“West Bank impunities.”
The starvation siege has begun. 14 JUNE—What follows is a series of alerts on settler and I.O.F. violence that arrived by text beginning in the second week of May. In photographs and videos, they document incidents near the villages of…
“Demolitions.”
Destruction and self-destruction. In the following update, Qadir al–Thaer—whose previous reporting appears here and here—reports on the recent demolition of a large residential building in the Palestinian community of Beit Ummar. The town of 18,000 inhabitants is located eleven kilometers north of the…
“Poisoning ‘the Holy Land.’”
I met Adnan al–Abayyat last November in Kisan, his rural village in the Bethlehem Governorate. Kisan is 11 km southeast of the city of Bethlehem—as the indigenous hooded crow flies. It is a rather longer distance—27.5 km—on the dangerous and…
“Targeting refugee camps.”
Zionist terror spreads. Please visit the original article to listen to the audio and video clips. Home demolitions surged in the northern West Bank governorates of Tulkarm and Jenin during the first week of March. On 6 March, the United…
“The I.O.F. ‘weaponizes’ UNRWA.”
Another day in al–Arroub. This report first appeared in West Bank Alerts. 21 FEBRUARY—On Tuesday of last week, 11 February, a text arrived at 5:53 a.m. (American Central Time), along with a video showing an I.O.F. raid in progress in the…
“The banality of violence.”
Daily life in a refugee camp. This piece appears simultaneously in West Bank Alerts. Please visit the original article to view the videos. Israel’s attacks on West Bank refugee camps intensified in the immediate aftermath of the Gaza ceasefire. As reported last Thursday…
“Art Theft.”
Stealing the future of Palestine. RAMALLAH, 6 DECEMBER—I met Saed in Aida refugee camp in the first week in November when he gave me a tour of the crowded community in which he grew up. A young man still in…
A village under fire.
Israel escalates on the West Bank. Hebron, 26 NOVEMBER—The village of al–Mughayyir, 60 km north from here, was under continual occupation by the Israeli army for three days, beginning last Friday. The I.O.F. launched its raid at midnight, according to Amin…
“‘Alhamdulillah.’”
Resilience in the West Bank. The morning was already unbearably warm when I walked out of the Jaffa Gate. Pulling my suitcase behind me, I descended a long flight of steps to the road below to catch a bus for…
“‘Our soul is here.’”
The Judaization of Jerusalem. A taxi dropped me off on a busy street outside of the Jaffa Gate near the old city of Jerusalem. It was already dark. I had just flown into Ben–Gurion Airport to begin work on “Palestinian…
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