Israel's North residents asked to leave

This Saturday, Iranian Army said it launched a new wave of drone attacks on Israel, specifically targeting what it called a “strategic facility. ”Explosions were heard in the skies above Jerusalem shortly after the military said its air defenses were working to intercept projectiles from Iran. No injuries were reported.An army spokesman added that there had been a “real decrease” in the number of launches from Iran after nearly a week of barrages. FRANCE24 Reporter Olivia Bizot tells us the latest from Jerusalem.

Missile Nightmare In Israel As Iran Launches SIXTH Ballistic Barrage Within Hours; IDF Scrambles

Iran launched its sixth missile barrage against Israel within nine hours, triggering air-raid sirens across Jerusalem and southern Israel. Israeli authorities reported no injuries or direct impacts, though interceptions were seen over several areas. The Israeli military said warning times varied due to operational factors during missile detection. Meanwhile, Israel carried out a large wave of overnight strikes on Tehran and other parts of Iran, including reported damage at Mehrabad Airport. Iran has also fired missiles and drones across the region, sparking alarms in Gulf states. With retaliatory strikes intensifying and regional tensions spreading, the conflict involving Israel, Iran and the United States continues to escalate.

'Crazy how media reports israel's attacks as "strikes" but Iran's retaliation as "attack".'

Trump angry when asked about success of Iranian retaliation; Tel Aviv update

In a significant development, it has emerged that the reason why the Iranians have been so precise and accurate with their retaliatory strikes against the Americans is because the Russians have been sharing key intelligence with them on the presence of US facilities. Donald Trump reacted angrily when a reporter drew his attention to this new revelation. Meanwhile, an Indian journalist has painted the true picture of the damage caused by Iran in Tel Aviv. Rifat Jawaid analyses the current situation.

The Iran War Industry: How Propaganda Sold Bombing as ‘Liberation’

Jamal Abdi, President of the National Iranian American Council discusses the "war industry" driving the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and the coordinated propaganda effort to frame the bombing campaign as a "liberation." Abdi details the chilling effects of state surveillance and online intimidation on the Iranian diaspora, arguing that the "imminent threat" narrative is a decades-old facade used to justify a war of choice.

Trump is nothing but Natanyahu's puppet

Israel’s president responds to Trump call to pardon Netanyahu

Speaking to Fox News, Herzog said Israel is a sovereign state that follows the rule of law after US President Donald Trump urged him to grant Netanyahu a pardon so he can focus on the war with Iran.

Lol Israel following the rules of law while waging illegal wars next to a genocide, occupying parts of Lebanon and Syria, continuous ethnic cleansing and stealing land in the West bank while practicing apartheid.

Israeli settlers kill two Palestinians in occupied West Bank

Israeli settlers have shot dead two Palestinians during an assault on a town in the occupied West Bank, WAFA news agency WAFA reports – the latest in a series of assaults that have killed at least six Palestinians in a week.

The agency, citing a statement from the Palestinian Health Ministry, on Sunday said the attack occurred overnight on the village of Abu Falah in the northeast of Ramallah.

It identified the victims as Fare’ Jawdat Hamayel, 57, and Thaer Farouq Hamayel, 24. Both were shot in the head, the agency reported.

A third resident died later from the fumes of a tear gas canister fired by Israeli soldiers who accompanied the settlers to disperse residents when they tried to confront the attackers, WAFA said. It identified him as Muhammad Hassan Murrah, 55.

In a post on X, Palestinian Vice President Hussein al-Sheikh condemned the “brutal attack on innocent citizens”, saying three were killed and seven others injured.

The Israeli military said forces were dispatched to the Abu Falah area “following a report of Palestinians being attacked by Israeli civilians near homes”, the AFP news agency reported.

“Later, it was reported that two Palestinians were killed as a result of gunfire. Additionally, it was reported that another Palestinian died from suffocation,” it said in a statement, according to the report.

The Israeli military said it was “looking into” the incidents, the AFP news agency reported.

Exploiting the United States-Israeli war on Iran, the settlers have stepped up harassment and attacks on Palestinians, particularly in rural areas of the West Bank. WAFA said the killings in Abu Falah raised to at least six the number of Palestinians killed by settlers in the West Bank since the US-Israeli assault on Iran began a week ago.

