Wed 24-July-2024

Wafa Aludaini

Wafa Aludaini is a Gaza-based journalist and activist. She contributed this article to the Palestinian Information Center.

Will the American pier whitewash the US administration’s image for the Palestinians?

Palestinians greeted the announcement of the United States maritime pier in Gaza with skepticism, as the common impression amongst Palestinians is that the US administration maintains bias towards the Israeli occupation and shares complicity in the ongoing genocide, leading many to doubt the goals behind the construction.

In the ruins: How Palestinians use remnants of Israeli artillery for survival

Remnants of unexploded Israeli ammunition are scattered throughout most of the areas of the Gaza Strip, the detritus left behind in the wake of Israeli military operations in the Palestinian cities in the narrow coastal enclave.

Famine and the rising death toll in Gaza

Two Palestinian children died last week of starvation, dehydration and lack of medicine amid desperate conditions in the southern areas of the besieged Gaza Strip.

The slaughter of Palestinian scholars in Gaza is a deliberate Israeli tactic

Throughout the 229 days of the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, the Israeli occupation has deliberately targeted and assassinated dozens of Palestinian scholars, scientists, academics and researchers along with their families.

Aid airdrops reveal international failure and complicity in dehumanizing Palestinians

International aerial drops of aid in the Gaza Strip are the result of further policies of collective humiliation and dehumanization of the besieged population in Gaza.

In resistance to Israel’s genocide, Palestinians unleash initiatives

Even under the genocidal eliminationist Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian people nevertheless uphold their will to strive, to fight, to survive and maintain righteousness on their own land.

Israel treats Palestinian detainees in a degrading way, in defiance of international law

Since the beginning of the Israeli ground invasion of the Gaza Strip on 27 October, the occupation forces have detained thousands of Palestinians, mostly civilians.

In Gaza even death is no end to suffering

Even in death murdered Palestinians find no relief from the brutal onslaught of the Israeli occupation.

Gaza exhales: Israel lifts Kerem Shalom export ban

After days of closure and exportation halts on Friday (8/9/2023) Israeli occupation authorities reopened the Kerem Shalom crossing to exports from the besieged Gaza Strip.

UN’s plan to cease food aid in Gaza will cause thousands of job losses

Dozens of Palestinian children rallied on Tuesday morning in front of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) headquarters in Gaza City to protest against the halt and suspension of the World Food Program (WFP) in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Detainees on security minefield after Ben Gvir provocative measures

In a video released on social Media February 6th Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir pokes fun at Palestinian detainees derisively displaying himself eating fresh bread while stating: “No baking is allowed in prisons ‘terrorists’ shouldn’t receive fresh baked goods. What we have done is the beginning of the beginning to stop the ‘summer camps’ in the prisons.”

Jerusalem attack exposes Israelization failure in Palestine

The resistance attack in front of a Jewish synagogue in the Neve Yaacov settlement which is built on the lands of the Palestinian town of Beit Hanina in Occupied Jerusalem on January 27 confused the Israeli occupation forces and exposed the fragility of their security regime and the failure of Israelization endeavors amongst the younger generation of Palestinians.

“I divorced my wife because I love her”

“I have turbulent feelings toward my wife. I love her yet I was forced to divorce her by the Israeli occupation. I mustered up all my courage and I did it” says Shu’aib Abu Snaineh a freed Palestinian detainee.

Israeli siege becomes a forced lifestyle for Gaza children

As we mark International Children’s Day I asked children from different areas across the besieged Gaza Strip about their desires and inclinations on this day.

The Palestinian olive harvest: A celebration of survival

The olive season in Palestine is not only the season for picking olives which is pressed and sold to earn an entire year’s living for families throughout Palestine.

School year begins in Palestine amidst ongoing Israeli targeting

As the new school year began in the Palestinian territories on August 29 1.4 million students poured into primary preparatory and secondary educational programs throughout the occupied Jerusalem the West Bank and the Gaza Strip amid ongoing Israeli occupation attempts to target students and their schools.