Yahav Zohar / March 2026 Sitting at my desk in Jerusalem, looking at the lovely spring outside, occasionally the windowpane shakes in its frame. High above interceptor missiles are exploding, trying to stop an Iranian missile heading toward Tel Aviv. Once every few hours the interceptions are particularly close and a siren goes off and […]
Yahav Zohar / March 2026 Israelis whose work is not considered “vital” were mostly at home for the first days of this war. Like the first days of the pandemic, it was a good time to tend one’s home and garden, clean out drawers and closets, and catch up on correspondence. By now, day 11, […]
As missiles, drones, rockets, ballistics, and counter-ballistics collide in the skies above us, we stand united against this war of aggression. Like all those living in the region or observing it with any attention, members of the Green Olive Collective know that bombing is not the way democracy, stability, justice, or collective freedom are built. […]
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 – 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. […]
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 […]
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. […]
– by Anna Lippman – 5/8/2024 This article was first published in Rabble and we are grateful to share it here with the permission of the author. In this article Anna Lippman shares her eyewitness account of life in Palestine’s West Bank as residents face increasing harassment from illegal Israeli settlers. The breaking news alert chimes on my […]
– by Anna Lippman – 29/7/2024 This article was first published in Mondoweiss and we are grateful to share it here with the permission of the author. Anna Lippman recently attended the Burin Kite Festival, a multi-day festival of Palestinian culture, livelihood, and resilience in the face of military occupation. Members of the Green olive Collective were […]
– by Janan Abdu – 28/5/2024 This article was originally published by +972 and republished here with their permission. It discusses how horrific practices in sites like Sde Teiman can continue with impunity, in violation of international law and medical ethics. For months, revelations have emerged about the nightmarish transformation of Israel’s Sde Teiman army base, located […]
