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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
Thousands fleeing, a deadly explosion: My drive through Gaza’s escape route
After Israel ordered Gazans to evacuate the north, I rushed through the strip's main road to rescue family members. It was the most difficult day of my life.
By
Mohammed Zaanoun
October 14, 2023
Germany to strip Palestinian refugee’s status over his activism
Echoing dubious Israeli claims against his advocacy group, Germany could force Zaid Abdulnasser into a legal limbo faced by thousands of Palestinians.
By
Hebh Jamal
October 2, 2023
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‘Your grandparents couldn’t return to Al-Sajara. But I know they died hoping’
Little remains of the village from which +972 editor Vera Sajrawi’s grandparents were uprooted in 1948. Living out the rest of their lives close by as internal refugees, they yearned for what was taken from them.
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Vera Sajrawi
September 22, 2023
Israel’s war on refugee camps seeks to correct its mistake of 1948
Refugee camps have long been a nexus of Israeli oppression and Palestinian resistance. The Jenin invasion reveals a new stage in that battle.
By
Ameer Makhoul
August 1, 2023
Dispelling the myths about Palestinian refugees — in Jenin and beyond
With Israel's Jenin invasion sparking a new round of misinformation, here are the truths behind five hasbara tropes on Palestinian refugees.
By
Anne Irfan
July 9, 2023
How the Nakba’s second generation absorbed their parents’ trauma
From the food we ate to the work we chose, the Nakba permeated everything in the lives of the children of Palestinian refugees displaced in their homeland.
By
Samah Salaime
May 17, 2023
I’m a Nakba survivor. In the ruins of my home, I write my hopes in stone
Every year I visit the Palestinian village I was expelled from in 1948. Now in the U.S., I dream my children will rebuild the land based on justice and equality.
By
Leila Giries
May 16, 2023
Sharifa’s Nakba: Retracing my family’s escape from Haifa
+972 editor Vera Sajrawi sets out to uncover the hidden story of her grandparents' expulsion in 1948, walking the streets on which they used to live before being made refugees in their own homeland.
By
Vera Sajrawi
May 15, 2023
From Salama to Kfar Shalem: How Mizrahim fit into the ongoing Nakba
The expulsion of Salama’s Palestinians, the settling of Mizrahi Jews in their place, and the eviction of those residents decades later reveals the mechanism by which Israel continues to erase Palestinian existence.
By
Doron Yacov
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Adi Golan Bikhnafo
May 15, 2023
The Palestinian intellectual who loved Hebrew and fought Zionism
Ribhi Kamal was one of a handful of Palestinian elites who mastered Hebrew before 1948. After his exile to Syria, he deployed it as a weapon against Israel.
By
Caroline Kahlenberg
April 21, 2023
UNRWA strike spotlights spiraling conditions in West Bank refugee camps
The protest by workers at the UN agency comes amid funding cuts and escalating pressure to 'eliminate the Palestinian refugee issue.'
By
Basel Adra
February 14, 2023
The Israeli left has broken the Nakba taboo. Will the right of return be next?
The past year has seen many left-wing Israeli groups looking beyond the occupation to confront the legacies of 1948, but they remain divided over redressing the exile of Palestinian refugees through return.
By
Ben Reiff
June 23, 2022
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