Jennifer Bing

The European refugee crisis was instrumental in the immediate aftermath of the 1948 Nakba, especially in Gaza, given that, at this critical moment after World War II, the international refugee regime was undergoing consolidation. Daniel Cohen highlights the deep “moral” connection between displaced persons in Europe, who consisted of Jewish and non-Jewish Eastern European refugees, and the displaced Palestinians, a connection that was ignored in the name of “neutrality regarding the respective claims of Arabs and Jews.”26 As the regime of humanitarianism separated politics from relief in the name of being neutral, this very separation, which lingers in today’s treatment of the Palestinians, is, in fact, political. This proclaimed “neutrality” had the effect of neutralizing international responses to the injustices inflicted on the Palestinians, with grave consequences.

the literary works of Samira Azzam and Ghassan Kanafani, the paintings of Ismail Shammout and Ibrahim Ghannam, the cartoons of Naji al-Ali, the poetry of Ibrahim and Fadwa Touqan, Mahmoud Darwish, and Samih el-Qasem,

To Israel, however, there are “no civilians in Gaza,” as announced by Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s defense minister (2016–18), who resigned after Israel agreed to a cease-fire with Palestinian militias that he characterized as “surrendering to terror.”

Declaration of World War (1971)

Israel is exporting innovative models of oppression to other dictators and oppressive regimes that are using these “tested” methods against their unwanted Others, a situation that should worry every citizen of the world.

Place Attachment theory explores the bond a person forms with a place— beyond a feeling of home—where an individual’s identity is shaped by interaction with the land

“Land Day/Youm al-Ard,”48 commemorates March 30, 1976, when Palestinian residents of Israel protested Israeli plans to confiscate thousands of dunums in the Galilee (Al Jaleel). Six Palestinian protesters were killed and hundreds wounded by Israeli forces.

A short documentary entitled “Paralyzed,” produced by Oxfam and released in 2020, provides insight into the different issues facing farmers in the Gaza Strip, including limited land area and agriculture’s diminished economic status.

Gazans are in the fifteenth year of a devastating electricity “crisis” as a direct consequence of the Israeli occupation’s ongoing blockade and its perennial bombing campaigns against this part of Palestine. Two-thirds of Gaza’s power is under the control of the oppressor, which can switch it off and on at will. Much of the remainder comes from Gaza’s sole power plant, which Israeli bombers destroyed twice, in 2006 and 2014. The Israeli occupation authorities have subjected that plant and the wider electric grid to periodic damage ever since. During 2017–18, the average daily availability of electricity in Gaza was seven hours. Between 2019 and 2021, it hovered between twelve and thirteen hours. However, during intensive Israeli assaults, it can fall to four hours per day, as occurred in May 2021.

In 1997, the US government passed the Kyl-Benjamin Amendment, which prohibited the collection or dissemination of high-resolution satellite images of Israel. The law was passed in deference to Israeli national security concerns, and, in accordance with the law, images of Israel could only have a resolution of two meters per pixel, while, globally, the accuracy reaches half a meter per pixel.