First intifada

Why I have two brothers called Omar

Yousef M. Aljamal
Nuseirat refugee camp
30 May 2013

If he hadn’t been killed by Israeli forces, my elder brother would have celebrated his 27th birthday this week.

Israeli who revealed “medieval-style” torture of Palestinians faces virulent backlash

“Without exaggeration and without even a drop of melodrama for enhancing the effect: we arrived at a medieval-style torture facility.”

On Valentine's Day, a celebration of love and struggle

I write here about my friend Allam Ka’by, one of those released in last year’s prisoner swap deal. Valentine’s Day marks his unity with the woman of his life after over 10 years of separation. Here, you’ll read their inspiring story of love and struggle.

Palestinians and desensitization: is it the time for a third intifada?

International agencies and well-planned political moves help desensitize the Palestinian people to Israel’s brutality.

"Force, might and beatings": Indelible images of the first Intifada

The first Intifada began 24 years ago. One piece of footage in particular had a profound impact all over the world: a group of Israeli soldiers on a hillside in the West Bank systematically breaking the bones of two captive Palestinian, using rocks and sticks.

On Naksa Day, Palestinians carry on popular struggle

Eva Bartlett
Beit Hanoun
6 June 2011
While Lebanon’s Naksa Day demonstrations were prevented by Lebanese security, demonstrations went on throughout the occupied West Bank as well as by Palestine supporters worldwide.

Refugees march to return

Matthew Cassel
13 May 2011
Matthew Cassel comments on Palestine’s role in the Arab uprisings, and a planned march by Palestinian refugees in Lebanon this Sunday, 15 May, to the border that they were forced to cross 63 years ago.

WATCH: Long trailer for "The Wanted 18: A True Story of Bovine Resistance"

A brilliant new documentary film is being produced in Palestine, focusing on a story that took place during the first intifada in the late 1980s in Beit Sahour near Bethlehem. As Palestinians rebelled against lethal Israeli policies across the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Israeli military attempted to quash popular uprisings through unmitigated violence, repression and long-term curfews.

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