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‘The ongoing Nakba’: Palestinians decry perpetual suffering

Farah Najjar Al-Jazeera  /  May 15, 2023 Palestinians say the Nakba has manifested itself into an ongoing system of oppression that has made life ‘impossible’. Seventy-five years after Zionist militias killed 15,000 Palestinians and violently expelled hundreds of thousands from their lands, Al-Nakba (Catastrophe in Arabic) remains an ongoing, all-encompassing system that...

Reflections on the 75th anniversary of a Nakba that never ended

Mohammed al-Kurd The Nation  /  May 15, 2023 In the decades since the event Palestinians known as “the Catastrophe,” dispossession has become a timeless theme of the Palestinian experience. If you’re driving across the length of our bruised geography, you will at various points encounter rubble. Sometimes it is the...

Sharifa’s Nakba: Retracing my family’s escape from Haifa

Vera Sajrawi +972 Magazine  / May 15, 2023 +972 editor Vera Sajrawi sets out to uncover the hidden story of her grandparents' expulsion in 1948, walking the streets on which they used to live before being made refugees in their own homeland. Invisibility is a painful human experience. My...

Israel stares failure in the face, again

Maureen Clare Murphy & Ali Abunimah The Electronic Intifada  /  May 12, 2023 Israel’s surprise attack on Gaza extended into its fourth day on Friday with the Palestinian death toll rising to 33. Efforts toward a ceasefire remained at an impasse on Friday, with Israel quitting – at least temporarily –...

Collateral damage’ is an insult to Gaza’s dead

Majed Abusalama The Electronic Intifada  /  May 12, 2023 Palestine’s most renowned poet Mahmoud Darwish once described Gaza as a place of “children without a childhood, old men without old age.” Those words reverberated around my mind during Operation Cast Lead, a major Israeli attack in late 2008 and early 2009. Like...

Gaza: Palestinians keep children, essentials close as Israel’s bombing rages

Maha Hussaini Middle East Eye  /  May 12, 2023 As Israeli air strikes become a fact of life, Palestinians prepare emergency bags, dark rooms, and stockpile ‘war groceries’ For the last three days, Noura Waheidi has kept her three children close. With Israeli warplanes soaring above the besieged Gaza Strip every...

One year after Israeli sniper kills Shireen Abu Akleh, no justice for Palestinian-American journalist

Democracy Now !  /  May 11, 2023  GUEST : Sharif Abdel Kouddous LINK    : "The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh" One year ago, on May 11, 2022, an Israeli soldier fatally shot the Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the head as she was reporting on an Israeli...

Israel’s demolition surge: Schools become a primary target

Steven Davidson Al-Jazeera  /  May 11, 2023 The demolition of schools amounts to coercive transfer of families with children from their villages and homes. Jubbet al-Dibh, occupied West Bank – Ten-year-old Omar Salah could not go to school on Sunday because Israeli forces demolished it after...

Shireen Abu Akleh: friends and family call for justice on anniversary of killing

Bethan McKernan The Guardian  /  May 11, 2023  Israeli forces admit ‘high possibility’ Al-Jazeera reporter was shot by sniper at West Bank refugee camp. Family members, friends and colleagues of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was almost certainly fatally shot by an Israeli sniper, have renewed...

US: Nakba event takes place on Capitol Hill despite McCarthy’s attempt to block

MEE Staff Middle East Eye  /  May 11, 2023 ‘Let the headlines read 'McCarthy tries to erase Palestine but fails',’ says Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib. Despite US Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy's attempt at blocking an event commemorating the Nakba, or catastrophe, the event took place with scores...