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A mural of Awdah Hathaleen in the community center with added writings by friends and family. (Omri Eran Vardi)

A year after Awdah’s killing, Umm Al-Khair struggles for its own survival

The community is facing violent settler expansion and the looming threat of demolition, while the Israeli who shot the beloved activist remains free.

By Basel Adra July 29, 2026

Palestinian girls box outside the makeshift training gym in the Al-Rimal displacement camp, in Gaza City, June 1, 2026. (Yousef Zaanoun)

‘This sport has taught us not to lower our eyes in fear’

In a displacement camp in Gaza City, boxing has become a lifeline for dozens of girls — who dream of one day representing Palestine on the international stage.

By Mohammed Zaanoun June 22, 2026

PODCAST: The only eyes on the ground

Ruwaida Amer explains how she continued reporting from Gaza while facing hunger and displacement and mourning murdered colleagues.

By +972 Magazine September 25, 2025

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Palestinian boy holding a leaflet dropped by the Israeli army ordering residents to evacuate the Bani Suhaila and Abasan areas in eastern Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 19, 2025 (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Days of terror in Gaza’s ‘Block 76’

My family clung to our hometown of Al-Fukhari for as long as we could, until Israel's evacuation orders and new assault left us with no choice.

By Ruwaida Amer May 21, 2025

Israeli police surround and destroy the mosque in Umm Al-Hiran, Nov. 14, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

The entire history of Zionism’s injustices, in one Bedouin village

The destruction of Umm Al-Hiran exemplifies the Zionist view of Palestinians as impermanent; moveable chess pieces in a game of demographic engineering.

By Orly Noy November 20, 2024

Displaced Palestinians inspect their tents after an Israeli airstrike hit the Al Aqsa Hospital courtyard in Deir al-Balah, October 14, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

‘I see my wife and son burning every time I close my eyes’

Families recount the scene of a deadly Israeli airstrike that set tents ablaze at Al-Aqsa Hospital — one of many recent attacks in central Gaza.

By Ibtisam Mahdi October 18, 2024

Marah Mahdi with her niece near her family's tent in Rafah. (Marah Mahdi/Instagram)

A Gaza journalist’s agonizing search for safety

From Gaza City to Rafah, Marah Mahdi and her family have been displaced 11 times since October. Yet surviving each Israeli attack brings little solace.

By Mohammed R. Mhawish and Asmaa Yassin June 4, 2024

An Israeli tank seen near the Gaza border fence, March 26, 2024. [Chaim Goldberg/Flash90]

Cementing its military footprint, Israel is transforming Gaza’s geography

As Israel expands a buffer zone and erects army bases in the Strip, Palestinians fear the permanent loss of their homes and land.

By Ruwaida Amer May 21, 2024

A Palestinian man inspects the damage caused by an Israeli military assault on Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, July 5, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Amid Jenin destruction, Palestinians mobilize with acts of solidarity

Palestinians opened their homes, donated supplies, and volunteered to clean up for families after Israel’s invasion of Jenin refugee camp.

By Vera Sajrawi July 13, 2023

Hadi Tabbal in the New York premiere of The Vagrant Trilogy,
written by Mona Mansour and directed by Mark Wing-Davey, at The Public Theater, March 8, 2022. (Joan Marcus)

Staging exile: A Palestinian refugee epic takes its place in the spotlight

Mona Mansour discusses her play, "The Vagrant Trilogy," about the choices a Palestinian scholar makes in 1967, and the heartbreaks that follow.

By Natasha Soffer-Roth May 16, 2022

Israelis holding signs of the Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael) take part in a Tu Bishvat tradition of planting trees, in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Michmash, in the Binyamin District, Jan. 15, 2014. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

The JNF is no innocent charity

The Jewish National Fund presents itself in Germany as a 'green' organization serving all of Israel's residents. That's not what its leaders say in Israel.

By Michael Sappir March 4, 2021

Israeli police arrest an international solidarity activist who had attempted to block a bulldozer brought to prepare for the demolition of Khan al-Ahmar, July 5, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Three arrested blocking Israeli bulldozers in Khan al-Ahmar

Israeli forces are preparing to demolish and displace the entire Palestinian village of Khan al-Ahmar. European diplomats attempt a solidarity visit but aren’t allowed to enter. The demolition is part of Israel’s ‘E-1’ plan to dissect the West Bank, isolate East Jerusalem. By Oren Ziv Israeli police and army officials showed up in the Palestinian…

By Oren Ziv July 5, 2018

Illustrative photo of a Jewish Israeli man inside a sukkah, a temporary structure, during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. (Flash90)

Connecting Sukkot and the fight against home demolitions

Around the world, dozens of communities are organizing activities to draw the connection between Sukkot — a holiday in which Jews commemorate the physical insecurities experienced by their ancestors — and the need to protect Palestinian villages in danger of destruction by Israel. By Micah Friedman Israeli demolitions have left 256 Palestinians homeless in the…

By +972 Magazine October 10, 2017