This UAE-backed Fatah dissident is allying with Hamas and pushing a proposal to change Palestinian politics

A UAE-sponsored plan by exiled Fatah dissident Muhammad Dahlan to “end Palestinian division” has quietly become the working platform for an unlikely electoral alliance with Hamas. Here is what this could mean for the future of Palestinian politics.

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What do you do when you can’t hear the bombs? Being deaf during the Gaza genocide.

Amid Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Palestinians with hearing impairments have been left particularly vulnerable, unable to hear incoming missiles or evacuation orders. Fadl Kuraz is one of the few who have devoted their lives to helping them survive.

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‘They destroy, we build’: Gazans rebuild their homes out of mud and rubble

As Israel continues to prevent the entry of reconstruction materials into Gaza, Palestinians rebuild their homes with salvaged rebar, recovered limestone, and clay. “This is the evidence of our love for our land,” Fayez Abu Shamala tells Mondoweiss.

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Gaza’s archaeological heritage was destroyed in Israel’s genocide. These volunteers are trying to salvage it from the rubble.

As Israeli strikes leveled museums and 5,000-year-old sites across Gaza, volunteers dug through the rubble by hand to save what they could. Meanwhile, looted artifacts quietly resurfaced in a Paris exhibition.

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Palestinian Christians are disappearing. Warnings are not enough.

Church leaders, activists, and Palestinian media keep sounding the alarm: Palestinian Christians are leaving the Holy Land. We need an institutional and economic strategy that makes staying a viable choice, not just a moral one.

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After giving up on military force, Trump’s new plan to defeat Iran is…more economic sanctions?

Trump's "Operation Economic Outcast" to impose secondary sanctions on countries trading with Iran is a tacit admission of U.S. military defeat. But sanctions haven't worked for 47 years, and Iran won't let the U.S. decide when the shooting war ends.

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Children in Gaza are afraid flying their kites will get them killed

Israel regards any kite flown in Gaza as an "act of war" and has ordered the army to treat them like drones. "I don't know what we can do that won't anger Israel," says Muhammad Owais, 13, who struggles to understand the rules of this new reality.

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Meet the new ‘superstar’ of the Israeli left, who is so progressive she only supports apartheid

Naama Lazimi is being hailed as the Israeli left's rising star. But when she isn’t busy making excuses for the genocidal turn in Israeli society and politics, she’s advocating for a return to good old-fashioned apartheid.

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After two decades, Palestinians prepare to vote for a new political leadership. But will it change anything?

Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and rival Fatah dissidents have united in an unprecedented coalition for the first Palestinian elections since 2006. But Israeli repression and foreign pressure raise doubts about whether free politics is possible under occupation.

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Studies show El-Sayed win sparked wave of Islamphobia across social media

Analysis by multiple outlets shows a surge of Islamophobia across social media in response to Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan victory.

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Gaza isn’t able to recover from famine as acute malnutrition soars across the Strip, new report finds

Israeli restrictions on food entry are stalling recovery from famine in Gaza as malnutrition cases climb, an IPC report finds. Two-year-old Hashem Abu Mustafa, born hungry in a Rafah tent, may already be beyond saving.

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How Sliman Mansour and his colleagues built an art movement for Palestine

A friend and fellow artist remembers Sliman Mansour, who helped build the Palestinian art movement and, even as his health failed, never let go of his devotion to Palestine.

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Why we shouldn’t call colonial Israeli settlers ‘terrorists’

We need to collectively rethink describing Israeli settlers as "terrorists." The label was designed to serve imperial interests, and it implies that settler violence is an aberration, not a systemic part of Zionist settler colonialism.

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Israel is exporting its West Bank land seizure model to colonize new territory in Syria, using 140 cattle to do it

Israel's use of so-called "shepherding outposts" to seize Palestinian land through settler herders is now being exported to Syria, as an Israeli settler, supported by the state, occupies Syrian pastureland in Wadi Toemm with a herd of 140 cattle.

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How Israel’s efforts to expel UNRWA from Jerusalem and crack down on West Bank refugee camps are connected

As Israeli forces move to take over remaining UNRWA facilities in Jerusalem, residents of Qalandia and Shufaat refugee camps fear the assault on the UN agency is linked to the ongoing Israeli military crackdown on the camps.

