It has been over one hundred days since Israel killed veteran Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and assaulted the crowds of Palestinian mourners and pallbearers at her funeral. Since then, Shireen’s Al Jazeera colleagues have joined her family, fellow Palestinian journalists, members of Congress, politicians worldwide, human rights groups, and press unions to demand that the Biden administration hold Israel accountable for her murder. The last thing they wanted was for their calls to still be unmet after one hundred days. Worse, they have been ignored and dismissed.

Israeli mailing restrictions in Gaza have resulted in an effective book ban for two million Palestinians.

The truth is, after 74 years Palestinians have never been more united. We will restore our country, we will restore our homes. We will rebuild them, even more beautifully than ever.

Zionism has fragmented the multi-religious population in Palestine geographically, religiously, socially, and politically. In the process it has denied them one of the simplest rights a human being could ever yearn for — the right to pray in peace.

Mohammed Rafik Mhawesh reflects on the ongoing trauma, and resilience, of life in Gaza following the Israeli attacks in May. “While the international media celebrates the “calm” in Gaza, my family and I are still unable to sleep,” he writes.

Mohammed Rafik Mhawesh writes from Gaza, “U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah was not welcome by the average Palestinian citizen in Gaza. What we needed from our leadership was a wholehearted demand to immediately end U.S. imperialism, but instead we got handshakes that amounted to little more than talks between the landlords and the thieves.”