by Jocelyn Qassis , March 2026 From Escalation to Entrenchment In the months following October 7, 2023, mobility across the West Bank tightened in ways that were immediately visible yet historically familiar. Entrances to Palestinian towns were sealed with earth mounds and metal gates. Flying checkpoints appeared without warning along major transport corridors linking northern […]
by Jocelyn Qassis , March 2026 “When they burned the hives, it wasn’t just honey we lost.” At sunrise in the hills south of Hebron, a beekeeper lifts the lid of a wooden hive. The air is sharp with thyme. Bees rise and settle in a controlled hum. Inside, order prevails: wax foundations, carefully formed […]
by Jocelyn Qassis – February 2026 – They did not leave all at once. They left slowly, until nothing was left. In conflicts shaped by headlines, numbers often blur into abstraction. Yet sometimes statistics point to something far more concrete: land that is no longer accessible, homes that no longer stand, and communities that no […]
A Reality Beyond the Headlines At 5:30 in the morning, the bulldozers arrive before the sun. In parts of the occupied West Bank — from the rural hills of Masafer Yatta to the divided streets of the old city of Hebron — families wake not to alarm clocks, but to demolition orders and military patrols. […]
As we move into 2026, we do so with clarity rather than illusion. The past year was marked by escalating state violence, intensifying settler attacks, forced displacement, and deepening political fragmentation. For many human rights defenders, 2025 was a year of growing isolation. But it was also a year defined by presence. In a moment […]
The Dust of Our Ancestors The ground trembles before the machine arrives. For Abed, a boy whose life has been measured by the rhythms of the seasons and the endurance of stone, the sound is the roar of a monster. He stands frozen on the rocky soil of Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills […]
Between Celebration, Memory, and the Unfinished Search for Peace • By Fred Schlomka • A City Reawakens After Silence It has been three years since Christmas was last celebrated in Bethlehem due to the horrific events of October 7th and the Gaza apocalypse. The contrast between this year’s celebration and last year is striking. The […]
– By Fred Schlomka & Yahav Zohar – First published in the Shetland Times – 28th November 2025 – The article was written is support of the campaign to persuade the Shetland Island Council to divest from Israel. – What is this Israel/Gaza ‘ceasefire’? It is a mechanism that has allowed Israel to maintain the […]
by Yahav Zohar – October 11th, 2025 – A city was destroyed. In fact, several cities were. First there were bombs and missiles from the air, high rise apartment buildings collapsed and the people buried within. Finally it was armored bulldozers and unmanned ‘suicide’ APC’s collapsing what remained. Like the Roman army ploughing Jerusalem flat […]
GENEVA – September 16th, 2025 — UN experts* today warned of the severe economic emergency and catastrophic harm to human rights stemming from Israel’s attacks on the Gaza strip and its wider financial stranglehold across the occupied Palestinian territory. “Economic life in Gaza has been decimated by sheer physical destruction, blockade and siege, and repeated […]
– Yahav Zohar – September 15th, 2025 – A tour group visits the Gaza border area with Yahav. – Last Thursday, out by the fence of the Gaza Strip, we stood to the side of road 232 and watched plumes of smoke go up between the towerblocks of Gaza city, 3 or 4 miles away. […]
