The Gaza side of the sealed Rafah border crossing to Egypt, January 2025.Photo: Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

Unwelcome

Egypt keeps displaced Palestinians in legal limbo, denying them stability and rights. By Rebecca Ruth Gould.

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NI 557 - The global far right - September, 2025
Illustration: Emma Peer

Seriously?

Rhyme and Punishment, by Paula Lacey.

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NI 556 - United Nations at 80 - July, 2025
Attack on aid

Attack on aid

Gaza aid ship blasted as Israel extends its siege beyond the shoreline, by Paula Lacey.

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NI 556 - United Nations at 80 - July, 2025
A young man walks through fire and smoke near the city of Jenin’s main hospital during clashes with the Israeli military in July 2023.Photo: Víctor Cabo

Under the eye of occupation

The Jenin refugee camp has long been branded a ‘capital of resistance’ for Palestinians in the West Bank, but it has paid a price. Kasturi Chakraborty reports on the impacts of Israel’s latest siege and life under surveillance.

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NI 556 - United Nations at 80 - July, 2025
Photo: PA Images/Alamy Stock Photo

‘The smears make me stronger’

Francesca Albanese has stepped out of the United Nations’ structures to speak directly to the world’s people about the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Bethany Rielly meets her.

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NI 556 - United Nations at 80 - July, 2025
Palestinians inspect the rubble of the Yassin Mosque at Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. It was hit by  hit by an Israeli airstrike on 9 October 2023.Photo: Adel Hana/Associated Press/Alamy

Fiddling while Gaza burns

Having facilitated Israel’s settler-colonial project, the UN is now helpless to pick up the pieces. By Hamza Yusuf.

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NI 556 - United Nations at 80 - July, 2025
Books Essay: Auditioning for empathy

Books Essay: Auditioning for empathy

Poet and polemicist Mohammed El-Kurd chronicles the erasure of Palestinians – in voice as well as body. By Hamza Yusuf.

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NI 555 - Critical minerals - May, 2025
Democrats including Cori Bush, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Barbara Lee, demanding a ceasefire after a vote in the House of Representatives, 8 November 2023.Photo: Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA/Alamy

No resistance without Palestine

Without a reckoning over their support for Israeli genocide, the US Democrats are doomed to fail, argues Decca Muldowney.

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NI 554 - Indigenous sovereignty in Australia - March, 2025
Palestinians are forced to move out of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on 11 August 2024, following relentless Israeli bombing.Photo: Abaca Press/Alamy Stock Photo

Sanitizing genocide

Disaster appeals that airbrush Israel’s role in the Gaza genocide are not just offensive – they’re dangerous, argues Nick Dearden.

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NI 553 - Guns and power - January, 2025
Palestine kicked out

Palestine kicked out

Israel intensifies deportations of international activists from the West Bank, aiming to isolate Palestinians amid escalating settler violence, writes Bethany Rielly.

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NI 553 - Guns and power - January, 2025
A protester in Toulouse, France, holds up a map depicting the process of colonization of Palestinian land from 1946 to 2020. Today, Israel occupies at least 85 per cent of the area of historic Palestine. The two-state solution is often predicated on the 1967 borders, which would leave 78 per cent of the land in the hands of Israelis, and just 22 per cent for Palestinians.Photo: Alain Pitt/Alamy

Beyond apartheid

The possibility of reaching a one-state solution seems more distant than ever, but it remains the most obvious, direct and logical route to end the conflict and build a just future for Palestinians and Israelis, argues Ghada Karmi.

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NI 552 - Disinformation - November, 2024
Illustration: Mona Chalabi

Dying in the Passive Voice

Nanjala Nyabola reports on Western media's reporting on Israel’s war on Palestine.

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NI 552 - Disinformation - November, 2024
Illustration: Ameen Alhabarah

Open Window

‘Olympics Against Genocide in Gaza’ by Ameen Alhabarah (Saudi Arabia).

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NI 551 - Election year - September, 2024
Displaced Palestinians wait to receive United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) aid amid Israel's ongoing onslaught on Gaza in Rafah on 7 March 2024. As of 14 July, 197 UNRWA humanitarian workers had been killed in the strip.Photo: Mohammed Salem/Reuters

An idle witness?

The United Nations has failed to halt Israel’s war crimes in Gaza. As the void of legitimacy under the organization grows, Mark Seddon asks whether it’s time to look for an alternative.

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NI 551 - Election year - September, 2024
Children draw Gazan buildings in art class in a refugee shelter in northern Rafah.Photo: Christian Aid/CFTA

Re-drawing history

Drawing pictures of Gaza’s historical buildings destroyed during Israel’s ongoing assault.

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NI 551 - Election year - September, 2024
Illustration: Emma Peer

Seriously?

Hamas under the bed, by Zoe Holman.

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NI 550 - Abortion - July, 2024
Palestine reconstructing ruins

Palestine reconstructing ruins

Report on the destruction in Gaza, by Zoe Holman.

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NI 550 - Abortion - July, 2024
Cracking Down

Cracking Down

Report on activist arrests in Egypt, by Lara Gibson.

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NI 550 - Abortion - July, 2024
‘If I Must Die’, by Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer, is seen emblazoned on a series of kites at a demo in London, a few days after he was killed in December.Photo: Eleventh Hour/Alamy

Singing in dark times

Palestine’s poets, novelists, musicians and journalists have not only voiced their people’s liberation struggle but also driven it. Decca Muldowney charts their role in resisting annihilation and imagining a free Palestine

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NI 550 - Abortion - July, 2024
Photo: Emma Hardy

‘I now understand how genocides happen’

Surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah talks to Bethany Rielly about healthcare as resistance and his experiences in Gaza’s besieged hospitals.

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024

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The global far right September, 2025
United Nations at 80 July, 2025
United Nations at 80 July, 2025
United Nations at 80 July, 2025
United Nations at 80 July, 2025
United Nations at 80 July, 2025
Critical minerals May, 2025
Indigenous sovereignty in Australia March, 2025
Guns and power January, 2025
Guns and power January, 2025
Disinformation November, 2024
Disinformation November, 2024
Election year September, 2024
Election year September, 2024
Election year September, 2024
Abortion July, 2024
Abortion July, 2024
Abortion July, 2024
Abortion July, 2024
Debt: which way out? May, 2024
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