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Collapse of the Health System in Gaza and Restricted Access to Healthcare in the West Bank: Health Genocide and the Weapon of Siege

Jocelyn Qassis – June 2026 The health system in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, particularly in the Gaza Strip, is experiencing an unprecedented catastrophic collapse, while Palestinians in the West Bank face increasing restrictions on access to basic healthcare. This crisis is not a result of natural circumstances or a temporary shortage, but rather a product […]

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Settlement Expansion and Displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank: The Policy of Creeping Annexation and Dismantling Palestinian Presence

Jocelyn Qassis – May 2026 Settlement Expansion and the Forced Displacement of Palestinians in the West BankHow Settler Colonial Policies Are Reshaping Geography, Demography, and Palestinian Existence Israeli settlement expansion in the Occupied West Bank has evolved into one of the clearest manifestations of systematic territorial annexation in the modern era. What was once presented […]

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Life Under Closure: The West Bank After October 2023, Intensification Within an Engineered System

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 […]

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Honeybee Farms in Palestine

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 […]

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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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Rulings Don’t Rebuild Houses: The ICJ Ruling Impacts on the Front Lines of the West Bank

– 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 […]

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In the West Bank Village of Burin, Kites Are a Form of Resistance

– 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 […]

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