(2026-02-02). Wisconsin: Stand for Peace! Stop ICE! Free Palestine! U.S.: Hand Off of Iran and Venezuela! (City Listings) Feb. 1-8, 2026. wibailoutpeople.org 
ICE Out protest at UW Madison January 30, 2026. | Photo:
(2026-02-02). Barcelona Protest Unfurls Giant Portrait of Gaza Child Hind Rajab. thinktank.pk Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Barcelona to honor Hind Rajab, a young Palestinian child killed alongside her family during the war in Gaza. Protesters unfurled a massive 1,000-square-metre portrait while chanting pro-Palestine slogans, as Hind's mother addressed the crowd in an emotional tribute. The protest comes amid a fragile US-brokered ceasefire in Gaza, with Palestinian …
(2026-02-02). Friday 2/6: Virtual Action Hour for Palestine. indybay.org Zoom | afsc.org/events/action-hour-palestine…
(2026-02-02). Sunday 2/15: VFHL Online Film Salon: "Say What?? Responding to Israel/Palestine Disinformation" indybay.org
(2026-02-02). Israel 'bombs school', kills child in latest Gaza truce breach. newarab.com 
An Israeli forces also opened fire in the eastern parts of Juhr ad-Dik at dawn on Monday, as some injured Palestinians prepared to leave the enclave via the recently reopened Rafah cros…
(2026-02-02). Gaza reconstruction; Ukraine reconstruction — 'It's all business'. strategic-culture.su Everything is 'business' in Trump's geo-politics. | Join us on , , and . | Contact us: | Over the past two weeks, two important messages…
(2026-02-02). LIVE: Wounded Palestinians prepare to leave Gaza as Israel opens Rafah. aljazeera.com Rafah crossing will reportedly operate for six hours a day and allow only 150 patients to exit into Egypt for care.
(2026-02-02). Gaza: Severe winter conditions compound humanitarian crisis for displaced Palestinians. icrc.org
(2026-02-02). Thursday 2/5: Power Half Hour for Gaza. indybay.org Zoom | http: //jvp.org/gazaph…
(2026-02-02). Saturday 2/14: Love in the Time of Intifada: A Fundraiser for Gaza Students. indybay.org The Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley.
(2026-02-02). Israel reopens Gaza Rafah border crossing but with strict limits. newarab.com 
Israel But the Israel and Egypt were expected to impose caps o…
(2026-02-02). Israel Forcing Doctors Without Borders To Shut Down Gaza Operations by February 28. news.antiwar.com Israeli authorities have ordered the international medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to cease all operations in Gaza by February 28 as Israel continues to impede humanitarian relief efforts inside the Palestinian territory. Israel said that it was shutting down MSF's operations in Gaza due to its refusal to turn over the identities of its …
(2026-02-02). ICRC president: States must harness momentum to improve Gaza's dire humanitarian situation in next phase of ceasefire. icrc.org The following is a quote attributable to ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric on the urgent need to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
(2026-02-02). Israel Reopens Gaza's Rafah Crossing to Egypt, but Restrictions Remain. moderndiplomacy.eu Israel reopened the Rafah border crossing to Egypt on Monday, allowing Palestinians to leave Gaza on foot and enabling those who fled during the war to return. The reopening comes nearly nine months after Israel seized control of the crossing during its military offensive in Gaza. Israeli authorities and Egypt are expected to impose limits …
(2026-02-02). IDF blocks Palestinian Bedouins from rebuilding their West Bank homes burned by Israeli settlers. haaretz.com Bedouin residents of Mukhmas arrived Sunday to rebuild homes torched by settlers but were stopped by Israeli soldiers, who said the area was a closed military zone. When asked about an Israeli man who photographed the houses, a soldier responded, 'He can do whatever he wants'…
(2026-02-02). Madison, Feb. 7, 2026: "No Appetite for Apartheid!" wibailoutpeople.org 
No Appetite for ApartheidEntertainment & dinnerSaturday, February 76: 30 p.m. — 7: 30 p.m.James Reeb Unitarian UC, 2146 E. Johnson St, MadisonWith Madison area DSA. The goal of the No Appetite for Apartheid campaign is to make Madison a more ethical place to shop by removing all grocery items complicit in the violence against Palestinians. "Shop ethically" …
