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Global solidarity movements for Gaza have the potential to disarm Israel through BDS, but people must mobilise beyond empty words, urges Talal Abu Rukba.

Israeli airstrikes have ramped up in the last week - as the army prepares to seize control of Gaza City on the orders of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. At least 37 people were killed in Israeli attacks today, according to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry.

After nearly two years of war between Israel and the militant group Hamas, and more than 60,000 people killed in Gaza, momentum is building internationally for the recognition of a Palestinian state.

Palestinians in the West Bank are unable to mourn 31-year-old Awdah Hathaleen, while the Israeli settler who shot him walks free.

This political theatre is utterly absurd. One cannot meaningfully sanction settler violence while maintaining full diplomatic, economic and military support for a regime that is, by definition, a settler regime. The settler and the state are inseparable.

In a typical authoritarian overreach, Mahmoud Abbas and the PA appear to be lining up a successor Israel wants — and Palestinians don’t, writes Yara Hawari.

Christian Zionist groups, like the Israel Allies Foundation, are weaponising theology to justify Israeli policies of apartheid and the erasure of Palestinians.

‘What can be done?’ the European diplomat might ask me today. For a start, call a spade a spade. This is an apartheid regime carrying out a genocide on a captive population. End military assistance.

Join analysts, Tariq Kenney-Shawa from the Palestinian think-tank Al-Shabaka and Rowena Razak, historical consultant, as they unpack the shift in sentiment on Gaza and Israel’s recent attacks on Tehran.