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The Place That Must Not Be Named

– 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.  […]

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Graffiti Sprayed on the Western Wall

– Yahav Zohar – September 2nd, 2025 – Did you hear about the graffiti sprayed on the Western Wall? It made the news in a small wayalmost a month ago. Some outlets even showed the photo, Hebrew letters on the ancientstones יש שואה בעזה “There is a shoa (holocaust) in Gaza”. Earlier that evening, the […]

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Cash Dries Up In Gaza

– Hani Qarmoot, Gaza – August 23rd, 2025 –Israel has blocked the transfer of currency into Gaza; the result is catastrophic. – You try to buy a kilo of flour in Gaza. You open your wallet; what’s inside? A faded 10-shekel note, barely held together by a strip of tape. No one wants it – […]

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Letter From Jerusalem

– by Yahav Zohar – August 20th, 2025 – In Jerusalem, too, this has been one of the hottest summers on record. It’s a harsh season ina harsh place, but if you’re going to be in this country, Jerusalem’s a good choice. We’re upin the hills, and right at the edge of the desert, so […]

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Gaza destruction

Global leaders must finally stand up to Israel before it’s too late for Gaza

” It’s clear that Netanyahu’s ‘messianic fantasy’ is full control of the territory. Staying silent is complicity”

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Israel destroys Palestine’s last surviving seed bank, echoing a colonial legacy of erasure

– by Walid El Houri August 7th, 2025 – Destroying seeds is destroying a people’s history and its future. On July 31, 2025, Israeli forces bulldozed the seed‑multiplication unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC’s) seed bank in Hebron. Built from the ground up beginning in 2010, the unit had served as the only […]

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Gaza Humanitarian foundation

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: Aid as a Weapon

Originally published by Al-Shabaka, The Palestine Policy Network. – Yara Asi,Tariq Kenney-Shawa· August 5th, 2025 – Published under creative commons – In March, Israel shattered the ceasefire in Gaza by resuming its bombing campaign at full force and enforcing a total blockade on humanitarian aid—ushering in a new phase of the ongoing genocide. In response to […]

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Bernie Sanders to Force Vote on Blocking Bombs for Israel’s Destruction of Gaza

– Truthout – 1/4/2025 This article by Mike Ludwig and was originally published by Truthout and republished here in accordance with licensing regulation. It discusses a vote in the U.S. Senate to block the Trump administration from selling an additional $8.8 billion in certain bombs and weapons to Israel. Sen. Bernie Sanders announced on Thursday that he […]

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In the West Bank, Palestinian Unemployment is Now Israeli policy

– by Haitham S. – 21/1/2024 This article was first published in +972 and we are grateful to share it here with the permission of the author. Haitham is an activist and community advocate from the village of Um al-Khair in Area C of the occupied West Bank. Here he discusses the long term economic effects of the […]

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Public Statement: We Stand With Zochrot!

– by the Green Olive Collective – 9/1/2025 German officials informed our colleagues at Zochrot this week that their advocacy for the right of return is “unacceptable” and German government funded peacebuilding initiatives will no longer be able to support them. In light of this we at the Green Olive Collective publicly affirm our support both […]

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‘We must use every tool to resist’: Israeli teens jailed for refusing military service

– by Oren Ziv – 1/1/2025 This article was first published in +972 and we are grateful to share it here with permission. Oren is an activist , community advocate, and joint found of the political photography collective Activestills. Here he interviews two Israeli teenage conscientious objectors as they were about to enter military prison for their decision […]

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They Cancelled Christmas in Bethlehem

– by Fred Schlomka – 17/12/2024 It is only a 12-mile cycle ride from Jerusalem to Bethlehem but it is a world apart from modern-day Israel, where, despite the ongoing killings and displacement in Gaza and the West Bank, Jerusalem’s Jewish residents bustle through the city, going to work, shopping in well-stocked supermarkets, and picnicking […]

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