger flights on the evening of 9 September, scheduling five shipments on United Flight 90 from Newark to Tel Aviv after a six-month halt, The Intercept reported, in an investigation by reporter Noah Hurowitz.\n\nThe finding rests on a joint analysis by the Movement Research Unit, the Palestinian Youth Movement, People's Embargo for Palestine and the Democratic Socialists of America, who reviewed open-source cargo documents tracking 2,761 military shipments carried on 160 civilian passenger flights between 24 July 2025 and 27 February 2026. The Intercept said it examined the underlying data but had \"not independently corroborated every claim.\"\n\nOf 546 sampled shipments, researchers identified 28 tank-component shipments, 131 carrying F-35 fighter jet parts, 67 other aircraft components and more than 100 shipments of radio equipment and helmet displays. \"There are ammunition handling systems and F-35 part",
      "date_published": "2026-09-10T11:15:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uspress"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-us-press.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-papers-argue-over-a-pre-october-7-8d3136cdea.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-papers-argue-over-a-pre-october-7-8d3136cdea.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israeli papers argue over a pre-October 7 warning and new poll",
      "summary": "What the Israeli front pages carried Wednesday and Thursday, for Palestinian readers.\n\n**Haaretz** led with its own investigation: the UAE's Mohamed bin Zayed warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu roughly ten days before 7 October 2023 that Hamas was preparing a \"surprise\" attack, using an encrypted channel through Palestinian intermediaries. Netanyahu's office called the story a lie from \"a left-wing newspaper.\"\n\n**Maariv** carried the political fallout across a dozen items: Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana blaming the leak on the exiled Fatah figure Mohammed Dahlan, Dahlan's Democratic Reform Current firing back that \"Gaza's future will not be… a bargaining chip in Israeli elections,\" and Yair Golan announcing a 2.5 million-shekel defamation suit against Sara Netanyahu over a Channel 14 interview he says echoed a conspiracy theory that her husband knew of the attack in advance.\n\n**Walla's** first post-registration poll gave Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar 25 seats to Likud's 21, with Ofer Winter",
      "date_published": "2026-09-10T11:10:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "israelipress"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-israeli-press.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/haaretz-says-uae-leader-warned-netanyahu-of-looming-2df6933e03.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/haaretz-says-uae-leader-warned-netanyahu-of-looming-2df6933e03.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Haaretz says UAE leader warned Netanyahu of looming Hamas attack",
      "summary": "Haaretz reported this week that Mohamed bin Zayed, the president of the United Arab Emirates, personally warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu roughly ten days before the 7 October 2023 attack that Yahya Sinwar was preparing a \"surprise\" Hamas operation against Israel. The paper wrote that the warning reached Netanyahu's office through Palestinian intermediaries and Abu Dhabi, and was delivered on an encrypted device a UAE representative carried into the prime minister's office, meant to be destroyed afterward.\n\nBin Zayed cautioned that an attack would cause bloodshed and endanger the Abraham Accords, Haaretz reported. Netanyahu is reported to have replied that Israel was prepared and that the greater danger lay in the West Bank.\n\nNetanyahu's office rejected the report outright, telling reporters \"he lied, it's a left-wing newspaper,\" and said security logs showed no record of any Emirati visitor entering the office for such a meeting.\n\nKnesset Speaker Amir Ohana went further, telli",
      "date_published": "2026-09-10T11:00:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "israelipress"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-israeli-press.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-s-2021-terror-label-on-six-ngos-ee9e219ffa.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-s-2021-terror-label-on-six-ngos-ee9e219ffa.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israel's 2021 terror label on six NGOs still lacks public proof",
      "summary": "Israel's then-defense minister, Benny Gantz, designated six Palestinian civil society organizations as terrorist groups on 19 October 2021: Al-Haq, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Defense for Children International-Palestine, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, Bisan Center for Research and Development, and the Union of Palestinian Women's Committees. The order alleged the groups funneled funds to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated militant faction.\n\nThe Israeli government has never published the evidence behind the designation. United Nations human rights experts said at the time they had seen no substantiation, and more than two hundred civil society organizations worldwide, along with several European governments, condemned the move as an attempt to shut down documentation of the occupation rather than a counterterrorism measure.\n\nEuropean donors that funded the groups reviewed the Israeli dossier and largely kept funding i",
      "date_published": "2026-09-10T11:00:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "accountability"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-accountability.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestinian-women-footballers-build-toward-a-league-restart-81b1dd9cf6.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestinian-women-footballers-build-toward-a-league-restart-81b1dd9cf6.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Palestinian women footballers build toward a league restart",
      "summary": "The Palestinian Football Association restarted men's league play on 4 September with the Thousand Martyrs Cup, named for the 1,014 athletes the federation counts killed since the war began. The women's Elite League has not published a fixture list, a table or a season since its last detailed announcement in October 2023 — a single group played in three stages, with Sareyyet Ramallah, Diyar, Beit Liqya, Safa, Al-Eizariya and clubs from Beit Sahour and Beit Safafa among the entrants.\n\nWhat has moved is the institutional work underneath a future season. In June the federation opened a level-C coaching course with Al-Quds University for 26 coaches, women among them, and it has kept entering age-group sides in West Asian competition: the under-17 girls' team was drawn with hosts Jordan and Bahrain for the sixth WAFF girls' championship.\n\nThe senior national team, the Fedayat, has posted its best results in the program's history without playing a match on Palestinian soil. The side finished ",
      "date_published": "2026-09-10T10:50:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "sports"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-sports.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/no-israeli-bloc-will-seat-the-arab-lists-37ae3c65f2.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/no-israeli-bloc-will-seat-the-arab-lists-37ae3c65f2.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "No Israeli bloc will seat the Arab lists it needs to win",
      "summary": "Palestinian citizens of Israel go into the 27 October Knesset election holding seats no governing coalition has said it will use, according to the polling and party arithmetic tracked through the campaign's first post-registration poll on 9 September.\n\nThe reunified Hadash-Ta'al-Balad list polled at 7 seats in Walla's 9 September survey, the first taken after candidate lists closed; Ra'am, running separately under Mansour Abbas, held at 5. Combined, Israel's Arab-led lists poll at roughly 12 seats out of 120 — enough, in several published scenarios, to be the difference between a governing majority and none. The same poll found Ofer Winter's new list, Am Yisrael, clearing the threshold and lifting Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc to 51 seats, ten short of a majority, with the rest of the Knesset split across Gadi Eisenkot's opposing bloc.\n\n## The threshold each list still fears\n\nBalad's 2022 experience anchors the caution around every merger talk this cycle: the party split from Hadash-Ta'al ",
      "date_published": "2026-09-10T10:40:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "research"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-research.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/hormuz-war-premium-reaches-palestinian-fuel-pumps-and-6d339c63e2.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/hormuz-war-premium-reaches-palestinian-fuel-pumps-and-6d339c63e2.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Hormuz war premium reaches Palestinian fuel pumps and generators",
      "summary": "The war between the United States and Iran has driven global oil past $100 a barrel this week, and the increase reaches Palestinian households on some of the least forgiving terms of any market in the region.\n\nPalestinian consumers do not buy fuel on the open market. Under the Paris Protocol that has governed the Palestinian Authority's economic relationship with Israel since 1994, nearly all fuel sold in the West Bank and Gaza is imported through Israeli suppliers at prices Israeli companies set, and the Authority's own petroleum commission publishes the resulting retail ceiling each month. When crude rises with the Hormuz war, the increase reaches Ramallah's pumps through an Israeli price-setting layer the Authority does not control and cannot negotiate around.\n\nCSIS panelists said on 24 August that crude was trading near $90 a barrel at the six-month mark of the Iran war, with the spare global capacity that once cushioned such shocks, and OPEC's own regulating role, both gone. This ",
      "date_published": "2026-09-10T10:30:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "economy"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-economy-b.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-bombardment-leaves-gaza-girl-severely-injured-dependent-965a06504e.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-bombardment-leaves-gaza-girl-severely-injured-dependent-965a06504e.html",
      "external_url": "https://pchrgaza.org/ghazal-al-torok-israeli-bombardment-took-everything-from-her-except-her-heartbeat",
      "title": "Israeli bombardment leaves Gaza girl severely injured, dependent on life support",
      "summary": "Ghazal Ihab Khader al-Torok, a child patient at al-Rantisi Pediatric Hospital in Gaza, lies motionless on a treatment bed with her eyes closed, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights reported. A feeding tube runs through her nose to support her breathing and nutrition. She remains largely unresponsive, showing minimal movement or sound.\n\nThe girl's severe injuries resulted from Israeli bombardment in Gaza. Her case is among thousands of children treated in Gaza's hospitals for wounds sustained during military operations. Medical staff at al-Rantisi continue providing intensive care to patients with catastrophic injuries, though the hospital operates under severe resource constraints amid the ongoing conflict.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-10T07:57:19Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "research"
      ],
      "image": "https://pchrgaza.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/merged-image-2026-09-08T10-14-00-scaled.png"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/university-of-edinburgh-acquires-raja-shehadeh-archive-27c537c772.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/university-of-edinburgh-acquires-raja-shehadeh-archive-27c537c772.html",
      "external_url": "https://arablit.org/2026/09/10/university-of-edinburgh-welcomes-raja-shehadeh-archive",
      "title": "University of Edinburgh acquires Raja Shehadeh archive",
      "summary": "The University of Edinburgh has received Palestinian author and human rights lawyer Raja Shehadeh's archive, ArabLit reported. The collection spans more than six decades of life in Palestine and includes documents, writings, and records accumulated throughout Shehadeh's career as both a literary figure and legal advocate.\n\nShehadeh, a prominent Palestinian intellectual, has long documented Palestinian experiences through both creative and legal work. His archive captures perspectives on Palestinian society, politics, and daily life across multiple generations. The materials are being preserved at two universities in the United Kingdom, securing their accessibility for researchers and scholars studying Palestinian history and literature for years to come.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-10T05:47:42Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "arts"
      ],
      "image": "https://i0.wp.com/arablit.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/My-Neighbor-By-Ali-Al-Douagi-Translated-by-Amr-El-Zawawy-10.png?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-demolished-5-742-naqab-structures-in-2025-9aa8ebbcd4.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-demolished-5-742-naqab-structures-in-2025-9aa8ebbcd4.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israel demolished 5,742 Naqab structures in 2025, resettling 40 families",
      "summary": "Israeli authorities demolished 5,742 structures in the Naqab in 2025, according to National Security Ministry figures cited by the Israeli outlet +972 Magazine in June, up from 2,850 in 2022. More than 1,000 of the structures razed last year were homes. In the same period, +972 reported, 40 families received plots for relocation through Israel's Bedouin Settlement Authority.\n\nThe pace has not slowed in 2026. At a hearing of the Knesset Interior and Environment Committee attended by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, police, the Israel Land Authority and the Justice Ministry, ministry figures put demolitions and orders at 5,231 in 2024 and 5,742 in 2025, with about 5,690 projected for 2026 on the basis of first-half data, the Israeli news site Arutz Sheva reported. The same figures showed an 81 percent rise in demolitions over three years compared with the three years before them.\n\nCommittee chair Yitzhak Kroizer told the hearing that the Naqab is the most important strategic s",
      "date_published": "2026-09-09T19:15:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "pal48"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-pal48-naqab-demolitions-2026-2026-09-09-19-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/house-keeps-3-3-billion-for-israel-bars-472c7e46af.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/house-keeps-3-3-billion-for-israel-bars-472c7e46af.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "House keeps $3.3 billion for Israel, bars UNRWA funding",
      "summary": "The two bills the US House passed this summer keep Israel's military aid line whole at $3.3 billion, prohibit any money going to the UN agency for Palestine refugees, and carry no earmark for Palestinians — while the only new American money moving toward Gaza is $206 million for a security force that has not deployed.\n\nThe House approved H.R. 8595, the National Security, Department of State and Related Programs Appropriations Act for 2027, on 15 July by 217 to 209. The House Appropriations Committee's own summary of the bill lists among its provisions \"Prohibiting funds for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).\"\n\nAn amendment by Representative Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, to strike the $3.3 billion Foreign Military Financing account for Israel failed on 15 July by 104 to 314, with 10 members voting present, according to the roll call recorded in the Congress.gov action log for the bill.\n\nThe Republican Cloakroom's amendmen",
      "date_published": "2026-09-09T05:08:32Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uspress"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-uspress-appropriations-israel-aid-lines-2026-09-09-05-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/hezbollah-fires-cluster-munitions-into-northern-israel-twice-b80ca48d0e.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/hezbollah-fires-cluster-munitions-into-northern-israel-twice-b80ca48d0e.html",
      "external_url": "https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/09/09/lebanon/israel-hezbollahs-use-of-cluster-munitions",
      "title": "Hezbollah fires cluster munitions into northern Israel twice",
      "summary": "Hezbollah unlawfully fired cluster munitions into a town in northern Israel on March 4 and again on March 15, 2026, Human Rights Watch said today. The two attacks deployed weapons that are widely banned under international law. Neither strike resulted in civilian casualties, according to the rights group.\n\nThe attacks took place during a major escalation in hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah that began on March 2. This escalation is part of the wider regional conflict involving Iran and the United States. Cluster munitions scatter submunitions across wide areas and pose long-term dangers to civilians because unexploded ordnance remains hazardous long after deployment.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-09T04:30:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "research"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/styles/opengraph/public/media_2026/07/062026CCA_LebanonIsrael_Clusters.jpg?h=d07d10a6&itok=gg5wY6Xz"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ynet-audit-finds-unnamed-security-sources-drove-15-a1a151c96d.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ynet-audit-finds-unnamed-security-sources-drove-15-a1a151c96d.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Ynet audit finds unnamed security sources drove 15 threat reports",
      "summary": "A review published by Ynet in mid-August found 15 distinct threat stories on Israeli national broadcast media over one month, eight of them built on the same template: an unnamed security source, a highly threatening scenario, almost no data that would let a viewer judge the scale of the danger, and usually no qualifying voice anywhere in the original item.\n\nYnet said the review covered 12 July to 12 August across seven national television channels and six national radio stations.\n\nIn its own summary of the findings, Ynet described the material as running from a dramatic Iranian nuclear threat that never existed to reports of a Syrian air force build-up at a time when Syria holds at most two advanced aircraft. Some of the reports turned out to be fake, Ynet wrote, the credibility of others is in doubt, and many of them travelled onward into Netanyahu's speeches and the remarks of people around him. Ynet added that there is no evidence of an organised intimidation campaign, and noted th",
      "date_published": "2026-09-08T05:09:55Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "israelipress"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-israelipress-security-sourcing-audit-2026-09-08-05-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/arab-state-broadcasters-should-copy-the-leaner-alhurra-44978766ac.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/arab-state-broadcasters-should-copy-the-leaner-alhurra-44978766ac.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Arab state broadcasters should copy the leaner Alhurra Washington built",
      "summary": "For twenty-one years Alhurra was the easiest joke in Arab media: a satellite channel Washington paid for and nobody watched. This year the joke has an uncomfortable second act. The United States tore the channel down, kept the newsroom, and rebuilt it as something smaller, cheaper and, on its own figures, more read than the television ever was.\n\nPalestinian readers have every reason to distrust an outlet Congress funds to tell America's story. They have no reason to ignore how it was fixed, because every Arab capital is paying for the same dish and none has dared to turn it off.\n\n## What Washington was paying for\n\nThe channel went on air in February 2004, eleven months after the invasion of Iraq, with a first-year budget of about $67 million. By the 2024 fiscal year its parent, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks, was spending roughly $100 million a year, according to the US Agency for Global Media, which funds it.\n\nThe audience never followed the money. A 2008 investigation by ProPu",
