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The Freedom Theatre's Ahmed Tobasi describes the devastating scenes from an ongoing Israeli invasion evoking the darkest days of the Second Intifada. By: Vera Sajrawi Smoke rises as Israel launches a major aerial and ground assault in the West Bank city of Jenin, July 3, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90) “All entrances to the camp are closed. Bombs are exploding. Bullets are being fired in all directions. Cars and roads are being bulldozed. Communication has been cut and you cannot check in on people. It’s a dire humanitarian situation — we do not know who needs help and how urgently.” These were the words of Ahmed Tobasi, the Artistic Director of the famous Freedom Theatre, speaking to me over the phone in the midst of an Israeli military offensive in Jenin r...

By: Orly Noy As the drums of Israeli protesters continued to beat in Tel Aviv, Ben Gurion Airport, and other locations across the country this week, the Israeli army began winding down a brutal invasion and assault on Jenin refugee camp that left behind destruction, devastation, and blood.The sight of Palestinian refugees fleeing their homes in the dark, their hands raised over their heads, not only conjures memories of the Nakba. It is a reminder that the dispossession of Palestinians has never ended — that these very families either lost their homes in 1948, or are the descendants of those who did. Palestinians know full well that they are facing a belligerent, uninhibited state that, in the guise of security and victimhood, will spare no effort — dispossession, ki...

Palestinians in West Bank cities are fast discovering that if their expulsion won’t be possible, Gazafication will be their future. ByAmjad Iraqi Palestinians gather around parts of an Israeli armored vehicle after it was destroyed during clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian fighters in the West Bank city of Jenin, June 19, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90) This article originally appeared in “The Landline,” +972’s weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. The horrifying sight of settler pogroms last week, in which hundreds of Israelis rampaged through Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank after a deadly shooting in the settlement of Eli, has pushed Israel’s security authorities into a very uncomfortable corner. Embarrassed by the viral images of...

A new report examines how, according to Adalah Legal Director Suhad Bishara, Israel is expanding Jewish territorial, spatial, and political supremacy. ByOrly Noy Palestinians wait to cross Qalandiya checkpoint on their way from the occupied West Bank to Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem, to take part in Friday prayers during Ramadan, April 29, 2022. (Oren Ziv) In partnership with This month, Adalah — The Legal Center for the Rights of the Arab Minority in Israel published a position paper that takes an in-depth look at the steps the Israeli government is taking to try and accelerate the annexation of the occupied West Bank. The paper divides these steps into three main categories: institutional changes and the transfer of areas of action to government offices; ...

Frustrated at the military's pushback to their pogroms, settlers will continue upholding Jewish supremacy by any means necessary. By Menachem Klein  A field burns amid a series of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, near the Palestinian village of Qusra, In partnership with Sometimes there is an event so extreme that it tears the veil of willful ignorance from the eyes of Jewish-Israeli society. The pogrom in Huwara last February, in which hundreds of settlers torched the Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank, was such an event. Last week’s pogroms in Turmus Ayya, Urif, and Umm Safa raised the curtain even higher, forcing many Israelis to stare straight at a reality that has long been present and c...

Nazi army attacked, on Friday, the peaceful anti-settlement protest, and injured several Palestinians in the village of Beit Dajan, southeast of Nablus, in the northern Nazi occupied West Bank, according to medical sources. Palestinians gathered for the weekly march in Beit Dajan village, southeast of Nablus city, to express their rejection of the Nazi occupation’s continued illegal colonial schemes in the West Bank. Nazi soldiers attacked the non-violent demonstrators by firing rubber-coated steel rounds, tear gas canisters, and concussion grenades at the unarmed civilians. According to medical sources at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in Nablus, several Palestinians sustained inhalation injuries from exposure to tear gas. The Wall and Settlement Resistance C...

Illegal Nazi JEWISH colonizers shot and killed, on Friday evening, a Palestinian teenager with live ammunition during an invasion into Burqa town, east of Ramallah, in the central Nazi occupied West Bank, the Ministry of Health confirmed. Local sources reported that large numbers of Nazi JEWISH settlers invaded the town from the western and Northwestern parts of the town, under the full protection of the Nazi occupation army. Palestinian citizens attempted to confront the Nazi JEWISH settler incursion, however there were greater numbers of Nazi JEWISH settlers, with the security of the Nazi army. The Nazi settlers attacked Palestinian residents, hurled rocks at them, and burned two Palestinian-owned vehicles in the town.The Palestinian Ministry of Health (MoH) announced t...

An illegal Nazi JEWISH settler ran over, on Friday evening, a four-year-old Palestinian child in Hebron, in the southern Nazi occupied West Bank, local sources reported. The child, identified as Joud al-Fakhori, 4, was struck by a vehicle driven by an illegal Nazi JEWISH colonist, in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood in the centre of Hebron. Media sources said the child sustained bruises and a fractured leg from the impact. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society medical crew transported the child via ambulance to the Hebron Governmental Hospital for medical intervention. The child’s condition was reported as stable. According to eyewitness reports, the child was walking on the street in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood, when an Nazi JEWISH colonist ran him over and subsequently fl...