Visualizing Palestine @visualizingpal Our latest highlights key findings from Francesca Albanese’s report, “Truth Under the Rubble: Media in the Time of Genocide”, exposing the systemic silencing of Palestinian journalists & the suppression of truth. Reshare to amplify findings & demand press freedom & accountability

Visualizing Palestine

@visualizingpal

 

Our latest highlights key findings from Francesca Albanese’s report, “Truth Under the Rubble: Media in the Time of Genocide”, exposing the systemic silencing of Palestinian journalists & the suppression of truth. Reshare to amplify findings & demand press freedom & accountability

 https://x.com/visualizingpal/status/2114636303362855226

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Israel EXPANDS- erasing Palestine

From historic Palestine to today

https://www.sabeel-kairos.org.uk/partition-plan/

With thanks to Visualizing Palestine for their permission to use this resource. 

https://visualizingpalestine.org/downloadable-exhibit/ 

DISPLACEMENT

These visuals and images document Israel’s ongoing expulsion and erasure of Palestinians from their land. Often referred to as the ongoing Nakba, or catastrophe in English, Palestinians have endured displacement for generations.

FRAGMENTATION

Displacement is compounded by Israel’s deliberate attempts to separate Palestinians from each other, from their land, and from the world. Despite codifying apartheid and enacting a settler colonial state, Palestinians persist and navigate Israel’s systems of oppression to overcome fragmentation.

RETURN & FUTURE VISIONING

The right of return is central to the Palestinian struggle for liberation. We must imagine and dream about what is possible so Palestinians can exercise their right to return, and live in a world free from oppression and settler colonialism.

 

“A cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God’s divine providence for all the inhabitants of this land.”

Kairos Palestine Document

New: Kairos II – Faith in a time of Genocide

Our partner Kairos Palestine have launched their renewed Kairos document: A Moment of Truth: Faith in a Time of Genocide, calling us to greater costly solidarity with the Palestinian people.

14 November 2025.

Kairos Palestine – The Palestinian Christian Initiative
A Moment of Truth: Faith in a Time of Genocide

We, the Palestinian Christian Ecumenical Initiative, issued the Kairos Palestine Document in 2009 — “A word of faith, hope, and love from the heart of Palestinian suffering.” The Heads of Churches in Jerusalem heard this cry, welcomed it, and offered their support. Likewise, the document resonated widely, both locally and internationally. Then, as now, we gathered — women and men, clergy and laity — from across the different church families in Palestine. After prayer and reflection on the suffering of our people under occupation, we released that cry of hope in the absence of hope, affirming our faith in God and our love for our homeland, convinced that our struggle is ultimately about human life and dignity.

We live now in a time of genocide, ethnic cleansing and forced displacement unfolding before the eyes of the world. This moment — a moment of truth — demands from us a new stand unlike any before it. It is both a decisive moment and. Today, we renew our stand for truth and our commitment to fundamental religious, theological and moral principles. We look at our reality and take a renewed stand, responding to the voice of the Holy Spirit deep within us, listening to the call of faith in this time of genocide. We renew our message of faith, hope, and love — offering a faith-inspired vision for the time after genocide.

You can read the full document here: Final_Kairos_document_II_English.pdf

 https://www.kairospalestine.ps/images/Final_Kairos_document_II_English.pdf

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Old Photos & maps of Gaza ... An ancient place where people have lived longer than recorded history: It is often forgotten that Gaza was once the richest port in the Eastern Mediterranean, super wealthy from the export of Arabian incense and Indian spices.

Palestinian Sheikh from Gaza, 1870 (Photo by Félix Bonfils, University of Pennsylvania Collection)

 

Gaza, Palestine circa c1900.

Early 1900's photo of watermelon vendors in Gaza, Palestine

Gaza in 1905, from the terrace of the Latin presbytery, next to the Catholic church of Gaza, recently bombed by the IDF

Gaza in 1922 Seen from Tell Harubah, the heart of ancient Gaza and occupied consistently since the Bronze Age

 

1920, Gaza, Palestine.

 

The ancient Byzantine Church of St Porphyrios, Gaza. Founded 425CE. Photographed by the Ecole Biblique 1922.  Bombed by the IDF 2024.

 

Gaza after surrender to the British after WWI.

 

Crusader-era oculus from the al-Umari mosque, Gaza Taken 1920

 

Crusader-era doorway from Gaza Photographed 1920 The trade connections of ancient Gaza From the exhibition Trésors sauvés de Gaza - 5000 ans d'histoire at L'Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris.

Palestine... Gaza pottery merchants taking wares to market...Circa 1930's

Palestine... Unloading a great fish-net, Gaza. 1937

 

Palestine.... A camel-load of tibbin going to Gaza... Circa 1930s

 

1939, Gaza, Palestine:  Palestinian mounted police on one of the city’s streets.

 

1935, Aircraft Hanno, Imperial Airways, Gaza, Palestine 🇵🇸   The airfield was constructed in 1917 and one of the first to be built in Palestine.

