Gaza’s landscape is dominated by tents that have become homes to the hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians. But building a tent and living in one with your entire family isn’t easy.
Palestinians fear that if a regional war breaks out, Israel might try to use the opportunity to carry out a second Nakba.
The ICJ’s authoritative ruling on the Israeli occupation makes clear that boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against Israeli occupation, colonization, and apartheid are not only a moral imperative but also a legal obligation.
During the past week, Israeli jets have been flying very low over Lebanon, a constant reminder of the looming threat of war. “If they want to wage war on us, so be it. Perhaps it could lessen the pressure on Gaza,” my mother says.
Israeli media coverage of the rape of Palestinian detainees demonstrates the widespread acceptance within Israeli society of sexual violence as a weapon of genocide.
Hamas demands a plan to implement the original ceasefire deal proposed by the U.S. last July ahead of a new round of negotiations set to start this week.
The bodies of Palestinians killed in the latest Israeli massacre in Gaza were destroyed so far beyond recognition that doctors have only been able to give grieving families an anonymous bag of human remains to bury.
If Kamala Harris wins, does she have it within her to reset the U.S. relationship with the Middle East by forcing Israel to face accountability for its crimes?
“The [recent] Advisory Opinion by the International Court of Justice,” Archbishop Justin Welby writes, “makes definitively clear that Israel’s presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is unlawful and needs to end as rapidly as possible.”