The ancient Palestinian town of Sebastia in the northern West Bank is a testament to 5,000 years of Palestinian history. Israel announced that it plans to seize the village and its archaeological sites.
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.
The violence of apartheid across the West Bank isn’t just physical. Israel relies on constant psychological warfare to terrorize rural Palestinian communities and make them live with the perpetual dread of army raids and settler pogroms.
Palestinian refugee camps are known for producing resistance fighters and footballers. But Israel’s ongoing onslaught in Gaza and the West Bank is erasing every aspect of Palestinian life, including sports.
They can deport every last one of us, but they cannot erase the spirit of Palestinian resistance. That is what they fear.
I’m so sorry that I took you for granted, my beloved Gaza. I have not felt a moment of safety since leaving you.
Palestinian women have been forced to demonstrate remarkable resilience while navigating the harsh realities of Israel’s genocidal war for themselves and their families.
Before I sleep, I have this image of your body under the rubble. It flashes into my mind and makes my heart sink. Then I pick up my phone and go to our photos.
The arrests and violence against protesters are meant to tire the movement for liberation and scare us into complacency. They are afraid of the power we hold as a collective.
Israel has been clear about its plans to force Palestinians from Gaza, and Egypt is now reportedly building an area to receive them. Palestinians need a respite from Israel’s brutality, but mass displacement into the Sinai would be a catastrophe.