      "date_published": "2026-09-07T13:05:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "opinion"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-alhurra-mbn-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-drones-create-persistent-climate-of-fear-in-6d0c2024de.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-drones-create-persistent-climate-of-fear-in-6d0c2024de.html",
      "external_url": "https://wearenotnumbers.org/the-sound-of-fear",
      "title": "Israeli drones create persistent climate of fear in Gaza",
      "summary": "Israeli quadcopters maintain a constant presence over Gaza, their steady buzz forming an inescapable backdrop to civilian life, We Are Not Numbers reported. The unmanned aircraft circle overhead throughout the day and night, their engines producing a sound residents have come to associate with danger and surveillance. The acoustic intrusion has become so routine that it shapes daily routines and psychological states across the territory.\n\nThe drones' operations form part of the broader military and security apparatus affecting Gaza's population. Residents describe the relentless drone presence as a tangible source of anxiety, the sound itself functioning as a reminder of vulnerability and lack of control over their airspace and safety.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-07T13:00:07Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humans"
      ],
      "image": "https://wearenotnumbers.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/@tiril.valeur-3.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/who-records-48-000-diarrhoea-cases-in-gaza-7b32abd858.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/who-records-48-000-diarrhoea-cases-in-gaza-7b32abd858.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "WHO records 48,000 diarrhoea cases in Gaza before the winter rains",
      "summary": "Cases of acute diarrhoea in Gaza have almost doubled since March, from about 27,000 to more than 48,000, the World Health Organization's representative in the Palestinian territories, Reinhilde Van de Weerdt, told reporters in Geneva from Gaza on Tuesday. The winter rains are weeks away, and she said there is still time to keep the next wave small.\n\nThe cause is in the water. WHO tested about 6,700 water samples in the first eight months of 2026 and found that microbiological contamination had almost tripled, from under 6 percent of samples in January to more than 18 percent in August, Van de Weerdt said, in remarks reported by Agence France-Presse and Al Jazeera.\n\n> Whilst we fail to provide people with the minimum quantities of water, water quality and water contamination remains a major issue.\n> Reinhilde Van de Weerdt, WHO representative in the occupied Palestinian territory, 1 September 2026\n\nFlooding from the rains will send \"the sewage, the waste and contaminated water into the ",
      "date_published": "2026-09-06T21:50:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "health"
      ],
      "image": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Flooded%20tents%20of%20displaced%20Palestinians%20due%20to%20heavy%20rain%20in%20Deir%20el-Balah,%20Gaza%20Strip.jpg?width=640"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/b-tselem-puts-venice-inside-the-west-bank-73eb7e77d9.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/b-tselem-puts-venice-inside-the-west-bank-73eb7e77d9.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "B'Tselem puts Venice inside the West Bank villages Israel emptied",
      "summary": "The Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem has taken its West Bank documentation into a headset. Raj'in, a 24-minute virtual-reality documentary it co-produced, is screening in competition at Venice Immersive, the extended-reality section of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, the organisation said in a post on X on Sunday.\n\nThe title means \"We shall return\". It comes from graffiti that one of the film's protagonists, 'Alya Mleihat, sprayed on her home before she was forced to leave, B'Tselem says on the film's page, and the phrase recurs in a poem she wrote.\n\nFaiz Abu Rmeleh, a Jerusalem-born photojournalist who has worked with B'Tselem, and the documentary filmmaker Keren Manor created the film together. They shot it over three years with 360-degree cameras in more than eleven Palestinian herding communities, and cut in phone and handycam footage filmed by residents and by the protective-presence activists who stay with them.\n\nNowHere Media, the immersive studio of Felix",
      "date_published": "2026-09-06T21:05:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "arts"
      ],
      "image": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tabban%20village,%20Masafer%20Yatta%201.jpg?width=640"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-s-army-uproots-olive-groves-as-palestinian-218707f5c5.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-s-army-uproots-olive-groves-as-palestinian-218707f5c5.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israel's army uproots olive groves as Palestinian harvest nears",
      "summary": "Four weeks before the 2026 olive harvest opens in the occupied West Bank, the destruction of Palestinian olive trees is running through two separate channels: attacks by Israeli settlers, and uprooting carried out by the Israeli military and the Civil Administration under written orders.\n\nThe Times of Israel reported in May that the army appeared to have sharply accelerated the uprooting of olive trees, citing security grounds. According to that report, the Israeli rights group Yesh Din collected at least 16 separate uprooting orders issued in different parts of the West Bank during March 2026 alone, covering roughly 820 dunams — about 200 acres — of various plots, at least some of them private Palestinian land.\n\nThe orders are classified as \"security measures\" and permit trees to be removed or relocated. In every case described in that report, the trees were uprooted and not replanted elsewhere. How many of the March orders have been executed is not publicly known.\n\nSeparately, Financ",
      "date_published": "2026-09-06T19:56:47Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "economy"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-olive-harvest-2026-09-06-19-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-teachers-plan-offline-lessons-for-a-broken-954a29063f.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-teachers-plan-offline-lessons-for-a-broken-954a29063f.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Gaza teachers plan offline lessons for a broken network",
      "summary": "The Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education has set the opening of the 2026/2027 school year in the Gaza Strip for 16 September for administrative and teaching staff and 19 September for students, according to the ministry decision reported by Palestine Post, which said the date followed the completion of arrangements and an assessment of conditions in the Strip.\n\nThe ministry attributed the later start to technical and logistical reasons and to the weather, citing high temperatures and the fact that students will be taught in tents and caravans.\n\nThe plan itself assumes the network. Palestinian official broadcaster PBC and the Ramallah-based agency reporting carried by Raya and Sama put the ministry's preparations at roughly 700 in-person learning points and 25 temporary schools in Gaza, alongside continued virtual learning for students unable to reach in-person sites — a combination intended to allow about 541,000 students to keep studying \"according to available means",
      "date_published": "2026-09-05T19:05:46Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "bitcoin"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-bitchat-school-year-connectivity-2026-2026-09-05-19-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/bank-of-palestine-froze-thousands-of-gaza-accounts-e766bb630e.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/bank-of-palestine-froze-thousands-of-gaza-accounts-e766bb630e.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Bank of Palestine froze thousands of Gaza accounts without saying why",
      "summary": "Gaza's largest bank returned to profit and paid a dividend in the year it locked thousands of customers out of their savings, closed the accounts of the dead, dismissed its Gaza staff by telephone and refused to say how many people it had cut off. The bank says it obeys instructions it cannot refuse. This report sets out what the record shows, and where the bank's defence runs out.\n\n## The bank that Gaza runs on\n\nBank of Palestine is the largest bank operating in the Gaza Strip. Estimates carried by Noon Post and the Quds News Network put its Gaza customer base at about 700,000 accounts. A bank source told Middle East Eye in June 2026 that the institution serves more than one million customers in the Strip.\n\nThat position matters because Gaza has no other way to move money. Since October 2023, Israel has blocked the entry of new banknotes, and the Palestine Monetary Authority says Israeli attacks destroyed more than 50 bank branches and dozens of cash machines.\n\nAl Jazeera reported in ",
      "date_published": "2026-09-05T16:40:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "accountability"
      ],
      "image": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bank%20of%20Palestine%20gaza%20war%2023-25.jpg?width=640"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-s-bakers-still-fire-the-ovens-the-6938fa4294.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-s-bakers-still-fire-the-ovens-the-6938fa4294.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Gaza's bakers still fire the ovens the World Food Programme rations",
      "summary": "Bread in Gaza costs less than it has in over a year, and it is still rationed. A 25-kilogram flour sack that ran 250 to 300 shekels at the height of last year's crisis now costs about 30 shekels, the World Food Programme says — but the bakers who turn that flour into bread work under a supply line Israel still restricts, not one it has released.\n\nWFP supports the bakeries that cover roughly a third of Gaza's bread need, selling bundles of eight to nine pitas at a capped price near one dollar.\n\nThe agency's August 2026 assessment counted more than 1.4 million people, two-thirds of Gaza's population, projected to face Crisis-level food conditions or worse through December — a number that sits beside falling market prices, not against them, because purchasing power has collapsed faster than prices have.\n\n## The shift that starts before dawn\n\nA baker's night begins hours before the first customer, mixing dough by generator light so the ovens are hot for the dawn queue. WFP has had to cut f",
      "date_published": "2026-09-05T10:49:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humans"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-humans.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/starmer-s-september-deadline-arrives-on-britain-s-b1378263b7.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/starmer-s-september-deadline-arrives-on-britain-s-b1378263b7.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Starmer's September deadline arrives on Britain's Palestine reparations claim",
      "summary": "The Britain Owes Palestine campaign gave Keir Starmer's government until September 2026 to answer a 400-page legal petition delivered to Downing Street a year earlier — and that deadline has now arrived with no public government response on the record.\n\nThe petition was delivered in September 2025 by Munib al-Masri, the 91-year-old Palestinian businessman and philanthropist, alongside his grandson, the historian Avi Shlaim and the legal scholar Victor Kattan. It was drafted by Ben Emmerson KC and Danny Friedman KC, with input from international-law scholar John Quigley, and addressed to Starmer, Yvette Cooper, John Healey and Attorney General Richard Hermer.\n\n## What the petition asks for\n\nThe filing sets out seven requests, organisers say, including a public apology in the House of Commons and a formal investigation into reparations. It is built on evidence the campaign says shows Britain's 1917–1948 occupation of Palestine — beginning with the Balfour Declaration's pledge of a Jewish",
      "date_published": "2026-09-05T10:45:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "accountability"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-accountability.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gulf-employers-hold-the-papers-that-decide-a-36acb9403d.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gulf-employers-hold-the-papers-that-decide-a-36acb9403d.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Gulf employers hold the papers that decide a Palestinian's residency",
      "summary": "More than 745,000 Palestinians live and work across the Gulf states, the largest concentration of the working Palestinian diaspora anywhere in the world, and it is among the least reported.\n\nTheir legal footing varies by document, not by nationality. Some hold Palestinian Authority passports; others carry Jordanian temporary travel documents issued to Palestinians without Jordanian citizenship; others still hold Egyptian travel documents issued to Gaza-origin Palestinians. Each document opens a different visa track in each Gulf state, and none of them is a passport a Gulf immigration office treats the way it treats a state's own citizens' passports.\n\n## What the kafala system decides\n\nResidency across most of the Gulf Cooperation Council still runs through the kafala, or sponsorship, system: a worker's legal right to remain is tied to a specific employer, who holds the exit and renewal paperwork.\n\nWhen a sponsoring employer dies, closes a business or ends a contract, the worker's resid",
      "date_published": "2026-09-05T10:43:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "diaspora"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-diaspora.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-demolished-5-742-naqab-structures-in-2025-fecb55eccc.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-demolished-5-742-naqab-structures-in-2025-fecb55eccc.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israel demolished 5,742 Naqab structures in 2025, double 2022's count",
      "summary": "Israel's National Security Ministry recorded 5,742 demolitions of what it calls \"illegal structures\" in the Naqab (Negev) in 2025, more than double the 2,850 demolished in 2022, with over 1,000 of last year's total being homes rather than agricultural or storage structures.\n\nAgainst that count, Israel's Bedouin Settlement Authority allocated relocation plots to only 40 families in the same period, according to the ministry's own figures — a gap rights groups cite as evidence the demolition rate is not a planning process but an expulsion pressure.\n\n## Where it is happening now\n\nIn April 2026, Israeli forces demolished homes in al-Sir, a village that had already lost most of its structures in a late-2025 campaign, placing roughly 1,500 Palestinian Bedouin residents at risk of displacement, according to reporting from the ground. Amnesty International documented a similar mass-demolition wave in 2024 that left over 300 Bedouin citizens facing eviction.\n\n## The villages the state does not ",
      "date_published": "2026-09-05T10:41:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "pal48"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-pal48.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/fifa-s-75-million-gaza-football-pledge-is-dfb57513ad.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/fifa-s-75-million-gaza-football-pledge-is-dfb57513ad.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "FIFA's $75 million Gaza football pledge is mostly still on paper",
      "summary": "FIFA and Donald Trump announced a $75 million fund for Palestinian football in February 2026, a package the Palestinian Football Association counts against 265 sporting facilities damaged or destroyed and more than a thousand members of its sporting community killed since the war began.\n\nFIFA president Gianni Infantino set out the fund's shape at the announcement: $50 million for a stadium holding 20,000 to 25,000 people, $15 million for a FIFA academy, $2.5 million for fifty \"mini pitches,\" and $1 million each for five full-sized fields. The plan rides alongside the Trump-backed Board of Peace's broader Gaza reconstruction framework.\n\n## What separates a pledge from a pitch\n\nSeven months on, FIFA has not published a disbursement ledger showing what portion of the $75 million has actually reached a contractor, a relief agency or the Palestinian Football Association itself. No completed stadium, academy building or full-sized field has been documented as finished; FIFA's own public stat",
      "date_published": "2026-09-05T10:39:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "sports"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-sports-b.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-s-midwives-deliver-seventy-babies-a-day-e8ca21c169.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-s-midwives-deliver-seventy-babies-a-day-e8ca21c169.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Gaza's midwives deliver seventy babies a day in ruined wards",
      "summary": "An estimated 150 babies are born in Gaza every day, and midwives are delivering more than seventy of them, the UN Population Fund says, in maternity wards stripped of equipment and staff.\n\nUNFPA counts one in four pregnant women in Gaza at heightened risk of dying in childbirth, a rate the agency attributes to the compounding effect of the siege, poverty, a collapsed health system and gender inequality rather than any single cause. Its midwives describe stabilising mothers through severe haemorrhage and obstructed labour, then performing basic neonatal resuscitation with equipment that is often missing entirely.\n\n## What the count looks like from inside a ward\n\nUNFPA has distributed reproductive-health kits it says have supported safe births for more than 20,000 women in Gaza since the war began, and it has trained and deployed hundreds of midwives to reach women who cannot get to a functioning clinic or hospital. The agency's own dispatches describe midwives themselves displaced, work",
      "date_published": "2026-09-05T10:37:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "women"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-women-b.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/egypt-and-jordan-move-gaza-s-patients-as-e3c6e21fcc.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/egypt-and-jordan-move-gaza-s-patients-as-e3c6e21fcc.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Egypt and Jordan move Gaza's patients as Rafah stays shut",
      "summary": "Egypt and Jordan are the two working arteries left in the Arab medical-evacuation effort for Gaza's patients, and both are running far below what the caseload needs.\n\nThe World Health Organization counted roughly 10,600 patients evacuated abroad since the war began, most of them through the Rafah crossing to Egypt, Qatar and the UAE. That route has been effectively closed since Israel shut Rafah on 24 May 2025, and WHO says only a few hundred patients a month have since won Israeli military coordination (COGAT) approval to leave through other crossings to Egypt, Jordan or the UAE.\n\n## What is still moving\n\nJordan's Humanitarian Medical Corridor has kept a steadier air bridge. Amman's health ministry reported its 27th batch of wounded and sick Gaza children landing in May 2026, 42 children in that group alone, for treatment in specialised Amman hospitals under a program that has run continuously since the corridor opened.\n\nEgypt's route now moves far smaller numbers than at its 2024 pea",
      "date_published": "2026-09-05T10:35:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "arabaid"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-arabaid.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/washington-wakes-up-to-a-postwar-plan-and-99b52ac780.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/washington-wakes-up-to-a-postwar-plan-and-99b52ac780.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Washington wakes up to a postwar plan and Netanyahu's AI enemies",
