Students in Michigan find new way to rally against Israel’s war on Gaza

Students in the US have been searching for new ways to demonstrate against Israel’s war on Gaza after universities shut down their protest camps.

Some are using a powerful new tactic – money.

US Muslim group criticizes university for Israeli soldier speaking invitation

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called on Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, to condemn a speaking engagement for an Israeli soldier who participated in the war on Gaza.

“Inviting any individual who has allegedly documented their presence in the homes of families suffering from forced displacement and genocide perpetuates a narrative of oppression, exacerbates tensions on campus, and fosters an unhealthy academic environment,” CAIR’s Zainab Chaudry said in a statement about the invitation extended by Johns Hopkins Hillel, a Jewish students group.

“The university should be a place where all students feel safe and valued, not where the pain and trauma of oppressed communities is trivialized and compounded.”

Thousands protest in central Tel Aviv for ceasefire



Thousands of demonstrators have gathered in central Tel Aviv to call on the Israeli government to do more to secure the release of captives held in Gaza for 11 months.

Mass protests have been revived in the past two weeks after the bodies of six Israelis were recovered from Gaza. Families of the abductees have expressed frustration at the government’s failed negotiations to bring them home.

Last week, an estimated 750,000 Israelis took to the streets in one of Israel’s biggest ever protests as they demanded Netanyahu’s government strike a deal with Hamas.

‘This war has to end yesterday – it’s futile’

One of the six captives killed in Gaza this month was Alexander Lobanov. His wife Michal addressed a large crowd in Tel Aviv and asked why the government didn’t “do everything” to bring him back alive.

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis again on the streets

Hundreds of thousands are on the streets of Tel Aviv and elsewhere throughout the country. It comes just a week after the largest demonstration in Israel’s history – half a million people in Tel Aviv and 250,000 others elsewhere throughout the country, calling for a deal to bring back the remaining Israeli captives.

They’re blaming the government. They’re blaming Netanyahu, specifically, saying he’s neither capable nor willing to secure a deal, and that too much time has gone by without a deal. We are now in the 12th month of this war and there are still nearly 100 captives being held in Gaza.

It’s worth mentioning that Netanyahu has said – in the face of any sort of pressure, whether that’s domestic or international – that he’ll continue to prosecute the war however he sees fit, until “all of the goals” are achieved. He has repeatedly said that military pressure is the only way to ensure the release of the captives.

But family members of captives speaking tonight in Tel Aviv said military pressure has only killed the captives and not brought about their release. As time goes by, nearly a year later, there aren’t going to be that many captives left to save, and that’s according to Israel’s army chief.

Israel in panic mode; orders US Congress to force South Africa to drop ICJ case??



There are reports that Israel is panicking on the prospect of adverse rulings from the International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court and has activated its sell out members of the US Congress to exert pressure on the visiting South African foreign minister to withdraw his country’s case from the ICJ.

US Army Colonel Explains How Israel Lost the War (But Not How You Think)

US Army Colonel Daniel Davis joins the show to discuss how Israel has lost it's war in Gaza and how Netanyahu can never succeed by trying to kill his way to success. The hostages are not free, the Israeli people are protesting against Netanyahu and the entire international community is outraged against Israel and the United States for this war. If you want to understand the truth about Israel and Palestine this video is for you.

Palestinians return to Gaza City area after Israeli troops leave

Palestinians returned to Zeitoun, in the southern part of Gaza City, following the retreat of Israeli forces after a destructive incursion.

Khalil Murad said he barely got out alive. “We left under gunfire and missiles. Thank God we are still alive. Everything there has been destroyed. Dead bodies are all over the place there.”

Another resident, Samira Abu Negela, said that ethnic cleansing is Israel’s goal.

“I can’t understand the behaviour of the Israeli forces. There is no resistance in the area so why is it massively attacked and wiped out? The Israelis, if they can, would drop a nuclear bomb on Gaza. They want to get rid of all of us.”

Ahmed Awoda told Al Jazeera: “I used to have a tailor shop where I sewed people’s clothes. The Israelis destroyed my shop. Now I sell drinking water to people.”

_{People carry belongings as they walk through a debris-strewn street in the Zeitoun neighbourhood}

Israeli attack on Jabalia kills one, wounds several more

Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting that at least one Palestinian was killed and several others wounded after Israeli forces bombed a house in the Jabalia refugee camp in the north of the Gaza Strip.

The attack came after Israeli forces killed at least 21 Palestinians in the north of the Gaza Strip on Saturday.

