Second Intifada

PODCAST: Marwan Barghouti’s long walk to Palestine’s freedom

Arab Barghouti discusses the agony of not knowing if his father would be freed in the ceasefire or killed in his cell, and why Israel still sees him as such a threat.

By +972 Magazine January 8, 2026

Israeli reserve soldiers from the Golani Brigade seen during a military training in the Golan Heights, northern Israel, October 29, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90 )

For all its military might, Israel succumbed to its most fatal weakness

The illusion that Israel could control Gaza endlessly is rooted in a dysfunctional political system that is incapable of imagining an alternative future.

By Lev Grinberg November 15, 2023

Tareq Barghouth (center) speaks to the Israeli press. (Philippe Bellaïche)

A Palestinian prisoner’s letter to his Israeli occupiers

Do I regret my imprisonment after being convicted of carrying out attacks? That’s complicated. I do regret one thing: letting them push me into a corner.

By Tareq Barghouth March 23, 2023

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MK Simcha Rotman, Head of the Knesset's Constitution Committee, poses for a picture at the Knesset, Jerusalem, January 17, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Welcome to Simcha Rothman’s vengeful coup

Embodying the rage that drives the Israeli right’s judicial assault, the chair of the Knesset’s Law and Justice Committee is poised to bring his once-fringe ideas to fruition. And, he tells +972, he is just getting started.

By Nate Orbach March 9, 2023

The Palestinian town of Beit Jala burns after being shot at by Israeli army during the Second Intifada, February 28, 2002. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

A homecoming under siege

In an excerpt from her new book, "A Stranger in My Own Land," Palestinian author Fida Jiryis describes returning to a new reality in Palestine as the Second Intifada rages outside.

By Fida Jiryis December 8, 2022

Israeli soldiers close a metal gate at a military checkpoint in Beit Furik, east of Nablus, occupied West Bank, October 19, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

Inside the military-settler siege of Nablus

For three weeks the Palestinian city and nearby towns have been encaged by Israeli settlers and soldiers, targeting an armed resistance group that has inspired mass support in spite of escalating violence and daily hardships.

By Oren Ziv October 25, 2022

Palestinian gunmen from Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades seen during a military parade in Balata Refugee Camp, West Bank, September 21, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

The northern West Bank is taking up arms. Will the south join?

Armed resistance against Israeli incursions is mostly concentrated in Jenin and Nablus. But Palestinians on the ground say that could quickly change.

By Basel Adra October 12, 2022

Mo'min Swaitat in London, August 10, 2022. (Alice Austin)

The Palestinian artist reviving the forgotten sounds of the intifada

After discovering a treasure trove of Bedouin music in a shuttered Jenin cassette store, Mo’min Swaitat is re-releasing the lost songs of his youth.

By Alice Austin September 21, 2022

Thousands of Palestinians rally in solidarity with the hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, Nelson Mandela Square, Ramallah, West Bank, May 03, 2017. (Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills)

What lessons can Palestinians really take from the struggle of Black South Africans?

With comparisons growing between Israeli and South African apartheid, we must consider the different strategies adopted by both resistance movements.

By Ran Greenstein September 11, 2022

Palestinian psychologist Asrar Kayyal, whose family were displaced from the village of Al-Birwa, near Akka, during the Nakba. (Faiz Abu Rmeleh)

‘Palestinians handle trauma better when we struggle together to survive’

During the May 2021 uprising, Asrar Kayyal was part of a network of psychologists supporting Palestinian victims of Israeli violence and their families. She talks with +972 about the myriad traumas Palestinians endure.

By Vera Sajrawi August 25, 2022

A Palestinian man draws a mural of Al-Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed during an Israeli military raid on Jenin Refugee Camp, Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, May 14, 2022. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Shireen Abu Akleh raised my generation. Now, we’re breaking through the dam

Through her voice, her iconic sign-off, and the power of her words, Shireen Abu Akleh taught Palestinians that we have the power to change our reality.

By Dima Srouji May 15, 2022

Palestinian youth open a gate of the separation wall during a demonstration marking 12 years of the struggle against the occupation in the West Bank village of Bil'in, February 17, 2017. (Oren Ziv)

The Green Line is dead. What comes next?

As the tenets of Israel's separation regime crumble away, Israelis face a choice: mass expulsion, formalized apartheid — or full equality for all.

By Meron Rapoport April 1, 2022

Israeli soldiers salute during the national anthem at a Memorial Day ceremony at the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City, May 10, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

How an army refusal letter became the last stand of the Zionist left

Two decades ago, hundreds of Israeli reservists caused a national sensation for refusing to serve in the occupied territories. But what remains of their legacy?

By Noam Sheizaf March 29, 2022