Since Israel severed the water lines feeding Ras al-Ahmar over a month ago, its 47 farming families have been rationing what little they have and weighing whether to sell their livestock and leave.
I didn’t choose to make my identity political. But for Palestinian journalists, even naming our own grief and experiences gets branded as ‘ideological’.
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.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency has excluded six Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon from emergency cash assistance, as Israeli attacks and Western donor cuts leave families choosing between food and medicine.
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.
A UAE-sponsored plan by exiled Fatah dissident Muhammad Dahlan to “end Palestinian division” has quietly become the working platform for an unlikely electoral alliance with Hamas. Here is what this could mean for the future of Palestinian politics.
Amid Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Palestinians with hearing impairments have been left particularly vulnerable, unable to hear incoming missiles or evacuation orders. Fadl Kuraz is one of the few who have devoted their lives to helping them survive.
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.