Israel-Palestine

Women’s rights advocates and UN organizations brief the UN Security Council on the main issues and challenges on the implementation of the women, peace and security agenda.

It is there in the charged rhetoric from both sides of the conflict unfolding in Israel and Gaza, just as it can be found in the language of clashes around the world: old tropes and name-calling that seek to paint whole groups of people as somehow less than human.

Why are Oxfam and other humanitarian organisations not welcoming calls for corridors, pauses and so-called “safe zones” to address the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza? Richard Stanforth and Magnus Corfixen explain – and set out why a ceasefire is the only credible solution.

When a state chooses to call its foreign policy “Feminist,” it must be held accountable to feminist values.

What have we learned from this conflict so far, and what can we expect to learn from it as it drags on?

If the Israeli military achieves its stated objective of getting Hamas out of the Gaza Strip, it leaves the area leaderless. Who could take control once the fighting ends?

Iran’s direct involvement in the war is a nightmare scenario that would mark the transformation of the current conflict into a regional conflagration.

Annette Young talks to Dr Yael Braudo-Bahat from Israel’s Women Wage Peace and Palestinian activist, Nivine Sandouka, from the Alliance for Middle East Peace; both are calling for an immediate end to the bloodshed.

Opinion by Maria Lucia Uribe