Israeli air raid kills three in Nuseirat refugee camp

At least three people have been killed and others wounded in an Israeli attack on a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent reports.

Israeli forces blowing up buildings in Rafah

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that the Israeli military is blowing up residential buildings in the Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip.

Israeli forces are also bombing buildings in the al-Mawasi area, west of Rafah city, Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent added.

Some 23 Palestinian workers arrested at Israeli checkpoint near Ramallah

Israeli forces arrested 23 Palestinians trying to return to their workplaces in Israel at a checkpoint near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting, citing local sources.

Israeli settlers rush into Hebron’s Old City, backed by soldiers



Dozens of Israeli settlers – escorted by Israeli troops – entered the Old City of Hebron in the southern West Bank, forcing Palestinians to hastily flee the area.

Badr al-Daour, a merchant in the Old City, told Turkey’s Anadolu news agency that “the storming of Hebron by settlers aims to drive out the [Palestinian] residents”.

“When settlers come through the area, it means that life comes to a halt,” he said, adding that the incursions are marked by “violations, offensive language, thefts, and vandalism”.

“Despite the heavy military presence, life in the area of our ancestors and grandparents will not stop, no matter how much they try to create a hostile environment,” said al-Daour.




Settlers fire live rounds in attack on West Bank village

The Wafa news agency is reporting that dozens of settlers have attacked the village of Umm Safa, northwest of the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, and fired live bullets at Palestinians’ homes.

Marwan Sabah, the head of the village council, told Wafa that the settler raid occurred under the protection of the Israeli military. He said two young Palestinian men were wounded while trying to escape the settlers and were transferred to the hospital.

The attack on Umm Safa came as dozens of Israeli settlers – escorted by Israeli troops – raided the Old City of Hebron as well as Khalayel al-Louz, west of Bethlehem, according to Wafa.

Netanyahu plans ‘broad’ attack on Lebanon: Reports

Israel’s Channel 13, citing an unnamed senior official, reports that Prime Minister Netanyahu is planning to launch a major attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon soon.

Israel is “on the verge of a broad and strong operation on the northern front”, it quoted the official as saying. “No date has yet been set but it is expected in the near future,” the report said. Israel’s cabinet is expected to meet this week to discuss the situation.

The Kan public broadcaster reports that Netanyahu believes a full-scale war in Lebanon won’t diminish Israel’s military pressure on Hamas in Gaza. However, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant disagrees and has said forces will need to be redeployed from the war-battered Palestinian territory.

Rocket sirens activated across central, southern Israel

The Israeli military issued a post on X saying “rocket sirens are sounding across all central and southern Israel”. It also published a map showing dozens of red markers where the sirens were blaring.

The Israeli military has said the sirens that sounded in central Israel were set off by a “surface-to-surface missile” that crossed into Israel “from the east” and “fell in an open area”.

Nobody was injured, the military added in a post on X.

In an update on X, the Israeli military said a missile that “landed in an open area” in central Israel, was “launched from Yemen”.

“Explosive sounds heard in the last few minutes” were caused by Israeli systems intercepting the missile, the military added.

Missile from Yemen fell near Israel’s Lod: Report

Israel’s Ynet News is reporting that the missile fired from Yemen fell in an agricultural field near the central Israeli city of Lod.

Shrapnel from interceptor missiles also hit a train station in the city of Modi’in, causing damage, the outlet reported. The attack caused no casualties. But five people were “lightly injured” while rushing to take shelter, it reported.

Houthi spokesman says Israel’s air defences failed to intercept Yemeni missile

Nasruddin Amer, in a post on X, appears to claim the missile attack on central Israel earlier this morning, saying Israeli air forces shot 20 interceptors at the Yemeni projectile but failed to take it down.

“It’s the beginning,” the Houthi spokesman wrote.

“The air defences failed and the Yemeni missile reached, thanks be to God,” he said in a separate post. “Previously drones and now the missiles, all of which reached without any obstacles. The future holds much much more.”

Amer added that he was waiting for a statement from the Houthi armed forces.

Nine injured rushing to protected areas after missile lands near Tel Aviv

Medics say nine people were lightly injured while rushing to protected areas as sirens, triggered by a missile fired from Yemen which landed east of Tel Aviv earlier today, sounded.

The Israeli army reported that the missile landed in an open area, marking a rare instance of a projectile penetrating the country’s defences.


_{Responders put out a fire in the area of Lod, near Tel Aviv}

Houthis target Israeli forces with ‘hypersonic ballistic missile’

Yemen’s Houthi group says its forces carried out a “military operation targeting a military target” in Jaffa, using “a new hypersonic ballistic missile that succeeded in reaching its target”.

