Israel’s war on Palestine did not begin after Oct. 7, but that day will forever be marked as a bloody turning point in history—not just for Israel and Palestine, but for the world.
A man pushes a bicycle along as he walks amid building rubble in the devastated area around Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital on April 3, 2024. Photo by AFP via Getty Images
Following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks, in which nearly 1,200 Israelis were killed and over 200 hostages captured, Israel’s scorched-earth assault on the Gaza Strip has wreaked a kind of devastation unseen in the 21st century. In the 12 months after Oct. 7—with unconditional political, financial, and military support from the United States—Israel has leveled Gaza and perpetrated a full-blown ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. In what has been referred to as “the most documented genocide in history,” Israel has displaced 90% of the population of the Gaza Strip, killing 41,900 Palestinians and wounding more than 97,300, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry (though research published in the journal Lancet notes that the real death toll is likely much, much higher). This is to say nothing of the violence, death, devastation, and displacement that has resulted over 75 years of Israel’s brutal occupation of historic Palestine and Palestinians’ resistance to the occupation.
Israel’s war on Palestine did not begin after Oct. 7, but that day will forever be marked as a bloody turning point in history—not just for Israel and Palestine, but for the world. From makeshift schools in Gaza’s refugee camps to neighborhoods in the West Bank raided by the IDF; from professional athletes protesting Israel’s genocidal war on Palestinians to mass marches for a ceasefire in Washington, DC; from students and labor unions fighting to disrupt the war machine to anti-Zionist Jews fighting to end the occupation; from Israel’s invasion of Lebanon to corporate media’s role in laundering and perpetuating the politics of genocide; you will find compiled on this page a living archive of all the original coverage TRNN has published since October 2023 related to Israel, Palestine, and anti-war and Palestine solidarity movements around the world.
Students, NGOs, and workers from over 200 unions across Spain waged a nationwide general strike to demand the Spanish government cut ties with Israel and end all forms of military aid.
Waleed Samer assisted The Real News with filming in the West Bank over the past year. Now forced to leave home by Israel’s violence, he hopes to study abroad.
Israel’s relentless bombing of Gaza has left nothing untouched—schools, hospitals, homes, and hundreds of mosques. Yet the faithful remain steadfast amid the rubble.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip speak frankly about the worst year of their lives, from the effects of bombing to lack of sanitation and rampant unemployment.
Before Oct. 7, these Palestinian workers from Gaza had jobs beyond the strip. Now Israel has stripped them of their work permits and trapped them in the West Bank.
Israel’s deliberate destruction of Gaza’s sanitation and healthcare infrastructure has left millions without clean water or waste disposal—the consequences are already dire, and could get much worse.
As UK government policies gradually infringe on the British public’s right to freedom of speech, thousands defiantly took to the streets of London this week to show solidarity with Palestinians and demand an end to the Israeli Occupation. Nadia Péridot reports on the ground from London.
Over 100,000 people filled the streets of Washington, DC, on Nov. 4 to demand a ceasefire and an end to US aid to Israel. TRNN was there on the ground.
‘They call us terrorists. Who planted terrorism? Wasn’t it they? As long as there is occupation there is no future for the people. There will be no future unless they let us live.’
From beatings to arbitrary arrests, Germany’s crackdown on all those who dare defy the country’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza targets everyone from Palestinian refugees to anti-Zionist Jews.
In the south of the Gaza Strip, families displaced by Israel’s bombing campaign must fend for themselves in tents without running water or electricity.
The Real News reports from the ground in DC, speaking with Palestinian Americans marching for their loved ones killed by Israel, and their allies who have hit the streets in solidarity.
“We, the people of Yemen, say to America, the Big Satan, that any actions and aggression will only increase our commitment and joy in achieving our goal of ending the aggression and siege on the people of Palestine.”
The Real News reports from Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm, where the IDF recently killed 14 Palestinians and destroyed a neighborhood, including a local school.
The theft of Palestinian land by Zionist settlers forces many Palestinians to turn to unregulated and dangerous electronic recycling factories in the West Bank as their only option for employment.
