Yet another US strike killed dozens of civilians in #Yemen after hitting a migrant detention center in Saada yesterday. Strikes over the last month have shown a drastic uptick in civilian harm, and a callous disregard for civilian life. More here: hrw.org/news/2025/04/2…

Jordanian authorities have forcibly evicted and demolished homes and shops in an informal Palestinian refugee camp in Amman without adequate consultation, notice, compensation , relocation assistance, or means of redress hrw.org/news/2025/04/2…

Mohsen Mahdawi is free. He should never have been detained. The judge referenced cases from the 1950s and the specter of McCarthyism, saying this was “not our proudest moment.” nytimes.com/2025/04/30/nyr…

The US should repeal the Alien Enemies Act. The Trump administration has utilized the act as a vehicle for its attempted end run around basic due process and human rights protections. hrw.org/news/2025/05/0…

Street vendors need workers rights. Like other informal workers, they usually lack access to social security systems and labour protections and there is a lack of accountability for violence committed against them. hrw.org/news/2025/05/0…

📣 Exciting news! We're proud to announce that our film, Swept, on unhoused people being criminalized in Los Angeles, has been nominated for an Emmy in the Outstanding Short Documentary category!

In Gaza, an entire population is being starved. They could be reached - there are hundreds of trucks waiting to go in, currently denied entry. Women, children, families, living crammed together in unsanitary conditions, and facing dozens on airstrikes everyday:

NY Times investigation shows that multiple Israeli soldiers fired for six minutes at unarmed emergency workers in Gaza who never posed a threat—even as they prayed for their lives. Utterly horrific. nytimes.com/video/world/mi…

Mohsen Mahdawi speaks out: "The American government accuses me of undermining U.S. foreign policy, a patently absurd pretext for deportation for political speech that the Trump administration dislikes." nytimes.com/2025/05/02/opi…

NEWS | Israel Issues Demolition Orders for 106 Homes in West Bank Camps—Residents Arrested as They Rush Back to Retrieve Belongings On May 1, the Israeli military issued demolition orders for 106 Palestinian-owned homes in the Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps, stating

SCOOP: NYU Law has barred 31 pro-Palestine students from campus & demanded they renounce their right to protest in exchange for being allowed to return & take final exams. The shifting policies, a professor said, are “a complete violation of campus norms.” theintercept.com/2025/05/03/nyu…

"Malnutrition has had knockdown effects on the entire medical system." "Burn victims from Israeli bombardment are unable to obtain enough food for skin grafts to heal." "At Al-Shifa Hospital, the head of nephrology, Dr. Ghazi al-Yazji, helplessly watches patients wither."

This is one of the main villages you saw in No Other Land. Today it was destroyed by the Israeli army.

New video: Alaa's mother, Laila Soueif, has returned to Cairo to visit him prison.

The Alien Enemies Act doesn’t belong on the books in 2025, my colleague Akshaya Kumar in JURIST argues the law offers a convenient excuse to circumvent due process, which President Trump is leveraging to supercharge his mass deportation machine. jurist.org/commentary/202…

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.'