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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
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Unexploded ordnances left by Israel in Gaza pose a constant danger to Palestinians
In addition to the unrelenting bombardment, Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of losing their lives and limbs through the unexploded ordnances that the Israeli army leaves behind.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
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Life on the edge of Israel’s occupation in southern Lebanon
As part of a U.S.-brokered agreement with Israel and Lebanon, residents of some southern villages are cautiously returning to their homes. What they have found is a shell of their former lives, and a daily menacing presence of the Israeli occupation.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
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J Street is trying to rescue Zionism in the battle over Israel’s future in the Democratic Party
The contours of the battle over the future of the Democrats' policy toward Israel are starting to take shape, and J Street is trying to cement support for the existence of a Jewish ethno-state as the Party's bottom line.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
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Israeli settlers target a Ramallah road, and the city’s future with it
Israel is preparing to give settlers access to a main Palestinian thoroughfare in Ramallah, a move that would bring checkpoints and gates to one of the West Bank’s last spaces of free Palestinian movement and affordable urban growth.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
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‘They face an existential threat’: Eli Clifton on the past, present, and future of the Israel Lobby
Eli Clifton speaks to Mondoweiss about the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, the shifting landscape of AIPAC, and his new book, Israel's Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
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American Jews’ continued support for Israel is very bad for Jews. We must wake up.
The Israel lobby is losing its grip on U.S. electoral politics, but it won't go out without a fight. American Jews cannot wait to see how it plays out. The Jewish future depends on our awakening.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
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Girls in Gaza forced into child marriage as Israel’s genocide fuels hunger and displacement
Child marriage in Gaza is surging, with 20.6% of recent marriages involving girls under 18. Amid hunger, displacement, and a collapsed legal system, girls are losing their childhoods to a "protection" that doesn't exist.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
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Netanyahu is embracing Israel’s isolation
Netanyahu’s speech at the UN General Assembly was not directed at the world, but Israelis. He was trying to convince them that Israel doesn’t need to change, as long as it stands united against the world — and lives by the sword.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
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The Pardon of Elor Azaria: Killing, maiming, and culpability in the Israeli law
Israeli courts put on a show of indicting criminals who kill and maim Palestinians, but the final verdict — a presidential pardon and a hero's welcome — is already predetermined.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
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Saudi Arabia’s desperate situation
After relying on an unreliable Trump for defense, suspending normalization talks with Israel, and losing access to the Bab-al-Mandab Strait, Saudi Arabia turns to hesitant allies for help.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
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Palestinian couples from Gaza are forcibly separated by borders, with no reunion in sight
Families and spouses in Gaza are still waiting to be reunited with their loved ones after the Israeli army suspended travel in and out of the Strip.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
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The Evolution of New York Times Opinion on Gaza: From Unconditional Support to Bounded Criticism
Since the start of the genocide in Gaza, the so-called paper of record has begun to update its language on Israel, reflecting a larger shift in US public opinion.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
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Inside Gaza’s ‘widows camp,’ where women now support their families alone
Women in Gaza who lost their husbands in the genocide are caught between the need to work and the pain of leaving their children alone, susceptible to Israeli violence. According to the UN, these women now represent 1 in 4 households in Gaza.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
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Netanyahu just incited genocide in his UN speech. Here’s what you missed.
