Updates

9 December 2023

overhead of hundreds of people and makeshift tents dotting the entire frame

Displaced Palestinians who fled Khan Younis set up camp in Rafah, near the border with Egypt, on 9 December.

Mohammed Talatene DPA

The Israeli airstrike that killed The Electronic Intifada contributor Refaat Alareer and several members of his family was “apparently deliberate,” according to a human rights group.

“Why does white America hate us?” asks Gaza writer Haidar Eid: “Palestinians have obviously joined Black and Indigenous people in the ‘political unconscious’ of mainstream America.”

Sahar Qeshta, writing from Gaza, pays tribute to her teacher Refaat Alareer and two cherished friends killed in Israeli strikes: “I cannot see how I will live following their deaths.”

Since 7 October, Israel has attacked a series of historical and cultural marvels in the besieged Gaza Strip. “The targeting of our heritage indicates that Israel is intent on erasing it,” writes Eman Alhaj Ali from Gaza.