West Bank

Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, and Yuval Abraham pictured at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles after their film "No Other Land" won the Oscar for best documentary, March 2, 2025. (Jordan Strauss/AP)

Make no mistake: ‘No Other Land’ is a victory for the Palestinian struggle

While some have accused the Oscar-winning film of normalization, leaders and activists in Masafer Yatta are unwavering in their support for joint resistance.

By Samah Salaime March 7, 2025

Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner-General, meets with internally displaced people in Rafah during his visit to the Gaza Strip, Dec. 12, 2023 (UNRWA Photo)

‘If UNRWA implodes tomorrow, there’d be no alternative’

Still functioning despite Israel's ban, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini explains how the agency is laying the groundwork for future Palestinian institutions.

By Ghousoon Bisharat and Meron Rapoport February 27, 2025

Smokes rises above Jenin refugee camp during an Israeli military operation to crack down on armed resistance, January 24, 2025. (Wahaj Bani Moufleh/Activestills)

‘Worse than the Second Intifada’: West Bank refugees reel from Israeli offensive

Displaced from Jenin and Tulkarem, Palestinian residents say Israel is waging a deliberate campaign to make the northern refugee camps unlivable.

By Hanno Hauenstein February 21, 2025

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Israeli soldiers forcibly displace Palestinians along a dirt road through Nur Shams refugee camp on February 10, 2025. (Wahaj Bani Moufleh)

PHOTOS: Israel ravages West Bank refugee camps

Israeli forces have displaced 40,000 Palestinians from four refugee camps in the largest military operation in the West Bank since the Second Intifada.

By Wahaj Bani Moufleh February 12, 2025

Israeli army forces demolish Palestinian homes and property in She'ab al-Bottom in Masafer Yatta, in the West Bank, July 8, 2024. (Basel Adra/Activestills)

Our film is going to the Oscars. But here in Masafer Yatta, we’re still being erased

As the world watches ‘No Other Land,’ Israeli settlers are raiding and burning our villages while soldiers arrest us, abuse us, and demolish our homes.

By Basel Adra February 10, 2025

Bassam Assous holds the body of his granddaughter, Laila Al-Khatib, after she was killed in her home by Israeli forces, Jan. 26, 2025. (Wahaj Bani Moufleh/Activestills)

After Gaza ceasefire, Israel turns its firepower on the West Bank

Two-year-old Laila Al-Khatib is the youngest victim of Israel's military campaign in Jenin, while road closures suffocate the entire territory.

By Basel Adra January 28, 2025

Palestinians and solidarity activists harvest olives in Duma, in the north of the occupied West Bank, on the first day of the olive harvest, October 10, 2024. (Avishay Mohar/Activestills)

‘I lost my wife and my land’: A deadly olive harvest season ends in the West Bank

Restrictions and attacks by the Israeli military, together with rampant settler violence, left many Palestinians unable to harvest this year's crop.

By Imad Abu Hawash December 12, 2024

The ruins of a building destroyed by settlers in the displaced Palestinian village of Khalet Khader, occupied West Bank. (Oren Ziv)

The West Bank villages wiped off the map by Israeli settler violence

Since October 7, over 50 rural Palestinian communities have been forced to abandon their homes amid intensifying attacks, threats, and harassment by Israeli settlers — almost always with the backing of the army and police.

By Oren Ziv December 4, 2024

Palestinian students pass an Israeli military jeep on their way home from school in the village of At-Tuwani, Masafer Yatta, occupied West Bank, September 28, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

In Masafer Yatta, our very right to education is under fire

Amid Israeli settler attacks, military raids, roadblocks, and an economic crisis, simply getting to school can be a challenge. But still we fight for our students.

By Mahmoud Al-Omour November 7, 2024

Israeli soldiers operating in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, July 31, 2024. (Oren Cohen/Flash90)

Is this Israel’s first apartheid war?

Far from lacking a political strategy, Israel is fighting to reinforce the supremacist project it has built for decades between the river and the sea.

By Oren Yiftachel October 15, 2024

The bed of 13-year-old Bana Laboum, was shot dead by Israeli soldiers in her room in the village of Qaryut, occupied West Bank, September 15, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

Settlers attacked Bana’s village. Then a soldier shot her through her window

After Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinians with rocks and Molotov cocktails, soldiers raided Qaryut and killed a 13-year-old as she stood in her bedroom.

By Oren Ziv September 23, 2024

A volunteer at a pepper harvest in Moshav Hamra, an Israeli settlement in the Jordan Valley, November 9, 2023. (Dor Pazuelo/Flash90)

Pick peppers, patrol for Palestinians: The ‘New Guardians’ of Israeli agriculture

With major government funding, Hashomer Hachadash sends volunteers to cement Jewish control of open farmland — on both sides of the Green Line.

By Georgia Gee September 16, 2024

Friends, activists, Palestinian, and Turkish officials take part in an honorary funeral for Turkish-American activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, who was killed by Israeli forces in Beita on Sept. 6, in the West Bank city of Nablus, September 8, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

‘She came here out of love’: Palestinians, allies honor activist slain by Israeli army

Eyewitnesses recount the killing of Turkish-American Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi at a protest in Beita, decrying Israel’s efforts to scare off international activists.

By Oren Ziv September 10, 2024