 

Gaza's beach 1943

 

Gaza - The Main Road 1947

The trade connections of ancient Gaza  It is often forgotten that Gaza was once the richest port in the Eastern Mediterranean, super wealthy from the export of Arabian incense and Indian spices.

Map of Mesopotamia - The Cradle of Civilization  

The trade connections of ancient Gaza mosaics- From the exhibition Trésors sauvés de Gaza - 5000 ans d'histoire at L'Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris

  

10 December 1948 

"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world..."   https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights 

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Palestine refugees at Khan Yunus camp in Gaza, near the Egyptian border. Nearly 200,000 refugees, mostly women and children were placed in the Gaza area, of a total of some 750,000 in camps and assembly centres throughout Palestine UN Photo Dec 1 1948  https://www.un.org/en

 

Palestinian refugees  in Gaza   1948

 

An old man looks yearningly toward his home through the barbed wire fence of the "Rimal and Beach Camp" which is the home of 17,000 Arab refugees on the shores of the Mediterranean just outside Gaza City. 1956 photo by INS Charles Arnot

 

A Palestinian refugee woman cross-stitching traditional Palestinian embroidery, Gaza, 1967. © UNRWA Photo Archives.  https://www.unrwa.org/

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Before & After 

 

 

 

Gaza Airport destroyed by Israel in 2001

Beaches in Gaza's seaside before Oct. 7.  2023 (AFP_File)

 

Gaza-AlHusaynaMosque-Before-After-Jan2024-MOHAMMEDABED-AFP

We are adding "yellow blocks" as a weapon on genocide dot live, to categorize videos, and we are rolling out a yellow blocks app on

@gazamaps

to track the movement of the blocks over time.

 

Guardian Screenshot- go to link  https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2025/dec/17/how-israel-yellow-line-dividing-gaza-deadly-consequences-video-explainer

 

Visualizing Palestine  https://visualizingpalestine.org/visual/gaza-stripped/

 

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Buying Time for Genocide - The US & Israel never wanted a ceasefire — blocking efforts for months while the US kept supplying weapons. #ARMSEMBARGONOW ... GAZA STRIPPED... and KILLING THE STORY anti-Palestian racism in media justifying Israeli violence & censoring rights-based language

Visualizing Palestine

@visualizingpal

“Buying Time For Genocide.” The US & Israel never wanted a ceasefire — blocking efforts for months while the US kept supplying weapons. In the latest talks, Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff helped Israel strip all guarantees to end the genocide. #ARMSEMBARGONOW

 

May 15 2025 marks 77 years since the Nakba—amid ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza and intensifying violence across Palestine. Our new visual with

@AlMezanCenter

traces Gaza’s history of enclosure, shaped by British colonialism and sustained by Zionist settler colonialism. #Nakba

Killing The Story

https://visualizingpalestine.org/visual/killing-the-story-april-2025/

This visual in our series on anti-Palestinian racism captures the dehumanization of Palestinians in mainstream media, where they are constantly silenced, discredited, and excluded.

Anti-Palestinian racism is one tool that reinforces a structure designed to weaken Palestinian resistance and narrative, and obscure global awareness of the Palestinian struggle for justice and liberation.

Explore the other three visuals in the series, one of which offers a framework for recognizing Anti-Palestinian racism as a distinct form of racism, The other visual highlights case studies from primary and secondary education. The third highlights case studies of anti-Palestinian racism on college campuses.  https://visualizingpalestine.org/visual/anti-palestinian-racism-in-the-media/

 https://visualizingpalestine.org/

Buying Time for Genocide ...

[March 2025] As Israel ramps up its attacks on Gaza, VP's latest visual exposes how the U.S. and Israel never really wanted a ceasefire. They worked together for months to block international efforts to end the genocide, all while the U.S. continued to supply Israel with weapons.  https://visualizingpalestine.org/visual/buying-time-for-genocide/

Stolen Steps: Child Amputees in Gaza

[April, 2025] This visual created in partnership with Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP), tells the stories of children whose lives and limbs have been stolen by Israel in its years-long siege of Gaza, and how Israel’s targeted destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system makes it impossible for them to access much-needed medical supplies and rehabilitation services.   https://visualizingpalestine.org/visual/stolen-steps/

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Systematic Oppression by Israel

This graphic predates the most recent  Israeli  WAR on Palestinians in Gaza 2024-2025

 & don't forget to also factor in Israel's racist refusal to respect the Palestinians' inalienable right to return to original homes and lands as clearly spelled out by the United Nations and international law since 1948.

Scholasticide: As the new school year begins, Palestinian students in Gaza cannot access education due to Israel’s systemic attacks on the education system

 Visualizing Palestine

@visualizingpal

 

As the new school year begins, Palestinian students in Gaza cannot access education due to Israel’s systemic attacks on the education system, known as "scholasticide."    #EndScholasticide