7 October: One year of Israeli genocide in Gaza

Today marks one year since the start of the genocide unleashed by Israel on Palestinians in Gaza following Hamas's Al-Aqsa Flood operation on 7 October 2023, the deadliest attack on Israeli civilians and combatants in its history. For Israel's government, the conflict in Palestine begins on 7 October, but for Palestinians, it is only one bloody milestone in a century of brutal Israeli occupation.

7 October and the ensuing bloodbath should have changed the region and the world to impose peace in the Middle East. Instead, the major powers, the supposed guarantors of world peace in the post-WWII order, have either failed to end the war or have aided and enabled it. Western mainstream media added layers of obfuscation to what is a black-and-white story of 75 years of occupation, apartheid, and aggression, joining in the complicity as Israel unleashes untold suffering on Palestine, and now Lebanon.

The New Arab's journalism has sought to chart a clear unequivocal line, amplifying the effort to stop the war in the region and address its root causes, without which the Middle East will be stuck in a forever war mainly against its dehumanised civilians. In the process, we have worked to highlight the stories of health workers, rights defenders, journalists, aid workers, and everyone else pushing back against killing and suffering, Arabs, Jews and citizens of the world alike.

Read our special selection of new stories as we enter the second year of genocide, and articles we have curated from the outgoing year centering these crucial threads.