Lebanese farmers are losing their livelihood as Israeli forces uproot centuries-old trees, destroy olive groves, and demolish entire towns and villages, rendering them uninhabitable.
Israeli forces have forced 407 Palestinian families, nearly 2,650 people, from their homes in Hebron, sealing the city’s entrances and closing the Ibrahimi Mosque to Muslim worshipers. Displaced residents describe being given one hour and one bag.
Covering Israeli settler attacks on the Palestinian olive harvest, Mondoweiss’ Palestine Staff Writer asks how to tell a story when you and the subject are one and the same.
Israel is detaining international observers for one simple reason: to prevent us from reporting on its ethnic cleansing project in Palestine.
Since August, Israeli settlers have blocked Palestinians from Umm Safa from reaching the village’s only cemetery. Residents say it’s the latest in a series of escalations by settlers — backed by the Israeli army — who are trying to expel them.
After three years of genocide, two decades of a criminal siege, and a century of occupation, we must confront Zionism from all directions until Palestine is free.
Settler attacks in the West Bank are ongoing with the enthusiastic approval of the Israeli army, as Palestinians are barred from accessing their own land, and their olive groves, for the fourth year in a row.
From my uncle’s exasperated sighs over olive groves we can no longer reach, to the iron gates the Israeli army has erected at the edge of my village, there is one word we use to cope: ‘aadi’, or, “normal” in Arabic. But this reality is anything but.
Nearly 38 percent of Palestinian students in East Jerusalem now study the Israeli curriculum, while the rest of the students’ textbooks are being censored line by line, stripping mention of Jerusalem, prisoners, the Nakba, and freedom fighters.
As part of a U.S.-brokered agreement with Israel and Lebanon, residents of some southern villages are cautiously returning to their homes. What they have found is a shell of their former lives, and a daily menacing presence of the Israeli occupation.