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93 articles about 71 events for “Gaza War Destruction” in Politics.
““We witnessed death, destruction, and bombardment that we had never known before,” said Walid Akram, a Gaza City resident who, like most in Gaza, has been displaced by the war.”
“The Associated Press Three years into the war, most of Gaza’s roughly 2 million Palestinians remain displaced, many living in tents amid widespread destruction and struggling with dire living conditions.”
“If civilian casualties and urban destruction alone establish genocide, then virtually every major modern war qualifies.”
“In Gaza, Netanyahu said Israel had conducted the “opposite of genocide” – despite the killing of more than 73,000 Palestinians, the destruction of much of Gaza, and the statements from Israeli politicians calling for mass killing in the Palestinian enclave…”
“His next words were: “What followed was an onslaught on Palestinians in Gaza,” with killing and destruction on a scale unlike anything he had witnessed as secretary-general.”
“A longtime critic of Israel’s military actions in Gaza, Mamdani has repeatedly condemned Netanyahu, calling him “a war criminal and an architect of a horrific genocide of the Palestinian people.””
“In the month after October 7, Kremlin-linked Telegram channels posted about the Israel-Gaza war 9,000 times and drew 865-million views, according to Aiken.”
“Nine days after the 11 September attacks, then US President George W Bush declared the "War on Terror".”
“So, too, the complacency of the post-Cold War world when America seemed so unassailable.”
“…through a corridor and suddenly find himself face to face with a prime minister, pause before a sculpture symbolising peace, read the words of a Persian poet written on a wall, and then rush outside to report on a protest against a war thousands of miles…”
“Trump has said the campaign is aimed at protecting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, against whom the ICC issued arrest warrants in 2024 alongside his then-defense minister and a Hamas military commander over the Gaza war.”
“… Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani told the United Nations General Assembly that the Gulf was going through "one of the most dangerous phases" in its recent history and that the Iran war was the result of cumulative years of postponing diplomatic…”
“Areas in war-devastated Gaza continue to be razed by Israeli bulldozers with “no respect for the dead”, the United Nations’ human rights chief has said.”
“The recovery of hundreds of bodies from the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes in Gaza that began nearly three years ago has raised fresh concerns about possible war crimes, the United Nations human rights chief said on Tuesday.”
“UN rights chief says uncovered remains in Gaza raise concerns of war crimes GENEVA – The recovery of hundreds of bodies from the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes in Gaza during the war that began nearly three years ago has raised fresh…”
“Civil defence crews and family members had spent weeks digging through the ruins of homes hit during Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza, which began in October 2023.”
“Israel prepared to remove Palestinians from Gaza if U.S. approves, defence minister says Officials describe move as 'voluntary' but Palestinians fear forced expulsion, which would be war crime Israel is waiting for U.S. approval to remove Palestinians from…”
“Calls for resettlement of Gazans have prompted fears among Palestinians of a new “Nakba”, the name given to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled or were driven from their homes in the wake of the 1948 war that accompanied the…”
“Guterres also said Palestinians in Gaza have faced a “massive loss of life, displacement and destruction,” without specifying their death toll.”
“Guterres also said Palestinians in Gaza have faced a “massive loss of life, displacement and destruction”, without specifying their death toll.”
“…s a plural noun.) This claim “I have never seen killing and destruction like Gaza in all my years as secretary general.” — UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Tuesday We say: Yes, 70,000 people (many terrorists) were reported killed in the Gaza war that…”
“Before the war, Gaza had roughly 2.2 million residents.”
“In at least three cases during the war, Gazan journalists said Hamas fighters beat them or threatened them after they reported on locals who blamed the terror group for bringing destruction to Gaza.”
“Despite Azaiza withholding the footage of the hostages being beaten as part of his coverage of the war, some of the hostages who were paraded around the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7 eventually spoke out about the ordeal.”
“Activists on the Israeli left believed that if Israelis were exposed to images from the already nearly deleted Gaza, they would head for the streets and call for a stop to the war.”
“For much of the war, Israeli media barely showed the Palestinian side of the story – the civilian casualties, the children killed, the destruction.”
“Senators Faruqi and Thorpe both sought to suspend parliamentary standing orders and force debate on motions relating to Gaza, with Faruqi accusing the Albanese government of failing to act through what she described as 'three years of genocide'.”
“Abbas’s office blamed Israeli restrictions and the widespread destruction in Gaza for the postponement, but the decision has angered Western governments who believe the Palestinian Authority desperately needs reform and renewal.”
“Since October 2023, Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed more than 1,700 Palestinian healthcare workers and destroyed nearly all the hospitals and healthcare facilities in the enclave.”
