PALESTINE

Rimal was the most middle-class area in Gaza City. Its complete destruction means thousands of Palestinians have nowhere left to call home Nestled along Gaza’s coastline, Rimal was an upscale neighbourhood in Gaza City, boasting ice cream parlours, cafes and vibrant boutique clothes shops.  Today, it lies in complete ruin – a clear sign that no part of Gaza, residential or …

Fifty years on, Tewfik Salah’s masterly portrayal of the post-Nakba injustice and violence suffered by Palestinian refugees remains as powerful and poignant as ever   ‘The Dupes’ follows three Palestinian refugees brought together by dispossession and hope for a better future (London Film Festival) Palestinian journalists and doctors in Gaza have paid with their lives with targeted killings – like Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu …

Rights group says students were wearing keffiyehs and speaking in Arabic when shot by unidentified gunmen in Burlington, Vermont, amid fears anti-Muslim violence in US is growing   The three students have been identified as Tahseen Ahmed, Kinnan Abdel Hamid and Hisham Awartani (Twitter/X) By Azad Essa 705Shares Three Palestinian students who were shot on Saturday night in the north-eastern US state of …

MEE photojournalist Mohammed al-Hajjar describes the moment he and his two nephews ‘miraculously’ escaped a deadly air strike   A Palestinian man next to the bodies of his wife and daughter who were killed by Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, 26 October 2023 (Reuters) By Mohammed al-Hajjar in Gaza, occupied Palestine Mohammed al-Hajjar is a freelance photojournalist and …

Palestinians affected by the attack are experienced sadness after Israeli attacks on the apartment belonging to the Ashur family in Khan Yunis, Gaza on November 18, 2023. [Belal Khaled – Anadolu Agency] by Anjuman Rahman It has been more than a month since Israel launched its forceful ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza in response to the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation initiated by …