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Israeli arrogance thwarted a Palestinian political path. October 7 revealed the cost
A Fatah-Hamas agreement in 2021 offered a different political horizon. But success blinded Israel — just as it did before the 1973 war.
By
Menachem Klein
November 28, 2023
The northern West Bank is taking up arms. Will the south join?
Armed resistance against Israeli incursions is mostly concentrated in Jenin and Nablus. But Palestinians on the ground say that could quickly change.
By
Basel Adra
October 12, 2022
In Jenin and Nablus, resistance and despair go hand in hand
Palestinian youths are taking up arms amid unrelenting Israeli incursions into refugee camps, with the pervasiveness of death ensuring more will follow.
By
Yuval Abraham
October 5, 2022
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How a resurrected militia is defying Israeli and Palestinian rulers
In Jenin and Nablus, members of Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades are uniting with other factions to challenge Israel and the Palestinian Authority, as more young fighters from refugee camps take up the mantle of armed resistance.
By
Fatima AbdulKarim
and
Dalia Hatuqa
August 11, 2022
Hamas’ landslide student election win marks major shift in Palestinian politics
The Islamist movement's stunning victory in Birzeit University’s student union vote reflects growing discontent with the West Bank's ruling Fatah party.
By
Basel Adra
May 31, 2022
At Birzeit, a student strike rallies Palestinians of all stripes
Palestinian students across the political spectrum picketed classes for a month after Birzeit University tried to constrain a Hamas-affiliated group on campus.
By
Basel Adra
March 7, 2022
Triple West Bank assassination recalls darkest days of the Intifada
A joint report with The Intercept and Local Call investigates how Israeli forces carried out what appears to be their first assassination in the West Bank in 15 years, after they killed three Palestinian militants in Nablus.
By
Jesse Rosenfeld
,
Oren Ziv
and
Ahmad Al-Bazz
February 15, 2022
The PA stumbled from one failure to another. Has its reckoning arrived?
The decades-long decline of the Fatah party has proven to Palestinians that the PA is an obstacle, not a vehicle, for their national liberation.
By
Majeed Malhas
July 13, 2021
As protests grow, the PA turns its repression on Palestinian journalists
Journalists report being targeted with violent assaults, phone theft, and verbal threats amidst the Palestinian Authority's crackdown on West Bank protests.
By
Dima Abumaria
July 6, 2021
Young Palestinians are fed up with their leaders. Can elections bring change?
Facing a deepening occupation and increasing authoritarianism, young Palestinians see the first national elections in 15 years as an opportunity to overhaul their political system.
By
Henriette Chacar
April 22, 2021
Why elections are key to re-energizing Palestinian politics
Instead of discouraging voting in the PA elections, Palestinians should use the opportunity to finally shake up their unaccountable political leaders.
By
Omar H. Rahman
March 15, 2021
Elections can’t fix the Palestinian Authority
The PA has spent years demobilizing Palestinian society and entrenching its repressive rule. The damage it caused will not be overcome at the ballot box.
By
Dana El Kurd
February 24, 2021
How the U.S. made Palestine the exception to the rules of peacemaking
Israel has only ever offered Palestinians two things over the past century — submission or devastation — and the Americans have always backed them.
By
Amjad Iraqi
February 10, 2020
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