      "summary": "The American front pages, read from Palestine. Saturday, 5 September: a postwar strategy taking shape, a water crisis crossing the Gaza-Israel line, and an Israeli prime minister's campaign video naming Mahmoud Abbas alongside Iran's supreme leader.\n\n## The scoop\n\nAxios reported the Trump administration is drafting a postwar Middle East strategy built on containing Iran and expanding Israeli normalization with its neighbors — with the unfinished second phase of the Gaza plan grouped alongside Israel-Syria and Israel-Lebanon files as regional \"fallout\" to close out, not a standalone track.\n\n## The story with a Palestinian stake nobody in Washington is naming\n\nThe Washington Post traced Israel's desalination-plant shutdown — five of six offline, 80 percent of supply cut — to an algae bloom Israeli experts partly blame on untreated sewage pouring from Gaza's war-destroyed treatment plants, while Israel's water utility has simultaneously halted the flow of water into Gaza itself.\n\n## The c",
      "date_published": "2026-09-05T10:30:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uspress"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-uspress-b.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/trump-team-drafts-postwar-plan-tying-gaza-to-cb7745378b.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/trump-team-drafts-postwar-plan-tying-gaza-to-cb7745378b.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Trump team drafts postwar plan tying Gaza to Saudi normalization",
      "summary": "The Trump administration is drafting a postwar Middle East strategy built around containing Iran and expanding normalization between Israel and its neighbors, Axios reported, citing two US officials and two other sources familiar with the process.\n\nThe plan's three components, per Axios: a regional alignment of US allies to contain Iran with Washington as guarantor; closing out the regional fallout from the 7 October 2023 attacks by securing the next phase of Trump's Gaza plan, an Israel-Syria security agreement and full implementation of the Israel-Lebanon agreement; and expanding the Abraham Accords toward a Saudi-Israeli normalization deal.\n\n## Where Gaza sits in the plan\n\nAxios reported the Gaza plan's \"next phase\" as one of three fallout items the strategy groups alongside the Israel-Syria and Israel-Lebanon files — placing Gaza's unfinished second phase inside a broader regional-normalization push rather than treating it as a standalone file, according to the sources described.\n\n",
      "date_published": "2026-09-05T10:20:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uspress"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-uspress.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-s-broken-sewage-plants-may-deepen-israel-24eefd3f41.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-s-broken-sewage-plants-may-deepen-israel-24eefd3f41.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Gaza's broken sewage plants may deepen Israel's water crisis",
      "summary": "Five of Israel's six desalination plants went offline this week after microscopic algae clogged their seawater intake pipes, cutting roughly 80 percent of the country's desalinated water supply, the Washington Post reported.\n\nIsraeli environmental experts told the Post the algae bloom likely originated in the Nile River delta, and warned that untreated sewage discharged from Gaza — where Israel's own military campaign has damaged or destroyed all six wastewater-treatment plants — provides nutrients that probably intensified the bloom's growth.\n\n## The consequence inside Gaza\n\nIsrael's national water company, Mekorot, halted its water flow into Gaza amid the crisis, the Post reported, leaving close to a million people in the territory facing water shortages on top of the sewage collapse already driving the algae the Israeli side blames in part for its own plants' shutdown. A desalination plant in Gaza City's Sheikh Radwan neighborhood was struck by Israeli forces on 24 August, further r",
      "date_published": "2026-09-05T10:10:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uspress"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-uspress-b.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/netanyahu-names-abbas-an-enemy-in-an-ai-043945850e.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/netanyahu-names-abbas-an-enemy-in-an-ai-043945850e.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Netanyahu names Abbas an enemy in an AI campaign video",
      "summary": "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted an AI-generated video on Thursday naming New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas as figures celebrating his hoped-for election defeat, the New York Times reported.\n\nThe video opens with a Mamdani character phoning an Erdoğan character to ask about a party marking Netanyahu's fall; Erdoğan says he is bringing Khamenei, shown on a hospital bed saying \"finally, we will overthrow Netanyahu.\" An Abbas character says he is already \"five minutes from Kfar Saba,\" an Israeli city. When the fictional broadcast instead reports a Netanyahu win, Mamdani cancels the party and the other characters retreat.\n\n## Why the pairing matters\n\nThe video groups the elected Palestinian Authority president with Iran's supreme leader and a foreign head of state as interchangeable enemies, ahead of the 27 October Knesset election in which Netanyahu's own bloc trails in",
      "date_published": "2026-09-05T10:00:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uspress"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-uspress.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-front-pages-lead-with-kharg-qusra-and-44d32a35ca.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-front-pages-lead-with-kharg-qusra-and-44d32a35ca.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israeli front pages lead with Kharg, Qusra and the coalition poll",
      "summary": "What the main Israeli dailies led with on Saturday, 5 September.\n\n## Ynet\n\nYnet's top story followed Iranian reports of explosions near Kharg Island, Iran's main oil export terminal, after Donald Trump's repeated threats to strike it — alongside its own report that a failed attempt to reach the besieged Abu Rida home in Qusra \"will explode in our faces,\" and coverage of US ambassador Mike Huckabee's visit to Turmus Ayya following a swastika-graffiti attack that targeted him.\n\n## Maariv\n\nMaariv's front page carried the Kharg Island reports and Huckabee's visit under the headline \"terror is terror — and there will be consequences,\" alongside breaking coverage of a Lebanese Health Ministry claim that Israeli strikes killed four and wounded 32 overnight, and a report that Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner had landed in Moscow.\n\n## Haaretz\n\nHaaretz led its politics coverage with Jafar Farah's withdrawal from the Hadash-led joint list's Knesset slate after seven women brought harassment allega",
      "date_published": "2026-09-05T09:50:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "israelipress"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-israelipress.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/poll-finds-coalition-at-51-seats-after-smotrich-f58e368efd.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/poll-finds-coalition-at-51-seats-after-smotrich-f58e368efd.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Poll finds coalition at 51 seats after Smotrich-Feiglin merger",
      "summary": "A new poll reported by The Jerusalem Post puts Israel's governing coalition at 51 Knesset seats, its strongest showing since May, after Bezalel Smotrich's Religious Zionism merged with Moshe Feiglin's faction and Yechiel \"Winter\" launched a new \"People of Israel\" list that the paper said also boosted the bloc's numbers.\n\nThe same poll found 40 percent of Israelis believe there was \"betrayal from within\" during the 7 October massacre, against 44 percent who reject that characterization and 16 percent unsure, the Post reported — a finding that speaks to the accountability debate running alongside the campaign itself rather than to any party's seat count.\n\n## Why the seat count matters for the Arab lists\n\nAt 51 seats, the coalition remains short of the 61-seat majority needed to govern alone, a gap the Post's own reporting elsewhere has tied to the arithmetic facing the reunified Hadash-Ta'al-Balad list and the separately-running Ra'am — both polling combined in the low teens, seats no bl",
      "date_published": "2026-09-05T09:40:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "israelipress"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-israelipress-d.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-restores-school-buses-to-negev-villages-it-c608db9353.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-restores-school-buses-to-negev-villages-it-c608db9353.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israel restores school buses to Negev villages it calls illegal",
      "summary": "Israel's Education Ministry reversed a decision to cancel school transportation for Bedouin children in the Naqab's unrecognized villages, Haaretz reported, after public pressure followed the transport company's notice to residents on Tuesday that the routes would end.\n\nThe ministry said in its reversal that busing will continue even for pupils living in homes that have been demolished or are slated for demolition, according to Haaretz — a detail that ties the transport dispute directly to the same demolition drive documented elsewhere: Israel's own National Security Ministry recorded 5,742 structure demolitions across the Naqab in 2025.\n\n## What changed and why\n\nHaaretz's report did not name the transport company or the specific villages first notified of the cancellation, but described the reversal as a direct response to public pressure rather than a change in the ministry's underlying policy toward the 37 villages Israel classifies as unrecognized and therefore ineligible for stand",
      "date_published": "2026-09-05T09:30:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "israelipress"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-israelipress-c.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ynet-warns-qusra-siege-will-explode-in-our-ac39f8e52b.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ynet-warns-qusra-siege-will-explode-in-our-ac39f8e52b.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Ynet warns Qusra siege will \"explode in our faces\"",
      "summary": "An attempt to reach the besieged Abu Rida family home in Qusra failed this week, Ynet reported, in a piece the Israeli news site headlined \"what's happening in the West Bank will explode in our faces.\"\n\nNearly four weeks into the siege, hilltop-outpost settlers and army soldiers together still block the house near Nablus, Ynet's report said, and even international media coverage has failed to break the closure. The goal, \"as usual,\" the site wrote, is to make residents' lives unbearable enough that they leave.\n\n## The family's own words\n\n\"I hope your courts will help, that America will apply pressure, that something will happen,\" the homeowner, named Louay, told Ynet by phone from the roof of the besieged building — the same appeal for outside intervention that has run through the family's public statements since the siege began.\n\nYnet's English edition, in a companion report, quoted residents warning the standoff itself risks fueling wider escalation, headlined \"we are heading toward ",
      "date_published": "2026-09-05T09:20:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "israelipress"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-israelipress-b.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/huckabee-tells-settlers-a-crime-is-a-crime-230db0290e.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/huckabee-tells-settlers-a-crime-is-a-crime-230db0290e.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Huckabee tells settlers a crime is a crime after threats target him",
      "summary": "US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee visited the Palestinian town of Turmus Ayya on Friday, days after extremist settlers sprayed swastika graffiti targeting him, and told residents there that \"a crime is a crime, terror is terror,\" the Israeli news site Ynet reported.\n\nHuckabee, a longtime supporter of the settlement enterprise, met families in the town near Ramallah, where Ynet noted roughly 80 percent of residents hold US citizenship. The visit followed a spike in settler violence incidents that Ynet's report tied directly to the graffiti attack targeting the ambassador himself.\n\n## What the visit signals\n\nThe Israeli daily Maariv, in its own report on the visit, framed it against \"a proliferation of settler-violence incidents,\" noting Huckabee had recently launched a sharp public attack on what he called \"Israeli terrorists\" — unusually blunt language from a US ambassador known for backing the settlement movement.\n\nNeither outlet reported that Huckabee announced any policy step be",
      "date_published": "2026-09-05T09:10:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "israelipress"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-israelipress.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/popular-committees-carry-lebanon-s-camps-as-unrwa-dd5d1addc8.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/popular-committees-carry-lebanon-s-camps-as-unrwa-dd5d1addc8.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Popular committees carry Lebanon's camps as UNRWA cuts hours",
      "summary": "UNRWA reduced its service delivery hours by 20 per cent in January 2026, with a matching cut to the salaries of most Palestinian staff, according to the statement Commissioner-General ad interim Christian Saunders delivered to the agency's pledging conference on 1 July. Six months on, the agency says a cashflow deficit of $100 million remains for the year.\n\nThe hours that came off the timetable have not gone unfilled in Lebanon's twelve camps. They have been picked up by popular committees, faction-run maintenance crews and a handful of named local associations — bodies whose budgets are not published and whose responsibilities are nowhere set down in law.\n\nThe scale of the shortfall is on the public record. A transcript of the 30 June pledging conference published by the United Nations records that UNRWA received $829 million in contributions in 2025, including $76 million from the UN regular budget, against requirements of $3.3 billion — roughly 27 per cent of what the agency said it",
      "date_published": "2026-09-04T19:06:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "social"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-palestinian-camp-social-fabric-2026-09-04-19-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-has-killed-209-journalists-and-charged-no-cab5d25a1a.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-has-killed-209-journalists-and-charged-no-cab5d25a1a.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israel has killed 209 journalists and charged no soldier",
      "summary": "When Israel's military announced on 19 August its first criminal investigations into the conduct of its troops in Gaza, no journalist's killing was on the list.\n\nThe military said it had completed reviews of 150 incidents and reached decisions on five, ordering criminal probes into the killing of five-year-old Hind Rajab and her family and of 15 Palestinian paramedics, while declining to investigate three attacks that killed aid workers from World Central Kitchen and Doctors Without Borders, NPR reported. The statement did not mention cases Israel had earlier pledged to examine, among them the August 2025 strikes on Nasser hospital in Khan Younis that killed five journalists, including Mariam Dagga, who freelanced for The Associated Press.\n\nUnder the procedure NPR described, military investigators report to military prosecutors, and the military advocate general may then keep investigating, indict, or decline to charge. Tal Steiner, head of the Israeli rights group HaMoked, told NPR th",
      "date_published": "2026-09-04T05:06:53Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "accountability"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-journalists-killed-2026-09-04-05-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-emptied-a-sixty-sixth-west-bank-community-dbd14ee4b9.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-emptied-a-sixty-sixth-west-bank-community-dbd14ee4b9.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israel emptied a sixty-sixth West Bank community as August's ledger closed",
      "summary": "Israeli forces demolished every home in Khirbet al-Tabban in Masafer Yatta on Wednesday and displaced its twelve families, seventy people including twenty-eight children. The Israeli rights group B'Tselem counted it as the sixty-sixth Palestinian community Israel has forcibly emptied since 7 October 2023. This is the monthly ledger of that displacement, refreshed for September.\n\n## The counts, by who counts\n\nThe UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported on 29 August that Israeli forces and settlers had killed 79 Palestinians in the West Bank since 1 January, nineteen of them children, and injured about 1,870. Settlers were responsible for 23 of the dead and more than 1,040 of the injured. In the fortnight to 24 August OCHA logged 80 settler attacks causing casualties or damage.\n\nHuman Rights Watch, in a report published on 20 August, put the displacement since January 2023 at 107 communities fully or partially emptied and about 5,900 people gone, at an average of ",
      "date_published": "2026-09-04T01:12:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "westbank"
      ],
      "image": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Skyline%20Turmus%20Ayya%202023.jpg?width=640"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ben-gvir-s-emigration-plan-reads-as-a-a2cd6b1dfb.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ben-gvir-s-emigration-plan-reads-as-a-a2cd6b1dfb.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Ben Gvir's emigration plan reads as a coalition demand, not a policy",
      "summary": "Itamar Ben Gvir's \"Disengagement 710\" sets out to remove 1.86 million people from Gaza in seven years. Read as a plan, its numbers do not survive contact with the countries it names. Read as the price list Otzma Yehudit will present to the next coalition, they make complete sense. That is the reading this analysis follows.\n\nThe document the national security minister unveiled on Thursday, reported by the Times of Israel and the Jerusalem Post, proposes 250,000 departures in the first year, 1.11 million within three and 1.86 million within seven, from a population of about 2.3 million.\n\nIt asks for an initial 10 billion shekels of Israeli money and up to 50 billion in matching funds, and it names Turkey, Ethiopia, Congo and unnamed Arab states as destinations.\n\n## The arithmetic\n\nNone of those countries has agreed to take anyone. Egypt refused the idea outright when Donald Trump floated it in February 2025, and the White House dropped it by October in favour of encouraging Palestinians ",
      "date_published": "2026-09-04T01:11:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "opinion"
      ],
      "image": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Itamar%20Ben%20Gvir%203%20(cropped).jpg?width=640"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-journalists-document-psychological-toll-of-covering-their-f06302906e.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-journalists-document-psychological-toll-of-covering-their-f06302906e.html",
      "external_url": "https://wearenotnumbers.org/the-price-no-one-sees-the-psychological-toll-paid-by-gaza-journalists",
      "title": "Gaza journalists document psychological toll of covering their own catastrophe",
