One month into the so-called Gaza ceasefire, Noor Alyacoubi shows that very little has actually changed for Palestinians. Israel keeps bombing Gaza, the economy is shattered, and parents struggle to find enough food to keep their kids alive.
Israel has chopped Gaza in half with a “yellow line” that puts more than half the Strip under direct Israeli military control. Tareq Hajjaj reports that Palestinians are being shot and killed simply for trying to cross back to their homes or even approaching the boundary.
Qassam Muaddi tracks a new bill in the Israeli Knesset to impose the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners, a move that far-right leaders want to stretch into open permission for extrajudicial killings. Jonathan Ofir comments on a conference for Yitzhak Rabin that accidentally reveals how deeply the so-called Israeli peace camp helped pave the way for the Gaza genocide.
Donald Trump is pushing Israel–Saudi normalization to lock in U.S. weapons deals and regional dominance, Mitchell Plitnick explains, even if a formal agreement never appears. Back in U.S. politics, Michael Arria shows how AIPAC, once a gatekeeper to elected office, has started to look like a political hazard as more candidates decide Israel is now a liability, not an asset.
In Jenin, David Lombeida’s photo essay captures everyday life in the refugee camp before Israel forcibly emptied it out earlier this year in a brutal ethnic cleansing operation. Majd Awad follows the story of the Jenin Freedom Theater, a pillar of “cultural resistance” that has been forced to shut down and is now gathering stories of displacement instead of staging plays.
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Must read: One month in, the ‘ceasefire’ in Gaza exists only in name
Noor Alyacoubi: Palestinians hoped the Gaza ceasefire with Israel would offer a chance to recover from two years of genocide, but a month later, Israel continues to strike with impunity, the economic crisis remains, and nutritious food is nearly impossible to find.
Genocide in Gaza
🟨 Tareq Hajjaj: As part of the ceasefire, Gaza has been split in half by the so-called ‘yellow line,’ where Israel’s military controls just over 50% of the Strip. Palestinians are being killed for trying to cross or even get close to the line.
🇮🇱 Qassam Muaddi: Israel is advancing a dangerous bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners. Right-wing leaders want to go even further and use the bill to give Israeli forces the authority to carry out extrajudicial killings.
⬅️ Jonathan Ofir: A conference commemorating Yitzhak Rabin unintentionally highlighted the Israeli left’s central role in laying the groundwork and carrying out the Gaza genocide.
Catch-up
🇸🇦 Mitchell Plitnick: Donald Trump aims to push Israel-Saudi normalization next week during his meeting with Mohammed bin Salman. MBS favors a weapons deal and a defense pact, while Israel will be in the background, working to ensure its regional dominance remains intact.
🗳️ Michael Arria: For years, AIPAC played a key role in U.S. politics as a campaign financing powerhouse, but now aspiring candidates are distancing themselves from the group. What lies ahead for the Lobby as the Gaza genocide has made Israel a political liability?
📸 David Lombeida: Jenin refugee camp was completely emptied of its residents during Israel’s ethnic cleansing operation earlier this year. These are photos of life in the camp before its most recent Nakba.
🇵🇸 Felix Nobes: Inside one Palestinian family’s harrowing experience of having their son’s dead body withheld by Israel as a bargaining chip. Israel has held the bodies of 726 Palestinians in refrigerators and the so-called “cemetery of numbers” for decades.
🇧🇷 Andressa Oliveira Soares: Brazilians have long supported Palestine, but the country’s economic and military ties with Israel continue to deepen. As Israel’s links to Brazil’s domestic inequality, agribusiness, and state violence become clearer, Palestinian solidarity grows.
📖 Mark Braverman: “Thou Shalt Not Stand Idly By: Jews of Conscience on Palestine” gathers over a century of Jewish voices opposing Zionism. The moral clarity of its contributors is more needed than ever as the self-proclaimed Jewish state commits a genocide in Gaza.
🎭 Majd Awad: The Jenin Freedom Theater, an embodiment of the “cultural resistance” genre of committed art, ceased operations after the Israeli army ethnically cleansed the Jenin refugee camp’s residents. The theater is now gathering stories of displacement.
