

Features

“They kill one Yousef, we bring thousands”
My cousin Wassim and his wife welcomed a newborn son, Yousef, to the world in 2024. Wassim was killed by an Israeli attack four months later.

“Mama, boom! I hear it.”
A young doctor is caught in a struggle between her patients’ needs and those of her family.

Inside Israel’s brutal offensive on Jenin
Killed, injured and displaced, residents battle for survival.

Gaza's farmers return to find scorched trees, toxic soil
Northern Gaza’s farms were the hardest hit by Israeli attacks.

A rural town in Gaza comes back to life
Our first night back in al-Zawayda felt strangely familiar and safe. Many of our neighbors had returned after the ceasefire, so we were not alone.

Mourning my cousins
Recalling the courage and generosity of Ahmad and Amin.

Israel left a "gift of death" in my home
Making Gaza safe from unexploded ordnance could take 14 years.

Revealed: Secret BBC report "found no evidence" of anti-Israel bias
After 22 years, we examine the Balen Report.

When night becomes a battlefield
I didn’t know the meaning of insomnia until it became my relentless companion.

Death is better than humiliation
We always emerge from the catastrophes inflicted on Lebanon.
Reviews

Guardian's Zionist gatekeeper rewrites Holocaust history
22 August 2024
Jonathan Freedland’s book downplays Rudolph Vrba’s heroic criticism of Zionism. Read more about Guardian's Zionist gatekeeper rewrites Holocaust history

Before the flood
17 June 2024
Collection of essays places Gaza war in its “proper historical context.” Read more about Before the flood