      "summary": "Journalists in Gaza face mounting mental health crises as they report on the devastation surrounding them while enduring the same violence, displacement, and deprivation they cover, We Are Not Numbers reported. The reporters work under constant threat, documenting death and destruction in their communities while experiencing fear, loss, hunger, and danger firsthand. Their reporting emerges not from professional distance but from the center of the crisis itself.\n\nThe psychological burden compounds as Gaza's journalists lose colleagues, homes, and family members while maintaining their work. Operating without the buffer that typically separates war correspondents from their subject matter, these reporters live the story they tell, blurring the line between witness and victim in ways that conventional conflict coverage rarely demands.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02T13:00:37Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humans"
      ],
      "image": "https://wearenotnumbers.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/images_2026_08_25_refaatIbrahim01x730.jpeg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/security-contractors-and-consultancies-capture-gaza-s-aid-86c81c67d3.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/security-contractors-and-consultancies-capture-gaza-s-aid-86c81c67d3.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Security contractors and consultancies capture Gaza's aid spending",
      "summary": "The State Department's Office of Inspector General is investigating how the now-defunct Gaza Humanitarian Foundation spent a $30 million US grant, according to the Financial Times, which reported the inquiry on 20 May and said investigators are examining which budget the money came from, how it was distributed, and the prices the foundation paid for food and logistics services. The report, relayed by i24NEWS, the Jerusalem Post and Arab News, cited three people familiar with the inquiry.\n\nThe grant itself was approved outside the normal controls. In a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio in July 2025, Senators Chris Van Hollen and Peter Welch and 19 colleagues wrote that the State Department approved $30 million for the foundation in late June under a \"priority directive\" from the White House and the department, and that the administration exempted the group from the comprehensive audit usually required of organisations receiving a USAID grant for the first time.\n\nCNN reported that",
      "date_published": "2026-09-02T12:01:13Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "economy"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-aid-economy-2026-09-02-12-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-strikes-cut-the-networks-gaza-s-new-7df2eefe75.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-strikes-cut-the-networks-gaza-s-new-7df2eefe75.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israeli strikes cut the networks Gaza's new digital money needs",
      "summary": "The payment system that Gaza built during the war runs on exactly the connection that Israeli strikes have repeatedly severed, and the offline alternatives promoted as a remedy leave no trace in any published record of use inside the Strip.\n\nThe shift to digital money is measurable. The UN Capital Development Fund reported in June 2026 that nearly 1,000 merchants, many of them small vendors and informal businesses, were brought into a digital payments system through 2025, with more than 90 percent actively using digital tools. The Hudson Institute, a Washington think tank, put balances held in digital wallets in Gaza at roughly $40 million in January 2025 rising above $115 million by June, with over 790,000 active users, and said one platform, iBURAQ, processed about 2.8 million transactions. FEWS NET recorded in October 2025 that the cash shortage had driven rapid adoption of mobile payments and e-wallets, which surged during 2025.\n\nThat system needs a live network. Gaza's has gone da",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T19:17:36Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "bitcoin"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-bitcoin-mesh-payments-blackout-2026-09-01-19-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/settlers-pitch-tents-at-palestinian-doors-to-empty-95943891b1.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/settlers-pitch-tents-at-palestinian-doors-to-empty-95943891b1.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Settlers pitch tents at Palestinian doors to empty communities",
      "summary": "The tent went up on 9 August, a few metres from the walls of three Palestinian homes on the Ras al-Ein hill above Qusra, south of Nablus. Three weeks later, according to the Times of Israel, the families inside still could not leave without coordinating their movement with soldiers.\n\nWhat happened at Ras al-Ein is not a single incident. In a report published on 20 August, Human Rights Watch said settler violence had fully or partially displaced 107 Palestinian communities comprising 5,900 people since January 2023, citing research by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The organisation said settlers responsible for attacks operate with the financial, material and legal backing of the Israeli state, and that attacks often occur alongside army units or with soldiers standing by.\n\nThe counts published this year do not line up. Amnesty International, releasing its own 149-page report in Berlin on 10 June, cited OCHA figures of 117 communities facing full or partial ",
      "date_published": "2026-09-01T05:08:52Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "research"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-siege-as-method-research-2026-2026-09-01-05-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-s-exit-rules-keep-admitted-gaza-students-42c406aba4.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-s-exit-rules-keep-admitted-gaza-students-42c406aba4.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israel's exit rules keep admitted Gaza students from their universities",
      "summary": "The obstacle facing Gaza students entering the 2026-27 academic year is not a university place. It is permission to travel.\n\nAl Jazeera reported on 6 August that students admitted to universities abroad must obtain authorisation to leave Gaza and, in many cases, transit Israel and Jordan to reach their campuses. A coordinator of one European placement scheme told the network that \"obtaining exit permits from Gaza is extremely difficult\", and that the difficulty lies in building a reliable route rather than in the students' qualifications.\n\nThe same report put the scale of unmet demand at more than 1,200 Palestinian students registered with Gaza40+, an initiative set up to help students continue their studies outside the Strip. Al Jazeera reported that roughly 229 students were evacuated from Gaza to Italy before May 2026, with about 40 more following in June.\n\nAn April essay published by Literary Hub, surveying the collapse of Gaza's education system, said around 1,500 students from Ga",
      "date_published": "2026-08-31T12:08:11Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "arabaid"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-arabaid-students-pipeline-2026-08-31-12-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-withholds-6-billion-it-collects-for-palestinians-fa56312844.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-withholds-6-billion-it-collects-for-palestinians-fa56312844.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israel withholds $6 billion it collects for Palestinians",
      "summary": "Israel is withholding roughly $6 billion in customs and tax revenue it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority, the UN's acting Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Ramiz Alakbarov, told the Security Council on 26 August, adding that uncertainty over correspondent banking poses a further serious threat to Palestinian financial stability.\n\nThe money is not aid. Under the 1994 Paris Protocol, described by the Israeli business daily Calcalist, Israel collects taxes and customs duties on the Palestinian Authority's behalf and transfers them monthly, net of offsets for services such as electricity and water. Al Jazeera's reference desk puts the collection commission at about 3 percent and the clearance transfer at around 65 percent of total PA revenue, making its continued flow a precondition for paying salaries and funding basic services.\n\nThose transfers stopped. The World Bank recorded that monthly deductions averaged more than NIS 460 million in the first half ",
      "date_published": "2026-08-30T19:19:50Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "economy"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-clearance-revenues-2026-08-30-19-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/chile-s-rania-sansur-plays-her-way-into-d38f79084d.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/chile-s-rania-sansur-plays-her-way-into-d38f79084d.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Chile's Rania Sansur plays her way into Palestine's team",
      "summary": "A footballer born in Santiago, whose family left the hills between Bethlehem and Beit Jala a century ago, is now in the midfield of the Palestinian women's national team.\n\nRania Verena Sansur Osorio was born on 24 April 2006 in Chile, according to the squad database playmakerstats, which lists her as a midfielder registered with Club Deportivo Palestino. She turned 20 in April.\n\nThe National, reporting from Santiago in October 2025, described her as the first player to turn out both for Palestino's women's side and for the Palestinian national team. She wears number five.\n\nHer route was ordinary until it was not. Wikipedia's career record for Sansur shows her in Audax Italiano's youth system from 2019 to 2024, a senior season at the same club in 2024, and a move to Palestino in 2025. The same record dates her first Palestine call-up to the under-18s in 2024, followed by the under-20s and the senior team in 2025.\n\nThe family history behind that call-up is told slightly differently in th",
      "date_published": "2026-08-30T12:05:54Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "diaspora"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-diaspora-second-generation-2026-08-30-12-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/permit-brokers-take-a-third-of-palestinian-workers-83374ff797.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/permit-brokers-take-a-third-of-palestinian-workers-83374ff797.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Permit brokers take a third of Palestinian workers' wages",
      "summary": "The market in Israeli work permits has outlasted the labour market that created it. Palestinian brokers are charging more than triple the pre-war price for a permit, Hasan Joma, who ran a business in Tulkarem placing workers inside Israel before the war, told the Associated Press in February.\n\nThere is far less to sell. After 7 October 2023 Israel barred some 115,000 West Bank permit holders from their jobs inside Israel, according to Back to Work, the report published in May 2025 by Gisha, LEAP and Kav LaOved, which counted about 14,000 workers holding permits for Israel at the time of publication.\n\nThe Knesset Research and Information Centre, drawing on Civil Administration data in a report dated 8 June 2026, put the number of Palestinians holding permits for work inside the Green Line at about 8,000, with 5,972 workers actually entering on 29 April 2026 and a further 2,472 working in border areas, according to the Palestinian outlets Raya and Al-Quds.\n\nThe trade itself was documente",
      "date_published": "2026-08-30T05:09:45Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "economy"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-work-permit-brokers-2026-08-30-05-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/arab-donors-keep-gaza-hospitals-running-while-billions-3d140cb9c7.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/arab-donors-keep-gaza-hospitals-running-while-billions-3d140cb9c7.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Arab donors keep Gaza hospitals running while billions await disbursement",
      "summary": "The Arab money that can be traced into Gaza this quarter arrived almost entirely through bilateral channels — aid convoys, a field hospital, a hospital ship berthed in Egypt — while the multilateral fund created to receive reconstruction pledges has published no schedule of deposits against the billions announced in February.\n\nThe gap shows in the humanitarian ledger. OCHA's 2026 Flash Appeal seeks US$4.06 billion to deliver life-saving support to 3 million people across the Occupied Palestinian Territory. In its situation report of 26 June, OCHA said funding for relief efforts remained insufficient, with less than 25 per cent of this year's requirements covered — an improvement on the position at the start of May, when the same office reported that four months into 2026, just over 10 per cent of the funding required for critical humanitarian operations had been secured.\n\nThe United Arab Emirates publishes the most detailed running total of any Arab donor. Gulf News reported on 24 July",
      "date_published": "2026-08-29T19:22:01Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "arabaid"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-arab-aid-disbursement-check-2026-08-29-19-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-cash-brokers-take-a-tenth-of-families-52a344718d.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-cash-brokers-take-a-tenth-of-families-52a344718d.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Gaza cash brokers take a tenth of families' transfers",
      "summary": "Cash brokers in Gaza were charging 11 per cent to turn a digital transfer into banknotes at the end of May, according to the situation report published by the UN humanitarian office, OCHA, on 5 June — down from 23 per cent in the weeks after the October 2025 ceasefire, and below the 12 per cent that OCHA's own December bulletin had called the lowest rate recorded in 2025.\n\nThe fee is levied on money people already own: salaries, remittances and humanitarian grants that arrive as an electronic balance and can only become spendable currency through an intermediary who holds physical notes.\n\nCash Working Group partners paid 1,250 shekels, about $378, to each household receiving multi-purpose cash assistance in late February, OCHA reported in its 27 February situation report, with the transfer sent digitally. At the commission rate recorded three months later, converting that entire grant into banknotes costs a household roughly 138 shekels.\n\nThe scale is large. More than 165,000 household",
      "date_published": "2026-08-29T12:00:22Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "bitcoin"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-bitcoin-gaza-cash-crisis-brokers-2026-08-29-12-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-s-coalition-can-depress-arab-turnout-by-62a75547ad.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-s-coalition-can-depress-arab-turnout-by-62a75547ad.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israel's coalition can depress Arab turnout by simply filing disqualification petitions",
      "summary": "The campaign to strike Arab parties from Israel's ballot has a losing record and keeps being run anyway. That is not a contradiction. It is the design.\n\nYnet's legal affairs correspondent Tova Zimuky reported this weekend that the coalition's factions are preparing persistent attempts to disqualify Arab lists and candidates before 27 October, with Mansour Abbas's Ra'am the principal target. The petitions will go to the Central Elections Committee, a body composed by Knesset arithmetic, where the outgoing coalition holds the majority.\n\nAlmost every disqualification of an Arab list in Israel's history has been overturned by the Supreme Court. The people filing know that. They file regardless, because the ruling is not the product.\n\n## What the process itself does\n\nConsider the two months a petition occupies. A party has to answer it, and answering means arguing about its own right to exist rather than about housing, policing or the Naqab. Its leaders spend September in a courtroom regist",
      "date_published": "2026-08-29T11:00:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "opinion"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-opinion.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ocha-finds-nine-in-ten-gaza-households-short-dd2cbd304d.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ocha-finds-nine-in-ten-gaza-households-short-dd2cbd304d.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "OCHA finds nine in ten Gaza households short of water",
      "summary": "Nine in ten people in Gaza were living with moderate-to-high water insecurity in early July, up from 84 per cent in June, according to a survey cited in OCHA's Humanitarian Situation Report of 14 August 2026 — ten months into a ceasefire that has restored some pipelines but not the network that carried water to houses.\n\nThe most recent per-capita figure OCHA has published is older. Its report of 27 March 2026 put drinking water available in the Strip at between 4.5 and 6 litres per person per day, and added that families living far from services faced worse. OCHA has used 15 litres per person per day as the emergency standard in its Gaza reporting; the March figure is under half of that, and the agency has not published a newer per-capita estimate since.\n\nUNICEF's mid-year update, issued on 21 July 2026, put the share of water-insecure families at 82 per cent and said up to 70 per cent of households cannot collect even 6 litres per person per day for drinking and cooking. The German ag",
      "date_published": "2026-08-29T05:15:45Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humans"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-gaza-water-run-2026-08-29-05-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-holds-3-198-palestinians-without-charge-or-f04770a93d.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-holds-3-198-palestinians-without-charge-or-f04770a93d.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israel holds 3,198 Palestinians without charge or trial",
      "summary": "Israel was holding 3,198 Palestinians in administrative detention — imprisonment without charge, trial or disclosure of the evidence — at the start of August, according to Israel Prison Service figures supplied to the Israeli rights group HaMoked and reported by Haaretz on 13 August. That is more than a third of all Palestinian \"security\" prisoners in Israeli jails.HaMoked's own tally, drawn from the same Prison Service data and updated on 2 August, puts the total number of \"security\" inmates held in prisons inside Israel at 7,965: 1,474 sentenced prisoners, 3,293 remand detainees and 3,198 administrative detainees, alongside 1,358 people held as \"unlawful combatants\".\n\n\n\nThree separate legal instruments produce those numbers. Addameer, the Palestinian prisoner support organisation, sets them out as Article 285 of Military Order 1651, which applies in the West Bank and empowers military commanders to detain a person for renewable six-month periods where there are \"reasonable grounds to",
      "date_published": "2026-08-28T19:20:10Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "accountability"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-prisoners-administrative-detention-2026-08-28-19-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-blockade-denies-disabled-children-access-to-medical-e637cb07de.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-blockade-denies-disabled-children-access-to-medical-e637cb07de.html",
      "external_url": "https://wearenotnumbers.org/twins-who-may-never-walk",
      "title": "Gaza blockade denies disabled children access to medical treatment abroad",
      "summary": "Gaza's blockade prevents disabled children, including a pair of twins, from leaving to receive treatment that could help them walk, We Are Not Numbers reported. The restrictions on movement have trapped families seeking specialized care unavailable within the territory, leaving children with mobility impairments without access to rehabilitation and medical intervention.\n\nDisabled Palestinians in Gaza face compounded barriers to treatment as the territory's healthcare system lacks resources for advanced care. Families cannot secure permits to exit for therapy or surgery, effectively cutting off access to rehabilitation services that could improve or restore function for children with disabilities.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-28T13:00:46Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humans"