(2026-02-02). Netanyahu Government Ban on Haaretz Is Unlawful, Attorney General Tells Israel's Top Court. portside.org Netanyahu Government Ban on Haaretz Is Unlawful, Attorney General Tells Israel's Top Court |
(2026-02-02). Netanyahu meets Israeli defense officials amid Iran tensions as Trump pushes nuclear deal. haaretz.com
(2026-02-02). Netanyahu pushes appointment of criminal suspect to head PM office. haaretz.com Netanyahu's request to formalize Drorit Steinmetz as director general of the Prime Minister's Office, even though she is a suspect in an active criminal investigation, adds to a growing list of investigations involving close associates of the prime minister…
(2026-02-02). Deni Avdija to make history as first Israeli NBA All-Star. haaretz.com The Portland Trail Blazers forward, enjoying the best season of his career, was not named to the All-Star starting lineup despite finishing with 2,202,605 votes — ahead of players including LeBron James and Kevin Durant — but was chosen as a reserve by the league's coaches…
(2026-02-02). South Africa expels Israeli envoy. ummid.com South Africa has expelled Israel envoy in the country Ariel Seidman.
(2026-02-02). The Iranian Protests Explained. counterpunch.org 
In this interview, international relations scholar Stephen Zunes and Middle East historian Lawrence Davidson help to unpack the Iranian protests and explain their relevance within the context of U.S. and Israeli national interests. Daniel Falcone: Jeffrey St. Clair of CounterPunch, recently cited filmmaker Jafar Panahi's insistence that change in Iran must come from the will of
(2026-02-02). Harari deconstructs the Israeli Narrative from within. juancole.com by ( Yet Yuval Noah Harari—neither a politician nor an agent of state power, but a globally respected social thinker—has done precisely that. He argues that the Israeli—Palestinian conflict is no longer a dispute over land, but over the moral certainties each side…
(2026-02-02). Father of Hassan Nasrallah, Abdul Karim Nasrallah, dies. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – Abdul Karim Nasrallah, father of the late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, passed away, local media reported on Monday.Lebanese media outlets said that Abdul Karim Nasrallah, the father of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who died in an Israeli strike on Lebanon on Sept. 27, 2024, died.Abdul Karim Nasrallah is a Lebanese figure from the south, born in Bazouriyeh near Tyre. He grew up in humble circumstances, working in the fruit and vegetable trade.
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(2026-02-02). DIRCO declares Israeli Chargé d'Affaires Persona Non Grata. sanews.gov.za DIRCO declares Israeli Chargé d'Affaires Persona Non Grata | The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) has informed the Government of the State of Israel of South Africa's decision to declare the Chargé d'Affaires of the Israeli Embassy, Mr Ariel Seidman, persona non grata. | In a statement issued on Friday, DIRCO said the decision follows a series of unacceptable violations of diplomatic norms and practice that pose a direct challenge to South Africa's sovereignty. | "These violations include the repeated use of official Israeli social media platforms to launch insulting attacks against H…
(2026-02-01). Preparations underway for full reopening of Rafah crossing, officials say. al-monitor.com By Maayan Lubell and Nidal al-MughrabiJERUSALEM/CAIRO Feb 1 (Reuters) – Preparations to reopen Gaza's main border crossing in Rafah were underway on Sunday though it was uncertain any Palestinians would pass through it before the day's end, Israeli and Palestinian officials said. Before the war, the Rafah border crossing with Egypt was the only direct exit point for most Palestinians in Gaza to reach the outside world as well as a key entry point for aid into the territory. It has been largely shut since May 2024.
(2026-02-01). Crossings as a weapon of war: how Israel strangled Gaza via blockade. thecanary.co 
Although Gaza is only a few kilometres away from the rest of the world, its inhabitants live in suffocating isolation, controlled by decisions rather than borders. This isolation is measured by the permits granted or denied and by the gates opened and closed according to the balance of military power. The crossings, which were supposed […] | By