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I’ve cheated death, mourned friends, and lost my livelihood. Just when I was on the cusp of leaving this torment, Israel shut our last crossing to the world.

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Instead of debilitating Hezbollah, Israel’s assassination of Hassan Nasrallah may prove to be a major PR boost for the embattled organization.

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Dystopian displays of technological prowess serve to distract the Israeli public from the military's failure to achieve its long-stated war aims.

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Arab crime organizations are carrying out attacks using smuggled military explosives, with experts accusing the government of turning a blind eye.

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The people of Lebanon know that our struggles are intertwined; that the bombs killing their children are the same ones killing ours in Gaza.

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In Ohio and around the U.S., pro-Palestine activists alienated by the presidential race are redoubling their efforts in local elections.

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Feeling but not hearing the bombs, displaced without their specialized equipment, mauled by army dogs: this is how Palestinians with physical and cognitive impairments are surviving and dying amid Israel’s onslaught.

The post For Gazans with disabilities, Israel’s genocide shows no mercy appeared first on +972 Magazine.

Prison authorities are allowing scabies to spread by restricting Palestinian inmates’ water supply and depriving them of clean clothes and medical care.

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Israeli leaders have threatened to replicate the ‘Gaza model’ in south Lebanon. But Hezbollah may prove to be an even more challenging foe than Hamas.

The post With pager blasts and airstrikes, Israel unleashes its terror on Lebanon appeared first on +972 Magazine.

After Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinians with rocks and Molotov cocktails, soldiers raided Qaryut and killed a 13-year-old as she stood in her bedroom.

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For years, Israeli expert Ori Goldberg has tried to challenge commonly-held assumptions about the Islamic Republic and its allies. Will anyone listen?

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For thousands of Palestinian parents, the joy of giving birth rapidly turned to grief when their newborn babies were killed by Israel's bombardment.

The post The Gazan infants who never saw their first birthday appeared first on +972 Magazine.

As Israeli ministers, generals, and academics bay for a decisive new phase in the war, this is what Operation Starvation and Extermination would look like.

The post A plan to liquidate northern Gaza is gaining steam appeared first on +972 Magazine.

With major government funding, Hashomer Hachadash sends volunteers to cement Jewish control of open farmland — on both sides of the Green Line.

The post Pick peppers, patrol for Palestinians: The ‘New Guardians’ of Israeli agriculture appeared first on +972 Magazine.

Palestinian students arrived at the union’s office to submit their candidacy for elections. The administration slammed the door in their faces.

The post How Haifa University’s Students’ Union conspired against Palestinians appeared first on +972 Magazine.

Israeli bombs set tents ablaze and left deep craters in the earth as the army attacked Al-Mawasi, a designated 'safe zone', for the fifth time.

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Israel’s army suspects fabrications published in the Jewish Chronicle were part of a pro-Bibi influence campaign, while the article’s author is not as he claims.

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Eyewitnesses recount the killing of Turkish-American Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi at a protest in Beita, decrying Israel’s efforts to scare off international activists.

The post ‘She came here out of love’: Palestinians, allies honor activist slain by Israeli army appeared first on +972 Magazine.

As residents trickled back into the destroyed West Bank village following a court ruling, fear of further attacks was outweighed by the joy of being home.

The post After expulsion by settlers, Palestinians embrace precarious return to Zanuta appeared first on +972 Magazine.

The government has accelerated plans to depopulate the East Jerusalem neighborhood, displacing dozens of Palestinian residents this year.

The post Under cover of war, Israel is demolishing home after home in Silwan appeared first on +972 Magazine.