Opinion: I Went to Gaza. What I Saw Was a Holocaust
susan abulhawa
‘Israel is committing the holocaust of our time,’ writes Palestinian author susan abulhawa, ‘and it is doing it in full view of a seemingly indifferent world.’
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Report: UK Charity Honours IDF Soldier Who Rummaged Through Gazan Women’s Underwear
Rivkah Brown
Levi Simon, a dual UK-Israeli national who’s just returned from three months in Gaza, is being hosted by The Boy’s Clubhouse.
Report: Court Acquits Two Palestine Activists of Targeting Israeli Weapons Company, Leaving Six in Limbo
Rivkah Brown
Two of the six defendants standing trial for targeting Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems were acquitted, while Palestine Action co-founder Richard Barnard was found guilty of criminal damage. Jury indecision means the remaining defendants may be retried in the new year. Rivkah Brown reports.
Report: Israeli Soldiers Are Snatching Palestinians’ Phones and Punishing Them for Having Photos of Gaza
Daisy Schofield
Israel is using a new law to punish Palestinians simply for possessing images of the war in Gaza. Daisy Schofield reports.
Opinion: The World Is Finally Waking Up to Israel’s Disinformation War – But Is It Too Late?
Yara Hawari
Even the BBC is starting to pick up on Israeli propaganda. Its belated epiphany won't bring back 15,000 dead Palestinians, writes Yara Hawari.
Long Read: Palestinian Satirical Cinema Has the Last Laugh
Juliet Jacques
The works of Elia Suleiman and David Osit capture the numbness produced by decades of occupation and in so doing offer an antidote to it, writes Juliet Jacques.
Report: Activists Just Shut Down a Factory That Makes Parts for Israeli Fighter Jets
Charlotte England
Around 400 people are blockading the entrances to a factory in Kent that makes parts for the Israeli military's 'most lethal' fighter jets. Charlotte England reports.
Report: ‘A Chance to Implement Forced Displacement’: Israeli Settlers Are Attacking Palestinians in the West Bank
Daisy Schofield
Emboldened by the crisis in Gaza, Israeli settlers in the West Bank are putting on uniforms, shooting unarmed Palestinians and driving them off their land. Daisy Schofield reports.
Opinion: A Second Nakba Has Begun
Ash Sarkar
For Gazans, the prospect of indefinite displacement – with no guaranteed right of return to their homes – carries ugly echoes of 1948, argues Ash Sarkar.
Report: Israeli Forces Are Deliberately Shooting at Palestinian Paramedics
Daisy Schofield
Amid the deadliest year on record for Palestinians in the West Bank, paramedics tell Novara Media Israeli soldiers are driving them away from casualties with sniper fire, targeting ambulances with live ammunition and confiscating their bulletproof vests.
Novara Live: Palestinians Rise up As Israel Escalates Attack on Gaza
As Israel escalates attacks on Gaza, Palestinians across the region are rising up with a unity not seen for a generation. Is Israeli apartheid facing its greatest threat?
Analysis: Is Israel Above International Law?
Haim Bresheeth
As Israel prepares to annex the West Bank, academic and author Haim Bresheeth asks why the country seems free to carry out any illegal action it wishes, with no sanction or retribution for breaking international law.
The Land Day Killings Show Palestinians Have Never Had the Right to Protest
Alia Al Ghussain
Last Friday Israeli forces launched brutal attacks on protesters in Gaza which killed 18 people. This disproportionate response is part of a pattern of excessively punishing Palestinian protest, argues Alia Al Ghussain.
The Fuel That Fuels the Rage: 3 Key Gazan Resources Israel is Clinging Onto
Eleanor Penny
The biggest threat to Israel is not the Qassam Brigades' rockets. Beneath the regular media briefings on Hamas and its 'terror tunnels' is a fear that reveals the nature of Israel's occupation of Palestine: Palestinian independence would mean self-determination over its resources. These resources are what Israel depends on to sustain itself against the Palestinian resistance, and cut to the heart of its military strategy.
A Diary Entry from Palestine: why we don’t need ‘balance’
Alia Al Ghussain
As bombs drop on Gaza and revenge killings wreak collective punishment in the West Bank, many in the west have called for less emotion and more balance. Writing from Ramallah in the West Bank, Novara contributor Alia Al Ghussain argues this approach serves only to obfuscate the reality of the situation.