Palestinian children

A Palestinian child reads her schoolbook in front of newly erected barbed wire fence bearing Israeli flags, which Israeli settlers put up to block the passage of Palestinian teachers and students from their homes in the village of Umm Al-Khair to their school, Masafer Yatta, occupied West Bank, April 13, 2026. (Mosab Shawer/Activestills)

Despite global outrage, Israel is still blockading our children’s education

It’s been three weeks since settlers fenced off my students’ path to school, trying to show that Umm Al-Khair has no future. We refuse to let them win.

By Tariq Hathaleen May 5, 2026

Assad Abdeen carries the body of his one-month-old son, Saeed, who died of cold exposure, in Al-Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, December 18, 2025. (Doaa Albaz/Activestills)

‘Wet tent syndrome’ is killing Gaza’s infants

Israel’s restrictions on shelter and medicine have left displaced families helpless as newborns succumb to exposure and preventable disease.

By Michal Feldon January 26, 2026

B’Tselem and PHRI hold a press conference announcing their respective reports on the ongoing genocide in Gaza, Jerusalem, July 27, 2025. (Flash90)

‘Our genocide’: Israeli rights groups abandon their restraint on Gaza

After months of hesitation, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel assert that the war is meant to erase Palestinian life — now and in the future.

By Shatha Yaish July 31, 2025

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The uncle of three-month-old Fadi Al-Najjar holds his body after he died of malnutrition, at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip, July 19, 2025. (Doaa Albaz/Activestills)

‘Death has more dignity than this life’: Israel’s starvation campaign ravages Gaza

The cries of hungry children echo through tent camps in Gaza City, with over 50 Palestinians in the enclave starving to death in the past five days alone.

By Ahmed Dremly July 25, 2025

Eight-month-old Salam Wadi at an UNRWA clinic in Gaza City, July 9, 2025. (Hussein Owda/UNRWA)

Aid for Gaza’s starving children is right at the gates. Let it in

Israel is blocking 6,000 UNRWA trucks from entering Gaza while children die of hunger. The world can still prevent further catastrophe if it chooses to act.

By Juliette Touma July 15, 2025

Mohamad Saleh at his apartment in Cairo, in a still from 'Severed.' (Courtesy)

In ‘Severed,’ a Palestinian child pieces together the shattered fragments of his life

At 18, Mohamad Saleh has survived five wars on Gaza, lost his leg to an Israeli sniper, and endured several additional surgeries. My new film tells his story.

By Jen Marlowe May 22, 2025

Palestinian students at an UNRWA school in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, Jan. 30, 2024. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Israel claims to care about Palestinian students — so it shuts down their schools

The Education Ministry ordered UNRWA-run schools in East Jerusalem to close, citing ‘student welfare.’ 800 may lose their classrooms this month.

By Gil Gertel May 6, 2025

Dorgham Qreaiqea leads children's activities in a tent in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis in southern Gaza, Dec. 12, 2024. (Courtesy of the Qreaiqea family)

Remembering an artist who gave life to the children of Gaza

Dorgham Qreaiqea led film, theater, and painting projects with an unshakeable belief in the power of art to transcend the war. An Israeli airstrike killed him.

By Loaay Wattad April 18, 2025

Palestinians who were injured from Israeli airstrikes on the town of Bani Suhaila arrive at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, July 22, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

‘I operated on more children in Gaza in one night than I do in the U.S. in a year’

American surgeon Feroze Sidhwa has volunteered in war zones around the world. But nothing prepared him for Israel bombing his hospital in Gaza.

By Michal Feldon April 9, 2025

The bed of 13-year-old Bana Laboum, was shot dead by Israeli soldiers in her room in the village of Qaryut, occupied West Bank, September 15, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

Settlers attacked Bana’s village. Then a soldier shot her through her window

After Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinians with rocks and Molotov cocktails, soldiers raided Qaryut and killed a 13-year-old as she stood in her bedroom.

By Oren Ziv September 23, 2024

Asser and Aysal Abu Al-Qumsan, killed when they were four days old. (Courtesy of Muhammad Abu Al-Qumsan)

The Gazan infants who never saw their first birthday

For thousands of Palestinian parents, the joy of giving birth rapidly turned to grief when their newborn babies were killed by Israel's bombardment.

By Ibrahim Mohammad September 18, 2024

Photos of Fayez and Kariman, the children of Anas Juha, who were killed and trapped under the rubble by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, alongside Anas' wife Lena. (Courtesy of Anas Juha)

Searching for Gaza’s missing children

Buried under rubble, lost in the chaos, decomposed beyond recognition: the desperate struggle to find thousands amid Israel’s ongoing war.

By Ibtisam Mahdi July 18, 2024

Sister Nabila Saleh at the entrance to the Rosary Sisters School in Gaza City after it was moderately damaged by Israeli airstrikes, May 12, 2021. (Holy Family Catholic Parish)

An ode to my school, destroyed by Israel

The school where I taught in Gaza City was my second home. Now it lies in ruins, some of my beloved students are dead, and I am terrified for the rest.

By Ruwaida Amer February 21, 2024