On Saturday, the Palestinian Health Ministry, based in Ramallah, and a local mayor said Israeli settlers shot dead a Palestinian man and wounded his brother in an attack on the village of Wadi al-Rakhim in the southern West Bank.

Mohammad Rabai, head of the village council in nearby at-Tawani, told AFP that settlers had entered homes in the area and attacked the family of 27-year-old Amir Mohammad Shnaran, who later died.

The Israeli military said soldiers and police were dispatched to the scene after reports of a “violent confrontation” between Israelis and Palestinians. It said an investigation was under way.

Israeli soldiers or settlers have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians, both members of resistance groups as well as civilians, in the occupied West Bank since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023, according to Palestinian Health Ministry figures.

At least 45 Israelis, including both soldiers and civilians, have been killed in Palestinian attacks or during Israeli military operations in the same period, according to official Israeli figures.

Honouring Gaza’s women who refused to let the world look away

Women journalists in Gaza have paid a heavy price for refusing to stay silent and continuing to expose Israel’s crimes.

_{Fatima Hassouna and Mariam Abu Daqqa were killed in 2025 in Gaza}

As the world marks International Women’s Day, the airwaves of global media are filled with symbolic gestures and pompous rhetoric about women’s rights. Statistics are touted, initiatives are celebrated and hashtags are boosted.

Meanwhile, the true oppressors of women are whitewashed, their crimes are covered up and those who resist them are smeared.

But here in Gaza, we know who our oppressor is and who our heroes are. The Israeli occupation has murdered tens of thousands of Palestinian women and girls in the past two and a half years. It has devastated the lives of a million of them.

Against the onslaught of the Israeli genocide, the women of Gaza have stood up and resisted, each in their own way. Women journalists, in particular, have shown true heroism. They have taken on the dangerous task of reporting on a genocidal war, of bearing witness and documenting atrocities.

Their cameras, notebooks and phones have become tools not only of storytelling but also of survival and memory.For daring to challenge the occupation, Gaza’s women journalists have paid a heavy price. More than 20 of the 270 journalists  and media workers murdered by Israel were women.

Among them is Mariam Abu Daqqa, who was targeted by the Israeli army along with other journalists at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip in August. She worked as a field correspondent for years, documenting the suffering of Palestinians under siege and then reporting on the realities of the genocidal war.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/3/8/honouring-gazas-women-who-refused-to-let-the-world-look-away

It's Bisan From Gaza And My Colleague Had Only 15 Min With His Baby

Bisan Owda takes us into the lives of Gaza's journalists – those who've lost colleagues right in front of them, survived bombings while reporting, and one journalist who was killed just five hours after his baby was born. Israel has killed nearly 300 journalists since the genocide began. This is the story of those who remain and what they've sacrificed.

Israeli forces kill Palestinian journalist Amal Shamali in Gaza attack

Shamali, who worked for Qatar Radio, killed in an Israeli air strike on central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp

Palestinian journalist Amal Shamali, who worked as a correspondent for Qatar Radio, has been killed in an Israeli air strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) says.

Shamali, who was killed on Monday, also “worked with several Arab and local media outlets and was among the journalists who continued performing their media mission despite the ongoing assault and war on the Gaza Strip”, the PJS said in a statement.

More than 270 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched a genocidal war against Palestinians in the territory on October 7, 2023, in response to Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel.

“This represents one of the bloodiest periods for journalists in modern history, reflecting the scale of the deliberate targeting of Palestinian journalism in an attempt to silence the voice of truth and prevent the documentation of the crimes and violations committed against the Palestinian people,” the PJS said.

The PJS also said: “Targeting journalists will not succeed in breaking the will of the Palestinian journalistic community or deterring it from fulfilling its professional and humanitarian mission of conveying the truth and documenting the crimes and aggression faced by the Palestinian people.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-strike-kills-two-palestinians-car-gaza-medics-say-2026-03-08/

War in Gaza increases number of widows and deepens female unemployment, statistics show

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260309-war-in-gaza-increases-number-of-widows-and-deepens-female-unemployment-statistics-show/

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics has warned that the ongoing war has significantly worsened the social and economic conditions of women in Gaza, increasing the number of widows, deepening unemployment and severely damaging the health sector.