      ],
      "image": "https://wearenotnumbers.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Picture-1.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/un-verifies-israeli-sexual-violence-against-palestinian-women-4911ad8e30.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/un-verifies-israeli-sexual-violence-against-palestinian-women-4911ad8e30.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "UN verifies Israeli sexual violence against Palestinian women in detention",
      "summary": "The United Nations verified conflict-related sexual violence, including as a form of torture, against 14 men, seven women, nine boys and one girl from Gaza and the West Bank, according to the Secretary-General's annual report on conflict-related sexual violence, S/2026/321, dated 21 April 2026 and published at the end of May. Thirteen of the cases occurred in 2025 and 18 in 2023 and 2024.\n\nFor female detainees, the report records that the violence consisted mostly of threats of rape, forced nudity, unwanted touching, and humiliating or degrading strip searches carried out without justification. Men and boys were subjected to rape, attempted rape and violence to the genitals, with severe injuries to five male victims.\n\nThe report places the violations primarily in detention and interrogation, across military camps including Sde Teiman, Etzion detention centre and Majnunah camp, and one unidentified base; Israel Prison Service facilities including Megiddo, Ofer, Ramla, Hasharon, Shatta, ",
      "date_published": "2026-08-28T12:03:39Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "women"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-women-checkpoint-detention-un-2026-2026-08-28-12-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/britain-leaves-palestinian-balfour-petition-unanswered-as-d3f22cddc5.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/britain-leaves-palestinian-balfour-petition-unanswered-as-d3f22cddc5.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Britain leaves Palestinian Balfour petition unanswered as September deadline nears",
      "summary": "The British government has not publicly answered a 400-page legal petition demanding acknowledgement, apology and reparations for its conduct in Palestine between 1917 and 1948, and the petitioners have set September — next month — as the point at which they go to the High Court.\n\nThe petition was delivered to Downing Street on 8 September 2025, launching the campaign Britain Owes Palestine. Middle East Eye reported at the time that it was drafted by two King's Counsel; The National named them as Ben Emmerson KC and Danny Friedman KC, and reported that the document argues Britain \"unlawfully failed\" to recognise Arab self-determination and \"lacked proper legal authority\" for the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate for Palestine.\n\nThe Britain Palestine Project, which supports the campaign, says fourteen Palestinians are petitioners and that the document makes seven requests of the government. A December 2025 analysis published on the international law blog EJIL:Talk! put its length at 4",
      "date_published": "2026-08-28T05:01:08Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "research"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-balfour-legal-case-state-responsibility-2026-08-28-05-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestinian-women-footballers-win-west-asian-honours-far-38af7ace03.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestinian-women-footballers-win-west-asian-honours-far-38af7ace03.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Palestinian women footballers win West Asian honours far from home",
      "summary": "Palestine's women's national teams have recorded the best results in their history over the past 18 months, and not one of those matches was played on Palestinian ground.\n\nThe West Asian Football Federation, on its own website, reported that Palestine's under-20 side entered the winners' register for the first time on 12 April 2025, beating Jordan 4–2 on penalties in Aqaba after a 1–1 draw in the final of the federation's fifth youth championship. Kooora carried the same result the same day.\n\nFour days earlier, the Jordanian state news agency Petra had reported that Jordan beat Palestine 3–0 in the group stage, leaving the Palestinians second on three points. They met again in the final, and the trophy went to Palestine.\n\nThe senior side went further than it ever had in November and December. Tournament records for the ninth WAFF Women's Championship, held in Jeddah from 24 November to 2 December 2025 with six teams, list Jordan as champions for a seventh time and Palestine as runners-",
      "date_published": "2026-08-25T05:02:13Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "sports"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-palestinian-womens-football-2026-2026-08-25-05-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-police-solve-12-percent-of-arab-community-5932224050.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israeli-police-solve-12-percent-of-arab-community-5932224050.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israeli police solve 12 percent of Arab community killings",
      "summary": "Israeli police solved 12 percent of homicides in Arab communities in the first half of 2026, the Abraham Initiatives said in a report released at the end of June, as the toll reached the highest half-year figure the organisation has recorded.\n\nThe watchdog, which tracks violent crime in Arab society from open sources, counted 144 homicide deaths between January and the end of June. Its report said 140 of the dead were Arab citizens of Israel and four were Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem, who fall under the authority of the Israel Police despite not holding citizenship.\n\nThe clearance figure for 2025 was worse. The same organisation put it at 10 percent.\n\nIts breakdown, reported by the Hebrew-language outlet Davar, recorded 144 people killed in 124 separate incidents, against 128 in the same period of 2025. February was the deadliest month with 33 killed. Just under half the dead, 49.3 percent, were aged 18 to 30. Seven were minors, 13 were women, and 127 — 89 percent — were kil",
      "date_published": "2026-08-24T19:23:09Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "pal48"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-pal48-crime-wave-2026-2026-08-24-19-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-s-cash-cap-leaves-gazans-paying-brokers-24f1aa7150.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-s-cash-cap-leaves-gazans-paying-brokers-24f1aa7150.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israel's cash cap leaves Gazans paying brokers up to 55%",
      "summary": "Money sent to a family in Gaza arrives in a bank account and then loses between 15 and 50 percent of its value before it becomes usable cash, according to the Institute for Palestine Studies, which reports that account holders must pay a broker to receive the transfer and hand over banknotes in return. The institute says the condition of the notes sets the price: worn or damaged bills carry lower commissions than clean ones, and people receiving transfers from abroad pay an additional 15 to 20 percent simply to collect them.\n\nPrism Reports, in a piece published in March 2026, put the peak higher, saying local and international reports had commissions for cash-out services — known in Gaza as takyeesh — reaching up to 55 percent during 2025, citing Sada News and Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.\n\nThe World Bank's Remittance Prices Worldwide database, by comparison, records a global average cost of 6.36 percent for sending remittances in the third quarter of 2025. The database tracks 367 corridors from",
      "date_published": "2026-08-24T12:39:59Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "bitcoin"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-bitcoin-remittance-costs-palestine-2026-08-24-12-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-budgets-area-c-land-registration-as-parties-26192256e5.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-budgets-area-c-land-registration-as-parties-26192256e5.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israel budgets Area C land registration as parties debate sovereignty",
      "summary": "The argument now running through the Israeli press and party platforms before the 27 October election is largely about pace and packaging, not direction. The decisions that matter most for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank were taken in February, before the Knesset dissolved.\n\nOn 15 February the full cabinet approved publication of the West Bank land registry and allocated a four-year budget of NIS 244.1 million, about $78 million, for a mechanism of up to 35 staff to update records in Area C, according to the Foundation for Middle East Peace, which tracks settlement and annexation measures. The Justice Ministry was given the registration task.\n\nThe Israel Policy Forum reported that the security cabinet had approved the package a week earlier, on 8 February, describing measures that expand Israeli authority in the territory and ease Israeli acquisition of property there. The World Socialist Web Site, reporting the same decisions, listed the repeal of restrictions on land sales to ",
      "date_published": "2026-08-24T05:05:27Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "israelipress"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-israelipress-hebrew-annexation-debate-2026-08-24-05-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestine-s-anti-corruption-commission-examined-four-of-a450e0c499.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestine-s-anti-corruption-commission-examined-four-of-a450e0c499.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Palestine's anti-corruption commission examined four of 2,542 asset declarations",
      "summary": "The Palestinian Anti-Corruption Commission received 2,542 asset declarations from officials obliged to file them during 2024 and examined four of them, according to the commission's own annual report for that year, published on its website. The four declarations belonged to three people, and the commission said it checked them because they were connected to complaints and investigations already open.\n\nFiling is not optional. Under the Anti-Corruption Law No. 1 of 2005 and its amendments, as published in the Palestinian official gazette, officials covered by the law must declare what they, their spouses and their minor children own inside Palestine and abroad — property, movable goods, shares, bonds, cash, bank accounts, jewellery and precious metals — along with their debts and sources of income. Every state body is required to send the commission, at the start of each fiscal year, a list of the names of its own staff who fall under the law.\n\nThe 2016 amendment, Decree-Law No. 18, wide",
      "date_published": "2026-08-23T19:03:17Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "accountability"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-conflict-of-interest-rules-2026-08-23-19-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/us-distributors-keep-award-winning-palestinian-films-off-bfba530fa9.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/us-distributors-keep-award-winning-palestinian-films-off-bfba530fa9.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "US distributors keep award-winning Palestinian films off cinema screens",
      "summary": "\"No Other Land\" won the Academy Award for best documentary feature in March 2025 without a distributor in the United States. The Washington Post reported after the ceremony that the film — made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal and Rachel Szor — was the highest-grossing of the nominated documentaries and still had no US distribution deal, and quoted one of the filmmakers saying that distributors' reluctance was \"completely political.\"\n\nIt reached screens anyway by self-distributing. IndieWire reported the film opened at New York's Film Forum on 31 January 2025, a week after Oscar nominations were announced, and took roughly $26,000 in its first week before expanding.\n\nThe pattern repeated later that year. NBC News reported in October 2025 that \"The Voice of Hind Rajab,\" which lists Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara among its executive producers, received a standing ovation of nearly 23 minutes at its Venice premiere in September an",
      "date_published": "2026-08-23T12:18:30Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "arts"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-palestinian-cinema-2026-08-23-12-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-renews-ban-keeping-palestinian-prisoners-from-their-7489596815.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-renews-ban-keeping-palestinian-prisoners-from-their-7489596815.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israel renews ban keeping Palestinian prisoners from their families",
      "summary": "Israel's national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has renewed the order barring families from visiting Palestinian prisoners, the Palestinian Prisoners' Society said in a statement carried by WAFA on 7 August, extending into a third year a severance that has held since October 2023.\n\nThe freeze rests on a temporary order signed by prison service commissioner Kobi Yaakobi that instructs prisons to minimise or cancel routine activities entirely, the Times of Israel reported in November 2025. The same report said the order had been extended several times and was due to lapse on 31 July 2026. How long the August renewal runs has not been made public.\n\nAddameer's statistics page, updated 17 August 2026, counts 9,400 Palestinian political prisoners, among them 3,198 administrative detainees held without charge, 370 children, 92 women, 400 Jerusalemites and 130 people from Gaza. HaMoked, working from prison service data for August 2026, records 7,965 \"security\" inmates inside Israel — 1,4",
      "date_published": "2026-08-23T05:04:11Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "prisoners"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-prisoners-family-visits-2026-08-23-05-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-s-midwives-deliver-babies-as-registered-births-00e5c862a5.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-s-midwives-deliver-babies-as-registered-births-00e5c862a5.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Gaza's midwives deliver babies as registered births fall sharply",
      "summary": "Gaza's Ministry of Health registered 2,004 live births in April 2026, down from 6,076 in November 2025, a fall of 67 per cent, according to ministry figures set out by the Gaza Centre for Human Rights in a statement on 12 June and carried by the Palestinian Information Center, The New Arab and Common Dreams. The interior ministry recorded 1,701 births in May, the same reports said.\n\nThe monthly sequence published by the ministry runs downward through this year: 5,210 births in January, 3,433 in February, 3,233 in March, then April's 2,004. Annual totals cited in the same statement fell from about 57,000 births in 2022 to 54,000 in 2023 and 38,000 in 2024.\n\nThose registration counts sit uneasily beside the estimates UN agencies are still using.\n\nOCHA's situation report of 6 March 2026 put the number of pregnant women in Gaza at around 50,000 with roughly 160 to 180 births daily; its 19 March report gave a range of 130 to 160 daily births and said about 572,000 women and girls of reprodu",
      "date_published": "2026-08-22T19:12:06Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "women"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-gaza-midwives-birth-2026-2026-08-22-19-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-decides-who-holds-a-palestinian-identity-card-6aca222d98.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-decides-who-holds-a-palestinian-identity-card-6aca222d98.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israel decides who holds a Palestinian identity card",
      "summary": "Every legal document a Palestinian in the West Bank or Gaza holds — the identity card, the birth certificate, the passport — exists only if Israel has entered the holder in a registry it keeps a copy of and controls.\n\nGisha, the Israeli movement-rights group, states the rule plainly: any change to the Palestinian population registry requires Israeli approval, including registration of births, marriages, divorces, deaths and address changes, and the Palestinian Authority may amend or issue an ID card only once that approval is granted. Palestinian passports, Gisha adds, are issued by the PA only to residents listed in the Israeli-administered registry.\n\nMost of those changes have not been approved for a quarter-century.\n\nHuman Rights Watch, in its 2012 report on Israeli control of Palestinian residency, found that the Civil Administration froze most categories of registry change after the second intifada began on 29 September 2000.\n\nOne change it continued to process routinely: the regi",
      "date_published": "2026-08-22T12:21:05Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "research"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-palestinian-documents-guide-2026-08-22-12-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-s-social-development-ministry-registers-orphans-not-7b47fce7cf.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-s-social-development-ministry-registers-orphans-not-7b47fce7cf.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Gaza's social development ministry registers orphans, not their guardians",
      "summary": "The Palestinian Ministry of Social Development had 65,279 orphaned children on its Gaza registry at the end of June 2026, according to a ministry press statement carried by Palestinian outlets including the Freedom and Justice portal and Aajeg. Of those, the ministry said 54,468 lost one or both parents during the war, and 2,039 children were added to the orphan rolls between the start of the ceasefire and July 2026.\n\nThe same statement put the number of widows at 28,224, of whom 742 were widowed between 10 October 2025 and July 2026.\n\nWhat the ministry publishes is a count of children. It is not a count of guardians. Its statements set out totals for orphans and widows without saying how many children live in a documented care arrangement, who was assessed as a carer, or what a household receives for taking a child in.\n\nThe registry has grown steadily since the ceasefire. In October 2025 the ministry said the number of orphans in Gaza had reached 57,000, as reported by the Shehab news",
      "date_published": "2026-08-22T05:09:50Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "social"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-gaza-orphans-guardianship-file-2026-08-22-05-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestinians-test-bluetooth-mesh-messaging-as-blackouts-cut-a6c713be36.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestinians-test-bluetooth-mesh-messaging-as-blackouts-cut-a6c713be36.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Palestinians test Bluetooth mesh messaging as blackouts cut Gaza",
      "summary": "The newest version of bitchat, the Bluetooth mesh messaging app promoted to Palestinians as a fallback for communications blackouts, now ties a user's identity keys to the physical handset. The change matters most to people whose phones are searched or seized.\n\nAccording to the release notes published on the app's App Store listing, bitchat mesh, version 1.7.1 encrypts private photos and voice notes before they travel over Bluetooth, adds identity verification during encrypted handshakes to block impersonation, and binds identity keys to the device so that they never sync or transfer — the notes state that a seized backup or cloned storage no longer yields a user's keys.\n\nThe same listing describes the earlier 1.6.0 release adding invite-only encrypted group chats that run entirely over the mesh, background presence so the app keeps relaying while the phone is locked, and couriers, which let one user carry messages for another until they reach the recipient. The developers claim automa",
