Israel-Palestine crisis

'Israel killed 75 of my relatives in a single strike'

Ibrahim Saleem Kishko, a Palestinian student at Dhaka Medical College, offers a window into the reality of life in Gaza.

Another year of devastation for the Palestinians

Violent clashes between settlers and Palestinians have resulted in multiple fatalities throughout 2024.

Symbolic gestures help, but the Palestine crisis needs concrete steps

The US must shed its pro-Israel bias to welcome peace

‘Ballots, not bullets, for Palestine’

Lt General Jebril Alrjoub, general secretary of the Palestinian National Movement FATEH, speaks to The Daily Star.

UNSC must act upon its call for Gaza truce

Israel’s continued attacks on Gaza a failure of world leaders

A long-overdue call for Gaza truce, but will Israel listen?

UNSC must find a way to urgently enforce it

Column by Mahfuz Anam: From largest open-air prison to 'greatest open-air graveyard'

Israel is using starvation as a weapon against the people of Gaza.

Israel must be stopped from invading Rafah

World must end Palestine genocide without further delay

‘The US and West must stop their misadventures in the Middle East’

Arab Parliament President Adel Al Asoomi in an exclusive interview with The Daily Star.

May 16, 2018
May 16, 2018

Hold Israel to account

We condemn strongly Israel for its brutal killing of 58 unarmed Palestinians. More than two thousand others have been wounded, and the casualty is mounting. They were protesting in Gaza against shifting the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, effectively recognising the annexation of the holy city by Israel.

January 7, 2016
January 7, 2016

For whom the bell tolls

Empathy, like all virtues, must have some application to the future. If we do not deeply feel the deaths we are apparently powerless to prevent, how would we be alert to the deaths we might put an end to?

January 4, 2016
January 4, 2016

UN Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestinian Territory resigns

UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, Makarim Wibisono, resigns as Israel never granted him access to the Occupied Palestinian Territory throughout his mandate.

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