Abdul Rahman Katanani’s art is not an identification with the refugee camp’s misery, but an attempt to show all that is beautiful and painful in it, showing the camp to those who can’t enter it, those who don’t want to, and those who fear it.
A year after the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, the killers remain free, shielded by a broken international judicial system. But a light can be glimpsed in those who carry forward Shireen’s memory.
Muntaha Aqel grew up among “the children of the rocks” of the First Intifada, and lived her life in service of her people’s liberation.
Abdul-Razeq Farraj’s treatment for a malignant tumor is being delayed by the Israel Prison Services — part of a broader systematic Israeli policy of medical negligence of Palestinian prisoners.
The mass outpouring of national unity that followed the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh reflects a historic moment of Palestinian struggle and consciousness. What began last year during the Unity Intifada in reaction to the attacks on Gaza and Sheikh Jarrah has now continued through the Gilboa Prison escape and the martyrdom of Abu Akleh. Palestinian political and civil society leaders must now maintain the momentum of this solidarity that Abu Akleh’s departure has left.