“A late-2025 Washington Post poll found that six in 10 believed Israel was committing war crimes in Gaza; four in 10 said the assault was genocide.”
“… four of five acts constituting genocide, as defined under the 1948 Genocide Convention, are being carried out against a national, ethnic, racial or religious group (here, by the state of Israel against Palestinians in Gaza) since the start of the war in…”
“Gaza has been left almost uninhabitable amid a wave of destruction that a UN commission of inquiry has concluded amounts to genocide.”
“…siders in the original film NAZA detail how an AI-assisted apparatus of mass surveillance was activated during the Gaza war, revealing the systems that were used to target Hamas operatives in the knowledge large numbers of Palestinian civilians would also…”
“…is named after Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian child who was killed by IDF forces in Gaza in Jan. 2024, and also pays homage to the anti-Israel protesters at Columbia University, who renamed Hamilton Hall “Hind’s Hall” when they took over the…”
“But a U.N.-appointed expert said in a February report that the scale of destruction of civilian housing and infrastructure in Gaza “is unprecedented even by the terrible standards of modern warfare since the 20th century.””
“The Tuesday statement draws attention to Israeli attacks on Palestinian medical workers, who have been targeted and detained during the country’s genocidal war on Gaza.”
“Katz warned that such a scenario would result in a “short and forceful war with a clear decision and a change in the reality” including “large-scale evacuation of residents and destruction of terror infrastructure inside the cities and in all refugee camps.””
“More than 74,000 Palestinians, many of them civilians, have been killed in the war in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health.”
“Gaza after three years As we near three years of the U.S.-Israel combine’s bloody war on Gaza — following Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, killing nearly 1,400 people — Gaza’s Health Ministry has confirmed that Palestinian death toll has…”
“But, in the lead-up to commemorations on Wednesday marking Hamas’ terror attack, leaders of Australia’s Palestinian community say the federal government should do more to help the diaspora suffering since the war on Gaza.”
“Globally, there is shock and condemnation over how Israel has conducted the war, and how Gaza remains in ruins and cut off from the world a year since the ceasefire.”
“Second, its more militant call for the destruction of Israel resonated with Gazans.”
“Al-Najjar appealed for an end to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, saying Palestinians were losing their loved ones every day.”
“Hamas officials defended the scheme as educational and disciplinary, while a Gaza-based human rights group warned it was fostering a 'military culture'.”
“According to Jamil al-Khalidi, the commission’s regional director in Gaza, the process faces logistical and security challenges because of the scale of destruction in the territory and the mass displacement that has occurred since Israel’s war started.”
“Gazans held elections and voted in Hamas, an Islamist movement whose charter quotes Hitler and calls for Israel’s destruction.”
“But he insisted that the Gaza war “fits that description and it is.”
“The record of Gaza after Israel’s withdrawal in 2005 offers a warning about what can happen when territorial sovereignty is placed in the hands of an armed movement committed to Israel’s destruction.”
““His call to ‘do there what we did in Gaza,’ where Israel has carried out a genocidal campaign of mass killing, starvation and destruction, is a public declaration of intent to commit war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide against Palestinians in…”
“The BoP, which US President Donald Trump launched earlier this year, was conceived to oversee the rebuilding of Gaza after nearly three years of Israel’s genocidal war on the Strip.”
“…lt particularly in economically moribund Tulkarem, where many families had relied on jobs inside Israel before Palestinian work permits were revoked after the Hamas-led attacks in southern Israel and the start of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza in October…”
“A day in the life of a pregnant woman in Gaza Sitting in her tent, warding off rats, Alaa watches videos of her three children, killed in an Israeli airstrike, on her cracked smartphone.”
“They included Palestinians and other Muslims, but also Jews, Christians, secular Americans, professors, artists and young activists, who all said they could no longer remain silent about the destruction in Gaza.”
“Hamas ready to implement Gaza roadmap Abbas’s comments came as Hamas accused Israel on Thursday of trying to derail a “ceasefire” and a process by the US-backed Board of Peace to end the war in Gaza.”
“Ten thousand October 7th-style attacks would be followed by ten thousand Gaza-style wars.”
“Gaza City – For three years, Palestinians in Gaza have lived with the destruction of their cities and displacement from their homes.”
“…l António Guterres, in his final address to the General Assembly (UNGA) as secretary-general, opened fire on Israel’s response in Gaza, describing it as "a scale of killing and destruction unlike anything I have witnessed in all my years as…”
“Jordan’s King Abdullah II attacked the Israeli government for “moving the goalposts”, for continuing attacks and the destruction of civilian infrastructure in Gaza, and for refusing to withdraw from the war-torn Palestinian territory.”
