Palestine

People participate in the Queer Liberation March in New York City on June 29, 2025.

Why Palestine Matters So Much to Queer People Why Palestine Matters So Much to Queer People

Palestinian identity can “upend the whole world order, if done right, if spun right, if we activate it enough. And I think queerness is a very similar kind of identity.”

Dec 5, 2025 / Jad Salfiti

The author and his mother.

How My Grandmother Remembers the Nakba How My Grandmother Remembers the Nakba

In 1948, my family fled Palestine when Zionists took over. I pieced their story together from a box of letters and diary entries.

Oct 25, 2025 / Tareq Baconi

Palestinians continue to return from the south to the north on the third day of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, carrying whatever belongings they could take, in Gaza City, Gaza on October 12, 2025.

Gaza Still Needs You Gaza Still Needs You

The fight for true Palestinian liberation is far from over.

Oct 13, 2025 / Jack Mirkinson

If the World Can’t Stop the Genocide Against Us, Let It at Least Carry Our Stories

If the World Can’t Stop the Genocide Against Us, Let It at Least Carry Our Stories If the World Can’t Stop the Genocide Against Us, Let It at Least Carry Our Stories

A journalist in Gaza debates whether to leave before his entire family is killed or stay so his people’s story is told.

Oct 3, 2025 / Mohammed al-Sawwaf

Palestinians search their belongings among the rubble of buildings destroyed by an Israeli attack on Abu Hasira street in Gaza City, Gaza, on September 30, 2025.

In Gaza, We Are Literally Losing Our Ability to Speak In Gaza, We Are Literally Losing Our Ability to Speak

The human mind, faced with relentless pain, erects invisible barricades. Here, amid genocide, one of them is the ability to express our trauma out loud.

Oct 1, 2025 / Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi

A pro-Palesitine demonstrator who ended up with a bloody nose is taken into custody by police as they break up the pro-Palestine encampment at UCI in Irvine Wednesday, May 15, 2024.

Palestinians Don’t Need Any Lectures About Political Violence Palestinians Don’t Need Any Lectures About Political Violence

We’re being told that all political violence is unacceptable. Why doesn’t the US-backed genocide of our people count?

Sep 26, 2025 / Layla Saliba

Relatives and colleagues of the Al Jazeera correspondents Anas al-Sharif and Mohamed Qraiqea, photojournalists Ibrahim Dahir and Moumin Alaywa, and assistant photojournalist Mohammed Noufal, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a journalists' tent near the Al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza city center attend the funeral ceremony on August 11, 2025 in Gaza City, Gaza.

These Journalists Saw Israel Kill Their Colleagues. But They Refuse to Be Silenced. These Journalists Saw Israel Kill Their Colleagues. But They Refuse to Be Silenced.

The strike that killed Anas al-Sharif nearly claimed the lives of these other reporters—including al-Sharif’s cousin.

Aug 28, 2025 / Ali Skaik

Fakhri Abu Diab amid the rubble of his former home.

The Americans Stealing Palestinian Land The Americans Stealing Palestinian Land

As the West Bank gets carved up for illegal settlements, US real estate companies are eager to cash in.

Aug 26, 2025 / Carolina Sophia Pedrazzi

Khadra Hathaleen, mother of a Palestinian activist who witnesses say was shot by an Israeli settler, is seen in Umm al-Khair, West Bank, Monday, August 4, 2025, while on hunger strike to call for Israel to return his body.

Why the Women of This Tiny Palestinian Village Went on Hunger Strike Why the Women of This Tiny Palestinian Village Went on Hunger Strike

After the murder of local activist Awdah Hathaleen, his loved ones said they wouldn't eat until his body was returned.

Aug 7, 2025 / Lara-Nour Walton

2-year-old Palestinian Yezen Abu Ful, whose health has deteriorated due to lack of access to food and nutritional supplements, is seen with his mother in the Al-Shati Refugee Camp in Gaza Strip on July 24, 2025.

These Kids in Gaza Are Starving. So Are Their Mothers. These Kids in Gaza Are Starving. So Are Their Mothers.

“There’s not enough food for me, so how can I have enough milk for her?” one woman says.

Jul 28, 2025 / A. Khalil

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