Welcome to +972’s Sunday Recap!

Jusoor News says it reflects the pulse of the Arab street. But leaked files suggest links to Israeli intelligence and a pro-Israel agenda with deep roots, Yossi Bartal and Amin Al Magrhebi revealed in a new investigation.

Basel Adra reported from Hebron, where Israel has been erecting new checkpoints and recently stripped the Palestinian municipality of its jurisdiction over planning and construction — a move that has allowed Israel to unilaterally modify sensitive religious sites and accelerate its annexation of the Old City.

In Gaza, thousands are still missing. Part of the explanation lies in the calculated chaos of Israel’s return of Palestinian bodies to the enclave: Frances Brogan spoke to humanitarian workers who described a haphazard and deliberately opaque system for transferring dead and living Gazans during the first months of the genocide.

The World Cup has tested the limits of Egypt’s pro-Palestine solidarity, Shaimaa Ahmed argued: During the tournament and upon their return to Egypt, Coach Hossam Hassan and his team became a vehicle for expressing a popular sentiment that is either repressed or carefully contained at home.

Liam Syed interviewed Rima Hassan, a member of the European Parliament who has been prosecuted in France for defending Palestinians’ right to resist. They discussed the criminalization of Palestine solidarity in France, Europe’s enduring relationship with Israel, and why she believes Palestine has become a test for Western democracies.

And on the latest episode of the +972 Podcast, Jonathan Adler spoke with the Palestinian-American historian Rashid Khalidi about the recent agreement to build a permanent U.S. embassy on his family’s stolen land in Jerusalem — and how shifts in public opinion are transforming the U.S.-Israeli relationship for good.

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