The scenes today in Gaza feel familiar. And yet, at the same time, what we are witnessing today is worse than anything we have seen before in Gaza.
Let’s not try to apply logic to the Gaza wound and call ourselves a civilized world. I condemn all language now. That’s what I condemn. The only word that matters now: is “Gaza!”
Israel’s indiscriminate airstrikes continue in Gaza, while extending them to the West Bank in an airstrike on Jenin. Meanwhile, humanitarian aid stalls, fuel shortages put newborns’ lives in peril, and clashes with Hezbollah intensify.
“Can you kindly publish the attached stories if I die?” This is what we have been hearing from the young writers we work with from Gaza in the We Are Not Numbers project.
Zionists are weaponizing Jewish identity to unleash “hell” on Palestinians, and the U.S. is sending billions to Israel claiming to have a mandate from American Jews. Now, more than ever, it is uniquely incumbent on us to stand up for Palestinians.
Netanyahu justifies genocide– this is a struggle between “children of light and children of darkness”– and Biden appears to be bargaining over how many Palestinians civilians Israel can kill.
The meager aid convoy of 20 trucks carrying food and medicine will offer Gazans little reprieve. Meanwhile, Israel continues its genocidal bombing campaign while stepping up its arrests in the West Bank and skirmishes with Hezbollah.
Abdelfattah Abusrour shares two poems from Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem inspired by hosting Palestinian workers from Gaza stuck in the West Bank during Israel’s latest onslaught.
In the wake of the Hamas attack on October 7th, Palestinian Citizens of Israel and residents of occupied Jerusalem are being targeted over their social media activity. Any expressions of Palestinian identity, or support for Gaza, is getting people fired from their jobs, expelled from universities, arrested, and doxxed online by right-wing Israeli groups.
Israel has almost doubled the Palestinian prison population since October 7, and now it’s cracking down on prisoners’ conditions. This is part of Israel’s ongoing genocidal war against Palestinian resistance.