      "date_published": "2026-08-21T12:06:08Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "bitcoin"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-bitchat-mesh-blackout-drill-2026-08-21-12-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-holds-90-palestinian-women-as-freed-detainees-faf035bb66.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-holds-90-palestinian-women-as-freed-detainees-faf035bb66.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israel holds 90 Palestinian women as freed detainees describe abuse",
      "summary": "\"They saw their father killed, their mother handcuffed and taken away,\" Mervat Sarhan told ABC News in October 2025, days after her release. \"My children are still traumatised to this day.\"\n\nABC News reported that Sarhan, a mother of five from Khan Younis, was arrested in May 2025 after Israeli forces stormed the family home in Gaza and killed her husband, and that she described beatings, hangings and electric shocks in detention, and being told her children had been killed.\n\nAl Jazeera, which interviewed her in Gaza in October 2025 after nearly five months in Israeli custody, carried the same account, including threats against her children during interrogation.\n\nHers is one of a growing body of published accounts by Palestinian women released since the January 2025 ceasefire exchanges, set against detention numbers that have climbed back to their wartime peak.\n\nThe Palestinian Prisoners' Club said in a statement on 22 April 2026 that the number of women held by Israel had risen during",
      "date_published": "2026-08-21T05:07:02Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "women"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-women-detention-accounts-2026-2026-08-21-05-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestinian-football-association-restarts-gaza-s-league-on-1e05c9e1cf.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestinian-football-association-restarts-gaza-s-league-on-1e05c9e1cf.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Palestinian football association restarts Gaza's league on September 4",
      "summary": "Gaza's clubs will play competitive football again on 4 September, when the Palestinian Football Association restarts a league suspended for almost three years. The association's president, Jibril Rajoub, announced the date at a Ramallah press conference on 10 August, saying activities and the league would resume from 4 September.\n\nMore than 200 clubs will take part in the opening tournament — 146 from the West Bank, 44 from Gaza and 36 from Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon — with play beginning simultaneously in all three places.\n\nThe association has called the tournament the Thousand Martyrs' Cup, for the 1,014 Palestinian athletes it says Israel killed during the war. Al-Quds al-Arabi reported that the first round kicks off at six in the evening on 4 September as a warm-up competition, with the following season to count for classification.\n\nThe pitches to hold it are few.\n\nAl Jazeera reported in March that a revival five-a-side tournament involving 24 premier and first-division c",
      "date_published": "2026-08-20T19:07:42Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "sports"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-gaza-athletes-rebuild-2026-2026-08-20-19-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-cash-brokers-take-up-to-half-of-66f8b151bc.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-cash-brokers-take-up-to-half-of-66f8b151bc.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Gaza cash brokers take up to half of each remittance",
      "summary": "For anyone sending money from abroad, the decisive cost is not the transfer fee. It is what happens at the other end, when a digital balance has to become banknotes.\n\nCommissions charged by Gaza's cash brokers ranged from 15 to as much as 50 percent of the sum transferred, according to the Institute for Palestine Studies. Prism Reports, citing Sada News and Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, put the peak of these cash-out charges — known locally as takyeesh — at up to 55 percent during 2025.\n\nThe Associated Press, in reporting carried by Daily Sabah in July 2025, said broker commissions stood at around 5 percent at the start of the war before climbing in some cases to 40 percent.\n\nThose rates did not end with the ceasefire. Asharq Al-Awsat reported in November 2025 that a Palestinian Authority employee in Gaza was still paying between 18 and 20 percent to traders and exchange shops to convert his salary into cash, weeks after bank branches began reopening.\n\nThe reason is a banknote shortage, not a sh",
      "date_published": "2026-08-20T12:04:55Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "economy"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-sending-money-home-guide-2026-08-20-12-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestine-s-election-commission-registers-west-bank-voters-3f2ad7eaeb.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestine-s-election-commission-registers-west-bank-voters-3f2ad7eaeb.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Palestine's election commission registers West Bank voters, delays Gaza mechanism",
      "summary": "The Central Elections Commission closed a five-day field registration drive on 19 August that operated in the West Bank alone. The commission said the drive ran through 467 centres in cities, villages and refugee camps, according to the CEC statement carried by the official news agency WAFA on 15 August and reported the same day by Xinhua.\n\nVoters in the Gaza Strip and in Jerusalem were not part of it.\n\nThe commission said their right to vote and to stand is preserved and that they are not required to enter the voter roll, and that it would announce the mechanisms and procedures for their participation at a later date, according to the CEC statement published by Najah News on 28 July and by the Palestinian outlet Filastin Post.\n\nThat announcement has not come. It is the single largest unknown in the machinery now being assembled for 28 November, and it is the same fault line on which the last cycle collapsed.\n\nThe vote was called by presidential decree on 9 July 2026, addressed to Pale",
      "date_published": "2026-08-20T05:12:55Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "politics"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-election-machinery-2026-2026-08-20-05-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/board-of-peace-charter-gives-trump-veto-over-1364217f44.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/board-of-peace-charter-gives-trump-veto-over-1364217f44.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Board of Peace charter gives Trump veto over Gaza reconstruction",
      "summary": "The roadmap that now governs the Gaza ceasefire does not say where Israeli forces must stop. That omission, and the chain of authority the surrounding documents build above it, is what a reading of the current texts produces.\n\nThe document is dated 30 July 2026. Al Jazeera reported the following day that mediators from Egypt, Qatar, Türkiye and the United States had finalised it, that Trump announced it late on the Thursday, that Hamas said it had agreed to surrender weapons in stages, and that Israel had not publicly accepted the proposal. Hamas said it would implement nothing unless Israeli forces withdrew as required.\n\nOn the withdrawal line itself, The Times of Israel reported this month that the Board of Peace avoided specifying whether Israel must pull back to the original ceasefire line, choosing ambiguity in order to keep both sides at the table.\n\nAl Jazeera reported in July that Israel had extended the so-called Yellow Line further into the Strip, which it said experts conside",
      "date_published": "2026-08-19T19:15:30Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "opinion"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-gaza-plan-fine-print-opinion-2026-08-19-19-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-detains-ramallah-cancer-surgeon-dima-barakat-without-eaa07b5995.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-detains-ramallah-cancer-surgeon-dima-barakat-without-eaa07b5995.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israel detains Ramallah cancer surgeon Dima Barakat without announcing any charge",
      "summary": "Israeli forces stormed the Ramallah home of Dr. Dima Muhammad Amin Barakat before dawn on Tuesday, searched and upturned the house, and took the 54-year-old surgeon away, witnesses in the al-Tira neighborhood told Palestinian outlets. The soldiers confirmed her identity, told her she was detained, and gave her family no reason.\n\nBy Wednesday, more than a day later, the army had still announced no charge and no legal basis for holding her. Witnesses said she was driven toward Ofer, the military prison and court complex between Ramallah and Jerusalem where the occupation processes most West Bank detainees.\n\n## The doctor the poor could reach\n\nBarakat is a gynecological and obstetric surgeon, one of the West Bank's few specialists in women's cancers. Alongside her own clinic she works at the Dunya Specialized Center for Women's Cancer in Ramallah — a center built, as its founders describe it, so that breast and gynecological cancer care reaches women of limited income who could never affo",
      "date_published": "2026-08-19T11:40:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "prisoners"
      ],
      "image": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ofer%20prison%20entrance.jpg?width=640"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-s-cash-blockade-takes-half-of-every-a2532949e6.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-s-cash-blockade-takes-half-of-every-a2532949e6.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israel's cash blockade takes half of every Gaza transfer",
      "summary": "A family in Gaza that receives $500 from a relative abroad this year can expect to hold somewhere between $225 and $425 of it in banknotes. The rest goes to the intermediaries who have replaced the banking system.\n\nThe Institute for Palestine Studies, in its account of the liquidity crisis, describes two separate charges: brokers who receive a bank transfer and hand over cash take between 15 and 50 percent, and people receiving transfers from outside Gaza pay a further 15 to 20 percent simply to receive them.\n\nThe condition of the notes matters too — worn or torn bills carry lower commissions than clean ones, according to the same account.\n\nPrism Reports, publishing in March, cited local and international reporting that cash-out commissions known as takyeesh reached as high as 55 percent during 2025, and quoted a resident describing transfers of 100 shekels that came back as 50 to 80 in cash.\n\nSet against the global benchmark, the scale is unusual. The World Bank's Migration and Develo",
      "date_published": "2026-08-19T05:11:42Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "diaspora"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-diaspora-remittance-lifeline-2026-08-19-05-lede.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ten-universities-anchor-palestinian-higher-education-and-here-0277f2b15f.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/ten-universities-anchor-palestinian-higher-education-and-here-0277f2b15f.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Ten universities anchor Palestinian higher education, and here is what they cost",
      "summary": "Ten institutions carry most of Palestinian higher education between the West Bank and Gaza. They teach the doctors, engineers, teachers and journalists of a country under occupation, and families plan years of saving around their fee tables.\n\nThis guide names the ten, what each is known for, and what a degree actually costs. Every figure below comes from the universities' published fee schedules and admissions pages; rates change year to year, so treat them as a planning map and confirm the current numbers with each admissions office before enrolling.\n\n## The ten that lead\n\nInternational rankings agree on the front of the field even where they disagree on the order. An-Najah National University in Nablus placed first in Palestine in the QS World University Rankings 2026 and leads the Webometrics table, while Birzeit University near Ramallah holds the top national spot in several other indexes and the strongest name recognition abroad.\n\n| University | City | Founded | Known for |\n|---|-",
      "date_published": "2026-08-11T12:58:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "research"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-universities-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/mona-miari-rewrites-comfortably-numb-as-palestine-s-fe25682718.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/mona-miari-rewrites-comfortably-numb-as-palestine-s-fe25682718.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Mona Miari rewrites 'Comfortably Numb' as Palestine's refusal to go numb",
      "summary": "For nine minutes, one of the most famous songs in rock history belongs to a Palestinian voice. On \"Comfortably Numb Re-Imagined,\" released at the end of July, Roger Waters hands the heart of Pink Floyd's 1979 classic to the Palestinian-American singer-songwriter Mona Miari.\n\nShe turns its famous surrender inside out. Where the original drifts into \"I have become comfortably numb,\" her verses, sung in Arabic and English, answer: *I will never become comfortably numb.*\n\nIt is the largest stage yet in a career that has been building toward exactly this: a singer, composer and lawyer who has spent years carrying Palestinian and Levantine song into New York's grandest halls, and who now carries Gaza into the world's headphones.\n\n## A childhood with the song already in it\n\nMiari was born in Chicago and grew up between America and the Galilee. The Haifa-based outlet Arab 48 introduced her to readers as a daughter of al-Birwa — the village erased in 1948 that the world knows as Mahmoud Darwish",
      "date_published": "2026-08-10T20:00:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "arts"
      ],
      "image": "https://img.youtube.com/vi/WBmrT3uqmeM/hqdefault.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestinian-journalists-won-the-world-s-major-press-d938345ac2.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestinian-journalists-won-the-world-s-major-press-d938345ac2.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Palestinian journalists won the world's major press prizes in two years",
      "summary": "Between 2024 and 2025 the biggest names in international journalism — UNESCO, the Emmys, the Peabodys, Amnesty International, the International Women's Media Foundation — handed their highest honours to Palestinians.\n\nSome of the winners were filing from tents. One was an anchor in Rome. One is a poet in Jerusalem who became a magazine's first Palestine correspondent.\n\nThey are worth knowing by name.\n\n![Palestinian journalists and the prizes their work has won](times-of-palestine-journalists-2026.svg)\n\n## The year the prizes arrived together\n\nUNESCO gave its 2024 Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize to Palestinian journalists covering Gaza, on the recommendation of an international jury of media professionals.\n\nThe International Press Institute and International Media Support named the same group their 2024 World Press Freedom Hero. It was the first time in the award's history that it went to a body of journalists rather than an individual.\n\nRAW in WAR gave its 2024 Anna Politkovsk",
      "date_published": "2026-08-08T20:49:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humans"
      ],
      "image": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shireen%20Abu%20Akleh.jpg?width=640"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/nasser-al-laham-built-a-career-reading-israel-b3d1de2e9b.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/nasser-al-laham-built-a-career-reading-israel-b3d1de2e9b.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Nasser al-Laham built a career reading Israel's press to Palestinians",
      "summary": "Palestinians live under decisions taken in a language most of them cannot read. For more than twenty years, one man has sat down each day and read those decisions back to them.\n\nNasser al-Laham has now done it some seven thousand times.\n\nHis programme, *A Tour of the Hebrew Press*, takes the morning's Israeli newspapers and broadcasts them to a Palestinian audience — translated, placed in context, and left in their authors' own words. It has led Palestinian audience surveys for two decades.\n\n> Some seven thousand editions of a single daily programme\n> A Tour of the Hebrew Press, running for more than twenty years\n\n## Dheisheh, and six years\n\nHe was born in Bethlehem in 1966 and grew up in Dheisheh refugee camp, in a family displaced from al-Ramla in 1948.\n\nHe was a communist and an activist during the first Intifada. Arrested as a student, he served a six-year sentence in an Israeli prison.\n\nHe had enrolled at Bethlehem University to study biology. The arrest ended that. He came back t",
      "date_published": "2026-08-08T20:34:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humans"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-nasser-allaham-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestinian-cinema-took-thirty-eight-years-to-win-1d6adffc64.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestinian-cinema-took-thirty-eight-years-to-win-1d6adffc64.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Palestinian cinema took thirty-eight years to win its first Oscar",
      "summary": "Palestinian films have been winning prizes at the world's major festivals since 1987. It took until March 2025 for one of them to win an Academy Award.\n\nThat gap — thirty-eight years between the first international prize and the first Oscar — is the shape of the whole story. Palestinian cinema has never lacked recognition from critics and juries. What it lacked was the industry's biggest institution, and this year it has three films competing at once.\n\n## 1987: the film that started it\n\n**Wedding in Galilee**, written, directed and produced by Michel Khleifi, was the first feature film made in Palestine by a Palestinian director. It premiered in the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes and won the International Critics' Prize, the FIPRESCI. It then took the Golden Seashell, the top award, at San Sebastián.\n\nThe film follows a village wedding in the Galilee that a military governor will permit only if he and his officers attend. Everything Palestinian cinema would later be praised for is alre",
      "date_published": "2026-08-08T20:18:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "arts"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cinema-awards-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/yasmine-al-massri-brings-a-stateless-childhood-to-0820b9596a.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/yasmine-al-massri-brings-a-stateless-childhood-to-0820b9596a.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Yasmine Al Massri brings a stateless childhood to Palestine's Oscar entry",
      "summary": "Yasmine Al Massri spent seventeen years without the rights of a citizen of anywhere. She now appears in the film about the revolt that came before the catastrophe which made her family stateless in the first place.\n\nShe was born in Beirut in 1978, to a Palestinian father displaced in 1948 and an Egyptian mother, and grew up through the Lebanese civil war. Lebanon did not give Palestinian refugees citizenship, and the consequences were practical rather than abstract: scholarships she could not take, professions closed to her by law. In her late teens she left for France, which is where her working life actually began.\n\nIn Paris she took a dual degree in multimedia and live performance at the École des Beaux-Arts, and danced with Thouraya Baghdadi's company, developing a style that drew on Arab, African and Latin traditions at once. She came to acting from movement, not from drama school.\n\n## The parts that found her\n\nHer film debut was **Caramel** in 2007, Nadine Labaki's Beirut beauty-",
