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Six Palestinian human rights activists were targeted by spyware from the Israeli surveillance company NSO Group, a new report revealed on Monday, in the first reported instance of Palestinian activists being targeted by the surveillance company. The six activists are all members of the six Palestinian civil society organizations recently branded “terrorist organizations” by Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz.

Ghada Hania was raised in the UAE on bedtime stories of Palestine from her mother, but when she moved to Gaza at the age of 12, reality clashed with the idealized version of homeland in her head.

Screenshot of B'Tselem video of Israeli soldier taunting Palestinians in occupied Hebron, May 13, 2021.

“You are very fat. And ugly,” an Israeli soldier says to a Palestinian woman as he raids her home in occupied Palestine May 13. While the same day another Israeli soldier shouts homophobic abuse at a household and threatens to rape a woman. Two new videos from the human rights group B’Tselem document its charge that Israel maintains an “apartheid regime”. While settlers hurl anti-Muslim racism as soldiers do nothing.

The two state solution has been killed by Israeli expansion, and Jonathan Kuttab argues for the development of a program for one hybrid state that would be a truly unified democracy by allowing both Jews and Palestinians to “validate the essential elements of both Zionism and Palestinian Nationalism,” while rejecting those elements in each “which degrade or deny the Other.”