After 35 years of defending Palestinian children's rights, we are not able to overcome operational challenges resulting from Israel's targeted criminalization of Palestinian human rights organizations.
The major offensive that Israel launched on Lebanon on Wednesday hit previously untouched districts of Beirut and attempted to separate the Lebanese front from the ceasefire agreed between the United States and Iran.
"I have never chosen to adopt the title of 'refugee,' yet it keeps haunting me. It is scribbled on my Palestinian national identification card and follows my name in human rights conferences."
Millions of people in Sudan are surviving on just one meal a day, as the country's food crisis deepens and threatens to spread. The war has caused widespread hunger and displaced millions amid one of the world's largest humanitarian crises.
Today Americans are getting a taste of what Palestinians have experienced for decades: state terror. The escalation of state violence in the United States has been unprecedented. In the span of three weeks, two people were shot dead in Minneapolis during anti-immigration raids. Both were branded domestic terrorists. Meanwhile last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents used five-year-old Liam Ramos as bait to get his asylum-seeking father to come out of their home;
Approximately 92 percent of homes in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed since October 7, 2023. According to United Nations estimates, around 436,000 housing units have been damaged or destroyed as a result of Israeli airstrikes and military operations.
Israeli occupation forces demolish the home of Ibrahim Ziada in the village of Wadi Rahhal, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, on July 31, 2025. Rubble, personal belongings, and furniture are seen scattered at the site as family members look on in grief and frustration. Human rights organizations and Palestinian residents denounce the demolitions as part of a broader strategy of displacement and land control.
But urgency should never become an excuse for illusion, spectacle, or political shortcuts. The contrast between rhetoric and reality could not be sharper. While United States President Donald Trump and a group of world leaders gathered in Davos, Switzerland, to sign the charter of the so-called Board of Peace and unveil glossy reconstruction plans, the killing in Gaza continued. Since the ceasefire came into effect on October 10, no fewer than 480 Palestinians have been killed.