Human Rights Glance
France is moving to deport prominent Egyptian-Palestinian activist Ramy Shaath over his opposition to Israel's genocide in Gaza.
Shaath, a political campaigner and human rights defender, was released from arbitrary detention in Egypt in January 2022 following pressure from French President Emmanuel Macron.
A key figure in the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings, he now faces expulsion from France on the grounds that he poses a “serious threat to public order”.
He is due to appear before a deportation committee on 21 May, after which the local prefecture "may immediately issue a deportation order that can be enforced at any time", according to his lawyer, Damia Taharraoui.
A notice by the Nanterre prefecture and seen by AFP cited Saath's activism and comments in support of Palestinians as factors in his deportation.
France moves to deport prominent Palestinian-Egyptian activist over criticism of Israel
Full list of Israel's ceasefire violations in Gaza, seven months on
More than seven months have passed since a US-mediated ceasefire was announced with the stated aim of ending Israel's two-year genocide in Gaza.
Yet Israel has continued to carry out near-daily strikes and violations of the agreement, albeit at a lower intensity than before the truce.
The humanitarian crisis caused by the war has also persisted, with Israel maintaining a tight siege on the Palestinian enclave.
The Israeli military has justified some of its violations by accusing Palestinian factions of breaching the ceasefire.
However, many of those killed, displaced or arbitrarily detained over the past seven months have been civilians, including children.
With the first phase of the agreement still not fully implemented by Israel, the US has so far failed to advance talks towards the next stage, which was meant to include the disarmament of Palestinian armed groups, the deployment of international stabilisation forces, reconstruction in the strip and a full Israeli withdrawal.
The lack of progress has raised fresh doubts over the future of the fragile ceasefire, as Israel continues to mass forces near Gaza and threatens a renewed assault on the strip.
Middle East Eye breaks down the main Israeli breaches of the ceasefire so far.
Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe, explained
It's a date inked in infamy for generations of Palestinians.
Each year, on 15 May, millions mark the Nakba, or catastrophe, which refers to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Zionist militias to make way for the creation of Israel in 1948.
In a premeditated military campaign, Zionist forces killed thousands of Palestinians, destroyed hundreds of villages and forcibly expelled 80 percent of the Palestinian population from their homeland.
After more than a year of relentless violence, the newly created State of Israel captured 78 percent of historic Palestine.
The remaining 22 percent, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, were occupied by Israel 19 years later and remain under Israeli military rule.
Britain must be held accountable for its colonial legacy in Palestine
Right now in the West Bank, Palestinians live under Israeli military law. They can be detained without charge, tried in military courts with conviction rates above 96 per cent, and subjected to emergency regulations that put the occupying power beyond any real legal challenge.
Their Israeli neighbours live under civil law. Two populations, two legal systems, one territory. It’s an arrangement most people would call unjust. What most people don’t know is that Britain designed it.
During 30 years of British rule over Palestine, we created the legal architecture that still operates today – the emergency powers, the military courts, the collective punishment, the dual legal system. We built it. And when we left in 1948, we didn’t dismantle it. It was picked up and carried on.
This is all laid out, in painstaking detail, in a 400-page legal petition put together by leading KCs and historians. The evidence is taken overwhelmingly from Britain’s own archives. It is our records that tell the story – and the story is damning.
The petition was submitted to the government by the Britain Owes Palestine campaign more than six months ago. There has yet to be a government response.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on Nabka Day
Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.
Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.
Nakba Day: Muhammad Shehada on Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & Ongoing Palestinian Resilience
Palestinians around the world are marking Nakba Day, 78 years after their forced mass displacement led to the establishment of the Jewish-majority state of Israel. Decades later, Palestinians still face widespread oppression and violence from the Israeli state as it continues its expansionary project. “Israel tried, since 1948 until today, to destroy us as a people, as a group, and they failed at it.
Our people are still there, resilient,” says Palestinian writer Muhammad Shehada, who was born in Gaza and now lives in Denmark. Shehada discusses the ongoing process of the Nakba, including its latest intensification after October 7, 2023. “Now this veneer of civility has fallen off. The mask was taken off. And now it’s a matter of national pride in Israel to brag about annihilating Palestinians.”
Shehada also describes current conditions in Gaza — still under Israeli blockade and occupation — and what he calls the “disarmament trap” of unfairly weighted negotiations designed to strip Palestinians of political autonomy. “The 'realistic' proposal that Israel is putting on the table is surrender, capitulate, become fully defenseless, weaponless, and entrust the very army that carried out a genocide against you to be merciful towards you once you are an easier target than you ever were before.”
Finally, he responds to the Israeli government’s recent threat to file a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times, after the paper published a column by longtime opinion writer Nicholas Kristof about systemic sexual abuse against Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. “It’s the newspaper of record. It’ll be spread and disseminated widely to an American audience,” says Shehada about the allegations levied in Kristof’s piece. “So we see, basically,https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/15/muhammad_shehada_nakba_day_gaza_palestinians an Israeli panic attack in return.”
Transcript
AMY GOODMAN: Today, Palestinians in Gaza and around the world are commemorating what Palestinians refer to as Nakba Day. Nakba means “the catastrophe” in Arabic. It was 78 years ago that some 750,000 Palestinians were violently displaced and dispossessed from hundreds of towns and villages in Palestine, thousands more killed, during the creation of the state of Israel. In Gaza, Palestinians marked the grim anniversary amidst reports that Israel dramatically increased its attacks on Gaza during April, despite a U.S-brokered ceasefire last October. In the occupied West Bank, UNICEF, the United Nations Children Fund, said Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed 70 Palestinian children since early last year, amounting to around one child killed per week. Another 850 children were injured by Israeli attacks during this past year.
The UN Marks 78th anniversary of the Nakba
The Division for Palestinian Rights (DPR) invites colleagues to the commemoration of the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, organized by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. Please find information below from the Committee on the event:
On 15 May 2026, the UN Palestinian Rights Committee will convene an event marking the anniversary the Nakba to continue drawing attention to this tragic historical event and the enduring plight of the Palestinian people, as requested by the General Assembly (GA Res 79/82 of 3 December 2024, OP 6). The Committee special meeting will be held at the ECOSOC Council Chamber from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The event will revisit the historical context of the Nakba and the events of 1948 and examine the ongoing manifestations of dispossession and displacement. It will highlight how these developments have been experienced by the Palestinian people and implemented on the ground.
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