Oslo Accords

Israeli tanks seen during an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, February 19, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

In first since Oslo, Israel seizing land for army base inside West Bank city

The seizure order, near Jenin refugee camp, is the latest move aimed at expanding military and settler presence in the north of the occupied territory.

By Shatha Yaish May 27, 2026

Israeli settlers fly an Israeli flag on the house of Ahed Khatib, inside Area B near Aqarba, in the West Bank, February 2026. (Oren Ziv)

‘Erasing the lines’: How settler outposts are seizing new regions of the West Bank

After decades consolidating their control over Area C, Israeli settlers are expanding into Areas B and A — nominally under Palestinian Authority jurisdiction — and displacing communities, a joint investigation reveals.

By Oren Ziv and Ariel Caine March 24, 2026

PODCAST: What happened to the Palestinian popular struggle?

Veteran activist Munther Amira says the surge in violence and repression since October 7 has forced a rethink of what resistance means in the West Bank.

By +972 Magazine November 7, 2025

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Palestinian youth open a gate of the separation wall during a demonstration marking 12 years of the struggle against the Israeli occupation, in the West Bank village of Bil'in, February 17, 2017. (Oren Ziv)

How to end Israeli apartheid

Install a caretaker government, abolish unjust laws, disarm militias: a new book lays out a roadmap for a democratic future in Israel-Palestine.

By Jonathan Adler November 5, 2025

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a press conference in Jerusalem on September 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

The not-so-secret history of Netanyahu’s support for Hamas

From sabotaging Oslo to funneling Qatari cash into Gaza, Bibi has spent his career bolstering Hamas to help perpetuate the conflict. Even after Oct. 7, argues historian Adam Raz, he's still advancing the same strategy.

By Ghousoon Bisharat November 11, 2024

Israeli soldiers during the First Intifada, in the Gaza Strip, 1987. (Efi Sharir/Dan Hadani Collection, The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, The National Library of Israel)

Why is Gaza so central to the Palestinian struggle?

The history of Gaza illuminates how the tiny enclave has long encapsulated Palestinian identity — and why it is now the focal point of a regional crisis.

By Anne Irfan January 2, 2024

Israeli security forces guard as Palestinians make their way through a checkpoint to attend Friday prayer of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, April 29, 2022. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

The permit regime is Oslo’s enduring legacy. It must be abolished

The separation logic enshrined by the Oslo Accords birthed a cruel system of Israeli control, whose security justifications collapsed into openly racist ones.

By Yael Berda September 21, 2023

Palestinian politician Hanan Ashrawi, seen in her office in the West Bank city of Ramallah. January 31, 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

‘I told Arafat: Israel will promise you an inch and not give you a millimeter’

Reflecting on the Oslo Accords 30 years later, veteran politician Hanan Ashrawi recounts her arguments with PLO leaders during the negotiations, and explains why Israel's political crisis is opening cracks in the occupation.

By Meron Rapoport September 13, 2023

Palestinian policemen celebrate their entry into the West Bank city of Jericho alongside Israeli soldiers, in accordance with the Oslo Accords, May 13, 1994. (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

The contradictory afterlives of Oslo

A path to peace. A blasphemous betrayal. A cover for the occupation. How did the Oslo Accords morph into such infinitely pliable meanings?

By Dahlia Scheindlin September 12, 2023

Palestinian policemen celebrate upon entering Jericho, one of the first cities handed over to Palestinian Authority control in accordance with the Oslo Accords, May 13, 1994. (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

The Oslo trap: How the PLO signed its own death warrant

From asymmetrical concessions to renouncing armed struggle, the fate of the Palestinians was sealed before Arafat and Rabin even shook hands.

By Raef Zreik September 11, 2023

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken gives a press statement in Jerusalem, January 31, 2023. (Emil Salman/POOL)

The US policy world can’t imagine Palestinians as equals

The refusal of American policy figures to consider alternatives to the two-state solution betrays the fact that they will always prioritize Israeli domination.

By Tariq Kenney-Shawa May 11, 2023

MK Simcha Rotman, Head of the Knesset's Constitution Committee, poses for a picture at the Knesset, Jerusalem, January 17, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Welcome to Simcha Rothman’s vengeful coup

Embodying the rage that drives the Israeli right’s judicial assault, the chair of the Knesset’s Law and Justice Committee is poised to bring his once-fringe ideas to fruition. And, he tells +972, he is just getting started.

By Nate Orbach March 9, 2023

Israeli soldiers, settlers and Palestinian demonstrators during a protest against Israeli settlement building in Al-Thaalaba village, near Yatta, August 21, 2020. (Wissam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Why Israel’s goal of pacifying the Palestinians is failing

Israel relies on a counterinsurgency strategy of economic gestures and local policing to stabilize its rule. But growing resistance shows why it can't prevail.

By Nur Arafeh February 16, 2023