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Lina Jaradat

Israel's Olive War aims to uproot more than just trees

The olive tree is no longer just a source of sustenance for West Bank Palestinians, but a silent witness to their profound struggle between permanence and erasure

Mohammed Najib 14 November 2025
People walk amid the destruction in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip on October 11, 2025, a day after a ceasefire took effect. AFP

Gaza's partition: Palestinian peril dressed up as pragmatism

Presented as post-war stabilisation, an experiment in controlled fragmentation appears to be underway, with diplomacy, security, and commerce converging to cement a new geopolitical order

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 28 October 2025
A Palestinian child looks on as bodies of victims of Israeli overnight airstrikes in the northern Gaza Strip lie on the ground in front of the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia on March 20, 2025. BASHAR TALEB / AFP

In Gaza, a child's silent farewell to dead friend pierces the silence of the world

Palestinian death is increasingly being seen through the lens of cold political calculations. The world's silence over Gaza's horrors has drowned out the desperate screams of its people.

Samer Abou Hawwach 16 April 2025
Syrian General Husni al-Zaim came to power in a coup d'etat against President Shukri al-Quwatli on 30 March 1948, establishing the first military regime in the Arab world. AFP

Al-Zaim's 1949 offer to absorb 300,000 Palestinians into Syria

On 5 April 1949, the first round of direct Syria-Israel talks were held just weeks after Husni al-Za'im's successful military coup that unseated Syrian President Shukri al-Quwatli

Sami Moubayed 05 April 2025
A Palestinian activist holding a national flag stands by as an Israeli army bulldozer moves during an ongoing raid on the Tulkarm camp for Palestinian refugees in the north of the occupied West Bank. Zain JAAFAR / AFP

West Bank Palestinians suffer largest forced displacement in decades

Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been pushed out of refugee camps in the northern West Bank as Israeli settlers grab more and more land

Ahmed Draghmeh 05 March 2025
A man raises the Palestinian flag as he watches the return of displaced people to northern Gaza via the Netzarim Corridor. Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP

The dabke of resilience: Why Gazans dance amidst the ruins

An epic journey on foot back up to the devastated north has been one of emotion, symbolism, and defiance. It has also confused those who do not understand the Palestinian psyche.

Samer Abou Hawwach 12 February 2025

Israel's military targets

Fares Garabet 31 October 2024
Eduardo Ramon/Majalla

The lives of Palestinian Christians only 76 kilometres from Gaza

Al Majalla in a journey to Christianity's holiest places to figure out what holds Palestinian Christians together today

Ahmed Maher 28 December 2023
A general view shows the Israeli settlement of Mechola in Jordan Valley in the Israeli-occupied West Bank July 7, 2022. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

Growing Israeli West Bank Settlements Test US Position Ahead of Biden Visit

Steps away from a cluster of Palestinian tents and shacks in the northern Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank, trucks were working in full force to prepare for the construction of a school for…

11 July 2022
A soldier from the Israeli military's Home Front Command walks outside a house in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon that had been struck by a Hamas rocket on May 20, 2021. (Edi Israel/FLASH90)

Israel’s Arab Citizens Weigh On Conflict

After months of polling, researching, and analyzing collected data, the Israel Defense Security Forum (IDSF), known in Hebrew as Habithonistim, has released the findings of its National Survey. It…

Suzan Quitaz 03 June 2022
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This handout photograph released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on 10 November 2025, shows US President Donald Trump (L) shaking hands with Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House in Washington DC. SANA / AFP
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Is support for Israel becoming toxic at the ballot box? 

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As Americans rethink the moral—and strategic—calculus of US support for Israel, politicians are scrambling to keep pace

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Israel's Olive War aims to uproot more than just trees

09 November 2025

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