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Diaries: Live from Palestine

How Abu Dis' hills were stolen in the night

Lee Baker
18 May 2012
Stories from Abu Dis, a suburb which found itself suddenly cut off from Jerusalem by Israel’s wall.

In pictures: portraits of al-Aqaba, a village surrounded by the Israeli army

Calum Toogood
17 May 2012

Al-Aqaba is a small Palestinian village in the Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank surrounded by Israeli military checkpoints and training grounds.

Too many tears have been shed in Palestine; let us laugh again

Yousef M. Aljamal
Gaza Strip
8 May 2012
My mother recently spent 32 days in the West Bank, where she was born and raised. A day for every year she has lived in Gaza.

In photos: widespread solidarity with hunger striking Palestinian prisoners

6 May 2012
A roundup of images showing widespread solidarity throughout historic Palestine for the approximately 2,000 political prisoners on hunger strike.

The Month in Pictures: April 2012

2 May 2012
A monthly roundup of photographs documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, and international solidarity with Palestine.

Our day will come (and soon)

Yousef M. Aljamal
Nuseirat refugee camp
19 April 2012
Despite it all, hope is on the rainbow, writes Yousef M. Aljamal from Gaza, as his mother enjoys a long-awaited reunion with her family in the West Bank.

"Present absentee" keeps fighting against Israel's wall in al-Walaja

Tanzil Chowdhury
al-Walaja
18 April 2012
Sheerin al-Araj, a resident of al-Walaja village, is fighting tooth and nail against Israel’s encroaching settlement projects and the wall, which both continue to rapidly confiscate more village land.

With campus propagandists like these, the satire writes itself

Jimmy Johnson
14 April 2012
Jimmy Johnson’s ironic report on a Zionist propaganda event at Wayne State University, which was protested by student activists.

"We are only guests in Lebanon" - Palestinians look homewards on Land Day

Moe Ali Nayel
Beirut
2 April 2012
Thousands marked Palestinian Land Day in south Lebanon last Friday. Palestinian refugees and Lebanese supporters explain what Land Day means to them.

Why did Israel stop me from visiting the West Bank?

Patrick Keddie
15 March 2012
What kind of liberal democracy bars human rights activists in an attempt to stifle the truth about its behavior?

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