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The Israeli government is facing what it calls a “public relations disaster” after a video surfaced showing soldiers torturing and sexually assaulting a Palestinian prisoner – a clear war crime under any legal system. Public outrage in Israel has focused less on the abuse itself and more on the leak. And the military’s chief prosecutor, who admitted leaking the footage, has been arrested and branded a traitor. The saga is yet another example of Israeli society’s unwillingness to confront what it has become.

The Israeli government is facing what it calls a “public relations disaster” after a video surfaced showing soldiers torturing and sexually assaulting a Palestinian prisoner – a clear war crime under any legal system. Public outrage in Israel has focused less on the abuse itself and more on the leak. And the military’s chief prosecutor, who admitted leaking the footage, has been arrested and branded a traitor. The saga is yet another example of Israeli society’s unwillingness to confront what it has become.

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s plan to anchor Gaza reconstruction in North Sinai signals both a humanitarian mission and a bid to expand Egypt’s economic and geopolitical reach

Only through a genuine national dialogue can the Palestinian people effectively grapple with the challenges of a rapidly changing region.

Israel and the Trump administration insist that the ceasefire is still in place. Dozens of residents in Gaza disagree.

In 1948, my family fled Palestine when Zionists took over. I pieced their story together from a box of letters and diary entries.

If the world is not held to account for the Gaza genocide, its memory will be buried, and from that silence, a brutal dystopia will rise, says Toufic Haddad.