The Gaza bookshop that refuses to shut
As bombs fell and famine took hold, Samir Mansour kept delivering books.
As bombs fell and famine took hold, Samir Mansour kept delivering books.
State-genocidal violence shamelessly exposes what it does, producing the uninhabitable, but its internal machinery feeds on secrecy to make that explicit violence possible. Secrecy is woven through complicities that seek opacity. In response, this Tribunal constructs a counternarrative to secrecy, reveals opacity, confronts us with our violent undercurrents, and maps our cruelty. (Peoples’Tribunal on the Complicity within the Spanish state with the Genocide in Palestine (PTCGP-25), Session 2, Conclusions, point 26).
Since the October “ceasefire,” an average of five Palestinians have been killed every day.
The public health icon was brutally removed from her job for one reason: her opposition to genocide in Gaza.
Gaza’s children are losing not just school, but hope, identity, and belief in a future worth reaching.
A sweeping UN human rights report released on Wednesday concludes that in the occupied West Bank, Israel is violating international law prohibiting racial segregation and apartheid, warning that the discriminatory practices have accelerated dramatically since late 2022 amid growing violence, repression and impunity.
As part of its ongoing assault on Palestinian life and institutions, the Israeli occupying army carried out a military invasion of Birzeit University during official working hours, at a time when the campus was filled with students, faculty members, and staff. The invasion was premeditated and coincided with a student union protest against the settler-colonial army’s violence against our people and its policy of mass political imprisonment.
B’Tselem: “Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza did not end with the “ceasefire” declaration. Blocking humanitarian aid, alongside ongoing airstrikes and shootings, is a direct continuation of the assault on Gaza’s population.”
Failure of groups including MSF and ActionAid to hand over staff details means they will not be able to operate in Gaza, say Israeli officials
According to the Palestinian man’s testimony, he was held for several hours at an IDF base while handcuffed and blindfolded. He was later released onto the road, where he says he was forced to hobble several hundred meters with his crutches before reaching his family’s vehicle