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Sexual, reproductive, and gender-based violence occurs in almost all wars and genocides, and Gaza is no exception. Torture and humiliation is a tool of repressive regimes to punish and try to destroy the spirit of anyone who challenges their oppression. A new report from the UN titled “More Than a Human Can Bear” shares harrowing accounts of sexual, reproductive, and other forms of gender-based violence committed by Israeli forces and settlers against Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank since October 2023.
Since the beginning of the ceasefire, the Israeli military has already killed at least 150 Palestinians in Gaza, including aid workers, continuously breaking the ceasefire.
Mainstream media would like you to believe that Palestinians in Gaza are “returning to normal” following 15 months of genocide. This couldn’t be farther from the truth.
Since March 2nd, the Israeli military has deliberately blocked all aid from entering Gaza, a repeated war crime. The over 2 million Palestinians living in Gaza are spending the holy month of Ramadan starving and deprived of basic needs like shelter, medicine, and electricity.
Darwish’s writing captured the pain of displacement, the struggle for justice, and a profound longing for home, while weaving images of nature—anemones, lapis lazuli, gazelles, and olives. His poetry inspired generations, blending personal longing with political resistance.
On Saturday, ICE agents abducted Palestinian activist and recent Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil from his home. This is the first attempt by the administration to put into practice Trump’s Executive Order which promises to revoke the visas of students protesting against Israel’s genocide of Gaza as part of a so-called crackdown on antisemitism.
On Saturday, ICE agents abducted Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist, recent graduate of Columbia University and U.S. permanent resident as he returned home from an Iftar with his wife, who is 8 months pregnant. 
The blackout drastically reduced clean water from Gaza’s only functioning desalination plant and forced a wastewater treatment plant to stop working . The power cuts came on the eighth day of the Israeli military’s renewed blockade of humanitarian aid shipments into Gaza all while Palestinians are observing Ramadan.
Mahmoud is currently being held in an ICE facility, reportedly already moved out of New York, and could face imminent deportation. His wife, a U.S. citizen, is eight months pregnant.
All through the ceasefire that began on January 15th, the Israeli military continually violated its terms, killing at least 118 Palestinians in Gaza and wounding 490.
Israeli police stormed into the bookstore, searching for books that contained Palestinian flags. Because the Educational Bookshop primarily sells books in English, the officers used google translate to find books that they could remove and use as an excuse to arrest the shop owners. In the end, they seized eight books, including a children’s coloring book.
This is a critical moment in history. As the US and Israeli governments push forward with plans for the forced removal of Palestinians from Gaza, Jewish voices must be clear and unwavering: We say no to ethnic cleansing and to genocide.
The majority of Jenin refugee camp’s 20,000 residents were forcibly displaced from their homes by the Israeli military.
This week, Israeli bulldozers razed farmland and roads in Jenin, escalating devastation to levels unseen in over two decades in the occupied West Bank.
Over the past few weeks the Israeli military ramped up their ongoing assaults on Masafer Yatta — a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank — working with Jewish supremacist settlers to burn and destroy homes and property and arrest anyone who dissents.
Last week, President Trump signed several Executive Orders that were supposedly issued to address antisemitism, but do nothing for Jewish safety and instead clearly target the Palestine movement. One order lays the groundwork for deporting international students who have spoken up for Palestine.
Netanyahu faces multiple arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Many countries have pledged to carry out the ICC’s charges. Instead, the US is welcoming him with open arms, and threatening to sanction the ICC.