Deir el-Balah, Gaza – An insight I gained over the past two decades is that trauma is not only experienced, it is encoded in our genes, passed down through generations, shaping our collective memory, identity and attitude. About 17 years ago, I received my first laptop as a family gift.Continue Reading
In March 2018, Gaza’s champion cyclist Alaa al-Daly was six months away from realizing his goal of representing Palestine at the Asian Games in Indonesia. A few days later, an Israeli sniper shot al-Daly in the leg when he participated in the Great March of Returna massive wave of protestsContinue Reading
WHO says that the official larger vaccine rollout, which aims to reach 640,000 children, will begin on Sunday. Several children in Gaza have been given polio vaccines a day before a large-scale campaign to inoculate children against the virus and a planned pause in fighting in the besieged territory, Gaza’sContinue Reading
Israel’s assault on refugee camps in the occupied West Bank has dominated headlines. Israel has killed at least 20 people since it launched its attacks on the towns and refugee camps at Jenin, Nablus, Tubas and Tulkarem overnight on Wednesday. Here’s what you need to know about this attack andContinue Reading
Saja Bawaqneh and six relatives have been hiding, terrified, in a corner of the family home’s kitchen since late Tuesday, August 27. There is an Israeli assault going on outside in the occupied West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp – bigger and more vicious than the usual attacks they got usedContinue Reading
LOOK: Israel announces airstrikes in Lebanon to prevent “major attacks” by Hezbollah As of this writing, the announced Iranian revenge has not materialized. And it is unlikely to happen. At least not in conventional terms. The threat is in the air, but the unknown is how it will come about.Continue Reading
The Israeli military called in reinforcements as it escalated its assault on the occupied West Bank for a second day. At least 18 people have been killed since the start of the operation in the north of the territory, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Thursday. Eight people wereContinue Reading
A delegation from the Palestinian group Hamas has landed in Cairo on Saturday evening to “listen to the results of negotiations thus far” between mediators – Egypt, Qatar and the United States – and Israel. Observers are reluctant to call this a hopeful sign as conviction grows that Gaza ceasefireContinue Reading
The boxer emerged victorious in the welterweight fight amid a gender row to bag Algeria’s second gold medal in Paris. Imane Khelif smiled, danced and roared with delight after beating China’s Yang Liu to become the first Algerian, Arab and African woman to win an Olympic boxing gold medal atContinue Reading
In an unprecedented attack, on April 13 Iran launched dozens of drones and ballistic missiles towards Israel in retaliation for the Israeli bombing of their consulate in Syria who killed two generals of the Revolutionary GuardIt was a controlled action that left no fatalities and was intended to demonstrate thatContinue Reading