At the end of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s unhinged rant at the UN, he recited a seemingly obscure Bible verse. But it’s actually a dog whistle for genocide.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
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Palestinians in Masafer Yatta are surviving without water after Israeli settlers cut off a lifeline
In Masafer Yatta in the southern occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers are accelerating their attacks on Palestinian farmers and herders in the area by cutting off their water supply.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
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Palestinian Elections: Gaza & West Bank youth launch independent list in rejection of factional politics
For the second time, a self-funded civil society list led by young Gazans is seeking a seat in the Palestinian Legislative Council, focusing on immediate hardships, like unemployment, healthcare, and shelter, rather than political ideology.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
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What you need to know about Robert Kraft, the pro-Israel billionaire who pressured Ed Sheeran to drop Macklemore
Robert Kraft got Macklemore ousted from Ed Sheeran's tour over "Free Palestine." A look at the NFL owner's record makes it clear why: funding the IDF, fighting BDS, courting Netanyahu, and bringing football legends on tours of Israel.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
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America loves free speech, except when it comes to Palestine
Whether it’s Macklemore, Hasan Piker, or your neighborhood activist, this is a fight to make sure billionaires and politicians cannot stop free speech and will have to hear the calls to “Free Palestine” whether they like it or not.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
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Israel just pardoned a soldier who executed a wounded Palestinian
The judge who sentenced Elor Azaria, the soldier who shot Abdel Fattah al-Sharif in 2016 as he lay unconscious on the ground, called him a “normal” person, because Azaria's genocidal views were never an aberration in Israeli society.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
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Always the Victim, Never the Bigot: the Zionist campaign against Abdul El-Sayed doubles down
A Michigan rabbis' 'nonnegotiable' petition demanding El-Sayed disown Hasan Piker reveals a harsh truth for El-Sayed: that no amount of pandering will satisfy critics who want anti-Zionism expelled from the Democratic party outright.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
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No body, no death certificate: the bureaucratic limbo trapping the widows of Gaza’s missing men
In Gaza, women whose husbands are missing or buried under the rubble are facing a little-known crisis. Without death certificates for their husbands, they're locked out of bank accounts, aid, and custody rights, trapped in bureaucratic limbo amid genocide.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
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Inside Israel’s ‘soft’ ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza through the eyes of its victims
Through embassy evacuations, academic fellowships, and WHO medical corridors, Palestinians are leaving Gaza in small but steady numbers. Israeli officials call it "voluntary migration," but the Gazans forced to leave know it's part of Israel's plan.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
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Palestinians are responding to Israel’s stranglehold on the West Bank economy by forgiving each other’s debts en masse
As Israel's financial strangulation of the Palestinian economy enters its third year, Palestinians are turning to each other — forgiving debts worth millions of shekels in a viral solidarity campaign that began with a schoolteacher's bounced check.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
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Inside Gaza’s death trap of collapsing, bombed-out buildings
With more than 40,000 Palestinians sheltering in collapse-prone buildings and a “nightmare” winter approaching, Gaza’s Civil Defense warns of a preventable catastrophe unfolding in plain sight.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
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Ed Sheeran, Macklemore, and the music industry’s habit of choosing white feelings over Black and Brown lives
How Robert Kraft got Macklemore booted from Ed Sheeran's tour for saying "Free Palestine" — and why the backlash reveals the racial logic of "neutrality," from Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" to today's entertainment industry.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
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The new school year in Gaza begins in tents
For the fourth consecutive year, hundreds of thousands of Gaza’s children return not to classrooms, but to fabric shelters and makeshift wooden structures, holding onto traces of a school system Israel’s genocide has destroyed.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
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Inside a Palestinian family’s agonizing decision to abandon their home under threat of Israeli settler violence
For three generations, Ali Abu Khdeir's family lived in the home his grandfather built in Deir Jarir until Israeli settlers made staying too dangerous. Now residents fear that their families are next.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
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Palestinian youth may soon get to vote for the first time. Few believe it actually matters.
With 64 percent of Palestinians under 30 and elections announced for November, a generation that has never voted is being asked to trust a political system that has failed them — before, during, and after the genocide in Gaza.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
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Israel merges two settler outposts near Jerusalem, furthering the fragmentation of the West Bank
Announced days after UK and European sanctions on settlements, Israel’s expansion of Mishmar Yehuda folds an illegal outpost into a planned city between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, advancing Israel’s decades-old plan to cut the West Bank in half.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
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Norman Finkelstein’s latest book indicts those ‘in high places’ for genocide in Gaza
A review of Norman Finkelstein's 'Gaza's Gravediggers,' which indicts not Israel's military, but the global officials and institutions, such as the UN, the ICJ, and the media, who enabled and legitimized the genocide.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
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Are the UK sanctions on Israel real progress, or more illusion?
