Welcome to +972’s Sunday Recap!

On Thursday, Local Call reporter Oren Ziv and Charlotte Ritz-Jack reported from the Jerusalem Day Flag March, where Ben Gvir’s Israel was on full display: Jewish supremacists rampaged through the Old City chanting racist slogans, while settlers put their words into action in the West Bank.

Jinin Rummaneh, a fifth-year medical student at Al-Azhar University in Gaza, wrote about Gaza’s MRI crisis: With all machines destroyed or rendered useless by Israel’s siege, doctors in the Strip cannot diagnose their patients, forced instead to practice a desperate form of triage.

After Israel destroyed the Strip’s literary and arts institutions, Palestinians are launching new initiatives to preserve knowledge and insist on a right to life. Ruwaida Amer spoke to the people reviving Gaza’s cultural scene from beneath the rubble.

In late 2020, when Nablus-based photojournalist Ahmad Al-Bazz received an Israeli travel permit, he rushed to visit nearly 200 villages depopulated in the Nakba. Yahel Gazit interviewed Al-Bazz about his new book, the culmination of a three-year project that offers a powerful visual archive of Palestinian erasure.

And on the latest episode of the +972 Podcast, Ghousoon Bisharat spoke with Abed Abou Shhadeh about the Nakba of urban Palestine. A community organizer and researcher, Abou Shhadeh traced how the catastrophe of 1948 unfolded in his home city of Jaffa — and what it means to resist erasure across generations.

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