Jaffa

PODCAST: Remembering the Nakba of urban Palestine

Abed Abou Shhadeh traces how the catastrophe of 1948 unfolded in his home city of Jaffa — and what it means to resist erasure across generations.

By +972 Magazine May 14, 2026

Palestinians at the site of a destroyed home from an Israeli air strike in Rafah, May 1, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

For Palestinian parents, every day of this war provokes existential anxiety

In the annihilation of Gaza, we see a vision of our future as Palestinians inside Israel. So do we cling to our land, or ensure our children’s safety and leave?

By Abed Abou Shhadeh July 15, 2024

An elderly Jewish man seen in Kfar Shalem, 1969. (Boris Carmi /Meitar Collection / National Library of Israel / The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection)

From Salama to Kfar Shalem: How Mizrahim fit into the ongoing Nakba

The expulsion of Salama’s Palestinians, the settling of Mizrahi Jews in their place, and the eviction of those residents decades later reveals the mechanism by which Israel continues to erase Palestinian existence.

By Doron Yacov and Adi Golan Bikhnafo May 15, 2023

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Elias Jahshan. (Courtesy)

‘Queerness is part of Palestinian culture. We’ve existed forever’

Elias Jahshan, editor of the anthology ‘This Arab is Queer,’ discusses sexuality in the Arab world, Israeli pinkwashing, and his dream of a liberated Jaffa.

By Eliyahu Freedman January 18, 2023

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

Screenshot from 'Testimonies from Jaffa/Lydda - May 2021.'

FILM: Palestinians in ‘mixed cities’ recount the horrors of May 2021

In a series of testimonies, Palestinians from Jaffa and Lydd recount the terrifying days when settler and police violence overwhelmed their cities.

By +972 Magazine May 19, 2022

Activists from the Shovrot Kirot movement stand in front of the ruins of the Givat Amal neighborhood in north Tel Aviv, and the luxury apartment blocks built in its place, April 11, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

The Mizrahi feminists shaking up Israel’s human rights scene

A new movement is bringing a fresh model to the struggle for the rights of Israeli society’s most invisible and marginalized groups. Can it succeed?

By Ben Reiff April 12, 2022

Farida Najar, a Palestinian single mother of four, seen outside her tent, which she erected in a public park in Jaffa in protest of racialized gentrification and rising rents in the city, November 17, 2021. (Oren Ziv)

PHOTOS: A Palestinian single mother sparks protest camp over Jaffa gentrification

Years of state neglect and rising prices mean Palestinian families can no longer afford rent in their own city. Protesters have set up tents to demand solutions.

By Oren Ziv November 23, 2021

An Israeli military police officer checks entry permits of Palestinians on a bus crossing the Allenby Bridge into Israel. (Moshe Milner/GPO)

What would Israelis do if Palestinians disappeared overnight?

Ibtisam Azem speaks to +972 about how, with the sudden vanishing of ‘the enemy’ in her newly-translated novel, she confronts some of the darkest chapters of Israel's history.

By Natasha Soffer-Roth November 11, 2019

A photo of my Palestinian grandmother, Najwa Qattan. (Courtesy of Nooran Alhamdan)

My Palestinian sitty embodies the humanity Israel tries to deny us

My grandmother is not just a beacon of warmth and love. Not just my first best friend. She is a survivor. She is the compass that points to justice. By Nooran Alhamdan My grandmother was my first best friend. As soon as I’d be dropped off at her house, almost daily, the hotheaded and spoiled…

By +972 Magazine August 20, 2019

Bombed out buildings in Gaza City, May 5, 2019. (Mohammed Al Hajjar)

‘My kids think I’m a hero. They have no idea I’m also afraid’

When the bombs fall on Gaza, Abu Ali and his family, like two million other residents of Gaza, have nowhere to run. This is what it’s like to live under Israeli airstrikes. It’s strange to think that less than a week ago Israel and Hamas were closer to war than they have been since 2014.…

By Yali Marom May 9, 2019

A young Palestinian boy and girl stand near a painted mural in Balata Refugee Camp in the West Bank city of Nablus. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

‘In Balata camp, every single child suffers from psychological problems’

Yafa Cultural Center is one of the few places left for Palestinian children from Balata refugee camp to cope with the violence they witness on a daily basis. With funding running low, the center is at risk of closing. When the door opens, I am surprised to see a six or seven-year-old boy on the other…

By Rami Younis February 11, 2019

Palestinians from the West Bank swim in the Mediterranean Sea during Eid al-Adha, Tel Aviv, August 22, 2018. (Oren Ziv)

On Eid, Palestinian children suddenly cease to be security threats

Tel Aviv’s beaches are packed with Palestinians from the West Bank and East Jerusalem this week, due to Eid al-Adha. Walking along the promenade, you can almost imagine what life would be like here without separation. By Oren Ziv Arabic. This was the main language spoken on the beach in Tel Aviv Wednesday. It was…

By Oren Ziv August 23, 2018