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Palestine
Israel Announces Total Blockade of Gaza Strip
Israel's defense minister pledged to block food, fuel and electricity, steps that experts decry as a clear war crime.
Israeli and Palestinian Death Tolls Skyrocket on Second Day of Fighting
At least 370 Palestinians and over 600 Israelis have now been killed in the escalating violence.
Palestinian Resistance in Gaza Launches Historic Surprise Attack on Israel
Israeli PM Netanyahu declared a state of war after convoys of Palestinian fighters breached the Gaza border fence.
The Death of a 5-Year-Old Child Sheds Light on Life Under Israeli Apartheid
A new book details the bureaucratic barriers and indignities that make the lives of Palestinians even more difficult.
On Yom Kippur, Solidarity With Palestinians Is a Sacred Act
Both words and actions matter. Let's reject euphemisms, decry violence against Palestinians and fight apartheid.
Oslo Accords Were Signed 30 Years Ago. They Killed the Two-State Solution.
The Oslo Accords doomed the prospects for a just resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Netanyahu Shows Map of “New Middle East” — Without Palestine — to United Nations
Netanyahu's map makes clear “what normalization really seeks: eliminating Palestine and Palestinians from the region.”
Israel’s Sex Assault Law Isn’t About Protecting Women. It’s About Racial Purity.
It’s telling that sexual assaults by Arabs on Jews will face harsher sentences if deemed “nationalistically motivated.”
Far Right Attack on Israel’s Supreme Court Is About Occupation, Not Democracy
Extremists want to increase Israeli squatter-settlements in the West Bank and perhaps soon annex the occupied territory.
The Story of Palestine’s Colonization, and Resistance, Is Embodied in the Trees
Israeli settlers create non-native pine forests on occupied land at the expense of Palestinian lives and olive groves.