On September 30, 2000, a Palestinian cameraman from Gaza, Talal Abu Rahma, shot a video of a father and his 12-year-old son under fire on the Saladin Road, south of Gaza City. The boy, Muhammad al-Durrah, was mortally wounded and died soon after. The video of Jamal al-Durrah trying to […]
Israeli occupation must stop using gun violence
Sharifa Abu Muammar, a 30-year-old teacher, was supposed to start the school year with her 11th grade class on Sept. 1. She had spent the previous day decorating her classroom, located in the city of Ramle in central Israel, with a festive display of white and gold balloons, and sharing excited […]
Palestine professor narrates his suffering inside US jails
Palestinian professor Abdul-Halim Al-Ashqar, originally from the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, narrates his suffering inside US jails during his 15-year detention. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Al-Ashqar, who ran for Palestinian presidential elections in 2005, disclosed that he spent a total of about 15 years inside US prisons over “baseless” accusations related […]
“Israel” banning Palestinian children from calling their parents.
Ahmad Sabri, a 17-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank town of Qalqilya, has been incarcerated in Israel’s Megiddo Prison since March 2019. Since the coronavirus crisis began earlier this year, Sabri, a “security prisoner,” has been subjected to restrictions that bar him from making phone calls or receiving visits from […]
Palestine’s new generation says no to normalisation
On Tuesday evening, President Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain at the White House to sign a peace agreement (also referred to as the Abraham Accords). Trump touted it as “the historic Middle East peace agreement,” but it is […]
“The Israeli siege of Gaza affects us in myriad ways.”
The Israeli siege of Gaza affects us in myriad ways. It is not just about being starved of fuel and electricity, as we have been recently. Of course, that is bad enough. The vulnerable are even more vulnerable, nights are dark, work is almost impossible to do – if you are […]
Israeli occupation roots planted in earliest days of colonialism movement
Across the world, climate movements are firmly rooted on the political, social, and economic left. Their campaigning and advocacy make connections with struggles for democracy, social justice, and human rights, and speak out against racism, discrimination, nationalism, and neoliberalism. Not merely content with demanding a change in environmental policies, the […]
Gaza becomes more darker after coronavirus
Even in the blackest night, I had never imagined that it would go this far. Two weeks ago, Palestinians in Gaza were informed that the coronavirus had begun spreading throughout their community. A Palestinian woman was preparing to travel from Gaza to Jerusalem to accompany her daughter for a surgery. […]
Israeli military suppresses Palestinian demonstrations against the occupation
After 15 years of documenting protests and clashes in the occupied West Bank as part of my work for Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, I thought that nothing about the Israeli military’s suppression of Palestinian demonstrations against the occupation could surprise me. Last Thursday, however, I was proved wrong. That […]
How Palestinians in Gaza spending their day in quarantine?
8:oo am: I start my day feeding my four kittens along with their mother Semsem. They are growing bigger and brighter. My parents think I should gift them to some people who may be interested in having them. But many can barely provide food to their families these days. Having […]