Members of the Israeli border guard detain a demonstrator during a protest in the flashpoint neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem on February 18, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Gharabli / AFP)
In the dim light of a hospital room, Amin, 17, is lying on a bed after being shot in both legs by Israeli Forces on 19 November 2023, during a ground and air assault on Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank.
With pupils and teachers uprooted and buildings destroyed, it is likely to be many months before classes can resume
At least 3,714 students have been killed and 5,700 injured in Gaza and the occupied West Bank since 7 October, the Palestinian Ministry of Education said on Thursday.
The Friends of the Jenin Freedom Theatre, the US based organization that has supported The Freedom Theatre in Jenin, Occupied Palestine since 2006 reports, with horror, that Israeli armed forces abducted Mustafa Sheta, The Freedom Theatre’s general manager, and Ahmed Tobasi, the theater’s artistic director, from inside their homes today, December 13, 2023. Tobasi’s brother Mohammed was also seized.
The Israeli occupation army cheers and celebrates the bombing of an UNRWA school in Gaza !
The Great Omari Mosque has been reduced to rubble, with only its ancient minaret standing, according to images released by the Palestinian group.
The next Bisan Lecture webinar will take place on December 13 at 7pm Palestine time (6pm Central European Time, 12 noon US Eastern time). We will have the pleasure to welcome Prof. Etienne Balibar (Paris-Ouest University) who will speak (in English with simultaneous Arabic translation for those who wish) on “Palestine, Ukraine and other wars of extermination: the local and the global”. You can register here.
The Palestinian poet, writer, literature professor, and activist Dr. Refaat Alareer was killed today in a targeted Israeli airstrike that also killed his brother, his sister, and four of her children. He is survived by his wife, Nusayba, and their children.