Houthis’ military spokesperson Yahya Saree has held a news conference, talking about a missile attack earlier today that penetrated Israel’s defences, which the Israeli army said landed in an open area.

Saree said the operation employed a new hypersonic ballistic missile, which could not be intercepted. According to Saree, the missile covered a distance of 2,040km (1,268 miles) in 11-and-a-half minutes, causing two million Israelis to flee to shelters “for the first time in the enemy’s history”.

He warned Israel of more significant operations as the first anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 attack approaches.

Israeli army says missile from Yemen ‘likely fragmented’ midair

It says in a statement the missile launched by the Houthis early on Sunday at Israeli territory “most likely fragmented in mid-air”.

Several interception attempts were made by the Arrow and Iron Dome Aerial defence systems, it said, with their “results” and the entire incident currently under review.

The army said fragments from the missile and interceptors were found in open areas and at the Paatei Modi’in railway station. It added that firefighters were working to extinguish a fire caused by the missile near Kfar Daniel.

Houthi missiles could be ‘a very big problem for Israeli air defences’

Omar Ashour, professor of security and military studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, says the weapon used by the Houthis to penetrate Israeli air space is “probably” a ballistic missile.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Ashour said such missile could have been detected earlier because it travels at a high altitude. The Israelis “probably missed that and that merits an investigation as to how the radars all missed it”.

Ashour added that another possibility is that the Houthis used a cruise missile that travels closer to the Earth or the water’s surface. But he said this was less likely.

“The ballistic missile would have more weight [than a cruise missile] in terms of its strike payload and its capability in terms of damage, and speed is usually on the side of the ballistic missile, because it comes down [to earth] very fast,” he said.

“If the Houthis have this type of technology of a hypersonic ballistic missile and we know that they are advancing fast in terms of range, precision, payloads, guidance systems and maneuvering … then it’s a very big problem for Israeli air defences.”

Drone attack reported in northern Israel

Israel’s Ynet News is reporting that a drone attack on northern Metula caused no casualties but damaged property there.

Hezbollah hits Israeli barracks with Katyusha rockets

The Lebanese armed group says it bombed the headquarters of the 188th Brigade’s armoured brigades in the Israeli Rawiya barracks with dozens of Katyusha rockets.

Fires in northern Israel amid rocket barrage

Israel’s military says some 40 projectiles launched from Lebanon crossed over into the Upper Galilee and the occupied Golan Heights earlier this morning. Some of them were intercepted, while the rest fell in open areas, it said on X.

“Firefighters are extinguishing fires that broke out following falls in the open areas,” it added.

_{Smoke rises near the Israel-Lebanon border after Hezbollah fired projectiles towards Israel}

Hezbollah claims more attacks on Israeli targets

The Lebanese group says it hit Israeli soldiers at the Matla site with a suicide drone. Another suicide drone targeted a “technical system” at the al-Malikiyah site and destroyed it.

Qassam Brigades says it hit Israeli military in southern Gaza

Hamas’s armed group says it targeted an Israeli military bulldozer with a shell in the al-Janina neighbourhood, east of Rafah in southern Gaza.

Earlier, we reported that Israeli forces were bombing buildings in al-Mawasi, west of Rafah city.

Gaza civil defence officer’s home targeted for the third time, children killed

An Israeli attack destroyed the home of Palestinian Civil Defence officer, Zaki Emad al-Din, in the Nuseirat refugee camp.

His daughter and one of his sons were killed in the attack, according to reports from our colleagues in Gaza. Fifteen people were wounded in the attack.

This marks the third time his home has been hit. In the first attack, his wife and other children were killed.

Israel has repeatedly targeted Nuseirat. Earlier this week, Israeli bombs struck a UN-run school where about 12,000 displaced Palestinians were sheltering, killing at least 18 people.

‘Five out of six bakeries in northern Gaza shut’

Kamel Ajjour, owner of a bakery in northern Gaza, says five out of six bakeries in the area have shut down due to Israel’s blockade on the entry of fuel and raw materials needed to produce bread.

“Our bakery is the only one still functioning in the area and is likely to close within a week if Israel continues to block the entry of fuel and essential supplies,” he told Anadolu Agency.

Ajjour also said that no fuel has been delivered to bakeries in northern Gaza for more than 10 days.

“The supply of critical ingredients such as flour, sugar, and yeast has been significantly reduced for nearly a month,” he was quoted as saying, warning of a severe crisis if his bakery also halted operations in northern Gaza.