This year’s olive harvest in Palestine has been one of the most difficult in memory.

As the harvest season begins, attacks on Palestinian farmers and their land are spiralling. The words of peace following the Gaza ceasefire ring hollow, says Knesset member Ofer Cassif

Zaytoun’s olive oil and dates provide a tangible way to help Palestinians, says the business’s managing director

Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur for the occupied territories, calls for practical actions and warns against distracting ‘attention from where it should be: the genocide’

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Fatma Hassouna used poetry and photography to record the death and devastation she saw daily. Was she targeted by the IDF? We speak to the director of Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, a film about...

There has never been a more important time to highlight Palestinian food

Israel just submitted its latest objections to Hamas’s revised ceasefire proposal amid unprecedented international outcry over hunger in Gaza, as 27 Palestinians have died of starvation in the last…

Six months since Israel’s expanded military assault on the refugee camps of Jenin and Tulkarem in the northern West Bank, over 42,000 Palestinian refugees remain forcibly displaced and have no stable…

<article data-history-node-id="426635" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/more-6000-un-trucks-carryng-humanitarian-aid-remain-outside-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/more-6000-un-trucks-carryng-humanitarian-aid-remain-outside-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">More than 6,000 UN trucks carryng humanitarian aid remain outside Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>More than 6,000 UN trucks carryng humanitarian aid remain outside Gaza to be let in despite Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) chairman saying in a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres&nbsp;last week that he was willing to partner with them.</p> <p>"UNRWA has 6,000 aid trucks blocked outside Gaza, awaiting the green light to enter," Unrwa's Commissioner-General&nbsp;Philippe Lazzarini stated on social media platform X on Friday.</p> <p>The MEE reported last week that GHF chairman Johnnie Moore called on the UN to work directly with GHF to deliver "food at scale" on Monday but has not made good on his invitation.</p> <p>You can read more <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/unrwa-says-israeli-and-ghf-claims-over-un-aid-delivery-baseless">here</a>.</p> </div> </div> </article>

MSF official says Palestinians have no choice but to risk their lives in ‘desperate search for food’.

Israeli forces kill 12 Palestinian civilians seeking aid hours after US envoy Steve Witkoff visits Gaza.

<article data-history-node-id="426637" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/24-palestinians-killed-deadly-attacks-continue-saturday" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/24-palestinians-killed-deadly-attacks-continue-saturday" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">24 Palestinians killed as deadly attacks continue into Saturday</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Israeli military has conducted a series of deadly attacks in the early hours of Saturday morning, killing at least 24 people since dawn, including 13 aid seekers, according to Al Jazeera.</p> <p>South of Gaza City, Israeli soldiers opened fire on aid seekers, killing at least 12 Palestinians.</p> <p>Meanwhile, five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike targeting a residential building in central Gaza's az-Zawayda, while a separate strike west of the town killed one other person.</p> <p>A further three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike targeting a camp sheltering displaced people west of Khan Younis, a source at Nasser Hospital reported.</p> <p>Al Jazeera is also reporting that two more have been killed and 26 wounded by Israeli fire at an aid site near the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza.</p> </div> </div> </article>

UN agency warns of grave risk of famine as the number of starvation deaths hits 162 Palestinians, including 92 children.

More than 150 British food and drink brands have demanded prime minister Keir Starmer does more to pressurise Israel to 'end the starvation of the people of Gaza'

Suzie Bakos, Iraqi-born writer and supper club host, uncovers how Palestinian food carries the powerful stories of resistance and cultural preservation

A glimpse of life on the ground in Palestine July 2025