Regions / Middle East / Palestine

Francesca Albanese has stepped out of the United Nations’ structures to speak directly to the world’s people about the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Bethany Rielly meets her.

Having facilitated Israel’s settler-colonial project, the UN is now helpless to pick up the pieces. By Hamza Yusuf.

Poet and polemicist Mohammed El-Kurd chronicles the erasure of Palestinians – in voice as well as body. By Hamza Yusuf.

Without a reckoning over their support for Israeli genocide, the US Democrats are doomed to fail, argues Decca Muldowney.

Disaster appeals that airbrush Israel’s role in the Gaza genocide are not just offensive – they’re dangerous, argues Nick Dearden.

Israel intensifies deportations of international activists from the West Bank, aiming to isolate Palestinians amid escalating settler violence, writes Bethany Rielly.

The possibility of reaching a one-state solution seems more distant than ever, but it remains the most obvious, direct and logical route to end the conflict and build a just future for Palestinians and Israelis, argues Ghada Karmi.

Nanjala Nyabola reports on Western media's reporting on Israel’s war on Palestine.

‘Olympics Against Genocide in Gaza’ by Ameen Alhabarah (Saudi Arabia).

The United Nations has failed to halt Israel’s war crimes in Gaza. As the void of legitimacy under the organization grows, Mark Seddon asks whether it’s time to look for an alternative.

Drawing pictures of Gaza’s historical buildings destroyed during Israel’s ongoing assault.

Hamas under the bed, by Zoe Holman.

Report on the destruction in Gaza, by Zoe Holman.

Report on activist arrests in Egypt, by Lara Gibson.

Palestine’s poets, novelists, musicians and journalists have not only voiced their people’s liberation struggle but also driven it. Decca Muldowney charts their role in resisting annihilation and imagining a free Palestine

Surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah talks to Bethany Rielly about healthcare as resistance and his experiences in Gaza’s besieged hospitals.

Israel’s use and abuse of environmentalism should serve as a warning writes Henry Luzzatto.

Press the trigger. Illustration by Kate Evans.

Cancelled: Jewish journalist Masha Gessen.

Gaza is another reason for division in polarized Brazil. By Leonardo Sakamoto.