In a statement issued on Sunday to mark International Women’s Day, the bureau said women are expected to constitute around 49 per cent of the total population in Palestine by the end of 2025, amounting to approximately 2.74 million women.

Of these, around 1.69 million live in the West Bank and 1.06 million in the Gaza Strip, highlighting what the bureau described as the central role of women in Palestinian society.

According to the data, 22,057 women in Gaza have lost their husbands since the start of the war, increasing the proportion of female-headed households from 12 per cent before the conflict to around 18 per cent during the war.

The report also highlighted severe labour market disparities. Women’s participation in Gaza’s labour force remained at 17 per cent in 2025, while men’s participation dropped sharply from 63 per cent to 31 per cent. The unemployment rate among women reached 92 per cent, compared with 81 per cent among men.

In the West Bank, women’s labour force participation stood at about 19 per cent, compared with 72 per cent for men, while unemployment rates were 27 per cent for women and 28 per cent for men.

Among young people aged 19 to 29 with a diploma or higher, unemployment reached 79 per cent, including 86 per cent for women and 70 per cent for men, reflecting what the bureau described as a widening economic gap between the sexes.

How Israel is spraying herbicides on Syrian crops • The Observers

Israeli planes sprayed herbicides on farmland in Quneitra, Syria in late January and early February, 2026. Farmers say that their crops yellowed and died in just a few days and that they lost dozens of hectares of farmland. There have been similar reports of the Israeli Army spraying fields in southern Lebanon and of Israeli settlers doing the same in the West Bank.

Israel accused of using white phosphorus in Lebanese residential areas

Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of "unlawfully" using white phosphorus over residential parts of southern Lebanon last week. White phosphorus ignites on contact with oxygen, can be used as an incendiary weapon and can cause fires, horrific burns, respiratory damage and death.

Israeli tank fire kills Lebanese priest who vowed to stay with congregation

Israeli shelling has killed a priest from Christian village in southern Lebanon – where local residents are pledging to stay after Israel’s military escalated evacuation calls and attacks in parts of the country.

Father Pierre al-Raai died on Monday after he and several other residents were injured by two separate Israeli attacks on the outskirts of Qlayaa, a village in Marjayoun district, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA).

The village of Qlayaa had remained largely untouched by Israeli fire, which has killed at least 486 people across Lebanon since March 2, the country’s health ministry said on Monday. Before his death, Al-Raai promised to stay with fellow worshippers in the face of an Israeli evacuation call for everyone living south of Lebanon’s Litani River. The village was not explicitly outlined in the memo, but it lies below the Litani – just north of the border with Israel.

“We have never fled… And we will not flee now, either,” the priest had said in a voice message to local villagers, obtained by CNN on Monday. “I want to reiterate the same invitation: for those who are afraid, the church is open, and we welcome everyone until this crisis passes,” he added.

On Tuesday, the UN’s peacekeeping mission will evacuate civilians from the village of Alma al-Shaab – about 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Qlayaa – according to the mayor, Chadi Sayah, in a sign of the encroaching threat to local Christian communities. A man was killed in an Israeli raid there on Sunday, NNA said.

Last week, Sayah told worshippers, “We’re choosing to stay on our land.” “We want to live in peace,” he said in a Facebook video published on the official Alma al-Shaab parish page https://www.facebook.com/reel/1428225552184308">on March 4.

The Israeli military said troops operating in southern Lebanon “identified several armed terrorists” in the Qlayaa area and fired toward them to “remove an immediate threat.” The military added that hits were identified and that there was a report of “additional civilians who entered the area at the time of the shooting” being injured. The incident is under review, the military said.

Gaza food prices soar as crossing closures deepen shortages amid Iran war

People in Gaza are once again rushing to markets to buy whatever food they can afford, as the regional war involving the United States, Israel and Iran sends shockwaves through an enclave already dependent on fragile aid and commercial lifelines.

Residents and traders say prices have jumped in a matter of days, while some staples have become scarce or disappeared altogether.

Reporting from Gaza City, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said that “the latest escalation is being felt in the most immediate way possible: through shrinking supplies and tightening access at border crossings”.

In local markets, shoppers are trying to secure food before stocks run lower, fearing that whatever is available today may not be there tomorrow.

That anxiety reflects Gaza’s dependence on crossings with Israel and Egypt. Nearly all food, fuel, medicine and other basic goods enter the territory by truck. When those crossings are shut or operate at reduced capacity, the impact is quickly felt in markets, hospitals and water systems.

