Beirut, Lebanon – Israel’s much-criticised banning of the United Nations Palestinian aid agency (UNRWA) is part of a broader attempt to undermine the rights of Palestinian refugees and expel them from the occupied territories, analysts have told Al Jazeera. The ban on the agency takes ...

Beirut, Lebanon – Umm Hassan* says she was ready to die in her home when Israel began carpet bombing south Lebanon earlier this week. Shrouded in her black abaya, she explains that the “resistance” – a reference to the Lebanese armed group, Hezbollah – ordered her to leave the governorate ...

Israel killed three Palestinians in a drone strike on Thursday in Tulkarem, a city and refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. That was during an Israeli raid – a near-daily occurrence in the West Bank – on the Tulkarem refugee camp, during which Israeli troops clashed with fighters from ...

Where is Gaza? Gaza is a coastal strip of land roughly twice the size of Washington, DC. It runs along the Mediterranean, surrounded on three sides by Israel and one end bordering Egypt’s Sinai. What’s the population? About 2.3 million people. Many are descendants of Palestinians who ...

West Jerusalem – “I don’t believe in this war and I don’t believe that the goals of this war can be achieved,” said 39-year-old Avital Suisa. “This war is pointless.” That blunt position is not typical for Israelis, but neither is Suisa. She’s an activist from West Jerusalem, and is ...