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Palestinians walking near an aid distribution point in the Netzarim Corridor, in the central Gaza Strip, June 9, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

The planned expulsion of Gaza’s population is already underway

Israel is conditioning aid delivery to force Gazans south into 'concentration zones.' This plan has begun to stall, but that only portends greater brutality.

By Gadi Algazi June 13, 2025

An Israeli soldier stands next to the fence encircling the Gaza Strip, March 18, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israel’s latest vision for Gaza has a name: Concentration camp

Unable to immediately expel Gazans en masse, Israel seems intent on forcing them into a confined zone — and letting starvation and desperation do the rest.

By Meron Rapoport April 1, 2025

Eid al-Hathaleen stands atop the rubble of his home after it was demolished by the Israeli Civil Administration, Umm al-Khair, occupied West Bank, July 7, 2024. (Emily Glick)

In Umm al-Khair, the occupation is damning us to multigenerational trauma

I saw the first bulldozers arrive in my village 17 years ago. Now, after the most brutal weeks in our history, my son will carry similarly painful memories.

By Awdah Hathaleen July 22, 2024

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Israeli soldiers from the 8717 Battalion of the Givati Brigade operating in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, during a military operation, December 28, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The ‘second Nakba’ government seizes its moment

Israeli leaders are explicit about reusing the methods of 1948 in Gaza today. But what didn’t quell the Palestinians then will not do so now.

By Meron Rapoport January 2, 2024

Palestinians carrying luggage walk through the massive destruction caused by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City's Al-Rimal district, Gaza, October 10, 2023. (Mohammed Zaanoun)

To stay or to leave? Gazans in the north torn over which is safer

While thousands flee — some for the second time this week — ahead of Israel's invasion, others are unwilling or unable to abandon their homes.

By Ruwaida Amer and Mahmoud Mushtaha October 15, 2023

A Palestinian resident of An-Nabi Samwil, occupied West Bank, stands in front of the Tomb of Samuel, holding an old photo showing how the village looked before Israel demolished the Palestinians' houses in the vicinity in order to displace the residents and build a new luxury Jewish settlement, April 28, 2014. (Keren Manor/Activestills)

Israel destroyed Palestinian village for luxury settlement that was never built

Archives reveal Golda Meir's government expelled residents of An-Nabi Samwil in 1971 to house wealthy Israelis. The settlement was aborted, but the Palestinians remain dispossessed, meters from their original homes.

By Yuval Abraham August 30, 2022

Haj Suleiman from Umm al-Kheir, one of the West Bank villages that grazes in the area of Ein al-Beida, protests Israeli settlement development, March 8, 2021. (Natasha Westheimer)

‘We have all lost our parent’: Umm al-Khair mourns an iconic activist

Haj Suleiman, who dedicated his life to fighting for the rights of his village, was killed by an Israeli police truck in January, leaving his community mired in grief.

By Awdah Hathaleen May 23, 2022

Ayalon prison facility, near the city of Ramla (photo: Activestills)

The forced transfer of Palestinian detainees — why it matters

International law is clear that prisoners should not be transferred outside of an occupied territory — both to allow their families access to them and to prevent forced population transfer. But that’s not all that’s at stake. By Gerard Horton Palestinian children detained in the Israeli military detention system should be held in facilities located…

By +972 Magazine December 19, 2015

Palestinian girls chant slogans at the protest against the demolition of their village, Susya, July 24, 2015. (Keren Manor/Activestills.org)

Hundreds protest forced transfer, destruction of Palestinian village Susya

Despite a pending High Court case, the village is facing imminent destruction and forced population transfer. State Department, EU foreign ministers have all called on Israel to let the villagers stay on their land. Over 500 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists descended on the tiny Palestinian tent-village of Susya on Friday to protest its imminent…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man July 24, 2015

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Amman, Jordan, June 29, 2013. (Photo by State Dept.)

De-coding the Israeli-Palestinian peace process

A breakdown of recent statements by principal players in the Kerry-led peace process. The Israeli/Palestinian negotiations remind me of a volleyball court. With a lack of hard information available to the public, each player punts a ball into the air at regular intervals with identifying marks on it, to remind everyone that he or she…

By Dahlia Scheindlin February 19, 2014

Where is the ‘inevitable’ Bedouin Intifada Israel guaranteed?

In 2004, Israeli officials were up in arms about an impending Bedouin Intifada. But the Bedouin didn’t rebel and now, despite plans to expel tens of thousands of them from their homes in the West Bank and the Negev, things remain relatively quiet. Why? As Israel steps up its expansionist policies both inside and outside…

By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat February 9, 2012