Many in Gaza are faced with difficult choices that aren’t choices at all. We know that the price of our survival is flight, and the loss of our homeland. When the world calls this displacement “voluntary,” it makes a mockery of the term.
A lack of sanitation in Gaza’s overcrowded shelters is contributing to the rapid spread of infectious diseases, with the situation only expected to worsen. A three-day Israeli raid on the West Bank city of Jenin kills 12 Palestinians, 500 detained.
Israeli troops arrest dozens of Palestinian medical staff at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia. UNGA adopts ceasefire resolution. Israeli forces storm Jenin, killing 7. Netanyahu rejects prospect of PA rule in Gaza after war. Yemen fires on tanker.
Recent reports by Physicians for Human Rights Israel and Human Rights Watch on alleged mass rape and the Ahli Hospital attack fail to meet the basic standards of human rights reporting and feed into Israeli propaganda campaigns justifying genocide.
An Israeli airstrike killed the father of an Al Jazeera correspondent in Jabalia, while Houthi rebels launched a missile on a ship scheduled to dock in Ashdod. In the West Bank, Israeli forces executed a Palestinian boy in Tubas in cold blood.
“This is the call of all the Palestinian families, the thousands of children who were killed, including my son Abdullah. Our call is to all free people across the world. Please stop this genocide.”
I will preserve Lubna’s memory in the best way I know — by writing music in her memory, in memory of her dream, in memory of her passion, in memory of the future stolen from her.
Palestinians have called for a global strike on Monday as Israel continues to kill Palestinians by the thousands, refusing a ceasefire as analysts warn a miscalculation could trigger a regional war.
Refaat harbored a profound aspiration — to change his world through teaching poetry, literature, and writing. That writing is a responsibility to ourselves and the world, that Gaza “writes back” as much as it fights back.
The Biden administration bypasses congressional approval to rush an emergency arms sale to Israel as the WHO warns Gaza’s health system is collapsing and the PA announces 25 percent of Gaza’s urban space has been destroyed.