      "date_published": "2026-08-08T19:46:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "arts"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-yasmine-al-massri-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/mohammed-el-kurd-defended-his-own-house-and-38c2f64c71.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/mohammed-el-kurd-defended-his-own-house-and-38c2f64c71.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Mohammed El-Kurd defended his own house and became a correspondent",
      "summary": "Mohammed El-Kurd did not set out to be a journalist. He set out to keep his family in their house.\n\nBy the end of that year he was on the *Time* 100, and *The Nation* had made him the first Palestine correspondent in its 160-year history.\n\n## Sheikh Jarrah\n\nHe was born on 15 May 1998 in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, twenty minutes after his twin sister Muna.\n\nThe El-Kurd family's house has been the subject of a dispossession case for most of his life. Settler organisations have pursued the eviction of Palestinian families from the neighbourhood for decades, and he grew up with the legal process as a permanent household fact.\n\nHe studied at the Savannah College of Art and Design and later at Brooklyn College. He was in the United States doing a master's when the case escalated, and he came home.\n\n## The spring of 2021\n\nIn 2021 the evictions in Sheikh Jarrah became a global story, and they became one largely because Mohammed and Muna El-Kurd filmed them.\n\nThey posted what was happening ",
      "date_published": "2026-08-08T18:30:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humans"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-mohammed-el-kurd-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/rula-jebreal-left-a-jerusalem-orphanage-and-anchored-b4c9732c59.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/rula-jebreal-left-a-jerusalem-orphanage-and-anchored-b4c9732c59.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Rula Jebreal left a Jerusalem orphanage and anchored Italy's evening news",
      "summary": "In 2000 an Italian national broadcaster put a Palestinian woman behind the desk to read the evening news. It had never happened before — no foreign woman had anchored a national newscast in Italy.\n\nRula Jebreal had arrived in the country seven years earlier on a scholarship, to study physiotherapy.\n\n## Dar El-Tifel\n\nShe was born in Haifa on 24 April 1973 and grew up in Jerusalem. Her father, Othman Jebreal, was born in Nigeria and worked as a Sufi imam and a groundskeeper at al-Aqsa.\n\nHer mother, Zakia, died in 1978, when Rula was five. Her father placed her and her sister Rania in the Dar El-Tifel orphanage in Jerusalem, and they were raised there until 1991.\n\nDar El-Tifel is not an incidental detail. It was founded by **Hind Husseini**, who took in fifty-five children orphaned at Deir Yassin in 1948 and built an institution around them. Jebreal has described Husseini as her teacher and her mother, and credits her with saving her life.\n\nEverything Jebreal has written since circles bac",
      "date_published": "2026-08-08T18:05:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humans"
      ],
      "image": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rula%20Jebreal%20(cropped).jpg?width=640"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/fatma-hassona-photographed-gaza-for-a-year-and-7e199e8ffa.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/fatma-hassona-photographed-gaza-for-a-year-and-7e199e8ffa.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Fatma Hassona photographed Gaza for a year and reached Cannes",
      "summary": "On 15 April 2025 Fatma Hassona learned that a film built entirely around her had been selected for Cannes. She was twenty-five, and she had spent the previous eighteen months photographing Gaza City.\n\nShe was killed the next day.\n\nThe film premiered in May, and the festival stopped to honour her.\n\n## The photographer\n\nHassona was born in Gaza City in 1999 and worked as a photojournalist there.\n\nHer subject was civilian life, which in her hands meant two things at once. She photographed the catastrophe directly — children mourning parents, neighbourhoods reduced to rubble, women baking bread in bombed-out courtyards.\n\nAnd she photographed what refused to stop: children playing in narrow alleys, couples smiling through grief, people holding on to the ordinary dignity of a day.\n\nShe wrote poetry too. The instinct in both was the same — to insist that the people in the frame were living, not merely dying.\n\n## A film made across a bad connection\n\nIn 2024 the Iranian director Sepideh Farsi w",
      "date_published": "2026-08-08T17:40:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humans"
      ],
      "image": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fatima%20Hassouna.jpg?width=640"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/plestia-alaqad-reported-forty-five-days-in-gaza-801239ce8d.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/plestia-alaqad-reported-forty-five-days-in-gaza-801239ce8d.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Plestia Alaqad reported forty-five days in Gaza and wrote the book",
      "summary": "In early October 2023 Plestia Alaqad was a recent graduate who wanted to be a journalist. She was twenty-one, and she had not yet been one.\n\nSix weeks later several million people were following her, and the phrase that stuck to her was the eyes of Gaza.\n\n## Twenty-one\n\nShe was born in Gaza on 10 December 2001 and studied at Eastern Mediterranean University.\n\nWhen the bombardment began she did what a trained instinct told her to do before anyone had hired her to do it: she started filming, in a helmet and a vest, narrating in English what was happening on the street she lived on.\n\nThere was no bureau, no editor, no commissioning desk. There was a phone and a decision.\n\n## Forty-five days\n\nShe reported for forty-five days before being evacuated.\n\nHer account of that period has been consistent and unromantic — that it felt like forty-five years, and that she was not being brave so much as doing the only useful thing available to someone who happened to be there with a working phone.\n\nWha",
      "date_published": "2026-08-08T17:15:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humans"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-plestia-alaqad-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/maha-hussaini-s-gaza-reporting-reached-the-international-8f22ebc7c8.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/maha-hussaini-s-gaza-reporting-reached-the-international-8f22ebc7c8.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Maha Hussaini's Gaza reporting reached the International Court of Justice",
      "summary": "Most journalists hope their work is read. Maha Hussaini's was entered into evidence at the world court.\n\nHer investigation documenting Israeli field executions of Palestinians was among the material South Africa put before the International Court of Justice in the case accusing Israel of genocide. Very little reporting from anywhere ends up doing that.\n\n## The reporter\n\nHussaini is based in Gaza and works as strategy director of Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. She holds a master's degree in political science with a specialism in refugee studies.\n\nShe began reporting in July 2014, covering the Israeli assault on Gaza that summer. That is now more than a decade on a single beat, in the one place where the beat cannot be left at the end of a shift.\n\nShe files for Middle East Eye and has written for the New Humanitarian and a range of international outlets.\n\n## The subjects she chose\n\nThe reporting that made her name is not the reporting that makes headlines. She has concentrated on the par",
      "date_published": "2026-08-08T16:50:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humans"
      ],
      "image": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mahahussaini%201.jpg?width=640"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/motaz-azaiza-turned-an-unrwa-content-job-into-a24532efe5.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/motaz-azaiza-turned-an-unrwa-content-job-into-a24532efe5.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Motaz Azaiza turned an UNRWA content job into global photojournalism",
      "summary": "In early 2023 Motaz Azaiza's job was making social media content for a refugee agency. Within a year *Time* had named him one of the hundred most influential people alive.\n\nNothing about the photographer changed. The subject did.\n\n## Deir al-Balah\n\nMotaz Hilal Azaiza was born on 30 January 1999 in Deir al-Balah refugee camp, in the middle of the Gaza Strip, and grew up there.\n\nHe took a degree in English language and translation from Al-Azhar University in Gaza in 2021 — a translator's training, which is closer to what he ended up doing than it looks.\n\nHe wanted to photograph beautiful things. He has said as much, repeatedly and with some bitterness: the place he was born decided what kind of photographer he would be.\n\n## The apprenticeship nobody noticed\n\nBefore October 2023 his feed was Gaza on an ordinary day. Fishermen at dawn, the sea at Deir al-Balah, children in narrow alleys, weddings, the light on concrete.\n\nAt the start of 2023 he joined UNRWA USA as a freelance photographer ",
      "date_published": "2026-08-08T16:25:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humans"
      ],
      "image": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Motaz%20Azaiza%20close-up%20(cropped).jpg?width=640"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/bisan-owda-won-an-emmy-for-filming-gaza-447c8c2674.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/bisan-owda-won-an-emmy-for-filming-gaza-447c8c2674.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Bisan Owda won an Emmy for filming Gaza on her phone",
      "summary": "Every episode opens the same way: *It's Bisan from Gaza, and I'm still alive.*\n\nThe line became a series, the series won a News and Documentary Emmy, a Peabody and an Edward R. Murrow award in a single year, and the woman saying it was filming on a phone in a place with no electricity.\n\n## Beit Hanoun, and a poem at nine\n\nBisan Owda grew up in Beit Hanoun, in the far north of the Gaza Strip. She was born in the late 1990s, which made her twenty-five or so when the war began.\n\nShe has said the whole thing started when she was nine, holding a microphone on a school stage and reading a poem aloud. She read constantly, played basketball, and was interested in astronomy — an unpromising set of hobbies for a place with a curfewed sky.\n\n## The five years nobody saw\n\nThe important fact about Bisan Owda is that she was already a filmmaker.\n\nFor roughly five years before October 2023 she made documentary work about ordinary Gaza. Her programme *Hakawatiya* — the storyteller, in the feminine — tr",
      "date_published": "2026-08-08T16:00:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humans"
      ],
      "image": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bisan%20Owda%20gives%20update%20from%20Al%20Mawasi%20for%20Save%20the%20Children.png?width=640"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/amnesty-international-named-wael-al-dahdouh-its-2025-2d1c62cae6.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/amnesty-international-named-wael-al-dahdouh-its-2025-2d1c62cae6.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Amnesty International named Wael Al-Dahdouh its 2025 human rights defender",
      "summary": "Wael Al-Dahdouh has been reporting from Gaza since 1998. He has run Al Jazeera's bureau there for most of the past two decades, and the world came to know his face only in the year the work became unsurvivable.\n\nThe career is older and larger than that year.\n\n## Zaytoun, and seven years\n\nHe was born on 30 April 1970 in Zaytoun, the oldest neighbourhood of Gaza City.\n\nHe finished secondary school in 1988, during the first Intifada, and was arrested almost immediately. He served seven years in Israeli prison. He took his degrees afterwards, at the Islamic University of Gaza and Al-Quds University.\n\n## The long apprenticeship\n\nHe began in print in 1998, at the *Al-Quds* newspaper. During the second Intifada he reported for the Voice of Palestine, then for Al Arabiya.\n\nHe joined Al Jazeera in 2004 and rose to run its Gaza bureau — the job of deciding, every day, which of a besieged territory's stories the Arab world sees.\n\nBy 2013 he had the Peace Through Media Award. By 2023 he had been c",
      "date_published": "2026-08-08T15:35:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humans"
      ],
      "image": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wael%20Al-Dahdouh%202024.jpg?width=640"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/shireen-abu-akleh-chose-journalism-over-architecture-and-ff2202b949.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/shireen-abu-akleh-chose-journalism-over-architecture-and-ff2202b949.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Shireen Abu Akleh chose journalism over architecture and became Palestine's voice",
      "summary": "She went to Jordan in 1987 to become an architect. She came home a reporter, and for twenty-five years hers was the voice that told the Arab world what had happened in Palestine that day.\n\nShireen Abu Akleh was born in Jerusalem in 1971 and grew up in Beit Hanina. Her father's family were Greek Melkite Catholics from Bethlehem; her mother's, Greek Orthodox from Jerusalem. She spent part of her childhood with relatives in New Jersey and held American citizenship alongside her life in the city she never really left.\n\n## The degree she abandoned\n\nShe enrolled at the Jordan University of Science and Technology to study architecture.\n\nThe first Intifada was underway at home, and the universities in the occupied territories were closed by military order. Watching it from Irbid, she decided the story needed telling more than the buildings needed drawing, and transferred to Yarmouk University to read journalism.\n\nShe took her degree there and went back.\n\n## Building a press from nothing\n\nHer f",
      "date_published": "2026-08-08T15:10:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humans"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-cover-humans.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestinian-banks-hold-the-economy-while-israel-holds-03c9157569.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestinian-banks-hold-the-economy-while-israel-holds-03c9157569.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Palestinian banks hold the economy while Israel holds the clearing keys",
      "summary": "Palestine has no currency of its own, no sovereign payment system, and thirteen licensed banks holding the savings of a nation anyway. Who owns those banks — and the chokepoint every one of them passes through on the way to the outside world — is the map of Palestinian financial life, and this summer that chokepoint is closing.\n\nThe sector is supervised by the Palestine Monetary Authority, the Ramallah central-bank-in-waiting created in 1994 under the Paris Protocol, the economic annex of Oslo that also left Palestine using the Israeli shekel. The banks beneath it divide into three families: Palestinian-owned banks, Jordanian banks with deep West Bank networks, and the Islamic banks serving the fastest-growing segment of the market.\n\n## The owners\n\nThe flagship is Bank of Palestine — founded in Gaza in 1960 by Hashim Atta Shawa to bank the citrus economy, and led ever since by the Shawa family of Gaza, with the founder's grandson [Hashim Shawa chairing the group today](https://www.wefo",
      "date_published": "2026-08-08T03:20:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "economy"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-banks-clearing-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-holds-every-frequency-palestine-s-two-mobile-18b8d8b1e8.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-holds-every-frequency-palestine-s-two-mobile-18b8d8b1e8.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israel holds every frequency Palestine's two mobile operators need",
      "summary": "Two companies carry every Palestinian phone call: Paltel's Jawwal and Ooredoo Palestine. Both are Palestinian-licensed, Palestinian-staffed and Palestinian-owned in large part — and neither can switch on a single new frequency without Israel's signature.\n\nThat signature clause, written into Oslo and enforced for three decades, is the master fact of Palestinian telecommunications, and this report maps the sector around it: who owns the operators, who benefits from them, and what the Israeli government's control has cost.\n\n## The two operators and their owners\n\nPaltel Group is the incumbent — founded in 1995 under a Palestinian Authority license, listed in Ramallah as the exchange's heavyweight, and [chaired by Sabih al-Masri](https://apic.ps/en/article/62/Mr-Tarek-Omar-Aggad,-Chairman-and-Chief-Executive-Officer), with the PADICO holding group of the al-Masri orbit as its anchor shareholder.\n\nIts brands are the sector: Jawwal in mobile, with the large majority of Palestinian subscribers",
      "date_published": "2026-08-08T03:20:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "economy"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-spectrum-operators-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/tarek-aggad-steers-apic-s-billion-dollar-network-ac6e81cc56.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/tarek-aggad-steers-apic-s-billion-dollar-network-ac6e81cc56.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Tarek Aggad steers APIC's billion-dollar network of Palestinian household industries",
      "summary": "Most Palestinians touch Tarek Aggad's companies before breakfast. The processed meats on the shelf, the household goods in the shop, the aluminum in the window frame, the car in the showroom, the medicines in the pharmacy — a striking share of them move through the Arab Palestinian Investment Company, the Ramallah conglomerate known as APIC that [Aggad chairs and runs as chief executive](https://apic.ps/en/article/62/Mr-Tarek-Omar-Aggad,-Chairman-and-Chief-Executive-Officer).\n\nThe company is a family project with a diaspora arc. Aggad's father, Omar Aggad, was born in Jaffa in 1927, driven into exile in 1948, and built one of Saudi Arabia's notable industrial fortunes — then turned it back toward home, [co-founding APIC in 1994](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Palestinian_Investment_Company) with fellow Arab businessmen to channel investment into Palestine in the first Oslo spring. Tarek, born in 1971, trained in the family's group and took over the Palestinian flagship, carrying it",
      "date_published": "2026-08-08T03:12:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "economy"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-tarek-aggad-apic-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/tareq-abbas-runs-advertising-firms-inside-the-system-919b8e9916.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/tareq-abbas-runs-advertising-firms-inside-the-system-919b8e9916.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Tareq Abbas runs advertising firms inside the system his father heads",
      "summary": "Of the Palestinian president's two sons, Tareq Abbas is the quieter one. His brother Yasser carries mandates, a Fatah seat and a standing file in this newspaper; Tareq has built his career in a softer trade — advertising, communications and retail — and given the public record one unforgettable sentence. This profile assembles what the record shows about the businessman, with the same rule the family file always carries: documents speak, gaps are named, and no court has convicted him of anything.\n\nHis base is Sky Advertising, the Ramallah agency he chairs. [Sky's corporate profile and reporting on the family's interests](https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/06/05/the-brothers-abbas/) describe a firm that grew into the territory's leading advertising, public-relations and events house — and made its chairman president of the Palestinian Advertising Association, the industry body of the market he leads.\n\nThe agency sits inside a larger structure. Sky is part of the Arab Palestinian Investment ",
