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A relative of a child killed earlier in a playground in al-Shati refugee camp mourns at a cemetery, Gaza City, July 28, 2014. Reports indicated that 10 people, mostly children, were killed and 40 injured during the attack which took place on the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid. (Photo by Anne Paq/Activestills.org)
+972’s Story of the Year: Gaza
Most of us have become so accustomed to Gaza’s suffering that we can hardly imagine a world without it. But imagine we must. During the fighting this summer, and in its aftermath, many believed the war would be a game-changer, that something would have to give — it hasn’t. Activists, intellectuals and diplomats continue to advocate, but…
By Samer Badawi December 30, 2014
Leila Khaled in Beirut, January 18, 2009. (Photo by Sebastian Baryli/CC by 2.0)
Interview with Leila Khaled: ‘BDS is effective, but it doesn’t liberate land’
PFLP hijacker Leila Khaled talks about the acts that made her a household name, the current states of resistance, feminism and religious coercion in Palestinian society, and gives a new take on long-buried tales of assassinations and betrayal within the ranks of the PFLP. By Paula Schmitt By the time she was 28, Leila Khaled…
By +972 Magazine May 17, 2014
Naksa Day demonstration, Qalandiya checkpoint. Photo by Anne Paq/Activestills.org
Rhetoric, reality and Twitter in the West Bank
Twitter is changing the nature of breaking news from West Bank demonstrations. It is exposing Israel’s heavy handed crowd control methods which often break the army’s own internal codes of conduct. Naturally, some so called ‘supporters of Israel’ are having a hard time rationalizing Israel’s behaviour, therefore attacking Twitter users as biased, misinformed or even…
By Joseph Dana June 6, 2011
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