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Apr 4, 2026
How to cross a road under apartheid
HUMANS OF MASAFER YATTA, FEB 03, 2026
Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel
DROP SITE NEWS, DEC 2, 2025
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This Is the Moment of Moral Reckoning in Gaza
Sean Carroll, New York Times, May 6, 2025
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News Graveyards: How Dangers To War Reporters Endanger The World
Nick Turse, Watson Institute For International And Public Affairs, April 1, 2025
Why Hamas just agreed to release an Israeli-American captive
QASSAM MUADDI, MONDOWEISS, MARCH 14, 2025
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Israel cuts off Gaza aid to pressure Hamas for new ceasefire proposal
TIA GOLDENBERG AND SAMY MAGDY, AP, March 2, 2025
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Thousands Head North
On Demand News, Jan 27, 2025
Israel Invades Jenin Days After Signing Gaza “Ceasefire”
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS AND MARIAM BARGHOUTI, DROP SITE NEWS, JAN 21, 2025
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My Israeli Neighbors Are Rejoicing: Trump Will Make Israel Great(er)
DIARY FROM A PALESTINIAN IN ISRAEL Diana Buttu on how Trump’s ‘Israel first’ Cabinet picks…
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Gaza Security Forces Ambush Gang Accused of Looting Aid with Israeli Support
The gang members are “operating in cooperation with the Israeli forces” to target aid convoys,…
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Israel has all but ended medical evacuations from Gaza
For the past 6 months, only 237 patients have been evacuated out of Gaza AMBA…
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Israel claims there’s a secret Hezbollah bunker underneath a Beirut hospital
But no-one else can find it By Middle East correspondent Matthew Doran, Cherine Yazbeck, and Orly…
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Israel is turning northern Gaza into a killing cage
With international media coverage shifting to potential war with Iran, Israel is intensifying its campaign…
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Palestinian Journalist Mujahed al-Saadi Violently Arrested by Israeli Forces in Home Raid
Al-Saadi is being held in administrative detention at Megiddo, a prison known for abuse SHARIF…
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Israelis urge Netanyahu to accept U.S. ceasefire deal as Hamas gives its response Hezbollah has…
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“It is a narrow strip of beach on the coast that lacks the basic infrastructure—like…
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Israel continues to close Rafah crossing as Biden threatens to halt arms shipments Ceasefire talks…
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24، Apr 2024 Tuesday, April 23, 2024, marked the 200th consecutive day of Israel’s large-scale…
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Amnesty International, February 19, 2024
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Once-vibrant Huwara has become a ghost town since October 5, the start of the Israeli…
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The move is an apparent violation of a recent agreement that says citizens from the…
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In sufficient quantity, and distributed equitably to all civilians across Gaza Al Mezan Centre for…
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Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, 12 October 2023
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Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), 11 October 2023
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Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, 9 October 2023
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Wednesday, Sept. 13: Storytelling as Resistance Thursday, Sept. 14: The Legacy of Oslo: Thirty Years…
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Sunday, September 17th 8PM Jerusalem, 7PM Berlin, 6PM London, 1PM NYC, 12PM Central Gaza is…
2023.06.28-07.05: June & July Events
Wednesday, June 28: No Visa Waiver Program for Israel Wednesday, June 28: First Madison Banner…
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09 May 2023 Today at dawn, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have killed 13 Palestinians, including…
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Tom Hurndall, Youth Of Sumud Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights, 11th April 2023 Tom Hurndall…
2022.10.16: Emergency Zoom on Conditions in the West Bank
In this time of crisis, I invite you to an Emergency Zoom Forum with the…
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Home Invasions and False Arrests: Aref Jaber defies settlers’ attempts to take over his plot…
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Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams, May 03, 2021
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Deterioration of Living Condition For 4860 Fishermen and Workers in Associated Professions Ref: 45/2021 Date:…
Israel Bans Fuel Entry to Gaza
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), Ref: 75/2020, 17 August 2020
Regeni murder: If only Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall had been Italian
Kamel Hawwash, Middle East Eye, 21 April 2016
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Palestinian Center for Human Rights, Ref: 64/2019, April 24, 2019 The Palestinian Center for Human…
IDF puts Palestinians under closure as Israelis go to the polls
Edo Konrad, +972 Magazine, April 8, 2019
First Anniversary of the Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege
Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), Ref: 50/2019, March 30, 2019
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Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), August 2, 2018
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Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), March 30, 2018
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Friends of Sabeel North America On Sunday, February 25, church leaders from the Greek Orthodox,…
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The Palestinian Center for Human Rights, June 19, 2017
Israel sunk in ‘incremental tyranny’, say former Shin Bet chiefs
Peter Beaumont, The Guardian, 6 April 2017
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Israeli forces suppress weekly marches in Bilin, Kafr Qaddum Ma’an News Agency, January 21, 2017…
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The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, November 22, 2016
PHROC Welcomes the Launch of Women’s Boat to Gaza
Al-Haq, 26 September 2016
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Al Jazeera, 15 Sep 2016
Israel Supreme Court: Open 'apartheid' road to Palestinians
Ilene R. Prusher, The Christian Science Monitor, Oct 23, 2009 Jerusalem – In the first…
Catastrophe at Rafah Crossing: More Than 35 Dead—and Counting
Mohammed Omer, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, September/October 2007 PERCHED ATOP A suitcase and…
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Amira Hass, Haaretz, Feb 14, 2007 The Gaza Strip is ‘abroad’ in a strange way.…
Jobless in Gaza
Mehammed Mack, L.A. Weekly, August 25, 2005 A somber note for many Gazans witnessing the…
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Two weeks later, I was at the Aaskar refugee camp, near Nablus. That day, the…
