In 2021, Israel killed 22 members of Palestinian artist Zainab Alqolaq’s family in an attack on their home in Gaza. Today, Alqolaq is struggling to survive the current genocide, yet she’s determined to see justice prevail.
In 2021 two pro-Palestine protestors were accused of carrying out an antisemitic attack against Jewish diners in LA, but that’s not what actually happened.
Even after getting her acceptance letter to study abroad, Doaa now has to worry about how to get out of Gaza.
Palestinian injuries in Gaza have not healed yet from last year’s Israeli assault and there is now fear of a coming war. In Gaza, there is no post-traumatic stress disorder because war is never over.
May has always been a month marked by tragedy, anger, tension, and revolution for Palestinians since we were expelled from our lands on May 15th, 1948. This year has sadly been no different, as we still struggle the process the events of May a year ago.
These words you’re about to read are one year old. And yet every time I read them I relive them again. I wrote this article as a reflection of the most horrific night that my family and I witnessed during the last Israeli war against Gaza in May 2021.
This Ramadan, hundreds of families in Gaza sat down for iftar with incomplete tables after losing loved ones to Israeli airstrikes last May.
According to a classified cable, Israel’s government is launching a campaign to discredit a United Nations commission investigating the country’s 2021 attack on Gaza. Axios’ Barak Ravid reports that Israel’s Foreign Ministry sent a cable, to all the country’s diplomatic missions, referring to the investigation as a “top priority” and announcing that it’s launching a diplomatic effort to derail the probe. They also expressed concern that the Commission of Inquiry’s report (which is expected to be released in June) will refer to Israel as an “apartheid state.”
2021 was a watershed year for Palestinians. The struggle for Palestinian freedom and liberation saw unprecedented levels of global solidarity and unity amongst Palestinians despite their forced fragmentation. The year did not come without its challenges, however.
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.