For the second time, a self-funded civil society list led by young Gazans is seeking a seat in the Palestinian Legislative Council, focusing on immediate hardships, like unemployment, healthcare, and shelter, rather than political ideology.
Through embassy evacuations, academic fellowships, and WHO medical corridors, Palestinians are leaving Gaza in small but steady numbers. Israeli officials call it “voluntary migration,” but the Gazans forced to leave know it’s part of Israel’s plan.
For the fourth consecutive year, hundreds of thousands of Gaza’s children return not to classrooms, but to fabric shelters and makeshift wooden structures, holding onto traces of a school system Israel’s genocide has destroyed.
Trading backpacks for empty jerrycans, the start of a new school year in Gaza shows how radically the meaning of childhood has been redefined.
In the pediatrics department at Nasser Hospital in Gaza, doctors are seeing a surge in stunted growth among children. This lasting mark of Israel’s engineered famine may affect cognition, hormones, and health for generations to come.
Prices have fallen sharply since the famine of 2025, but with purchasing power destroyed by nearly three years of war and displacement, food on the shelves remains out of reach for the majority of Gaza’s population.
Whenever a crisis emerges in Gaza — a water crisis, a food shortage, dwindling medical supplies — the alarms are sounded and just enough aid trickles in to make the problem fade away. Then it’s deliberately replaced by another crisis.
As Israel continues to prevent the entry of reconstruction materials into Gaza, Palestinians rebuild their homes with salvaged rebar, recovered limestone, and clay. “This is the evidence of our love for our land,” Fayez Abu Shamala tells Mondoweiss.
As Israeli strikes leveled museums and 5,000-year-old sites across Gaza, volunteers dug through the rubble by hand to save what they could. Meanwhile, looted artifacts quietly resurfaced in a Paris exhibition.
Israel regards any kite flown in Gaza as an “act of war” and has ordered the army to treat them like drones. “I don’t know what we can do that won’t anger Israel,” says Muhammad Owais, 13, who struggles to understand the rules of this new reality.