Student encampment organizers have shone a light on SOAS’s investments in companies that produce white phosphorus, an internationally banned incendiary weapon frequently used by the IDF.
Thousands of protesters demonstrated in Washington, DC, on Wed, Jul. 24, in protest of Netanyahu’s address to Congress amid Israel’s ongoing genocidal assault on Gaza.
By permitting Israel to compete at all, the Olympics are “sportswashing” the pariah country’s international image and helping to normalize the genocide in Gaza.
Israel’s systematic destruction of Palestinian schools and universities has not deterred teachers from teaching, or students from seeking an education.
Over 11,000 Palestinians have gone missing in Gaza since October 2023. Relatives don’t know if the missing are dead or alive, under the rubble, or in Israeli detention centers.
“Hospitals have become targets for the Israeli occupation and the Israeli army. Many hospitals have been destroyed… Doctors, nurses, and medical teams have been kidnapped from hospital premises.”
“There is no optimism,” one Gaza resident, Nusfat Modin, tells TRNN. “You can’t negotiate with these people. A deal, no deal—we have no hope. No one—ask anyone.”
“I’m here as an act of global Indigenous solidarity, and there are many, many people, many Indigenous nations across Turtle Island, that support the Palestinian people and their liberation struggle.”
“This decision only cuts off a few services to a single military unit, [so] we will not stop organizing. We will not stop protesting until all of our demands are met, which includes cutting off all Azure services and contracts with the Israeli government and military.”
Calling in from the Mediterranean Sea, Iara Modarelli and Leila Hegazy speak with TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez about the current status of the Global Sumud Flotilla and the critical days ahead.
We speak with five tech workers who have all been fired by Microsoft for protesting Big Tech’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. “The only way to stop our movement… is to end their complicity in the genocide.”
Including over 50 vessels, delegations from at least 44 countries, and activists, organizers, and people of conscience from around the world, the Global Sumud Flotilla is the largest maritime mission in history to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip.
“I, like many others, thought that working for Microsoft was the opportunity of a lifetime. I worked three years on Azure, not knowing that my labor was actively being used to facilitate the murder of my people.”
“We didn’t just lose the place, we lost our souls in this war. We lost our children, our learning. Our children’s future is gone. The place can be rebuilt, but what’s inside us will never go back to how it was.”
“I am asking everyone: use your voice, share the truth,” Mohamed Abu Tawila tells us from Gaza. “Call for the protection of civilians, and support… families getting food, water, medicine, shelter. We want life, safety, and a chance to live. Don’t forget us.”
Donald Trump’s plan for the US and Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan for Israel are both shaped by racist, colonialist worldviews that grant full rights and personhood to some while justifying the repression and extermination of others.
“There is a straight line between 1948 and 2025… What has changed is the style, but not the essence. And the essence is simple: Israel is a settler-colonial state. It used violence in order to take over more and more land… to limit and destroy [any] rights that Palestinians ever had.”
Palestinian activist Eman Abdelhadi explains the history of imperialist support for Israel’s colonial conquest of Palestine up to the current genocide, the Palestinian people’s steadfast resistance, and the urgency of global solidarity with their freedom struggle.
Redmond PD and Microsoft claim forceful arrests were necessary because protestors became “aggressive” and their action “threatened” others. “I was standing and filming 10 feet away the entire time,” TRNN’s Maximillian Alvarez says, “I saw nothing of the sort.”
“We’re getting close to where Israeli forces intercepted the Madleen,” says labor leader Chris Smalls from on board the Gaza Flotilla Ship Handala. “We could face the same fate of going to Israel’s prison… but we are well aware and we are ready.”
As he was being abducted by plainclothes ICE agents in March, Mahmoud Khalil told his wife Noor Abdalla to “call Amy,” his lawyer. In this exclusive interview, TRNN speaks to Amy Greer about receiving Abdalla’s phone call and the epic legal battle to free Khalil.
