According to the United Nations Satellite Centre, around 81% of all structures in Gaza are damaged...

UNRWA

@UNRWA

 

Nearly all of the #Gaza Strip’s residents have been displaced. 

 

Following the start of the ceasefire, many families tried to return to their homes, most to find only rubble. 

 

According to the United Nations Satellite Centre, around 81% of all structures in Gaza are damaged.   

 

https://x.com/UNRWA/status/1986047105215995972

 

UNRWA

 

@UNRWA

In #Gaza, even in the darkest times, a child is a child. 

 

At UNRWA shelters, they find moments of joy — a space to play, to learn, to dream, to simply be children. 

 

Because every child deserves safety, hope, and a chance to smile.

 

https://x.com/UNRWA/status/1985950225312145886 

 

UNRWA

 

@UNRWA

 

In #Gaza, nearly 75,000 displaced people are sheltering in over 100 UNRWA buildings — many damaged and overcrowded. 

 

UNRWA teams work tirelessly to keep shelters safe and dignified, providing water, sanitation, waste collection, and hygiene support every day.  

 

#UNRWAworks

 

https://x.com/UNRWA/status/1985587932439167426

 

UNRWA

 

@UNRWA

 

There is widespread damage across the #Gaza Strip, unstable structures, and unexploded ordnance. 

 

UNRWA currently runs over 70 shelters, where tens of thousands of forcibly displaced people are living. 

 

Our teams continue to work tirelessly to keep shelters running and to help children keep learning and playing.  

 

#UNRWAworks

 

https://x.com/UNRWA/status/1984863115209572631

 

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#UNRWAworks

B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم: The October 7 atrocities as a trigger for genocide: an escalation rooted in decades of apartheid and occupation. Read more in “Our Genocide” report,

B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم

@btselem

The October 7 atrocities as a trigger for genocide: an escalation rooted in decades of apartheid and occupation. Read more in “Our Genocide” report, link in   https://x.com/btselem/status/1975508253313245594/photo/1

 

B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories strives for a future in which human rights, liberty and equality are guaranteed to all people, Palestinian and Jewish alike, living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Such a future will only be possible when the Israeli occupation and apartheid regime end.

Interactive Map 

Our Genocide 

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https://www.btselem.org/publications/202507_our_genocide

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is genocide?

How did you reach the conclusion that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza?

How did we get to a point where the Israeli regime is committing genocide against the Palestinians?

Why does the report warn of a risk that the genocide will spread to other areas under Israeli control?

How does the report address the Hamas-led attack on 7 October 2023?

What needs to be done now?

Artist Frans Al-Salmi was murdered 30 June 2025 by Israel when the IDF bombed a beautiful seaside cafe in Gaza

Artist Frans Al-Salmi was murdered this morning by Israel when the IDF bombed a beautiful seaside cafe in Gaza

 

Art by Palestinian Frans Al-Salmi : Shireen Abu Akleh, Palestinian-American journalist (1971–2022)

Shireen Abu Akleh was a prominent Palestinian-American journalist who worked as a reporter for 25 years for Al Jazeera, before she was killed by Israeli forces while wearing a blue press vest and covering a raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Abu Akleh was one of the most prominent names across the Middle East for her decades of reporting in the Palestinian territories, and seen as a role model for many Arab and Palestinian women.

Art by Palestinian Frans Al-Salmi

 

Art by Palestinian Frans Al-Salmi

Art by Palestinian Frans Al-Salmi

Child of Handala - a modern interpretation of the 21st-century generation of Palestinian Nakba survivors.

CHILD OF HANDALA

Child of Handala

Passion Makes Perfect

Child of Handala is a modern interpretation of the 21st-century generation of Palestinian Nakba survivors.
A re-ignition of the immortal symbol "Handala". A unique intellectual lens into the world's current events.

 https://www.childofhandala.blog/

https://twitter.com/ChildofHandala 

https://www.facebook.com/Child.of.Handala/ 

https://www.instagram.com/child.of.handala/

https://www.pinterest.com/childofhandala/child-of-handala/

 

 

 

Like Palestinians in the rest of east Jerusalem, most Armenians do not hold Israeli citizenship but only residency...

Only around 2,000 Armenians remain in the Old City quarter after waves of immigration primarily to the United States and Europe since the 1960s.

Like Palestinians in the rest of east Jerusalem, most Armenians do not hold Israeli citizenship but only residency... READ MORE   https://news.yahoo.com/jerusalems-armenians-vow-keep-fight-102652851.html

Jerusalem's Armenians vow to keep up fight against 'settler' project

Wafaa Essalhi and Majeda El-Batsh

Fri, December 29, 2023 

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some images from Jerusalem's Armenian Quarter

 St. Mark's Chapel, Armenian Quarter, Jerusalem

St. James' Cathedral, Armenian Quarter, Jerusalem

Jerusalem Old City Shrines & Gates

#AlQuds - #Jerusalem...#Palestinian Shopkeeper, early 1900s Palestine

All I want for Christmas is a Right of Return FREE PALESTINE

In 1948, in response to the mass displacement and forced exile of the native non-Jewish men, women and children of historic Palestine, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 194, including paragraph 11 which provides, in part, that:

…the [Palestinian] refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property which, under principles of international law or in equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible.

