Throughout the Gaza genocide, testimonies have documented the Israeli army’s use of Palestinian women as human shields. These are not isolated acts by rogue soldiers but a systematic practice known to Israeli commanders and acknowledged by soldiers.

United in grief over their sons, either killed or jailed by Israel, these Palestinian mothers formed a “league” to support one another. But as Israel’s violence expands, and new mothers join their league, the group is finding it harder to operate.

Israel is reviving a settlement plan that would annex a strategic tract of land east of Jerusalem and effectively split the West Bank in two, “burying” the possibility of any future Palestinian state in the territory.