“This is a genocide happening, live streamed. And yes, you can see it online, you can see dead babies online, but we are actually holding those dead babies with our hands”
“We had this legislation come about because people were selling stolen Palestinian land inside synagogues… when you [turn] your synagogue into a place of crime, well then, people are going to protest in front of it.”
“I saw the protests at Columbia University. There were protests in solidarity with Gaza… Of course, when we [in Gaza] see all this, we feel a sense of pride and gratitude.”
“We will never understand what it feels like to be under constant bombing, under constant threat of displacement and murder, but we can understand a fraction of what the hunger feels like, and we can echo the emptiness of their stomachs and use that as our power and our advocacy.”
“If you look at the underlying goal of Zionism and Jewish supremacy, it is to get rid of the Palestinians… and to take as much land as possible. So, as horrible as [the war on Gaza] is, we are just [seeing] the fruition of all the dreams of… creating a state for Jews only.”
“I was born into the Zionist colony in Palestine, and an identity was imposed on me at birth, called Israeli identity. And this identity was fabricated… 14 years before I was born.”
“To fight antisemitism, we need to accurately identify it,” says Molly Kraft, a founding member of the Jews Say No to Genocide Coalition in Canada. “Too often, we’re failing.”
Anna Lippman of Independent Jewish Voices recounts her experiences traveling to the West Bank to defend Palestinian land and people from settler attacks.
The former Canadian human rights commissioner was forced to resign by a firestorm of controversy surrounding his support for Palestinian rights. Now he’s suing his critics.
Gaza has disappeared from nightly news and Sunday shows and no longer merits front page NYT coverage. It’s totally bipartisan and totally normalized mass death.
It’s been two weeks since ICE illegally abducted and jailed Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia University—and the future of free speech in America hangs on the outcome of his case.
Schumer has cancelled the tour for his new book, ‘Antisemitism in America,’ as the movement for Palestine surges following Israel’s slaughter of over 400 people in Gaza in a single night.
Disgusted by Democrats’ ongoing support for the genocide in Gaza, some Muslim and Arab American voters are embracing third-party candidates and community-based forms of political engagement.
Through police exchange programs, local and federal officials travel to Israel for training that advocates say further militarizes the police and exacerbates harm to marginalized communities.
Maura Finkelstein, a former tenured professor at Muhlenberg College, was fired for sharing a post by Palestinian poet Remi Kenazi on her Instagram story.
Detained at Israel’s Sde Teiman torture camp for a month in 2023, Rafik Hamdi Darwish Yasin offers testimony about his horrific experience in this exclusive interview.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has put at least 114 hospitals and clinics out of service, yet nurses and doctors vow to continue providing care under the worst conditions imaginable.
Rabbi Arik Ascherman speaks frankly on Jewish settlers’ assault on the West Bank, and how extreme the dehumanization of Palestinians has become in Israel.
Journalist Ruwaida Amer, who has produced numerous documentary reports from Gaza for TRNN, shares an honest portrait of her life and the lives of her fellow Palestinians in the midst of genocide.
Fake behind-the-scenes maneuvering, supposed electoral necessity: all cover to avoid the unseemly fact that Biden simply supports genocide in Gaza because he thinks it’s justified.
As leaders of Jewish institutions opt for the path of imperialism and war, everyday Jewish people must reach for the traditions of justice enshrined in our culture and faith.
Israel’s genocide has killed the parents or caretakers of at least 17,000 Palestinian children in Gaza, who must now find a way to survive the war without them.
With over a million people displaced by Israeli bombs, Lebanese society is rising to the occasion to provide shelter and food to those who’ve lost everything.
For Rabbi Brant Rosen, combatting Zionism in the Jewish community begins with building the mass movement for Palestine, rather than becoming entrenched in insular debates.
Countless Jewish progressives and youth have answered the call for solidarity with Palestine, and the community’s entrenched political, religious, and cultural institutions are determined to punish them for it.
Facing increased repression in North America as Israel escalates its genocidal assault on Gaza, organizers with the Palestinian Youth Movement and Labor for Palestine discuss how they’re adapting their methods of resistance.
