Ramallah — While the world’s attention is on the U.S.-Israel-Iran war, the Israeli military has placed the West Bank under a functional lockdown. Checkpoints in and out of most major cities are closed, and Palestinians have been left to look for other travel arrangements. Some residents who spoke with Truthout said they traveled for hours through village back roads in an attempt to reach…
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For Khaled and Raneen, daily life in the Gaza Strip is marked by the steady hum of Israeli military drones buzzing over the central city of Deir al-Balah that they now call home. The Palestinian couple from northern Gaza has been displaced more than 10 times since Israel’s war on the enclave began in 2023. And despite a United States-brokered ceasefire that was enacted in October…
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Rami Khouri, Palestinian American journalist and distinguished public policy fellow at the American University of Beirut, speaks with Democracy Now! about the historical context of Western colonialism in the Middle East amid the war against Iran. Khouri says the U.S.-Israeli attack is the latest act “causing people across the world to look at the idea of … Western liberal democratic tradition as a…
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Palestinians returning to Gaza through the Rafah border crossing report systematic harassment, beatings, torture, and being told to leave Gaza with their families by Israeli border agents. Returnees who spoke to Mondoweiss described how Israeli authorities subjected them to hours of intensive interrogation, during which they attempted to recruit some travelers as informants.
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Red poppies dot the hillside in the West Bank where Israeli settlers from the Neve Erez outpost killed 19-year-old Palestinian American Nasrallah Abu Siyam, a U.S. citizen born in Philadelphia. On February 22, Abu Siyam’s closest friends gathered with a village elder to pay their respects at a makeshift memorial on a hill overlooking Mukhmas, the Palestinian village in the West Bank where the…
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The American Psychological Association (APA) has updated its “Resolution on Antisemitism,” removing a previous guidance that suggested any criticism of the state of Israel — including opposition to Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza — was an antisemitic act. The update, which occurred at the organization’s meeting this month, still includes many of the same examples of antisemitic…
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