Resolution 194 endorsed the right of Palestinian refugees to choose whether to repatriate to what is now Israel or to be resettled elsewhere, and codified the accepted principles of customary international law. It has been reaffirmed by the General Assembly every year since its adoption.

The right of return for all refugees also is well-established under other international law, including:

• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (adopted in 1948): “Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country” (Art. 13(2)).

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is less complicated than you've been taught

The WEST BANK archipelago

The WEST BANK archipelago

https://brilliantmaps.com/palestine-archipelago/

Map created by Julien Bousac

The map above shows what Palestine’s West Bank would look like if all non-Palestinian land suddenly turned into water.

All that would remain would be an archipelago of small islands with the sea of Israel to the west and the Jordanian ocean to the east.

The map is designed to show just how broken up Palestinian land in the West Bank really is. And while originally published in French, it is quite clear in the main point it’s trying to make.

For books on this topic have a look at:

• Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge
• The West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Geography of Occupation and Disengagement
• Crossing the Green Line Between the West Bank and Israel
• The Palestine-Israel Conflict: A Basic Introduction, Third Edition

America's Mainstream Media & Fake News (thank you Jonathan Cook for your honor & honesty) ... illustrated by some randomly plucked up truth telling cartons, memes, and a map

America's Mainstream Media (truth telling cartoon meme found today on X)

Jonathan Cook

@Jonathan_K_Cook

Writer, journalist, self-appointed media critic. Winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism

Just remember when the 'respectable' media warn us about fake news that the biggest fake news we're being exposed to – every day, for weeks on end – is peddled by the 'respectable' media: that Israel is 'eradicating' Hamas, rather than the truth that it is carrying out ethnic cleansing and a genocide of the Palestinian people. 

This week the UN warned that Palestinians will be killed in even bigger numbers than from the bombing by disease brought about by Israel's denial of food and water, and its destruction of health and public sanitation infrastructure. 

 This isn't some tragic side effect of Israel's policies. Israeli planners knew this would happen from the start.

The Art of Memory & Hope = Palestine #olives # grapes #pomegranates

 

1947 Map of Palestine

 

Palestine as seen by the heart ... artist unknown

 

Olive Harvest in Palestine

Marvelous photo of a multi-generational Palestinian family’s olive picking in the occupied West Bank village of Duma. Photo credit- Omar Dawabsheh

Unknown little girl in Palestine Traditional Thobe Dress Holding freshly picked Olives

Olive Tree in Palestine

Falastine Tree

Old Photo of an Ancient Olive Tree in Palestine

Palestine- view from an olive tree

The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is a non-profit organization that offers journalists facts, analysis, experts, and digital resources about Palestine and Palestinians.

Sorting Olives in Palestine

The tasty Palestinian traditional meal Manakish, consisting of dough topped with thyme, cheese, or ground meat, surrounded by olives

 & a poem from Palestine

The Second Olive Tree

By Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008)

                                                                                       Translated from Arabic by Marilyn Hacker

The olive tree does not weep and does not laugh. The olive tree
Is the hillside’s modest lady. Shadow
Covers her one leg, and she will not take her leaves off in front of the storm.
Standing, she is seated, and seated, standing.
She lives as a friendly sister of eternity, neighbor of time
That helps her stock her luminous oil and
Forget the invaders’ names, except the Romans, who
Coexisted with her, and borrowed some of her branches
To weave wreaths. They did not treat her as a prisoner of war
But as a venerable grandmother, before whose calm dignity
Swords shatter. In her reticent silver-green
Color hesitates to say what it thinks, and to look at what is behind
The portrait, for the olive tree is neither green nor silver.
The olive tree is the color of peace, if peace needed
A color. No one says to the olive tree: How beautiful you are!
But: How noble and how splendid! And she,
She who teaches soldiers to lay down their rifles
And re-educates them in tenderness and humility: Go home
And light your lamps with my oil! But
These soldiers, these modern soldiers
Besiege her with bulldozers and uproot her from her lineage
Of earth. They vanquished our grandmother who foundered,
Her branches on the ground, her roots in the sky.
She did not weep or cry out.  But one of her grandsons
Who witnessed the execution threw a stone
At a soldier, and he was martyred with her.
After the victorious soldiers
Had gone on their way, we buried him there, in that deep
Pit – the grandmother’s cradle. And that is why we were
Sure that he would become, in a little while, an olive
Tree – a thorny olive tree – and green! 

 ~

Some Old photos of Historic Palestine Olive Harvest

Old photos of Historic Palestine Olive Harvest