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Palestinian bodies in a shipping container, near the Karem Abu Salem/Kerem Shalom Crossing in Gaza, January 20, 2024. (Courtesy of Ariel, a UN worker)

Calculated chaos: Inside Israel’s transfer of Palestinian bodies to Gaza

Humanitarian workers describe a haphazard and deliberately opaque system for returning dead and living Gazans during the first months of the genocide — one that helps explain why thousands are still missing.

By Frances Brogan July 15, 2026

Palestinian patients wait in the grounds of the Red Crescent Hospital to be evacuated from the Gaza Strip via the Rafah Crossing with Egypt for medical treatment abroad, Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, February 2, 2026. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

‘I would never do it again’: Inside the struggle to enter and leave Gaza

A trickle of Palestinians have passed through Rafah Crossing since its partial reopening. Those returning face intimidation by Israeli soldiers and the Abu Shabab gang, as well as the confiscation of their belongings.

By Ruwaida Amer February 13, 2026

World Food Programme (WFP) provides food parcels to displaced people in Gaza City, October 23, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

Despite ceasefire, Israel’s siege allowing only a trickle of aid into Gaza

Palestinians report a dire lack of healthy food, medicine, and winter shelter, while a new ban on humanitarian groups will push the enclave to the brink.

By Ahmed Dremly January 22, 2026

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Palestinians line up to receive meals from a World Central Kitchen distribution point in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 16, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Collaborate or leave: Israel’s cruel ultimatum to humanitarian groups in Gaza

Under the guise of re-registration, Israel seeks to force all international NGOs to comply with the GHF model, turning aid into a vehicle for ethnic cleansing.

By Lee Mordechai and Liat Kozma September 24, 2025

Religious Zionism Chairman Bezalel Smotrich stands above the Palestinian Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar, West Bank, March 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich is about to become the West Bank’s overlord. Here’s what’s at stake

Under the new coalition agreement, millions of Palestinians are about to fall directly at the mercy of one of the most extreme figures in Israeli politics.

By Eliav Lieblich December 7, 2022

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas taking part in a prayer ahead of the Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of Ramadan, in Ramallah, West Bank, July 6, 2015. (Flash90)

Abbas is signaling a successor. But will Palestinians accept him?

The nepotistic rise of Hussein al-Sheikh, the PA's key liaison with Israel, is emblematic of much that is wrong with the Palestinian leadership.

By Omar H. Rahman June 21, 2022

A Palestinian baby receiving vaccinations at a government health center in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, January 6, 2020. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

For Israel, tens of thousands of Palestinian newborns don’t exist

When the Palestinian Authority ended coordination with Israel, it also stopped sending updates of its population registry. Now, over 30,000 babies are barred from traveling.

By Henriette Chacar October 12, 2020

Members of the Palestinian security forces enforce a full lockdown for 48 hours following the spread the of the coronavirus, Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, August 25, 2020. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Human rights groups demand Israel allow fuel into COVID-struck Gaza

NGOs petition High Court to force Israel to open Gaza to fuel and other basic goods, after Israel closed its central commercial crossing in August.

By Orly Noy August 31, 2020

Palestinians arrive to cross into Gaza at the Erez Crossing between Israel and Gaza on September 3, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

For Gaza patients, uncertainty over Israeli permits is a matter of life and death

Israel's permit regime has become even more arduous for Palestinian patients since the PA halted coordination, with rights groups trying to fill the vacuum.

By Judith Sudilovsky August 4, 2020

Palestinian residents of Kafr Laqef organize the Friday Muslim prayer on their lands to protest against the Israeli construction, December 20, 2019. (Ahmad Al-Bazz)

Settlers are seizing ‘empty’ land. The Palestinian owners are fighting back

When Israel took over Ahmad Qaddoura's land in the 1980s, it rejected his petition to stop the expropriation. Now, a nearby settlement is using the land to build a factory.

By Ahmad Al-Bazz January 7, 2020

A Palestinian building is blown up by Israeli forces in the village of Sur Baher, East Jerusalem, July 22, 2019. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Over 9,000 Palestinians displaced in a decade of West Bank demolitions

Israel's demolition regime in the West Bank and East Jerusalem has destroyed over 6,000 Palestinian structures, displacing thousands of Palestinians over the past decade — over half of whom are children and minors.

By Natasha Soffer-Roth December 24, 2019

Hundreds of American Jews protest against ICE raids at an Amazon store in New York City, August 11, 2019. (Gili Getz)

+972 Magazine’s 25 most-read posts of 2019

From climate catastrophe in Israel-Palestine to the crackdown in Kashmir to the dark past and present of Israeli arms exports — here are our most popular articles from the last year.

By +972 Magazine December 24, 2019

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When an American in the IDF meets a Palestinian American in Hebron

An American serving in the Israeli army in Hebron says that in her job granting and denying Palestinians permission to work and travel, it’s a ‘conversation starter’ to meet Palestinians who back home would have full rights like her. The video below was published Sunday by COGAT, the unit of the Israeli Defense Ministry charged…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man August 25, 2019