1948 Palestinian Nakba
The everyday violence of life in occupied Palestine

Since the Nakba, institutional violence by Israel against Palestinians has worked alongside paramilitary and military violence to advance the Zionist fantasy of a “Jewish state” across all of Historic Palestine

Activists demand better scrutiny of Israeli occupation’s impact on health of Palestinians

The recently concluded 76th World Health Assembly discussed health conditions in Palestine, which are continuously deteriorating because of the Israeli occupation. Activists suggested that WHO should utilize its documentation of attacks against civilians, healthcare facilities, and humanitarian actors to make serious referrals to the International Criminal Court

Palestinian history doesn’t start with the Nakba

Palestinians and Arabs have been active agents of resistance against colonialism and imperialism since before the Nakba, and the legacy of this anti-colonial resistance lives on today.

Palestinians outraged as Ursula von der Leyen invokes Zionist myths to wish Israel on its 75th foundation day

European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen’ statement referred to Israel as the promised land and equated its creation with freedom. The Palestinian Authority and activists across the world termed the statement racist and a defense of colonialism and apartheid

Across the world, progressive sections observe Nakba

According to UN agencies, there are 6,293,390 Palestinian refugees in the Arab world alone which includes refugees living in occupied Gaza and West Bank.

The Nakba never ended, and Palestinian resistance hasn’t either

Palestinians continue to resist the continued attempts to displace, dispossess, and expel them from their native land by the Israeli state

Palestinians stage protests, Guatemala’s president objects to family bill and other stories

Today we look at protests by Palestinians against illegal demolitions by Israel, the Protection of Life and Family law in Guatemala, and more

Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes Palestinians observe general strike denouncing illegal home demolitions in occupied East Jerusalem

Around 800 Palestinian homes are facing the threat of demolition by the Israeli municipality of Jerusalem which plans to replace them with 500 new illegal settlement units and a shopping mall

Israel’s Supreme Court delays ruling on Sheikh Jarrah forced evictions case

The court offered the Palestinians a compromise deal as per which Palestinians could live in their homes for the next three generations in exchange for accepting Jewish ownership of the land and paying token rent

Sheikh Jarrah families refuse deal with settlers, court defers ruling and other stories

Today we look at the Israeli Supreme Court hearing on the case of 4 families from Sheikh Jarrah, a referendum held in Mexico to decide if former presidents should be investigated, and more