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Displaced Palestinians make their way back to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip via the Netzarim Corridor, Jan. 28, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

Weeks after Israeli withdrawal, Gazans still search for the missing in Netzarim

Thousands of Palestinians have made the arduous journey across Gaza's central corridor, as Civil Defense workers slowly uncover human remains.

By Ruwaida Kamal Amer March 4, 2025

Bassam Assous holds the body of his granddaughter, Laila Al-Khatib, after she was killed in her home by Israeli forces, Jan. 26, 2025. (Wahaj Bani Moufleh/Activestills)

After Gaza ceasefire, Israel turns its firepower on the West Bank

Two-year-old Laila Al-Khatib is the youngest victim of Israel's military campaign in Jenin, while road closures suffocate the entire territory.

By Basel Adra January 28, 2025

Large boulders block the entry and exit of cars outside Beit Jala, occupied West Bank. (Yuval Abraham)

Settlers and army blocking West Bank roads to Palestinians

Makeshift barriers erected since October 7 have sealed off dozens of Palestinian communities. Those who try to cross risk being shot.

By Yuval Abraham February 23, 2024

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Israeli security forces guard as Palestinians make their way through a checkpoint to attend Friday prayer of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, April 29, 2022. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

The permit regime is Oslo’s enduring legacy. It must be abolished

The separation logic enshrined by the Oslo Accords birthed a cruel system of Israeli control, whose security justifications collapsed into openly racist ones.

By Yael Berda September 21, 2023

A Palestinian man looks over the Israeli settlement of Ma’ale Adumim during a protest-tent action against a bill that would annex the settlement bloc to Israel, Al 'Ezariya, West Bank, January 20, 2017. (Anne Paq/Activestills)

‘Don’t raise your voice — you’re not in Britain anymore’

From the Jordan crossing to the Jerusalem checkpoint, my return to Palestine was marred by the daily humiliations of life under Israeli occupation.

By Hamza Yusuf August 29, 2023

Rabbi Leo Dee at the funeral of his daughters Maia and Rina at the Gush Etzion Regional Cemetery in Kfar Etzion on April 9, 2023. The sisters were killed in a shooting attack in the Jordan Valley; their mother, Lucy, later died of her wounds sustained in the same attack. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

A British-Israeli tragedy, born out of the occupation

To omit the violent context in which the Dee family killings occurred is to condemn countless more Palestinians and Israelis to the same fate.

By Ben Reiff April 11, 2023

Israeli soldiers close a metal gate at a military checkpoint in Beit Furik, east of Nablus, occupied West Bank, October 19, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

Inside the military-settler siege of Nablus

For three weeks the Palestinian city and nearby towns have been encaged by Israeli settlers and soldiers, targeting an armed resistance group that has inspired mass support in spite of escalating violence and daily hardships.

By Oren Ziv October 25, 2022

Israeli settlers armed with clubs and rocks attack Palestinians in the town of Huwara, near Nablus, occupied West Bank, October 13, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

How my family came face to face with settler violence on the road to Nablus

What began as a family outing in Ramallah ended in a harrowing drive home, with military checkpoints and stone-throwing settlers at every turn.

By Yara M. Asi October 20, 2022

Palestinian women take photos of each other at the beach in Jaffa during the Eid al-Adha holiday, July 11, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

PHOTOS: A Muslim holiday exposes the farce of Israel’s separation regime

When tens of thousands of Palestinians crossed from the West Bank into Israel to celebrate Eid al-Adha this week, they demonstrated how arbitrary Israel's regime of segregation truly is.

By Oren Ziv July 12, 2022

Palestinians walk through the kilometer-long caged terminal through the "no-go zone" between Israel's Erez Crossing and Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, December 18, 2013. (Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills)

A walk through Israel’s ever-evolving checkpoint regime

The Erez Crossing into Gaza brought back memories of how, from Allenby to Qalandiya, Israel is constantly redesigning its structures of domination.

By Fatima AbdulKarim June 3, 2022

Israeli soldiers operate a checkpoint at the entrance to the Palestinian village of Dir Nizam, occupied West Bank, January 11, 2021. (Rachel Shor)

‘We’re here to pressure the village’: Israeli troops admit collective punishment policy

The Israeli army has subjected Dir Nizam to near-total closures and violent incursions since December. And soldiers are frank about why they're doing it.

By Yuval Abraham January 24, 2022

Palestinian workers in line to receive COVID-19 vaccinations at the Qalqilya checkpoint, the West Bank. (Activestills)

In a year of pandemic, Palestinian workers grapple with a virus and an occupier

Six Palestinian workers share how the COVID-19 crisis has affected their livelihoods while navigating Israeli checkpoints, permits, and restrictions.

By Activestills July 8, 2021

A Palestinian worker is vaccinated at a makeshift vaccine site at the Metar checkpoint in the southern West Bank, March 8. (Oren Ziv)

Following pressure, Israel begins vaccination drive for Palestinian workers

Thousands of Palestinian workers arrived at West Bank checkpoints to receive jabs following criticism of Israel's refusal to provide them COVID-19 vaccines.

By Oren Ziv March 9, 2021