By Osama Ahmad and Rami Sultan Earlier this month, Amnesty International joined a growing consensus among Palestinian, Israeli, and international human rights organizations that Israel practices apartheid toward the Palestinian people. …

By Shirin Odeh Today, seven months after her arrest on July 7, 2021, Health Work Committees (HWC) director Shatha Odeh, my mother, is still held in Israeli detention. …

Israel’s decision, announced on Friday, to designate our Palestinian civil society organizations and two others as “terror organizations” represents a dangerous escalation of its longstanding efforts to silence criticism of its colonization of Palestinian land and apartheid system. It is part of a larger campaign of repression and intimidation intended…

By Khuloud and Shirin Odeh Imagine that in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, a nurse and human rights leader working to provide healthcare in your community is arrested and imprisoned by a hostile foreign occupying army. …

By Sami Huraini I have never known freedom. Not one day. I was born in Atuwani, a village in the West Bank shaped by Israeli military occupation and settler violence. Every day we risk beatings, incarceration, or even death, just to harvest our fields, graze our livestock, and build our…

By Fidaa Elaydi Ceasefire. It may seem like a success of international diplomacy, and though Palestinians are celebrating, it is also a moment of mourning, reflecting, and reckoning. For the first time in weeks, Palestinians in Gaza can finally exhale the breath they held in tight, bracing for earth-shaking, soul-crushing…

By Sami Abou Shehadeh In recent weeks, as violence flared across the region sparked by Israel’s attempts to expel Palestinians from their homes in occupied East Jerusalem and provocations in Al Aqsa Mosque, Palestinian citizens of Israel were brutally assaulted by mobs of extremist Israeli Jews encouraged by hateful-anti Arab…

By Nadya Siyam Ceasefire. The bombs have stopped for now, and Palestinians in Gaza, my home, are slowly coming up for air, grateful they made it out alive. Many of us lost loved ones, our homes. I may be young, but I have now survived four of Israel’s wars on…

By George Bisharat Prosecution and persecution are not the same thing, although it is a standard dodge of the guilty to claim otherwise. That appears to be so of Israel’s protest against an investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced recently into possible war crimes committed by Israel in…