      "date_published": "2026-08-08T03:12:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "accountability"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-tareq-abbas-business-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/yasser-abbas-chairs-falcon-and-carries-his-father-31ba4a3de7.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/yasser-abbas-chairs-falcon-and-carries-his-father-31ba4a3de7.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Yasser Abbas chairs Falcon and carries his father's newest financial mandates",
      "summary": "As a businessman, Yasser Abbas is the chairman of Falcon Holding Group — and as the president's son, he is the holder of mandates no businessman without his surname has ever been offered. This profile sets out the commercial record on its own terms, as a companion to this newspaper's standing Yasser Abbas file, under the file's fixed rule: every claim carries its source, denials are carried beside allegations, and no court has ever convicted him of any crime.\n\nThe engineering arm came first. The Falcon Electrical Mechanical Contracting Company was established in 2000 and grew offices across Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Qatar and the Emirates — a genuine regional contractor, in a trade where Palestinian firms rarely scale. A trained engineer, Abbas built the group around it: [Foreign Policy's 2012 investigation](https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/06/05/the-brothers-abbas/) reported that its Falcon Tobacco arm held the monopoly on American-made cigarettes in the Palestinian territories.\n\nAme",
      "date_published": "2026-08-08T03:12:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "accountability"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-yasser-abbas-file-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/seven-prime-ministers-carried-palestine-s-government-from-eb3592c4b9.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/seven-prime-ministers-carried-palestine-s-government-from-eb3592c4b9.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Seven prime ministers carried Palestine's government from Arafat to Abbas",
      "summary": "The Palestinian prime ministership was born of a power struggle. In March 2003, under American and European pressure to dilute Yasser Arafat's authority, the Basic Law was amended to create the post — and every man who has held it since has worked in the space between a strong presidency and a state that does not yet exist.\n\nSeven men have carried the office in twenty-three years. Their records — what Palestinians credited them with, and what Palestinians held against them — form a history of the Palestinian Authority itself.\n\n![Seven prime ministers, 2003 to today](times-of-palestine-pa-prime-ministers-2026.svg)\n\n*The office and its holders, from the post's creation in 2003 to the present government. Graphic: Times of Palestine.*\n\n## Mahmoud Abbas, March–September 2003\n\nThe first prime minister was the man who now embodies the presidency the post was built to check. Abbas — Abu Mazen, Oslo's co-architect — took office promising reform and an end to the armed chaos of the second intifa",
      "date_published": "2026-08-08T02:59:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "research"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-pa-prime-ministers-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/sabih-al-masri-chairs-the-institutions-carrying-jordan-c31a9d98eb.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/sabih-al-masri-chairs-the-institutions-carrying-jordan-c31a9d98eb.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Sabih al-Masri chairs the institutions carrying Jordan's and Palestine's economies",
      "summary": "One man chairs both Jordan's most important bank and Palestine's largest listed company. Sabih al-Masri, the Nablus-born businessman now in his late eighties, sits at the head of Arab Bank in Amman and the Paltel Group in Ramallah — a double chairmanship that makes him, quietly, one of the most consequential economic figures on either side of the river.\n\nSabih Taher Darwish al-Masri was born in Nablus in 1937, studied engineering in the United States, and made his first fortune far from home. The Arab Supply and Trading Company — Astra — which [he founded and built into a Saudi-based group](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabih_al-Masri) spanning agriculture, industry and supply contracts, grew on feeding and provisioning contracts in the kingdom's north and became the base of everything after.\n\n## The banker of Amman\n\nIn 2012, al-Masri took the chairmanship of Arab Bank, the institution founded in Jerusalem in 1930 that moved to Amman in 1948 and grew into one of the Arab world's great ",
      "date_published": "2026-08-08T02:59:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "economy"
      ],
      "image": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sabih%20Al%20Masry.jpg?width=640"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/bashar-masri-raised-rawabi-palestine-s-first-planned-73741568d9.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/bashar-masri-raised-rawabi-palestine-s-first-planned-73741568d9.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Bashar Masri raised Rawabi, Palestine's first planned city, from bare hills",
      "summary": "Nine kilometres north of Ramallah, a crescent of pale stone towers rises from a hilltop that held nothing but scrub two decades ago. Rawabi — \"the hills\" — is the first planned Palestinian city in living memory, and it exists because one man decided that Palestinians should not have to wait for statehood to build like a state.\n\nThat man is Bashar Masri. Born in Nablus in 1961 — a nephew of the industrialist Munib al-Masri, [TIME noted in its profile of the project](https://time.com/4018306/rawabi-bashar-masri/) — he grew up amid the demonstrations of the occupied West Bank, left to study chemical engineering at Virginia Tech, and built a career in Washington before the Oslo years drew him home. In 1994 he founded Massar International, the investment house that became Rawabi's engine.\n\n## A city from scratch\n\nThe idea took shape in 2007: not another housing project, but an entire city — master-planned streets, schools, offices, a commercial core — conceived, financed and built by Palest",
      "date_published": "2026-08-08T02:52:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "economy"
      ],
      "image": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bashar%20Masry.jpg?width=640"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/tomorrow-s-youth-organization-extends-its-nablus-lifeline-c1f95efbb3.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/tomorrow-s-youth-organization-extends-its-nablus-lifeline-c1f95efbb3.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Tomorrow's Youth Organization extends its Nablus lifeline to Gaza's families",
      "summary": "On a hillside in Khallet al-Amoud, above Nablus's old city, an American nonprofit has spent eighteen years proving a simple idea: that children from the camps deserve the same start as children anywhere. Tomorrow's Youth Organization — TYO to the families who climb the hill to reach it — has grown from one centre into a lifeline that now stretches to Gaza.\n\nThe organization was founded in 2007 by Hani Hikmat Masri, a Nablus-born Palestinian-American businessman who built his career in Washington and never let go of the city he came from. The next year he opened the Nablus centre, [which the organization describes as the first American nonprofit based in the city](https://tomorrowsyouth.org/about/) — not a visiting project, but a neighbour with a long-term address.\n\nMasri took his undergraduate degree at the University of Florida and a graduate degree at the University of Colorado, served in Jordan's diplomatic corps as director of the foreign ministry's United Nations department and th",
      "date_published": "2026-08-08T02:45:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "social"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-tomorrows-youth-nablus-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/mustafa-abuelhija-manages-the-comedian-who-took-palestine-7ed19195a4.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/mustafa-abuelhija-manages-the-comedian-who-took-palestine-7ed19195a4.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Mustafa Abuelhija manages the comedian who took Palestine to Netflix",
      "summary": "The most widely seen Palestinian story on television is a comedy about a family in Houston, and the man who manages the comedian who made it grew up in a family from Haifa.\n\nMustafa Abuelhija has spent more than twenty years in American comedy without ever standing on a stage. He manages Mo Amer, the Palestinian refugee turned stand-up whose Netflix series **Mo** put a Palestinian household — its grief, its olive oil, its immigration paperwork — into living rooms that had never knowingly encountered one.\n\nThat series won a Peabody Award and the Gotham Award for breakthrough series in 2022. It holds a 100 percent critics' rating on Rotten Tomatoes for its first season. Amer created and wrote it with Ramy Youssef, and its second and final season arrived in January 2025.\n\nAbuelhija's name is not on the poster. It rarely is. His work happens in the part of the industry where careers are either built or quietly lost.\n\n## From the Cellar floor\n\nHe started at the Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Vi",
      "date_published": "2026-08-08T01:46:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "arts"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-abuelhija-career-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/yasser-abbas-built-his-businesses-inside-his-father-4e50a087e8.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/yasser-abbas-built-his-businesses-inside-his-father-4e50a087e8.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Yasser Abbas built his businesses inside his father's system",
      "summary": "Yasser Abbas holds three positions no election of the Palestinian public gave him: a seat on Fatah's Central Committee, his father's mandate over the PLO's properties in Lebanon, and — if reports this newspaper has not been able to confirm hold true — the leadership of a company being formed to centralise the West Bank's fuel purchasing.\n\nHe is also, and has been for two decades, a businessman whose markets sit inside the territory his father governs.\n\nThis report assembles the published record of that career: the contracts, the scrutiny, the court case he brought and lost, and the new mandates of the past eighteen months. It is a record of documents, not accusations.\n\nWhere the record establishes a fact, this report states it; where it establishes only a question, this report says so — and notes that no court has ever convicted Yasser Abbas, or any member of his family, of any crime.\n\n## The companies\n\nThe business core is Falcon Holding Group, the conglomerate Yasser Abbas chairs. It",
      "date_published": "2026-08-05T16:25:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "research"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-yasser-abbas-file-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestinian-military-court-leaves-nizar-banat-case-unresolved-95b1569134.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestinian-military-court-leaves-nizar-banat-case-unresolved-95b1569134.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Palestinian military court leaves Nizar Banat case unresolved",
      "summary": "HEBRON — Nizar Banat built his political life in public, speaking into a phone camera about corruption, elections, security power and the everyday failures of Palestinian government. His death came out of public view: inside a relative’s home before dawn, during an arrest by Palestinian security officers on 24 June 2021.\n\nFive years later, the central facts are no longer obscure. Witnesses described a violent raid. A preliminary autopsy documented injuries across his body and classified the death as unnatural. Fourteen members of the Preventive Security Service were charged. Their military trial began in September 2021.\n\nWhat remains absent is a final judgment. The latest hearing Times of Palestine could trace was [postponed on 29 September 2025](https://lawyers4justice.ps/statement-issued-by-lawyers-for-justice-on-the-postponement-of-the-trial-of-the-defendants-in-the-killing-of-political-activist-nizar-banat/), for the third time over the absence of the same defense witness. The cour",
      "date_published": "2026-08-04T13:31:34Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "accountability"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/nizar-banat-protest-2026.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-engineer-azza-hamid-wins-palestine-s-2026-9e1282cd19.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/gaza-engineer-azza-hamid-wins-palestine-s-2026-9e1282cd19.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Gaza engineer Azza Hamid wins Palestine's 2026 Business Women Excellence Award",
      "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": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-azza-hamid-cover-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/morocco-funds-summer-schools-for-3-000-jerusalem-1f98a0dbd0.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/morocco-funds-summer-schools-for-3-000-jerusalem-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": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-morocco-jerusalem-schools-cover-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/nablus-union-builds-palestine-s-first-childcare-cooperative-b3e5760d28.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/nablus-union-builds-palestine-s-first-childcare-cooperative-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": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-nablus-childcare-cover-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/saudi-partnership-restores-maternal-care-for-20-400-845f4437d2.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/saudi-partnership-restores-maternal-care-for-20-400-845f4437d2.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": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-saudi-maternal-care-cover-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/un-women-counts-nis-297-million-annual-violence-880f3c157a.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/un-women-counts-nis-297-million-annual-violence-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": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-women-violence-cost-cover-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/yemeni-and-kuwaiti-donors-keep-gaza-health-students-550b8b9e6d.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/yemeni-and-kuwaiti-donors-keep-gaza-health-students-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": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-arab-health-students-cover-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/times-of-palestine-opens-her-story-for-palestinian-d907e519f4.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/times-of-palestine-opens-her-story-for-palestinian-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.\n\nRoughly 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.\n\nPregnant 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.\n\nBehind 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.\n\nTimes of Palestine opens **Her Story**",
      "date_published": "2026-08-03T00:40:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "women"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-her-story-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/times-of-palestine-maps-the-world-s-scholarships-54e1802864.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/times-of-palestine-maps-the-world-s-scholarships-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. No single Palestinian front page has kept that map in one place, updated, in both languages. This guide is that page.\n\nThe 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 places them across thirteen UK institutions at once.\n\nTimes of Palestine keeps 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, because windows shift year to year.\n\n![The scholarship map: routes from Palestine to the world's universities](times-of-pa",
      "date_published": "2026-08-02T16:30:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "social"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-scholarships-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestine-s-ambassadors-turn-delegations-into-embassies-after-acb7b93de4.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/palestine-s-ambassadors-turn-delegations-into-embassies-after-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": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-embassies-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/times-of-palestine-names-the-100-most-influential-ffc815d6e2.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/times-of-palestine-names-the-100-most-influential-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": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-top100-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/east-asian-partners-list-47-palestine-development-projects-fe357eade7.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/east-asian-partners-list-47-palestine-development-projects-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": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-east-asia-palestine-projects-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/madrid-puts-palestinian-culture-on-the-agenda-delivery-5e03868fc8.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/madrid-puts-palestinian-culture-on-the-agenda-delivery-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": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-madrid-palestinian-culture-pact-accountability.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/chile-s-senate-passes-the-palestinian-friendship-day-4ce0685410.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/chile-s-senate-passes-the-palestinian-friendship-day-4ce0685410.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Chile's Senate passes the Palestinian friendship day, pending the deputies' vote",
      "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": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-chile-palestinian-friendship-day-timeline.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/france-freezes-gaza-scholars-files-and-the-court-40cbfece1f.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/france-freezes-gaza-scholars-files-and-the-court-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## What the two documents establish\n\nThe suspension is documented, not a",
      "date_published": "2026-07-30T02:49:16Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "diaspora"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-france-pause-gaza-timeline.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-s-spectrum-hold-delays-palestinian-4g-to-7c751a9c6d.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/israel-s-spectrum-hold-delays-palestinian-4g-to-7c751a9c6d.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Israel's spectrum hold delays Palestinian 4G to 2027, keeping Gaza 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\nThe filing's unaudited half-year figures, covering the six months to 30 June, model a rollout beginning in the West Bank in 2027 and in Gaza in mid-2027. The dates are financial assumptions rather than guarantees: the document announces no commercial launch date, allocated ",
      "date_published": "2026-07-30T01:32:00Z",
      "language": "en",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Times of Palestine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "research"
      ],
      "image": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/media/times-of-palestine-spectrum-operators-2026.svg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/abbas-s-2025-declaration-puts-al-sheikh-first-c85ab12745.html",
      "url": "https://www.timesofpalestine.com/en/story/abbas-s-2025-declaration-puts-al-sheikh-first-c85ab12745.html",
      "external_url": null,
      "title": "Abbas's 2025 declaration puts al-Sheikh first in line for the presidency",
      "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\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## The written record\n\nHussein al-Sheikh has the clearest wri",
      "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"
    }
  ]
}