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Illustrative photo of a crop-duster spraying agricultural lands with chemical agents. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Israel spraying herbicides inside Gaza violates int’l law, rights groups say

In an urgent letter to Israeli military officials, three human rights groups demand that Israel immediately stop spraying the dangerous chemicals into Gaza. The Israeli army is continuing to spray dangerous herbicides on agricultural fields inside the Gaza Strip, three years since +972 Magazine first reported on the practice. This week, three Palestinian and Israeli human rights…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man January 9, 2019

Palestinians wait at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip, after it was opened for two days by Egyptian authorities, May 11, 2016. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

‘Gazans need to be able to breathe and feel hope for the future’

It’s impossible to know just how much Israel will loosen its restrictions on goods and movement of people in Gaza as it negotiates with Hamas. What’s clear is that a new approach is needed. Israel and Hamas are in the advanced stages of negotiations over a ceasefire, according to numerous media reports, that, in exchange for an…

By Edo Konrad August 6, 2018

A Palestinian family sits in their destroyed home in the at-Tuffah district of Gaza City, which was heavily attacked during summer’s Israeli offensive, September 21, 2014. An estimated 18,000 housing units were destroyed or severely damaged, leaving more than 108,000 people homeless. (Photo by Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

IDF using Facebook to threaten to destroy Gaza family’s home

The army says Hamas built a tunnel under a six-story apartment building that houses the Hammad family, threatening to destroy it. Most of the family has already fled. The IDF is using Facebook to threaten to destroy the home of a Gaza family, claiming Hamas has built a tunnel directly underneath it. On August 10, Yoav Mordechai, commander…

By Edo Konrad October 30, 2017

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