Palestinians at the site of a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 18, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Six months of this cruel nightmare

Is the destruction in Gaza beyond repair? Will our friends try to start anew elsewhere? How will we get used to life without the places we love?
By Ruwaida Kamal Amer
Smoke rises after Israeli airstrikes in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, December 28, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza

The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight.
By Yuval Abraham
Conscientious objector Ben Arad, April 1, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

Israeli teen jailed for refusing draft

Ben Arad is the third conscientious objector imprisoned since Oct. 7. He tells +972 why Israel’s assault on Gaza propelled him to act.
By Oren Ziv
Palestinians at the site of a destroyed home from an Israeli air strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 22, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Even without UN veto, Gaza remains hostage to American power

The downplaying of a ceasefire resolution shows why the world can no longer look to Washington as the arbiter of a rules-based order.
By Samer Badawi
Screening of ‘No Other Land’ in At-Tuwani, Masafer Yatta, occupied West Bank, March 14, 2024. (Oren Ziv)
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In Masafer Yatta, our camera can be stronger than the bulldozer

At a screening in At-Tuwani, we realized our film is showing our people how we are fighting for change.
By Hamdan Ballal Al-Huraini
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An Israeli tank seen near the Israel-Gaza fence, southern Israel, January 21, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
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By Meron Rapoport March 29, 2024
Ramadan decorations at the European Hospital near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, March 2024. (Ruwaida Kamal Amer)
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Students seen at the "Mount Scopus" campus at Hebrew University on the first day of the opening of the university year, October 23, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
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The suspension of Palestinian professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian empties all meaning from the university’s proclaimed values of pluralism and equality.
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A Palestine solidarity demonstration in the Potsdamer Platz area, Berlin, October 15, 2023. The police suppressed the demonstration shortly after authorizing it.
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As repression of Palestine solidarity penetrates every sector of life, the state's liberal self-image is fast becoming a story Germans can only tell themselves.
By Michael Sappir March 21, 2024
Ministers and MKs dance during the 'Victory Conference' for the resettlement of Gaza at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, January 28, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
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The mantra of national unity has abetted the Israeli right’s sense of historic victory. But much of the public appears to be realizing some hard truths.
By Meron Rapoport March 20, 2024
Israeli settlers attempt to establish a new outpost in response to the killing of two settlers the night before, near the illegal settlement of Itamar, occupied West Bank, October 2, 2015. (Yotam Ronen/Activestills)
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Despite their narrow focus, recent international sanctions against settlers are laying the foundations to turn verbal condemnations into tangible action.
By Ori Kol March 19, 2024
Palestinians seen at the port of Gaza City, June 13, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)
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While aid is desperately needed, critics warn the U.S.-led plan evades the fundamental cause of Gaza’s starvation: Israel’s total control of the Strip.
By Samer Badawi March 16, 2024
Palestinians walk amid the rubble of Shuja'iya, northern Gaza, February, 2024. (Mohammed Hajjar)
‘We scream, starve, and die alone’: Life in the ruins of Shuja’iya
Israel’s month-long invasion of the Gaza City neighborhood left behind a trail of devastation. Still under siege, its Palestinian residents are risking death to get their hands on a bag of flour.
By Mahmoud Mushtaha March 16, 2024
Palestinians at the site of Israeli airstrikes in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, February 12, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
With no safety in Rafah, Palestinians are fleeing back to Gaza’s decimated center
Escalating attacks, unlivable conditions in tents, and a looming Israeli invasion are forcing many Palestinians to abandon the Strip's last refuge.
By Ruwaida Kamal Amer and Ibtisam Mahdi March 14, 2024
Jews march within a large rally for a ceasefire in Gaza in central London, November 11, 2023. (Alisdare Hickson/CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED)
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While antisemitism in the U.K. has certainly risen, politicians and the media are deliberately inflaming sensationalist narratives for a repressive agenda.
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