Israeli soldiers shot three-year-old Rayyan Abu al-Ajeen in his father’s arms and mocked his father’s pleas as he cried for his dying son. The father says they were in the part of Gaza designated as “safe” for civilians during the “ceasefire.”
Israeli leaders recently announced plans to implement a “voluntary emigration plan from Gaza.” This echoes Zionists’ proposals since the 1800s to force Palestinians off the land. But they have always failed because Palestinians are the land.
“This is one of the proudest things I’ve done.” Mondoweiss talks to author susan abulhawa about “Every Moment Is A Life,” a powerful new anthology featuring 18 Palestinian writers abulhawa worked with during multiple trips to Gaza amid the genocide.
The Israeli army is targeting Gaza’s remaining residential blocks that were left standing after the ceasefire, leaving even more Palestinians homeless. “Fear has become a permanent guest in our homes,” one resident told Mondoweiss.
Ahead of the Eid al-Adha holiday, many in Gaza continue to face displacement, destruction, and uncertainty, and are struggling to secure necessities while trying to preserve fragments of celebration for their families.
Gaza was the first AI war of the 21st century, and if Global Trumpism succeeds, it will become a testing ground for its vision to dominate the future: Pax Silica, or the merger of the high-tech military-surveillance complex and transnational finance.
Israeli forces have pushed past the “Yellow Line” that divides the Gaza Strip in half and now control 65% of the territory. Residents call the new border Gaza’s “apartheid wall.”
“Every moment I connect my life now to those years after the Nakba,” says 85-year-old Fatima Ibrahim Khalfallah. “This Nakba is more terrifying, more deadly, more destructive. . . The same hunger, thirst, and fear — but multiplied many times over.”
A rodent bounty is sweeping across Gaza offering 34 cents a mouse and $1.7 per rat, amid warnings from health officials that over 70,000 people have been infected by rodent-borne illnesses in the Strip.
More than 70,000 infections have been recorded in Gaza this year, as rats bite children as they sleep and skin diseases kill those prevented from receiving treatment abroad. Health officials say a plague outbreak is no longer a remote possibility.