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How Israel’s efforts to expel UNRWA from Jerusalem and crack down on West Bank refugee camps are connected

Archive photo of Israeli forces at Kalandia Training Centre on July 27, 2026. (© July 2026 UNRWA Photo)As Israeli forces move to take over remaining UNRWA facilities in Jerusalem, residents of Qalandia and Shufaat refugee camps fear the assault on the UN agency is linked to the ongoing Israeli military crackdown on the camps.

Israel just took another major step towards West Bank annexation

Israeli forces prevent Palestinians from planting olive trees on their land on Palestinian Land Day in the village of Qusra, March 30, 2022. (Photo: APA Images)As settlers besiege Palestinian families in Qusra, Israel's government responds by handing settlement security to the police of hardline minister Ben-Gvir- a move seen to further entrench Israeli annexation of the West Bank.

The real reason Netanyahu added Mamdani to his ‘enemies list’

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on election day (Mamdani campaign Instagram)Netanyahu's campaign billboard lumps Zohran Mamdani with Iran and Hezbollah as an "enemy", an admission that he's losing America, and that no successor will fix Israel's underlying apartheid problem.

An American citizen was abducted by Israeli forces. His release doesn’t mean the violence stopped.

Israeli soldiers patrolling Roman-era ruins in the Palestinian town of Sebastia, March 30, 2021. (Photo: Shadi Jarar'ah/APA Images)The arrest and detention of Philadelphia resident Hussein Jabarin is one example of the broader escalation of violence Palestinians are facing across the occupied West Bank.

Israel executes prominent ‘father of martyrs’ Fathi Khazem in his home in Jenin

Fathi Khazem flanked by Jenin resistance fighters while speaking at a rally marking the 35th anniversary of the founding of the Islamic Jihad movement, Jenin, October 6, 2022. (Photo: APA Images)Fathi Khazem, a father of two slain resistance fighters and once regarded as a symbol of resistance, was killed by Israeli forces in his home, despite having an understanding mediated by the Palestinian Authority that Israel wouldn’t pursue him.

Besieged by Israeli settlers and cut off from the outside world, Palestinian families on a West Bank hilltop refuse to leave

Abdul Karim Hassan, whose family is besieged on the Ras al-Ain hill outside the village of Qusra, south of Nablus in the central West Bank, August 2026. (Photo: Shatha Hammad)For seven months, Israeli settlers have besieged three Palestinian homes on a hilltop near Nablus, but the families refuse to leave. "We will lose ourselves if we lose Ras al-Ain," a village leader told Mondoweiss.

Progressive Israel-critic Angie Nixon scores upset victory in Florida Senate primary

DSA member Angie Nixon defeated Alex Vindman in Florida's Senate primary, outspent 16 to 1. She's called Netanyahu a war criminal and opposes U.S. arms sales to Israel. Elsewhere in the state, progressive challengers didn't see as much success.

Inside the slow ethnic cleansing of al-Mughayyir, a Palestinian village besieged by Israeli settlers

Members of the Abu Alia family in the West Bank village of al-Mughayyir have had their arms broken by Israeli settlers and the army, July 2026. (Photo: Shatha Hammad)Settler violence and army raids are erasing the West Bank village of al-Mughayyir. In recent months, villagers have seen a teenager killed defending his neighbors, thousands of olive trees uprooted, and nearly all the village's lands stolen.

‘Destroying agriculture is the purpose’: How Israel is drying up the West Bank’s most fertile farmlands

Israeli military vehicles on Palestinian agricultural land in the Jordan valley, near the West Bank town of Tubas, May 6, 2015. (Photo: Shadi Hatem/APA Images)For months, Palestinian farmers in the northern West Bank have watched their water lines cut and their wells marked for demolition in Israel’s slow strangulation of Palestinian agriculture, as farmers tell Mondoweiss "there is no tomorrow" for them.

‘I couldn’t watch my children cry from hunger’: Inside the ‘displacement economy’ Gazans built to survive the genocide

Palestinian fitness trainer Iman al-Mughir uses empty food cans and other waste items as part of her makeshift gym in Mawasi, Khan Younis, August 11, 2026. (Photo: Tariq Mohammad/APA Images)In Gaza's displacement camps, survival has bred a new economy: a gym owner forges weights from empty cans, a supermarket owner turns baker, a housewife becomes a street vendor — each person rebuilding a livelihood from the wreckage of genocide.

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