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Israel just took another major step towards West Bank annexation

As settlers besiege Palestinian families in Qusra, Israel's government responds by handing settlement security to the police of hardline minister Ben-Gvir- a move seen to further entrench Israeli annexation of the West Bank.

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The real reason Netanyahu added Mamdani to his ‘enemies list’

Netanyahu's campaign billboard lumps Zohran Mamdani with Iran and Hezbollah as an "enemy", an admission that he's losing America, and that no successor will fix Israel's underlying apartheid problem.

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An American citizen was abducted by Israeli forces. His release doesn’t mean the violence stopped.

The arrest and detention of Philadelphia resident Hussein Jabarin is one example of the broader escalation of violence Palestinians are facing across the occupied West Bank.

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Israel executes prominent ‘father of martyrs’ Fathi Khazem in his home in Jenin

Fathi Khazem, a father of two slain resistance fighters and once regarded as a symbol of resistance, was killed by Israeli forces in his home, despite having an understanding mediated by the Palestinian Authority that Israel wouldn’t pursue him.

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Besieged by Israeli settlers and cut off from the outside world, Palestinian families on a West Bank hilltop refuse to leave

For seven months, Israeli settlers have besieged three Palestinian homes on a hilltop near Nablus, but the families refuse to leave. "We will lose ourselves if we lose Ras al-Ain," a village leader told Mondoweiss.

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Progressive Israel-critic Angie Nixon scores upset victory in Florida Senate primary

DSA member Angie Nixon defeated Alex Vindman in Florida's Senate primary, outspent 16 to 1. She's called Netanyahu a war criminal and opposes U.S. arms sales to Israel. Elsewhere in the state, progressive challengers didn't see as much success.

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Inside the slow ethnic cleansing of al-Mughayyir, a Palestinian village besieged by Israeli settlers

Settler violence and army raids are erasing the West Bank village of al-Mughayyir. In recent months, villagers have seen a teenager killed defending his neighbors, thousands of olive trees uprooted, and nearly all the village's lands stolen.

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‘Destroying agriculture is the purpose’: How Israel is drying up the West Bank’s most fertile farmlands

For months, Palestinian farmers in the northern West Bank have watched their water lines cut and their wells marked for demolition in Israel’s slow strangulation of Palestinian agriculture, as farmers tell Mondoweiss "there is no tomorrow" for them.

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‘I couldn’t watch my children cry from hunger’: Inside the ‘displacement economy’ Gazans built to survive the genocide

In Gaza's displacement camps, survival has bred a new economy: a gym owner forges weights from empty cans, a supermarket owner turns baker, a housewife becomes a street vendor — each person rebuilding a livelihood from the wreckage of genocide.

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The Mecca Pact is the latest sign of the U.S.’s declining influence in the Middle East

The new defense agreement among Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan highlights how Israeli aggression is compelling the region to reconfigure its alliances and serves as the latest evidence of the United States' declining global influence.

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Palestinian youth are risking their lives to clear rubble in Gaza

With reconstruction stalled in Gaza, boys as young as 14 are clearing the wreckage of destroyed homes by hand for as little as $10 a day. Often they are the breadwinners for their families and are forced to abandon their studies to work for survival.

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Israel’s arrest of Ramallah’s ‘doctor of the poor’ shows Palestinians that no one is safe

The arrest and abuse of “doctor of the poor” Mazen Rantisi signal that no one is safe from Israel’s assault on Palestinian life in the West Bank. Rantisi’s daughter says he was targeted because he helps Palestinian society remain resilient.

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Understanding Israel’s campaign to destroy Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank

Israel has vowed to occupy another West Bank refugee camp, as it did in Jenin and Tulkarem. A new raid on the Qalandia refugee camp makes clear that the Israeli campaign isn't only about ending Palestinian resistance but also what the camps represent.

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The struggle to save the Palestinian wheat fields on the front lines of Israeli settler violence

For generations, Palestinian farmers timed the wheat harvest by the stars and the rain. Now, Israeli settlers set the harvest instead, as their cows graze freely in Palestinian wheat fields across the West Bank after displacing Bedouin herders.

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‘Is this how our story ends?’ Palestinian refugees live in fear as Israel takes aim at West Bank camps

Amid escalating raids and statements by Israeli officials promising a massive military operation against refugee camps in the West Bank, Palestinians in Ramallah-area camps say it’s not a question of whether their turn will come, but when.

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