by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Dec 11, 2024 | Palestine Updates
I left my family in Shuja’iya, crossed an Israeli army checkpoint, and spent weeks in a tent in Rafah in order to leave the Strip. The decision still haunts me. A sense of anxiety and anger crept into my heart when I left the Gaza Strip earlier this month. Even now,...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Dec 11, 2024 | Palestine Updates
The Gaza assault cannot be understood separately from Israel’s divide-and-conquer strategy against Palestinians in Jenin, Jerusalem, and Nazareth. In an interview about Israel’s economy with business newspaper “The Marker” in 2012, Benjamin Netanyahu boasted, in what...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Dec 11, 2024 | Palestine Updates
The Hamas Movement has mourned prisoner Mohamed al-Aref, who was martyred on Wednesday evening in an Israeli jail as a result of his exposure to severe torture and abuse at the hands of Israeli jailers and interrogators. In a statement, Hamas described the death of...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Dec 11, 2024 | Palestine Updates
A Palestinian detainee died in Israeli custody on Thursday, marking the second death in Israeli prisons within 24 hours, prisoners’ affairs groups said. Alaa Marwan Hamza al-Mahlawi, 42, from Gaza, died at Israel’s Assaf Harofeh Hospital after he was transferred from...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Dec 11, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Dozens of thousands of Muslim worshipers observed the Friday prayer at the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem despite the Israeli security measures that restricted their access to their holy site. According to Jerusalemite sources, around 40,000 Muslim worshipers from...
