Abu Kabir

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Palestinian children sing during a demonstration marking Land Day in Nabi Saleh village, West Bank, March 28, 2015. Land Day is held every year to mark the deaths of six Palestinians protesters at the hands of Israeli police and troops during mass demonstrations on March 30, 1976, against plans to confiscate Arab land in Galilee. (photo: Activestills.org)

Imagining Palestine’s children as our own

My daughter, like Ahed Tamimi, also has blonde curly hair and light eyes. Her continual detention has left me awake in the middle of the night, my stomach churning. What if it was my little girl? The controversy began with an image — that of a young Palestinian girl slapping the arm of an Israeli…

By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat January 1, 2018

Portraits of the Arab boys who were beaten, tortured, and shot to death before being returned to their families. (Courtesy of Al-Jalil)

The gruesome murder of five Arab boys refuses to disappear — 55 years on

Beaten, tortured, and shot to death: this is the story of five Arab boys who met a gruesome fate at the hands of Israel’s security forces in September 1961. Ben Gurion’s government refused to tell the truth of what really happened. By Makbula Nassar Last week marked 60 years since the Kafr Qasim massacre. Although the event…

By +972 Magazine November 5, 2016