October 7 war

Anat Meir and her baby mourn her husband David Meir, an Israeli soldier killed on October 7 at Kibbutz Be'eri, at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, November 8, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

‘Survival of the nation’: Israel’s obsession with dead soldiers’ sperm

Postmortem sperm retrieval has become state policy, with a quarter of all male soldiers killed since October 7 undergoing the procedure. But by creating a pressure valve for grieving families, it only perpetuates war.

By Nathalie Rozanes September 4, 2026

Israeli soldiers seen near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, October 9, 2025. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Israel’s military ‘justice’ system is working exactly as intended

A handful of probes into high-profile massacres in Gaza are a smokescreen: Israel has convicted only two soldiers for harming Palestinians since Oct. 7.

By Dan Owen September 3, 2026

Sahar Francis. (Courtesy)

PODCAST: What happens to Palestinians in Israeli prisons?

Sahar Francis has spent decades defending Palestinian detainees. She explains why Israel’s torture and abuse since October 7 is unlike anything she has seen.

By +972 Magazine August 28, 2026

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a vote at the plenum hall of the Knesset, Jerusalem, July 16, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s ‘total victory’ vow kept him in power. Now it may be his undoing

With the coalition trailing in the polls, it seems the severe costs and unattainable goals of Israel’s ever-expanding wars are coming back to bite.

By Meron Rapoport August 27, 2026

Noa Sattath (Courtesy)

PODCAST: Israel’s genocidal government is dissolving. Its legacy is here to stay

ACRI head Noa Sattath reflects on four years of far-right rule, and the paradox of defending democratic institutions in an apartheid state.

By +972 Magazine August 17, 2026

Dialysis patient Basel Al-Dahdouh in his family's tent on Al-Shuhada Street in central Gaza City, August 13, 2026. (Hussain Al-Jerjawi)

Gaza’s sick wait for treatment that may never come

As medicine runs out under Israel's blockade and care is routinely disrupted, dialysis and cancer patients in the enclave are left to die slowly.

By Ahmed Dremly August 14, 2026

Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a police station in Gaza City's Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, January 31, 2026. (Yousef Zaanoun/Activestills)

Everyone is planning Gaza’s future. But the governance crisis is now

By blocking a civil government from replacing Hamas, Israel has created a power vacuum in Gaza — and left Palestinians with nowhere to turn.

By Mahmoud Mushtaha August 11, 2026

The Nova Exhibition in Washington, D.C., June 14, 2025. (Ted Eytan/CC BY-SA 4.0)

The Nova Exhibition aims to return the world to October 7 — and keep us there

Borrowing heavily from Holocaust memorialization, the mobile exhibit wants visitors to identify with Israeli festivalgoers and forget everything else.

By Em Hilton August 4, 2026

Newborn babies receive treatment in the neonatal intensive care unit at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, January 18, 2026. (Khalil Kahlout/Flash90)

‘Lives cut short’: Gaza’s surging miscarriage crisis

Pregnancy losses more than tripled in the first half of this year, as conditions continue to deteriorate amid Israel's bombardment and siege.

By Ruwaida Amer August 3, 2026

The creation of Shareef Sarhan's Minarat Gaza, seen in Gaza City's port, 2016. (Courtesy)

Archiving as resistance: The battle to save Gaza’s cultural heritage

A new book documents efforts to preserve millennia of culture, refusing to surrender to the enclave’s destruction while laying foundations for its future.

By Samah Salaime July 31, 2026

Michael Barenboim at the end of a Make Freedom Ring concert. (Jonas Gottfriedsen)

‘In Germany, Jews who reject Zionism are seen as not really Jewish’

For violinist Michael Barenboim, Germany’s memory culture has become a tool for upholding complicity in Israel's crimes and rendering Palestinians invisible.

By Hanno Hauenstein July 23, 2026

Tamer Nafar. (Courtesy)

‘Our role is to hold on’: Palestinian artists in Israel after October 7

Three Palestinian creatives grapple with their responsibility to make art that meets the moment while Israeli authorities stifle free expression.

By Tamer Nafar July 21, 2026

Palestinian bodies in a shipping container, near the Karem Abu Salem/Kerem Shalom Crossing in Gaza, January 20, 2024. (Courtesy of Ariel, a UN worker)

Calculated chaos: Inside Israel’s transfer of Palestinian bodies to Gaza

Humanitarian workers describe a haphazard and deliberately opaque system for returning dead and living Gazans during the first months of the genocide — one that helps explain why thousands are still missing.

By Frances Brogan July 15, 2026