From June 16 to 30, Israeli forces killed over 800 Palestinians in Gaza, many during bombings of homes, hospitals, and aid sites in Khan Yunis, Rafah, Nuseirat, and Gaza City. Dozens more were shot while seeking aid. Here are the summaries between June 16 and 30, 2025, from the #PalestineChronology 🧵 Between June 16 and 20, at least 320 Palestinians were killed by Israeli bombings in Gaza, including more than 70 waiting for aid and 29 near the Netzarim Corridor. A UN report warns that the entire population faces acute food shortages, with half a million at risk of famine by September: 🧵chronology.palestine-studies.org/node/17172

🧵The Haganah was founded 105 years ago, in June 1920. The Jewish Paramilitary Organization that was later transformed into the Occupation's Defense Forces, was crucial for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian villages during the Nakba. This underlying philosophy is reflected in today’s Shin Bet, Mossad, and military structures. palquest.org/en/overallchro…
In 1920, the Haganah was envisioned as a national popular organization, differing from previous Jewish defense groups such as Hashomer (established in April 1909), which operated as a small independent guard force. Haganah was placed first under the auspices of the Histadrut. 🧵

Since Israel began its genocidal assault on Gaza, @PalStudies has been on the front lines of documenting its devastating impact on Palestinian life.

We need your help to continue this work. Here’s how 🧵

palestine-studies.networkforgood.com/projects/24737… 1/ Since Oct 2023, IPS-USA launched 6 critical documentation platforms—living archives tracking attacks on Gaza’s health, education, agriculture, environment, culture, and more.

We’re preserving the truth while it’s under threat.

🧵On October 12, 2015, near the Israeli settlement of Pisgat Ze'ev in Jerusalem, Israeli forces shot two Palestinian children, Ahmad and Hassan Manasra, accusing them of a stabbing incident. During this time, settlers in the area also assaulted and beat them. Hassan later succumbed to his injuries and was martyred, while Ahmad was detained and charged with attempted murder even though he didn’t stab anyone. That marked the beginning of nearly a decade of violent and abusive treatment for Ahmad—one of many Palestinian children held in Israeli prisons. On November 11, 2015, PA President Mahmoud Abbas instructed the Foreign Ministry to prepare a file on the case of Manasra and submit it to the ICC, a move that came after leaked video footage showed Manasra being verbally abused as Israeli interrogators attempted to obtain confessions from the minor while he pleaded that he could not remember. (WAFA News Agency) 🧵

🧵Today, as the world witnesses Israel's genocide in Gaza, we mark 77 years since Zionist forces committed the Deir Yasin massacre.

The military and political developments that preceded and followed it made it a turning point in the 1948 Nakba and a symbol for Zionist plans to uproot and forcibly evict Palestinians from their towns and villages:
palquest.org/en/highlight/2… After the Partition Plan for Palestine was passed in November 1947, war broke out. Within the Zionist Movement, there was a military rivalry between the Haganah on the one hand and the Irgun (Etzel) and LEHI-Stern Gang on the other. This rivalry was expressed through acts of terrorism against Palestinians.🧵

Before officially breaking the ceasefire on March 18th, Israeli forces repeatedly violated the agreement. Between March 1 and 17, it targeted several sites in Gaza, killing and injuring Palestinians. This period also marked the end of the first phase of the ceasefire deal, as Israel refused to move to the second stage.
Here are the summaries between March 1 and 17, from the #PalestineChronology 🧵 Between March 1 and 4, as the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire expired, Israel refused to move to the second phase. Netanyahu vows to block all aid & backtracks on a ceasefire deal. The UN said there’s no evidence Hamas is stealing aid. In the West Bank, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians and Israeli forces continued to raid Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams while Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza killing at least 9 Palestinians: chronology.palestine-studies.org/node/17019 🧵

This International #WomensDay, we honor the legacy of the women’s movement in Palestine, which responded to calls by the national movement confronting British and Zionist colonization and occupation (thread) ⤵️ “Charitable women's associations established, funded, and run by women-had existed as early as 1910 and had filled important socioeconomic functions, particularly with the devastation and collapse following World War I.” doi.org/10.2307/2676453

THREAD: Some of our blog's most read stories and analyses published in 2024.

