Israel-Palestine crisis

'Israel killed 75 of my relatives in a single strike'

Ibrahim Saleem Kishko, a Palestinian student at Dhaka Medical College, offers a window into the reality of life in Gaza.

Another year of devastation for the Palestinians

Violent clashes between settlers and Palestinians have resulted in multiple fatalities throughout 2024.

Symbolic gestures help, but the Palestine crisis needs concrete steps

The US must shed its pro-Israel bias to welcome peace

‘Ballots, not bullets, for Palestine’

Lt General Jebril Alrjoub, general secretary of the Palestinian National Movement FATEH, speaks to The Daily Star.

UNSC must act upon its call for Gaza truce

Israel’s continued attacks on Gaza a failure of world leaders

A long-overdue call for Gaza truce, but will Israel listen?

UNSC must find a way to urgently enforce it

Column by Mahfuz Anam: From largest open-air prison to 'greatest open-air graveyard'

Israel is using starvation as a weapon against the people of Gaza.

Israel must be stopped from invading Rafah

World must end Palestine genocide without further delay

‘The US and West must stop their misadventures in the Middle East’

Arab Parliament President Adel Al Asoomi in an exclusive interview with The Daily Star.

October 19, 2023
October 19, 2023

Israel’s hubris will be its undoing

The increasing ferocity of Israeli attacks will only garner further support for Palestine.

October 16, 2023
October 16, 2023

The real dividing line in Israel-Palestine

The choice is not one hardline faction or the other; it is between fundamentalists and all those who still believe in the possibility of peaceful co-existence.

October 12, 2023
October 12, 2023

Western media’s ahistorical reporting around Palestine-Israel

While there are gruesome acts from both sides, this is not a war between equals.

October 11, 2023
October 11, 2023

What will follow Hamas’ war?

Israeli clarions are trumpeting vengeance. When they fall silent, introspection will follow.

February 6, 2023
February 6, 2023

Israel’s military capability should be neutralised

Israel spares neither children nor the elderly in its thirst for aggression and bloodshed.

June 24, 2022
June 24, 2022

'Israel’s actions are that of an apartheid regime. The only difference is that we are all brown.'

Dr Amal Jadou, Palestine’s deputy foreign minister, talks to Porimol Palma of The Daily Star about the decades long Palestine-Israel conflict, and the recent escalation of violence against the Palestinians.

April 12, 2019
April 12, 2019

Netanyahu win gives peace plan ‘better chance:’ Trump

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s election victory improved the chances of a forthcoming US peace plan, despite deep skepticism from the Palestinians.

March 26, 2019
March 26, 2019

Time to speak up for Palestine

On March 20, 2019, the UN Human Rights Council held an interactive dialogue with Michael Lynk, the UN Special Rapporteur on the

May 18, 2018
May 18, 2018

UN mulls sending international war crimes probe to Gaza

The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council to meet Friday for deciding whether to send international war crimes investigators to probe the deadly shootings of Gaza protesters by Israeli forces.

May 16, 2018
May 16, 2018

An effective shelving of the two-state solution

With the death toll mounting to 58 last Monday thanks largely to a trigger-happy Israeli military and smiles all around Tel Aviv and Washington the two-state solution is all but dead and buried. When President Trump decided to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, all pretence of a negotiated settlement was effectively thrown out the window and what is happening in Gaza today points to a mindset that