Israel closed Gaza’s crossings on February 28, as Israeli and US forces attacked Iran, halting humanitarian access in and out of Gaza and the movement of patients in need of medical evacuation. Israeli authorities later reopened the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom to the Israelis) crossing for the “gradual entry” of aid, but access has remained restricted.

The Rafah crossing with Egypt has stayed shut, and aid agencies say the current volumes are far below what is needed.

Hanan Balkhy, World Health Organization (WHO) regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean, told Reuters this week that only about 200 trucks a day were entering Gaza, compared with roughly 600 needed daily to support the territory’s population. She also said about 18,000 people, including wounded children and patients with chronic illnesses, were still waiting to be evacuated.

Aid system under strain

Aid agencies say the pressures extend far beyond market stalls. OCHA said the shutdown had forced limited fuel reserves in Gaza to be rationed, prompting humanitarian partners to suspend vehicle-based solid waste collection and reduce water production. It added that contingency measures had been activated across hospitals and primary healthcare centres.

The broader food security backdrop remains extremely fragile. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the global hunger-monitoring system used by UN agencies and aid groups, said in December that Gaza was no longer in famine conditions after aid access improved during the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. But it had warned that renewed hostilities or halted aid could quickly reverse those gains.

The WFP has also warned that Gaza’s fragile gains could quickly unravel if access is not sustained. It said the reopening of Karem Abu Salem may offer some relief, but that without reliable humanitarian corridors, the agency could be forced to slash food rations for a large number of people.

With access still limited, families across Gaza face growing uncertainty over whether essential food supplies can be sustained in the days ahead.

Attacks, killings across Gaza despite Israel’s war with Iran

Israeli artillery shelling has been reported in Khan Younis and the centre of the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian officials say at least six people have been killed in Israeli strikes, including three children and a journalist.
Some of the attacks hit makeshift shelters housing displaced families.
Israeli fire has killed more than 640 Palestinians since a US-brokered ceasefire came into effect in October.
Crossings into Gaza remain largely closed, aid supplies are scarce and basic goods are beginning to disappear from local markets.

ANTI-WAR PROTEST IN AMSTERDAM: Massive Women’s Day Rally Backs Palestine And Iran

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Amsterdam on Sunday to mark International Women’s Day while expressing solidarity with Palestinians and the people of Iran. Protesters filled Dam Square before marching through central streets including Rokin, Vijzelstraat and Weteringschans and later assembling at Museumplein.

Footage from the rally showed participants waving Palestinian flags and carrying banners calling for peace, justice and equality.

According to local media, the demonstration was organised by several groups focused on women’s empowerment, including ActionAid Nederland, Amnesty International Netherlands, Atria, Bureau Clara Wichmann, Dolle Mina and FNV. International Women’s Day, observed annually on March 8, highlights women’s achievements and ongoing struggles for gender equality, with the United Nations setting this year’s theme as “Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls.”

EXPOSED: The Media’s Racism Revealed By Bombshell Study

Read the shocking new report on Muslims and Islam in the British media here: 
https://cfmm.org.uk/resource/the-state-of-british-media-2025-reporting-on-muslims-and-islam/

"EXPOSED; water is wet!"

'WAR WON'T STOP': Iranian Forces BOMBARD US Navy's 5th Fleet HQ; 1-Ton Warhead Missile 'Hits' Israel

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says more than ten Kheybar Shekan missiles struck targets in Tel Aviv during the thirty third wave of Operation True Promise Four. The IRGC also claimed missiles targeted a US naval base in the region.

Iranian official Kamal Kharrazi warned Tehran is prepared for a long war with the United States and said diplomacy has collapsed. He also urged Gulf states to pressure Washington to end the conflict. The attacks follow fresh US and Israeli strikes on Iran and have intensified fears of a widening Middle East war.

Israel denies women in Gaza ‘conditions to live’: Amnesty

Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip have been “denied the conditions needed to live and to give life safely” by Israel amid its genocidal war on the enclave, according to Amnesty International, a global rights group.

Amnesty warned on Tuesday that women and girls in Gaza have been pushed “to the brink” as the Israeli war has spurred a series of hardships, from mass displacement to the destruction of the local healthcare system.

