Abuse of the Dead
Legal proceedings conducted by Gisha reveal that the Israeli authorities continue to abuse Palestinian detainees in their custody even after their death
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Legal proceedings conducted by Gisha reveal that the Israeli authorities continue to abuse Palestinian detainees in their custody even after their death
In the aftermath of October 7th and the ensuing genocidal campaign by Israel, the Jabalya Refugee Camp was leveled, including R and M’s home. Here is a photo of their home after it was destroyed in April 2024.
Ungrounding establishes that architectural and territorial analysis is key to understanding the relationship between coloniser and colonised – and how Israel’s actions after 7 October escalated into violence so extreme and so far-reaching as to, Weizman argues, meet the definition of genocide.
The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel examines violations and crimes against and affecting Palestinian children, including serious physical and psychological harm by the Israeli security forces since 7 October 2023 resulting in the death of at least 20,179 and injury of 44,143 children.
Importing Occupation is a four-year investigation by Global Echo Litigation Center into how agricultural products originating in illegal Israeli settlements enter European markets, declaring
preferential tax status reserved for Israeli goods and bearing “Product of Israel” labels and invalid organic and plant health certifications, undermining EU and UK laws.
This report lays bare the scale and severity of the ethnic cleansing campaign targeting these communities, carried out in a context of apartheid and unlawful occupation and against the backdrop of an ongoing genocide in the occupied Gaza Strip.
Education scholar Nurit Peled-Elhanan unpacks the ways children learn to view domination as necessary and Palestinians as ‘a problem to be solved.’
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 examines the systematic use by Israel of torture against Palestinians from the occupied Palestinian territory since 7 October 2023, encompassing custodial and non-custodial practices that meet the threshold for genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. She documents how torture has become integral to the domination of and punishment inflicted on men, women and children, both through custodial abuse and through a relentless campaign of forced displacement, mass killings, deprivation and the destruction of all means of life to inflict long-term collective pain and suffering.
More than one month after a ceasefire was announced in Gaza on 9 October, Israeli authorities are still committing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, by continuing to deliberately inflict conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction.
HRW – The Israeli government’s forced displacement of the populations of three West Bank refugee camps in January and February 2025 amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 32,000 people reportedly removed have not been permitted to return to their homes, many of which Israel forces have deliberately demolished.
To discuss from a Palestinian perspective the fallout of October 7th, two years of the Gaza War, and the suffering of the Palestinians from occupation, displacement, cantonization, and bombardments, Jason is joined by Sam Bahour, a Palestinian-American entrepreneur based in Ramallah.