What began as one writer’s quest to save his cherished book collection through six displacements became a grassroots effort to salvage the remains of Gaza’s libraries. The newly opened Phoenix Library is also a testament of resilience: ‘We refuse to be a people who just live in tents and wait’
Category: 2023 Israel Gaza War
Facts & analysis on the events of Oct. 7 and since
Amid ceasefire violations and genocide, Israel commits piracy – Daily Update
Israel attacks Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla in int’l waters ■ Israeli forces kill 2 in West Bank ■ Israel approves even more settlement units ■ Latest from Iran, Lebanon, Syria ■ Top Israeli religious body won’t condemn destruction of Christ statue ■ More.
‘People Have the Right to Be Buried’: In Gaza, Thousands of Palestinians Remain Trapped Under Rubble
Less than one percent of debris has been removed from Gaza, and thousands of people still wait to bury loved ones who were killed in airstrikes and remain under the rubble. ‘I would dig with my own hands to bring out my son,’ says one father, who can’t reach his son’s body
Born during Israel’s genocide: Gaza’s child survivors bear the scars of war
Infants born at the outbreak of the conflict face a lifetime of disability from toxic gas, severe burns, and a collapsed healthcare system. 1,200 children in Gaza now suffer from spinal cord injuries and paralysis directly resulting from Israeli attacks.
Who are the women and girls behind Gaza war’s horrific casualty toll?
Palestinian girl describes the moment that airstrikes killed her mother and siblings in Gaza: “I felt nothing. I went completely numb.” She is one of 16,000 girls, 22,000 women killed in Gaza since October 2023.
Beloved Gaza doctor detained “indefinitely” without charge – Daily Update
Latest from Iran, Lebanon, and (NEW) Syria ■ Jerusalem Patriarch, Doctors w/o Borders weigh in on Gaza ■ Israeli attacks on nun, French-funded facilities in West Bank ■ Palestine and FIFA ■ More
What ceasefire? Israel won’t stop killing in Gaza, Lebanon – Daily Update
Nearly half of Iranians killed by Israel-US were civilians: Iran ■ War criminal Netanyahu declares, “There is no place for violence…against anyone” (LOL) ■ More news and headlines from the region.
Palestinians in Gaza Want to Rebuild Food Systems. Israel Isn’t Letting Them.
The majority of Gaza’s farmland is unusable due to Israeli bombing, bulldozing, or seizure within the so-called “Yellow Line.”
Dispatches From Catastrophe
Twenty-three Palestinians reflect on the lives they have lost and the political futures that have been foreclosed in the wake of genocide.
Israel escalates in Gaza: killing, torture, hunger – Daily Update
Latest on Iran ■ “Most Moral Army” strikes again ■ Gaza in crisis ■ Israel cheats Palestinian gov’t (again) ■ Netanyahu tokenizes Israeli Christians in cheap stunt ■ More.









