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Palestinian voices are always in short supply in the mainstream media. Even now as Israel plans a crushing takeover of huge swaths of historic Palestine, corporate media silences the very people who stand to lose the most. But Mondoweiss is there – we bring you voices that matter. While other media dehumanize Palestinians, Mondoweiss publishes news and opinions that bring a human face to the struggle. But we can’t do it without your support.

If Israel were to annex 30 percent of the West Bank, as envisaged in the US administration’s “deal of the century”, and the international community were to accept this step, it would indeed be the biggest breach of international law since World War II. It would set a precedent that would shake the international legal order. Palestinians in annexed enclaves would have the status of illegal aliens, Michael Sfard says.

Palestinian artists paint a "stay home" mural in an awareness campaign about the spread of coronavirus disease in Gaza city, on April 2, 2020. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour/APA Images)

“Despite going through two wars as a doctor in 2012 and 2014, the fear of this experience was greater than what I’ve been through before, its terms are way more than I imagined.” Three Palestinians in Gaza – an engineer, a doctor, and a fashion designer – share their personal diaries about what has changed about life in Gaza during the coronavirus pandemic, and what hasn’t.

Poster created by Samidoun - The Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network (Image via Palestine Poster Project Archives)

Artists are responding to Israel’s annexation threat by producing posters in solidarity with Palestine. Here is a collection of 20 images from protests around the world curated by the Palestine Poster Project Archives.