8th Baby freezes to Death in Gaza, as Israeli Forces fire on World Food Programme Workers, Flour Warehouse

January 7, 2025

Juan Cole

( Middle East Monitor ) – Gaza’s Ministry of Health today announced that 35-day-old Yousef Kalloub froze to death because of the lack of sufficient winter clothes and suitable living conditions in the enclave as a result of Israel’s genocidal war.

 

Bloodshed and a hope for peace: What does 2025 hold for Israel and the Middle East?

January 7, 2025

Elizabeth Blade

The last year has been characterized by more than 45,000 deaths in Gaza, the destruction of Hezbollah, confrontations with Yemen’s Houthis and an exchange of fire with Iran. 2025 will probably continue this trend. Yet, with the comeback of President Donald Trump Israel may also be given opportunities, including the expansion of its historic Abraham Accords.

 

 FILE PHOTO. Smoke and flames erupt from a building hit in an Israeli airstrike in Chiyah, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 22, 2024. ©  AP Photo/Bilal Hussein

‘My kids go to sleep hungry’: Gaza starves amid Israeli blockade

January 6, 2025

Producer: Belal Awad, Leo Erhardt

Videographer: Ruwaida Amer, Mahmoud Al Mashharawi

Video Editor: Leo Erhardt

 

2024 Will Be Remembered as the Year Israel’s Global Legitimacy Fully Unraveled

January 2, 2025

Khury Petersen-Smith

Since the state of Israel’s founding, its leaders and supporters have sought acceptance among other states as a peer, and legitimacy in the eyes of the global public. It has achieved mixed success on the former — and failed repeatedly on the latter.

 

Israeli soldiers drive past destroyed buildings in Rafah in the Gaza Strip on September 13, 2024. Sharon Aronowicz / AFP via Getty Images

The Homelessness Crisis is About to Get a Lot Worse

January 2, 2025

Chloe Atkinson

With just weeks to go before Donald Trump waltzes back into the White House, America has an additional problem on its hands.

Resistance comeback in Gaza challenges Israel’s claims of Hamas casualties: Report

January 2, 2025

Data released on 1 January estimates that the remaining fighters in Gaza are between 20,000 and 23,000, according to Israeli media, which contradicts previous figures released by Israeli authorities. 

A year of shame, and many more to come

January 1, 2025

Jonathan Ofir

The shame of Israel's genocide in Gaza will haunt the international moral conscience and the Israeli psyche for the coming century. Though Israelis, accustomed to the perpetual shaming of Germany, are unprepared for the shame they must now confront.

Imperial hubris (and its consequences) in Syria

January 1, 2025

Alastair Crooke

The Syria story, it seems, is not so simple as ‘President Assad fell’ and the ‘technocratic Salafists’ rose to power.

 

New Year’s Day massacre: Israel kills dozens of Palestinians in Gaza

January 1, 2025

 

Rainstorms uproot Gaza tents, leave children 'freezing and hungry'

December 31, 2024

Ahmed Aziz

Rainstorms uprooted and flooded scores of displacement tents in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, worsening the already deteriorating living conditions for many Palestinians as a suffocating Israeli siege continues to bar the entry of makeshift shelters. 

A displaced Palestinian girl looks at a tent camp following heavy rains amid the Israeli war on Gaza in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on 31 December 2024 (Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Reuters)

Homelessness in U.S. has doubled under Biden

December 31,2024

Patrick Martin

The number of homeless people living in shelters or on the streets topped 770,000 this year, according to the annual report by the Department of Housing and Urban Development released Friday, a rise of 18 percent over 2023. That is more homeless people than the population of Seattle, Detroit, Boston or Atlanta. Homeless Americans outnumber the inhabitants of Washington DC, the capital city of the richest country in the world.

Ralph Nader Statement on Jimmy Carter’s Legacy

December 30,2024

Ralph Nader

Jimmy Carter was the last president to actively open the government for engagement by citizen groups. Right after his November 1976 election, he agreed to address a huge hotel ballroom in D.C. full of local and national citizen advocates. It was a great success never again repeated by succeeding president-elects. Mr. Carter then chose civic leaders and other solid progressives to head regulatory agencies such as NHTSA, EPA, OSHA, FTC, and for other high positions in government. Starting in 1981, Ronald Reagan undermined many Carter Administration health and safety initiatives.

 

Jimmy Carter Casts His Ballot for Harris in Georgia

Israel’s collateral killing of civilians is finally in the spotlight

December 30, 2024

Robert Inlakesh

The New York Times recently published a piece admitting that an unprecedented amount of “collateral damage” has been permitted by the Israeli military. However, in order to sanitize the revelations it claims to be uncovering, it omits key statistics that were previously revealed.

 

 FILE PHOTO. A woman holding a girl reacts after Israeli airstrikes hit Ridwan neighborhood of Gaza City, Gaza. ©  Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images

Jimmy Carter: the False Savoir

December 30,2024

Michael K. Smith

A pious Sunday school teacher confessing to lust in his heart but swearing never to lie, he came to Washington to reestablish public faith in government just when popular disgust at monstrous U.S. crimes in Indochina had reached unprecedented heights. The big business agenda during his term in office (1977-1981) was to roll back the welfare state, break the power of unions, fan the flames of the Cold War to increase military spending, engineer tax breaks for wealthy corporate interests, and repeal government regulation of business. While portraying himself as a peanut-farming populist, Carter delivered the goods for Wall Street.

 

LIVE BLOG: Dr. Abu Safiya Flogged | Massacres in the North | Hamdan: ‘Maximum Flexibility’ – Day 450

December 29,2024

Killed	Wounded	Missing
45,484	108,090	11,000

 

Former President and Human Rights Champion Jimmy Carter Dies at 100

December 29,2024

Julia Conley

Former President Jimmy Carter, who served just four years in office and went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize for his decades of work promoting human rights and international peace, died on Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia at the age of 100.

Higher Education Must Champion Democracy, Not Surrender to Fascism

December 28, 2024

Henry A. Giroux

For decades, neoliberalism has systematically attacked the welfare state, undermined public institutions and weakened the foundations of collective well-being. Shrouded in the alluring language of liberty, it transforms market principles into a dominant creed, insisting that every facet of life conform to the imperatives of profit and economic efficiency.

  

USC students walk out of class and march around their campus in support of Palestinians and the divest movement on October 7, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News / SCNG via Getty Images

Moscow warns US, UK preparing 'ISIS attacks' on airbases in Syria

December 28, 2024

Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (FIS) warned on 28 December that the US and UK are planning to use ISIS to attack Russian military bases in Syria to further destabilize the country after the fall of the Syrian government.

10 Tips to Help You Fall Asleep Fast

December 5, 2024

Michelle Crouch

We’ve all been there: staring at the ceiling, tossing and turning and waiting for sleep to come — only to find it slipping further away.

 

Israeli soldiers storm Gaza's Kamal Adwan hospital, force out semi-naked medics and patients

December 27, 2024

Ahmed Dremly

Israeli soldiers stormed Gaza's last functioning hospital on Friday and forced semi-naked Palestinian medics and patients to leave on foot to an unknown destination, according to videos and eyewitness testimony shared with Middle East Eye.

 

 Israeli forces switched off oxygen supplies inside Kamal Adwan and forced medics and patients out in the streets on 27 December 2024 (Screengrab)