Muhammad al-Salak had lost his three children in a 2014 massacre.

My mother died when I was born in 2004, during Israel’s attacks on Gaza. I feared I would face a similar fate.

My village is a part of me, and Israel is killing it.

Genocide court case attests to rising international pressure.

Israeli finance minister and former Republican presidential candidate talk up ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

Israel has engineered a public health crisis.

Settler construction is unprecedented since second intifada.

Why are older people being targeted?

Concerns raised over what a third term for Narendra Modi would mean for the country amid rising Hindu-Muslim tension

India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has cut a confident figure in recent weeks. As his Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) swept three major state elections in December, Modi did not hold back from predicting that “this hat-trick has guaranteed the 2024 victory”.

It was a sign that with less than six months to go before the general election, in which Modi will be seeking a third term in power, campaign season has begun with gusto.

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No joy on New Year's Eve in Gaza.

Abdaljawad Omar analyzes the emergence of Zionism.

We will never lose hope.

Israel is denying the right to education.

A family is forced to leave their home but can find no safety.

Palestinian human rights groups welcome “principled move” and encourage expedited proceedings.

Elham Farah, 84, was shot by a sniper and left to bleed to death in the street.

A doctor describes the intolerable conditions at Nasser Medical Complex, southern Gaza.

Most of Gaza health system “decimated and brought to its knees,” says World Health Organization.

 I am still distressed by my evacuation.

Exclusive: Study published in 2019 used blood and saliva samples from 203 Uyghur and Kazakh people living in Xinjiang capital

Concerns have been raised that academic publishers may not be doing enough to vet the ethical standards of research they publish, after a paper based on genetic data from China’s Uyghur population was retracted and questions were raised about several others including one that is currently published by Oxford University Press.

In June, Elsevier, a Dutch academic publisher, retracted an article entitled “Analysis of Uyghur and Kazakh populations using the Precision ID Ancestry Panel” that had been published in 2019.

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