A video from April 2024 showing humanitarian aid airdropped near a Gaza beach has been miscaptioned in online posts as footage of China delivering aid to Gaza in May amid an Israeli blockade that began in March.

Some E.U. states are calling for a full suspension of trade relations. Others are trying to distance themselves from the grisly images emerging from the enclave.

The president of the German-Israeli Society in Berlin has strongly criticized the far-right members of Israel's government for comments he says amount to calls for "ethnic cleansing" in Gaza. "My job to defend Israel is becoming more and more difficult because there are voices in the Israeli government which are totally unacceptable,

T hey are the leading extremists in the most right-wing government in Israel’s history: Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir are both West Bank settlers. They ran together on the same ticket in Israel’s most recent election,

Palestinians view Israel’s Gaza Strip settlement plans as a blueprint for their forcible expulsion from their homeland, and experts say the plans would likely violate international law.

During a three-hour televised interview earlier in May, Macron said Europe should consider sanctioning Israel over the humanitarian situation in Gaza, where hundreds of thousands are thought to be now facing starvation.

Right-wing politicians in Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition have vowed to topple the government unless he commits to reoccupying Gaza militarily.

Facing rising pressure over the acute suffering of civilians in Gaza, the British government is considering sanctions on two far-right ministers, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.

Having seen what war does … I simply have to do more than hold a sign at a demonstration,” said one veteran organizer.

Israel is committing another flagrant violation of international humanitarian law in Gaza, particularly the four Geneva Conventions of 1949