An entire street is leveled. Houses and shops are flattened, including a popular cafe. This is what is left of the town of Bint Jbeil, just a couple of miles from the Israeli border, nearly two months after Israel relaunched its ground offensive in southern Lebanon.
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’
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
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.
As the impacts of war linger, Gaza is witnessing an unprecedented rise in congenital anomalies and a 140 percent increase in stillbirths.
Israeli soldiers and settlers are using gendered violence and sexual assault and harassment to force Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank, human rights and legal experts say.
In Lebanon, an unprecedented campaign of DNA tests is being used to identify mangled bodies left trapped under rubble by Israel’s blitz on April 8 that killed over 350.
Some of them killed civilians in Gaza; others witnessed abuse and cover-ups in the name of revenge. What they’re experiencing now is not PTSD, but a another type of deep trauma.
Detained while fleeing northern Gaza, Saeda al-Shrafi recalls weeks of interrogation, torture, and imprisonment that changed her life, as Palestinian Prisoners’ Day is marked
Palestinian testimonies reveal how sexual violence, including rape using objects and dogs, is approved by ‘highest levels’ of Israeli leadership