In a striking revelation, The Intercept has uncovered that YouTube deleted the channels of three leading Palestinian human rights organisations last October: Al-Haq Foundation, Al-Mezan Centre for Human Rights, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR). Hundreds of field and docum...
In Gaza, the pain does not end with death. Even the dead are not spared the brutality of occupation. There, where the story should end with condolences, new chapters of oppression begin: bodies held captive, mutilated remains, and mothers waiting for farewells that never come. With the imp...
In one of the displacement camps in Khan Younis, amidst rows of tents where dust mingles with the smell of gunpowder, ten-year-old Jamila Basla sits silently, her hand hidden behind her back, watching Gaza children from afar. She once ran among them with lightness and joy, before play turn...
At a time when digital infrastructure plays a pivotal role in the global economy, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip find themselves isolated from the world, amid the near-total collapse of communications and internet networks as a result of Israel’s widespread military targeting of digital in...
The month of October in Gaza is no longer associated with the sounds of harvesting and the smell of olives, as it was for decades. The olive trees that once stretched across thousands of dunams throughout Gaza are now silent, turned into dead land covered with traces of Israel’s bombing an...
The Network of Civil Society Organisations in the Gaza Strip has warned of a rapid deterioration in humanitarian conditions due to the Israeli occupation’s continued refusal to allow the entry of materials needed to rehabilitate the destroyed water networks. In a press statement, civil soc...
In one of Gaza’s quiet neighbourhoods, there was a child who ran through the alleys every morning, carrying his small school bag as if it contained the whole world. His name was Sami Bilal Abu Youssef, an eight-year-old boy, pure as the dawn, who loved life as much as a bird loves its wing...
Tess Ingram, spokesperson for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said that more than one million children in the Gaza Strip are still in urgent need of water and food. Meanwhile, 650,000 children need to return to school, while thousands go to bed hungry every night. UNICEF: one ...
On one of the streets of Gaza that Israel’s army left only days ago, eight-year-old Adam was sifting through the rubble of what used to be his home, searching for his old toy. He didn’t know that among the stones, death was waiting for children like him. He spotted something that looked li...
A new Israel poll from Israeli Channel 12 has revealed that most Israelis don’t believe their own government is in charge of the ongoing assault on Gaza — they think Washington is. The survey, carried out by the Madgam Research Institute, found that 67% of Israelis say the United States is...