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Palestinian children do their homework by candlelight at their home in Rafah refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip, on February 15, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

Could solar energy solve the Gaza electricity crisis?

The Gaza Strip has been suffering from a severe electricity crisis for years. Now, solar energy is on the rise as a more reliable alternative, one that may afford Gazans a degree of independence from Israel. By Ibrahim Abdelhadi Two years ago, when the lights went out along Gaza’s shore, the Hindi family lit up some candles in…

By +972 Magazine September 21, 2018

Furniture left out in the open after Israeli military forces demolished over a dozen buildings in the Khirbet Tana, a small Palestinian village in the Jordan Valley, West Bank, January 23, 2016. (Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills.org)

PHOTOS: IDF demolishes Palestinian homes in occupied Jordan Valley

Demolitions take place in two areas of the West Bank as Israel’s High Court prepared to hear a high-profile case on the matter. Photos by Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills.org Text by Haggai Matar The Israeli army demolished 17 structures, including family homes, in the Khirbet Tana, an impoverished Palestinian hamlet in the occupied Jordan Valley on Wednesday. This…

By Activestills March 23, 2016