“…rganizations funded by pro-communist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham is taking to the streets from New York City to Austin, creating the image of rolling street unrest that lawmakers warn China can exploit to project a perception of chaos in the United…”
“They advocated on behalf of a slate of legislative initiatives related to Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, surging Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank, and efforts to use immigration law to stifle Palestinian advocacy in the US.”
“Without naming Israel, he added that what followed the Hamas attack of October 2023 “was an onslaught on Palestinians in Gaza, with a scale of killing and destruction unlike anything I have witnessed in all my years as secretary-general”.”
“Israel minister vows to force out all of Gaza City if any Israeli abducted Jerusalem – Israel’s defence minister threatened on Sept 22 to force out all of Gaza City’s residents and displace a million people in the war-ravaged territory if any Israeli is…”
“And, “a young generation’s first impression of the Jewish state has been formed by the destruction of Gaza.””
“They have this theological investment in war in the Middle East and this idea that Jesus won’t return until biblical Israel is restored, which is not just the West Bank and Gaza but large swaths of other countries.”
“Indeed, Israeli-seized documents show the French emissary claimed direct authorization from Macron to bypass the Palestinian Authority, remaining silent while Mashal — alongside Yahya Sinwar in Gaza — plotted the destruction of the Jewish state.”
“Israel’s war on Gaza has now killed nearly 300 journalists — more news gatherers than in both world wars, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan combined.”
“What has changed is that it has grown far more severe and open, escalating since the current far-right government took office in late 2022 and sharply after the start of the genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in October 2023.”
“The study does not downplay the devastation in Gaza, noting the tens of thousands of deaths and “widespread destruction of housing and critical infrastructure and the internal displacement of large proportions of the Gazan population.””
“Since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023, it has arrested at least 60 Palestinian journalists working in the occupied West Bank.”
“The Gaza Tribunal In response, Jeremy Corbyn decided to hold a public tribunal in the tradition of the Russell Tribunal organised by the great British philosopher Bertrand Russell in 1966 to investigate US war crimes in Vietnam.”
“By adopting frameworks that obscure Israel’s decades-long military occupation, its blockade of Gaza, and its apartheid policies, Western media normalized war crimes and helped maintain the illusion of Israel’s perpetual victimhood.”
“Iran in Iraq, as well as its larger proxy groups Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen.Human Rights Watch says Houthi attacks on ships likely constitute war crimes The Iran-backed Houthi rebels' latest attacks on commercial vessels in…”
“Trump said the conflict in Gaza was all but over after he “put out the fires”, and that Iran was two weeks away from obtaining a nuclear weapon when the US and Israel began the war in February.”
“Britain will also be excluded from the US-led Gaza coordination mission.”
“Under Netanyahu’s ultranationalist government, settlement construction in the West Bank — seized by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war — has surged.”
“Rights campaigner Westbrook highlighted Israel’s blockade on Gaza, which prevents medicines and prosthetics from entering the Gaza Strip following Israeli destruction of the territory’s medical facilities.”
“President Trump’s pair of peace pushers previously spent about three hours with Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Saturday and expressed hope that they could get a deal going as both warring countries brace for a brutal winter.”
“Wars in Afghanistan and especially Iraq revealed the limits of western military power and undermined trust in governments that either imagined or invented weapons of mass destruction.”
“Follow updates on the war in the Middle East for Monday, Aug. 7, here.”
“In reality, they are reciting the half-century-old psychological warfare drafted in Moscow.”
“The war did not continue long enough for a comprehensive Plan C to come to fruition on the ground, with the Israeli military beginning to strike railways and manufacturing infrastructure, and Trump taking the lead on calling for the destruction of Iran’s…”
“Israel has built about 160 settlements housing 700,000 Jews since it occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem - land Palestinians want, along with Gaza, for a hoped-for future state - during the 1967 Middle East war.”
“The focus of the discussion was reportedly US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza, which the Israeli leader rejected last week after Hamas accepted it.”
“The war in Lebanon has killed over 4,000 people, according to the country's health ministry, and caused widespread destruction across the south.”
“Israeli strikes kill two in Gaza and destroy warehouses storing medicine NYC Mayor Mamdani calls Israel's Netanyahu a 'war criminal' but admits he can't act on ICC arrest warrant "We expect the mediators and the U.S. guarantor to press Netanyahu and his…”
“While the United States president has been a disappointment to Arab Americans in Michigan with his pro-war and anti-immigration policies, she stressed that it was untenable for the community to vote for Democrats as Israel’s genocide unfolded in Gaza.”
“Lebanese officials are also expected to call for an end to Israeli demolitions, bulldozing operations and home destruction in the south, warning that continued military activity could undermine the framework agreement and risk renewed escalation.”