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With Israeli forces entering Gaza’s southernmost city, Palestinians describe their hardships and fears in the Strip’s last vanishing refuge.

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Palestinians have been the sole journalists persistently reporting from the ground in Gaza. Yet it feels that the world is losing interest in our stories.

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In January, Israeli soldiers attacked a convoy of Paltel technicians in Khan Younis, killing two. Contrary to the army’s account, an investigation shows the workers coordinated every step of the journey along an approved route.

The post A Gaza team went to repair a telecoms machine. An Israeli tank fired at them appeared first on +972 Magazine.

College administrations across the U.S. have put themselves on the wrong side of history by cracking down on the groundswell of student activism.

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A vicious campaign by Israeli academia, police, and media to silence the professor shows Palestinians they have no safe place in Zionist institutions.

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The media’s unbending self-censorship in covering Gaza has made Israelis incapable of seeing foreign criticism as anything other than antisemitism.

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With calls for divestment spreading this past week, students share how dozens of U.S. colleges are cracking down on pro-Palestine demonstrations.

The post Campus protests for Gaza are proliferating — and so is the repression appeared first on +972 Magazine.

The Gaza assault cannot be understood separately from Israel’s divide-and-conquer strategy against Palestinians in Jenin, Jerusalem, and Nazareth.

The post From the river to the sea, Israel is waging the same war appeared first on +972 Magazine.

Following +972’s 'Lavender' exposé, international law and AI experts explain how Israel's top brass and global tech firms are implicated in the slaughter.

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Walid and I shared a political, personal, and philosophical correspondence for two decades. Even in death, he accompanies me on the path of truth.

The post Remembering Walid Daqqa, a prisoner with a ‘heretical belief in life’ appeared first on +972 Magazine.

From Palestinian rock to modern folk, generations of Armenian musicians have thrived in Jerusalem. But Israeli attacks threaten the community’s future.

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Death threats, arrests, and self-censorship are creating a repressive environment for Palestinian cultural figures and institutions in Israel.

The post Palestinian artists stifled as Israel ‘weaponizes fear and fame’ appeared first on +972 Magazine.

I left my family in Shuja’iya, crossed an Israeli army checkpoint, and spent weeks in a tent in Rafah in order to leave the Strip. The decision still haunts me.

The post I got out of Gaza. But I’m still trapped by the war appeared first on +972 Magazine.

Armed Israeli settlers raided more than a dozen Palestinian communities under the army’s guard, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake.

The post ‘The soldiers opened the way for the settlers’: Pogroms surge across West Bank appeared first on +972 Magazine.

I write to Israelis who believe they have no place in their hearts for Gaza, to understand how we got to this terrible war — and how we must get out of it.

The post Six months after October 7, a lament for the paths not chosen appeared first on +972 Magazine.

Had Iran wanted to seriously escalate its conflict with Israel, its response to the Damascus embassy bombing would have looked very different.

The post Iran is acting more rationally than Israel — for now appeared first on +972 Magazine.

The risk of all-out regional war grows more likely with every day that passes without a ceasefire in Gaza, warns expert Khaled Elgindy.

The post As Iran and Israel collide, will Palestinians pay the price? appeared first on +972 Magazine.

After the withdrawal of Israeli troops, displaced Palestinians flooded back into the city to see what remained. Many were shocked by what they found.

The post ‘The colors and joy have disappeared’: Gazans return to decimated Khan Younis appeared first on +972 Magazine.

Israel's onslaught made me a refugee, a bereaved sister, and a mother to starving children. My journalistic endeavors have become almost impossible.

The post Against the magnitude of death, our pens feel powerless in Gaza appeared first on +972 Magazine.

A broad coalition of political forces, from Israel's far right to the Zionist left, have differing motivations for turning the war into the new normal.

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