Author Norman Solomon explains how images of the ongoing carnage in Gaza have exposed the horrors of war that the US worked to make invisible in the post-9/11 era.
Canada-based Israeli filmmaker and journalist Lia Tarachansky joins The Marc Steiner Show to discuss the dark forces shaping Israelis’ support for the occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
Israel has tried twice before to subdue Lebanon and failed. Despite stunning acts of terror and the assassination of Nasrallah, the resolve of the Lebanese people remains.
For decades, the Palestinian Farmers’ Union has used agriculture as a form of resistance, organizing to keep land in the hands of Palestinians in the West Bank.
The DNC showed how the ruling establishment and corporate media work together to curate a fantasy version of reality, especially when it comes to whitewashing the Biden-Harris Administration’s support for Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
In a letter to President Biden, seven major labor unions called for an end to US military aid to Israel, linking the genocide in Gaza to the flow of arms and funding from Washington.
After winning a historic strike in the auto industry and being among the first major unions to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, the UAW has emerged as a different kind of political player in the election.
Liano Sharon and two other activists dropped a banner at the DNC calling for an end to arms shipments to Israel. Their fellow delegates responded with violence.
The former member of the Weather Underground reflects on the 1968 Chicago DNC, when police rioted against anti-imperialists and socialists marching against the Vietnam War and racism.
From battles over permits to march routes, the city of Chicago has put up every obstacle to keep the March on DNC from delivering a pro-Palestine message within sight and sound of the convention.
The head of the Palestinian Olympic Committee explains how Palestinian athletes’ participation in the Olympics advances the Palestinian fight for self-determination.
Two activists, one Palestinian, and the other Israeli, spoke in Congress to offer a vision of reconciliation and peace in defiance of Netanyahu’s call to “finish the job.”
Within 12 hours, Israel bombed Beirut and assassinated the political head of Hamas. why is the media lauding Harris’ empathy-speak and appeals to ‘ceasefire negotiations’?
In an exclusive interview, Dave Zirin speaks with Fadi Deeb, the only Paralympian athlete from Gaza, about what it means for him to represent Palestine in this year’s Olympics.
For 63 days, students, faculty, and community members occupied UofT until a court injunction forced them out. Where does Canada’s pro-Palestine movement go from here?
At Labor Notes 2024, the labor movement showed it won’t abandon militancy, Palestine, or each other—as some cops who tried to arrest pro-Palestine protesters learned.
Arik Ascherman speaks on the work of Torat Tzedek, which works to assist Palestinian shepherds in protecting their land from settlers in the West Bank.
Jen Perelman’s unapologetically anti-Zionist, pro-Palestinian views have made her a potent challenger to incumbent Wasserman Schulz in the race for Florida’s 25th congressional district.
Nearly 300 Pro-Palestine activists with Jewish Voice for Peace blockaded entrances and occupied an intersection outside a Biden campaign fundraiser in Los Angeles.
In the face of threats of expulsion and termination, students and faculty are standing strong for Gaza. And they’ve got labor unions, First Nations, and community organizations on their side.
Despite prior warnings that an invasion of Rafah would be a ‘red line,’ Biden continues to ply Israel with weapons and funding for its genocide in Gaza.
As student encampments against western governments’ support for the Israeli genocide in Gaza spread around the world, so does the backlash. Where does the movement go from here?
As university administrations use students’ tuition dollars to crack down on student dissent and the Biden administration uses taxpayer dollars to fund Israel’s genocidal onslaught, student debtors and the Debt Collective led a direct action in Washington DC to say enough is enough.
Students organizing for divestment from Stanford, Indiana University, University of Michigan, and other schools share experiences and lessons from the ground.
Joining students at over 100 campuses and encampments on every continent, students, grad students, and faculty at the University of Michigan join the call for divestment.
Surgeons Osaid Alser and Simon Fitzgerald speak about supporting surgeons at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis—where mass graves of Palestinians massacred by Israeli soldiers have since been discovered.
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