In this issue

We bear witness

A Rose Shoulders Up

Don't ever be surprised to see a rose shoulder up among the ruins of the house: This is how we survived.

5 mins

"We are the Living Dead of Gaza"

Every day since October 7, Zainab AI Ghonaimy has woken up in her home in the besieged Gaza City and the first thing she has done is check her Internet connection. It has become an essential means of survival for Zainab, who has been using it to broadcast her daily journal to the world.

10+ mins

"Gaza is our Home"

Researcher, writer and translator Yousef Aljamal highlights the human impact of the political situation through his mother’s and sister's stories

2 mins

"I Use Art to Convey What Cannot be Expressed in Words"

Artists expressing solidarity with Palestine are struggling to find space on mainstream platforms

1 min

Where is She?

Batool Abu Akleen, a teenage poet from Gaza, last posted on October 23. Her social media handles went silent after that

2 mins

The Dream of Peace

Iranian-French photographer Manoocher Deghati arrives in Palestine in 1994 to capture key moments such as the return of PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat. In Eyewitnessed, Ursula Janssen chronicles Deghati's perilious journey

10+ mins

CAPTURING War-torn Gaza

Representing and reporting the truth about the atrocities in Gaza could have been a redemptive moment for photojournalism

10+ mins

"I Don't Know How I Made it Out Alive"

Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad has been sharing the everyday struggle for survival in the ravaged city of Gaza

5 mins

"In Gaza, Death is Safer than Life"

Mosab Abu Toha, a poet, recounts his struggle to stay alive in war-torn Gaza

3 mins

"They Didn't Even Let Us Say Goodbye To Him"

West Bank-based journalist Fayha Shalash recounts her family's harrowing ordeal

2 mins

"We Did Not Expect the War to Go on for So Long"

Adel Al-Hawajri, a journalist from Gaza, says people are mentally and emotionally drained because this war is very different from the previous rounds of violence

2 mins

"Women are Suffering Because They are Women"

Twenty-five-year-old Gazan journalist Bisan Owda’s social media posts capture the everyday struggles of Gazans and the horrific impact of Israeli attacks

2 mins

Gaza's Truth-Tellers

Thanks to the voices of intrepid young journalists in Gaza, the world now knows the stories of its people by heart

8 mins

'The Olive Tree Does Not Cry or Laugh'

Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish’s works are seeped in the sights and sounds and sorrows of his beloved homeland. Placed under house arrest in his youth for his political activism and poetry, Mahmoud spent 26 years of his life in exile, between Paris and Beirut. Palestinian cities and villages, lakes and rivers, orange trees and olive groves, garlic and wheat and bread—pivotal symbols of Palestinian culture and history found a place in the poet in exile’s writing. He explored the themes of belonging and displacement, identity and alienation, giving a powerful and passionate voice to the Palestinian struggle. “My homeland is not a suitcase,” he declared. Calling all Palestinians to resist occupation and colonisation, he wrote, “This land promises wheat and stars…We are its wound, but a wound that fights.”

9 mins

Visually Speaking

A clutch of Palestinian films masterfully use the visual motifs of the West Bank barriers and Israeli checkpoints to capture the cruelties of war

3 mins

"Everyone is a Target"

Journalist Shatha Hanaysha missed death by a whisker last year during an Israeli raid, which killed a fellow scribe she had admired. But that has not stopped her

2 mins

No Country for Coriander

In a longstanding game of one-upmanship, Israel keeps banning harmless goods, snatching away the simple wants of Palestinians

5 mins

Jewish-Muslim Relations: A Journey Through Legends, Time and Faith

Before the 20th century, Jewish history books were replete with accounts of the generosity of Muslim rulers who had granted them religious and social freedoms and saved them from the savageries of the West

8 mins

The Olive Tree

Artist and writer Ghia Haddad on Palestinian children and hope

1 min

The 'Inner Monastery'

Author, scholar and thinker Hussein Barghouthi, diagnosed with lymphoma, returns to his childhood countryside near Ramallah in Palestine after thirty years in 'exile'. Among the Almond Trees is a poignant, lyrical, philosophical reflection on life and death, art and politics, love and hope. This excerpt is about a monastery atop a mountain he used to visit as a child.

