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Palestinians outside a destroyed house after an Israeli air strike, in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 13, 2023. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
We are ready to rebuild and rewrite Gaza’s narrative
The constant state of fear and uncertainty cast a dark shadow over our lives. But our dreams and resilience help us survive Gaza's dark times.
By Haneen AbdAlnabi May 18, 2023
A child inspects the ruins of a house destroyed by an Israeli air strike in the Al Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, July 11, 2014.
The unfolding lie of Operation Protective Edge
An Israeli leadership truly interested in a peace agreement would not have driven its partner to the point of lacking any leadership authority among his people. But that is exactly the point. Israel is not really interested in peace or in a partner who can bring about peace. By Idan Landau (Translated from Hebrew by…
By +972 Magazine July 15, 2014
Ruins of the home of Al Haddad family, which was destroyed by an a Israeli drone missile, in Al Shaja'ia neighborhood, Gaza City, July 12, 2014. The family of 25 people evacuated the building before the home was hit. (Photo: Basel Yazouri/Activestills.org)
The IDF doesn’t only aim at Hamas targets
Over a 160 people killed, entire neighborhoods which receive arbitrary warnings, entire families that have been bombed using hundreds of tons of explosives, shooting at a journalists’ car  and hitting hospitals and schools. No, we do not only shoot  at Hamas targets. (Translated from Hebrew by Sol Salbe) On Saturday evening, Hamas issued a warning,…
By Haggai Matar July 13, 2014
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Palestinians mourn the death of Ibrahim Nabil Hamada, 23, who was killed during an Israeli attack, Al Shaja'ia cemetery, Gaza City, July 12, 2014. (Photo: Basel Yazouri/Activestills.org)
Shock, not awe, among ‘battle-hardened’ Gazans
Netanyahu might have taken his ‘gloves off,’ but Palestinians in Gaza have long since been hardened by their bare-knuckle existence. In the three days beginning on March 19, 2003, Baghdad endured just over a thousand bombing runs, all aimed at cowing the Iraqi capital — a city of nearly four million people — through what…
By Samer Badawi July 13, 2014
File photo of an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip (Photo by ChameleonsEye / Shutterstock.com)
Why Netanyahu will lose this Gaza war, too
Israel’s military assaults consistently fail to shift the balance of moral power in its war on the Palestinians. On the heels of a military campaign that failed at its only stated objective — to rescue three kidnapped Jewish teens — and instead yielded near-unanimous international condemnation and government-fueled racial attacks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has…
By Samer Badawi July 8, 2014
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