Pregnant women, as well as those who need treatment for cancer and other illnesses, have been particularly hard-hit by the lack of adequate health services in the territory, Amnesty said in a statement.

“This systematic erosion of their rights to health, safety, dignity and a future is not an unfortunate by-product of war; it is a deliberate act of war targeting women and girls,” the group said.

“It is also the foreseeable consequence of Israel’s calculated policies and practices of multiple mass displacement, deliberate restrictions on basic and essential items, as well as humanitarian relief, and two years of relentless bombardment that have devastated Gaza’s health system and decimated entire families.”

Israel also continues to impede the steady flow of humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of people remain displaced across the Strip due to the Israeli bombardment.

Last week, the United Nations humanitarian office (OCHA) said the health sector in Gaza remains “under significant constraints” as a result of the restrictions on medical supplies and equipment, as well as fuel.

“Sexual and reproductive health services remain severely disrupted due to damaged infrastructure, shortages of essential medicines and supplies and limited referral capacity,” OCHA said, noting that as many as 180 women give birth daily in Gaza.

“Severe bed shortages mean women undergoing major procedures, including Caesarean sections, are often discharged within hours and return to overcrowded displacement settings, increasing risks of complications and infection,” the agency said.

Palestine: Human Rights Bulletin (Reporting period: 4 March - 9 March 2026)

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During the reporting period, 16 Palestinians were killed in their homes, tents, and on Gaza streets as a result of Israeli airstrikes, attacks by Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs), artillery and naval shelling, and gunfire. Settlers and Israeli security forces killed three more Palestinians in the West Bank where movement restrictions are still keeping Palestinians in isolated silos while settlers, often armed, roam free.

Gaza, Killings and access restrictions

During the reporting period, 16 Palestinians were reportedly killed in Israeli military activities in Gaza amid continuing Israeli gunfire, artillery shelling, airstrikes, UAV attacks, and naval shelling, all near and far from the “yellow line” which remains unclear on the ground.

• On 6 March, Israeli military forces reportedly shot and killed a 13-year-old boy near a school in Beit Lahia in the vicinity of the so-called yellow line.
• Among the reported victims was a Palestinian man and his daughter who were killed by an Israeli airstrike on their home in central Khan Younis on 7 March.
• On 8 March, Israeli tanks shelled IDP tents in central Middle Gaza killing two women, including an identified journalist, and one girl. Rafah and Zikim crossings remain closed. Medical evacuations and Palestinians’ return to Gaza remain suspended.

Since the ceasefire, 649 Palestinians were killed in Israeli military operations in Gaza according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, bringing the number of Palestinian fatalities to 72,134 killed since 7 October 2023.

The West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Killings and other violence

• On 7 March, Israeli settlers shot and killed 27-year-old Amir Mohammad Shunnaran during an attack in Wadi ar Rakhim area near Yatta town, south of Hebron, in Area B. The shooter was later identified as a reserve soldier. During the attack, a settler ran over a Palestinian woman with a quad bike, fracturing her leg.
• On 8 March, Israeli settlers shot and killed 57-year-old Fare’ Hamayel during an attack on the outskirts of Khirbet Abu Falah village in Ramallah, also in Area B. Israeli security forces and settlers were attacking simultaneously when 24-year-old Thaer Hamayel was also killed. 55-year-old Mohammed Morah reportedly died of cardiac arrest after inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli security forces.

Forced displacement and settlement expansion

• Following the killing of the three Palestinian men in Khirbet Abu Falah on 7 March, settlers reportedly established a new outpost there.
• On 5 March, the forced displacement of Al Shakara Bedouin community in Duma, southern Nablus, Area C, was complete due to persistent settler attacks and Israeli security forces’ restrictions. In the days leading up to the complete evacuation of the community, settlers damaged the solar power system resulting in an electricity cut and Israeli security forces declared the area a closed military zone and forced Israeli protective presence activists to leave. All of the community’s 13 families, comprising 70 Palestinians, are now displaced.
• On 7 March, the displacement of the Aqbat Tayasir community in eastern Tubas was complete with the last nine families forced to leave their homes due to relentless settler attacks and harassment. The day before displacement, settlers opened fire and chased shepherds, stole livestock, vandalized houses, and assaulted residents including two boys and three women.