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Gaza’s missing haunt loved ones
More questions than answers as relatives grapple with “ambiguous loss.”

"My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner"
The Columbia graduate and student leader dictated this message from ICE detention in Louisiana.

Ascent for freedom: The man who climbed Big Ben
Day’s courage reflects the acute desperation that so many feel as we question how the leaders of the so-called free world can continue so shamelessly to gaslight us into silence.

The smell of death returns in Gaza
I am writing from a building near the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis. I am watching the ambulances and cars rush by.

“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.
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