105 writers chose Palestine Square, trusting that their words would reach readers who would take action. In the new year, we'll be marking the blog's 10th anniversary! Read us, write for us. .@RandaAFattah's essay on the weaponization of rape atrocity propaganda by Israel and the New York Times (which still refuses to retract its debunked story), and interrogating the racism and Orientalism of mainstream feminism was the most read article of 2024! palestine-studies.org/en/node/1655054

What does U.S. press coverage look like in a time of genocide? Our writers contextualize reported events and expose journalistic (mal)practices & how biases, no matter how subtle, manipulate readers' perceptions and understanding of the situation in Gaza.
palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656607 “The Al Ahli Arab Hospital did not randomly combust; it was struck by the Israeli Air Force, which they confirmed and later retracted. The reporter uses passive and ambiguous language to decenter Israel's genocidal actions,” writes Farah Hamouda. palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656602

The Israeli occupation’s practice of withholding the bodies of Palestinian martyrs extends decades. This widespread “policy” is part of a larger strategic plan to control the lives of Palestinians, the living as well as the dead, and to deter them from resisting the occupation.

Continue reading about Israel's historical and current actions to withhold bodies and refuse proper burial to martyrs in Gaza: palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656276 “This policy of retaining bodies appears at first to intend to punish the families of martyrs, but is in reality a complex colonialist policy aimed at destroying the social norms and values of a society. It can be regarded as yet another colonialist stratagem like collective punishment and administrative detention.”

Hamdan Taha's article in the new issue of Jerusalem Quarterly details the cultural and heritage sites deliberately destroyed by Israel since October 2023 (thread)🧵⤵️ palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656039
Gaza Municipality concluded that the occupation forces targeted Gaza's main cultural landmarks that represent its collective identity: historic buildings, mosques, churches, universities, hotels, commercial centers, and municipal infrastructure.

"The political question of moment is why, rather than fundamentally altering the Western view of Israel, the events of the summer of 1982 have been accommodated in all but a few places in the public realm to the view that prevailed before those events: [...]"🧵 "that since Israel is in effect a civilized, democratic country constitutively incapable of barbaric practices against Palestinians and other non-Jews, its invasion of Lebanon was ipso facto justified."
'Permission to Narrate', Journal of Palestine Studies 🧵
palestine-studies.org/en/node/38869

Since October 2023, Israeli attacks on Lebanon have evoked the horror of the 1982 Israeli invasion and siege of Beirut, as well as the 2006 War which killed an estimated 1,200 Lebanese civilians (a third of them children). 🧵 The current attacks also resemble the Dahiya Doctrine Israel used in 2006 to level civilian infrastructure. Scroll to read a brief selection of Israeli airstrikes on Lebanese territory from Oct, 7, 2023 to Mar. 28, 2024, gathered from the #PalestineChronology.🧵

We have compiled and made accessible a reading list of 15 articles from the Journal of Palestine Studies providing historical context and analysis on nearly two decades of Israeli incursions, siege, and blockade on Gaza. Read 🧶⬇️: tandfonline.com/journals/rpal2… This paper by Sara Roy describes the reasons for the lack of development inside Gaza's economic sector, despite increased levels economic output achieved since 1967. (Article published in 1987)
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.230…

We have made public documents from the secret appendix to the report of the Commission of Inquiry, headed by former Israeli Supreme Court president Yitzhak Kahan, which was created to investigate the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre. [All downloadable]
palestine-studies.org/en/node/232060 This includes transcripts of meetings between senior Israeli officials and LF leaders in January 1982 that include discussions about “cleaning out the [Palestinian] refugee camps,” and the need for “several D[e]ir Yassins.”

Are U.S. Newspapers Biased Against Palestinians? Analysis of A Hundred Thousand Headlines Says Yes: based on a sentiment analysis of headlines spanning 50 years in 5 newspapers dating back to '67: bit.ly/2C7TJeK
@nytimes @washingtonpost @WJS @chicagotribune @LATimes Headlines were divided into two groups: one of #Palestinian-centric headlines, and another of #Israeli-centric headlines:
Since 1967, use of the word “occupation” has declined by 85% in the Israeli group of headlines, and by 65% in the Palestinian one;