4 mins

"My Daughters are Frightened"

Nour Harazeen, a journalist, left Gaza along with her family a few weeks ago. Her five-year-old twin daughters are bewildered by the devastation they see all around

2 mins

"No Help Was In Sight"

Zak used to work in a mall close to Al Shati refugee camp before he and his family fled to escape Israeli attacks

3 mins

"Resistance is at the Core of Our Identity"

Rifat Kassis, a Christian Palestinian human rights activist, author, and speaker, who is presently living in the West Bank, feels Israel is paving the road for another Nakba

5 mins

"We are the People of Truth"

The last words of Gaza poet Heba Abu Nada

2 mins

"Crazy and Unprecedented"

Haneen Harara, a Palestinian journalist based in Gaza, says it is really hard to tell the world how bad the situation is

3 mins

"Dancers are at Constant Risk of Being Arrested"

A 22-year-old Dabke dancer, who wishes to remain unnamed, says Palestinian artists are trying to send out a strong message to the world, that is silently watching the Gaza genocide

2 mins

UNHOLY WAR

Violence destroys the conscience and renders us captive to the reptilian mind within

7 mins

Stubborn Survival

Musings on the Palestinians' struggle to be heard

2 mins

Steadfast in Exile

A Palestinian lawyer returns to Ramallah only to become an 'internal exile'

2 mins

"Women of Gaza Are Holding On, But For How Long?"

What is happening in Gaza now is a backward step in every way for the feminist movement, says Farah Barqawi, a Palestinian feminist, performer and poet, pursuing an MFA degree in non-fiction creative writing in Brooklyn

5 mins

"Like Seeds, We will Continue"

Reem Anbar, a Palestinian oud player and a music therapist from Gaza, has been telling stories about her land and the ongoing war through her performances across Europe

3 mins

'My Death Should Not be Passing News'

A promising novelist and an engineer, Noor Aldeen Hajjaj, wrote this piece barely one month before he was killed in Israeli bombing on December 3 in Gaza

2 mins

Palestine Outside Gaza: TWO EXPERIENCES

Irrespective of how the current situation plays out, the Palestinian spirit is too deeply entrenched to be defeated

7 mins

Static Frames of Turbulence

The flair and flourish of Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman

5 mins

Occupation Stories

A collection of plays by Palestinian theatre groups about the daily lives of people in wartime in their homeland'

5 mins

'The Nakba Has Not Ended Yet'

Palestinian artist Ahmed ElKhalidi, who lives in Adelaide, uses his art to make people aorund him become more aware of the Palestinian issue

3 mins

'Even Before the War, Life Was Very Hard'

Cartoonist and visual artist Mohammad Sabaaneh was imprisoned in an Israeli prison for six months because his art depicts how Palestinians suffer Israeli atrocities daily

1 min

"I Spent A Day in an Israeli Prison"

Italian artist Jorit painted a mural of Palestinian activist Ahed Tamim! while visting Jerusalem. He was jailed for it, and he Is banned from entering Israel for ten years

3 mins

"I Yearn For a Moment of Boredom of the Lady with Hearing Loss”

She is a Gaza-based poet and cultural activist, who wrote this on Facebook on December 13

2 mins

"A Fleeting Feeling of Freedom"

Mohammed Ayman, co-founder of the Free Gaza Circus, is determined to entertain Gaza's kids

2 mins

'We are Packing for Exile ... or Death'

In the first week of December, the Aljazzar family was preparing for its forced emigration from Gaza. They didn't know what to pack in their small backpacks

3 mins

"The Sky Seems to be Weeping"

Haya Abu Nasser, a human rights activist and writer from Gaza, was slated to depart for Malaysia on October 17 to study international relations. These days, she is yearning for a cup of coffee and the routine melody of life

3 mins

"Why Do They Bomb Us?"

Four-year-old Salma often wakes up late at night crying violently. She stares at the smoke of the bombing until it fades away and asks. \"People died?\"

3 mins

"We Need More Medicines"

Chris Hook has been working with Médecins Sans Frontieres MSF)/Doctors Without Borders since 2015. He was recently the Head of Medical Teams in Gaza and describes what it’s like to do care work in a city under siege

5 mins

"Who Will be Killed Next?"

Palestinian doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish lost three of his daughters when Israel bombed his house in Gaza. He is now a voice for peace and freedom

2 mins

"I am Ready to Die, Here in Gaza"

She is a 21-year-old student in Gaza. She has survived many Israeli military attacks. The Israeli army assassinated two of her uncles and two of her cousins. This is her story

3 mins

"We Want Bread Back into Our Lives"

Hind Khoudary, who is associated with the World Food Programme in Gaza, recounts hard days in the Gaza Strip during and after the brief humanitarian pause

2 mins

"No, it Did Not Begin on October 7"

Khaled Abuqare says as an activist, it has been difficult to put the Palestinian perspective on the table because in the initial weeks of the war, the focus was on the Israeli perspective

2 mins

"I Let my Art be a Testament to my Political Identity"

Heba Haji is a Kuwaiti-Palestinian artist settled in Kuwait. She traces her ancestry to Palestine through the words of her grandparents

3 mins

"I See a Circle of Light"

Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan's poems sing of losing the war and living for love

2 mins

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