‘We will suffocate’: Palestinian refugees in Gaza fear UNRWA ban
Israel’s new ban on the UN agency leaves many in Gaza worried about who will help them now. With the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) ordered to cease…
‘It will devastate people’: Palestinians despair at looming Unrwa closure
Nobody knows what will happen when Israel’s ban on UN agency that provides vital services across Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank comes into force on 1 February Pressing…
Palestinians return to north Gaza after over a year; Hamas hails ‘victory’
Thousands of Palestinians head on foot to what is left of their homes after 15 months of war and forced displacement by Israel. After 15 months of war, hundreds of…
‘A constant state of panic’: how war in Gaza triggered new wave of depression and insomnia among Palestinian refugees from 1967 war
The stress of seeing the destruction of their homeland sent rates of mental illness soaring in Jordan’s Jerash camp – and the ceasefire has brought scant relief SuThaslima Begum and…
‘Every house reduced to rubble’: Gazan family’s painful return to Rafah
Leila el Arja is sitting amongst rubble, looking far into the distance, trying to comprehend. She’s surrounded by twisted metal, smashed concrete and broken wood. This used to be a…
Why are there so many Palestinian children in Israeli prisons?
Twenty-three child prisoners released but more than 300 minors remain in Israeli custody, many of them without charges. At least 23 Palestinian child prisoners have been released by Israel as…