Palestinians at the site of an Israeli airstrike at a UNRWA school in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, June 6, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Israel’s paradoxical crusade against UNRWA

Israeli officials are relying on UNRWA to prevent a polio epidemic — while the Knesset advances laws to expel the agency.
By Jonathan Adler
Palestinians fleeing Jabalia camp arrive in Gaza City, October 6, 2024. (Omar El-Qataa)

‘Dead bodies everywhere’ as Israel besieges northern Gaza

Palestinians in the north are trapped in their homes as the Israeli army threatens hospitals and shoots at fleeing residents.
By Ibrahim Mohammad and Mahmoud Mushtaha
Palestinians at site of an Israeli airstrike at an UNRWA school in the Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip, September 11, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

I’m still reporting on Gaza. But the blood is no closer to drying

We write for a future that doesn’t involve counting the dead — for the bombs to stop, the tanks to roll back, and the drones to disappear.
By Mohammed R. Mhawish
Palestinian men work amid the rubble of houses destroyed during the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas, in the Eastern Gaza City Shujaiya neighborhood, January 27, 2015. (Aaed Tayeh/Flash90)

Gaza’s governance must remain in Palestinian hands

Amid plans for external interventions, what is required is an interim body to manage Gaza’s urgent needs and pave the way for unity.
By Said Zeedani
Family members visit the site of the Nova music festival massacre, six month after, in Re'im forest, near the Gaza fence, April 7, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
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A year after the Nova massacre, survivors are still paralyzed with grief

The Nova festival was the site of October 7's largest massacre. Now, survivors and the families of those murdered are suing the state for negligence.
By Alice Austin
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The bodies of 88 unidentified Palestinians are buried in a mass grave in Khan Younis, after Israeli forces returned them to Gaza severely decomposed and without any identification, September 26, 2024. (Doaa Albaz/Activestills)
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A portrait of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is placed on a table with drinks and food to celebrate his assassination, outside a supermarket in Jerusalem, September 29, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
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Police officers at the scene of a car bombing in Ramle, September 5, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
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The people of Lebanon know that our struggles are intertwined; that the bombs killing their children are the same ones killing ours in Gaza.
By Mohammed R. Mhawish September 29, 2024
Uncommitted delegates Meryem Maameri and Asma Mohammed, both of Minnesota, lock arms as they enter the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Aug. 22, 2024. (Lorie Shaull/Wikimedia Commons)
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Palestinians participate in an activity with pets at the Basmat Amal camp for displaced people with disabilities, Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, August 14, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
For Gazans with disabilities, Israel’s genocide shows no mercy
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By Ibtisam Mahdi September 27, 2024
Palestinian photojournalist Mo’ath Amarnih upon his release from nine months of administrative detention in Israeli prison. (Courtesy)
In Israel’s prisons, skin diseases are a method of punishment
Prison authorities are allowing scabies to spread by restricting Palestinian inmates’ water supply and depriving them of clean clothes and medical care.
By Vera Sajrawi September 25, 2024
Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon, September 23, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)
With pager blasts and airstrikes, Israel unleashes its terror on Lebanon
Israeli leaders have threatened to replicate the ‘Gaza model’ in south Lebanon. But Hezbollah may prove to be an even more challenging foe than Hamas.
By Elia Ayoub September 23, 2024
The bed of 13-year-old Bana Laboum, was shot dead by Israeli soldiers in her room in the village of Qaryut, occupied West Bank, September 15, 2024. (Oren Ziv)
Settlers attacked Bana’s village. Then a soldier shot her through her window
After Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinians with rocks and Molotov cocktails, soldiers raided Qaryut and killed a 13-year-old as she stood in her bedroom.
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