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Palestinian demonstrators protesting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the aftermath of the death of activist Nizar Banat lift banners which say "Leave" during a rally in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on July 3, 2021. (Photo: STR/APA Images)

Despite the ongoing crackdown and the harassment campaign targeting activists on social media, protests against the PA and the killing of Nizar Banat are ongoing. On Saturday, Ramallah saw what was perhaps the largest protest against the PA since demonstrations began two weeks ago. People continued to call for the end of the PA, and the immediate fall of Abbas and his regime.

A seaside cafe damaged by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza city on May 23, 2021. (Photo: Ashraf Amra/APA Images)

Mondoweiss is proud to announce our new series Gaza Diaries, which shares firsthand accounts from Palestinians who lived through the 11-day Israeli attack on Gaza in May 2021, and are now dealing with its aftermath. In this entry Zahra Shaikha amends her diary of life during the Israeli attack with her feelings since the fighting. The result reflects her fragmented reality.

Sixteen year old Palestinian teenager Ahmed Shamsa succumbed to his wounds on Thursday morning, a day after he was shot in the head by Israeli forces in the northern occupied West Bank village of Beita in the Nablus district. According to locals Shamsa is the fifth Palestinian to be killed by Israeli forces in Beita since protests against the establishment of a new Israeli settler outpost in the area began in early May. Shamsa is the ninth Palestinian youth to be killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of the year.

Jewish ultranationalists wave Israeli flags during the "Flags March," next to Damascus gate, outside Jerusalem's Old City, Tuesday, June 15, 2021. (Photo by WAFA via APA Images)

Thousands of Israelis participated in the ultra-nationalist “Flag March” in occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday, marching through the streets of the city chanting “Death to Arabs,” “may your village burn,” and “a second Nakba is coming.” Among the participants of the march were right-wing Israeli lawmakers and members of parliament including Bezalel Smotrich, Shlomo Karai, Itamar Ben Gvir and Orit Struck.

Daniel Jadue (right) and the author

Daniel Jadue is mayor of Recoleta, a municipality of Chile’s capital Santiago, and is running for President. Jadue also traces his roots to the West Bank town of Beit Jala, and has been active in the Palestinian cause since he was 11. “You cannot be for human rights outside Palestine and against human rights for the Palestinians,” Jadue tells Vijay Prashad.

Residents of Jaffa protesting on May 15, 2021. (Photo: AP Photo/Heidi Levine)

Over the past three decades, Israel’s main effort to “Judaize” the “mixed cities” inside Israel has been waged through a war of attrition. This has included moving religious settlers into Palestinian communities, as well as using tourism and archeological preservation to take over land. The coexistence model in Israel’s “mixed cities” was always an illusion, and one that the recent protests finally served to smash.