The UK's new sanctions on Israeli settlements may be groundbreaking, but they're also full of loopholes. F-35 parts are exempt, the state itself is untouched, and enforcement won't start for months. Real progress, but far from enough.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
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Democrats are in a ‘death match’ with the Left over Israel. How will it impact the midterms?
Political consultant Peter Feld breaks down the primaries, AIPAC’s losses (and wins), the attacks on Hasan Piker, and why a demoralized GOP and Democratic infighting could both shape the midterms in unexpected ways.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
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Democratic voters are clear: they want an arms embargo on Israel, not more rhetoric
Progressive candidates won Democratic primaries by centering Palestine. Now, advocates warn that without a firm demand like an arms embargo, politicians can co-opt 'pro-Palestine' rhetoric without real accountability.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
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The U.S. government is going after a Michigan labor union over its Palestine activism
The U.S. government is criminalizing a campus labor union at the University of Michigan for supporting Palestine. We are calling on fellow labor organizers to resist this dangerous act of repression
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
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Israel has cut off water to 47 Palestinian families in the northern West Bank
Since Israel severed the water lines feeding Ras al-Ahmar over a month ago, its 47 farming families have been rationing what little they have and weighing whether to sell their livestock and leave.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
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Israel’s grip on American politics is finally being questioned
From Iraq to Iran, the Israel lobby has, for decades, pushed America towards wars in the Middle East. But with Trump’s wildly unpopular Iran war, the unshakeable power of the Israel lobby is finally being called into question.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
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The UK was right to sanction Israeli settlements. Now it must do more to protect Palestinians under occupation.
In a historic move, the UK banned trade with Israeli settlements – a major step towards accountability for Israeli crimes. But it's not enough while Palestinians face daily state violence, harsh movement restrictions, and are still denied access to basic healthcare.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
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Palestine Letter: Reporting our lives, not your ideology
I didn't choose to make my identity political. But for Palestinian journalists, even naming our own grief and experiences gets branded as 'ideological'.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
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Israel starved Gaza. Now doctors fear it has permanently damaged a generation.
In the pediatrics department at Nasser Hospital in Gaza, doctors are seeing a surge in stunted growth among children. This lasting mark of Israel's engineered famine may affect cognition, hormones, and health for generations to come.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
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Inside the Australian Royal Commission turning anti-Zionism into a crime
Australia's Royal Commission into Antisemitism has spent months letting Zionist witnesses deny genocide and recast Palestine solidarity as hate, laying the groundwork to criminalize protest, speech, and scholarship on Palestine for years to come.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
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‘We are not beggars’: UNRWA cuts off aid to six Palestinian refugee camps in northern Lebanon
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency has excluded six Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon from emergency cash assistance, as Israeli attacks and Western donor cuts leave families choosing between food and medicine.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
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Food has returned to Gaza’s markets, but most people still can’t afford to eat
Prices have fallen sharply since the famine of 2025, but with purchasing power destroyed by nearly three years of war and displacement, food on the shelves remains out of reach for the majority of Gaza's population.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
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What the latest flare-up between the U.S and Iran means
The U.S. and Iran are trading strikes while carefully avoiding all-out war, and both sides are hiding the damage they've suffered. The difference is Iran has more reason to end the stalemate, and less patience for Washington's forever-war strategy.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
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This UAE-backed Fatah dissident is allying with Hamas and pushing a proposal to change Palestinian politics
A UAE-sponsored plan by exiled Fatah dissident Muhammad Dahlan to “end Palestinian division” has quietly become the working platform for an unlikely electoral alliance with Hamas. Here is what this could mean for the future of Palestinian politics.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
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What do you do when you can’t hear the bombs? Being deaf during the Gaza genocide.
Amid Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Palestinians with hearing impairments have been left particularly vulnerable, unable to hear incoming missiles or evacuation orders. Fadl Kuraz is one of the few who have devoted their lives to helping them survive.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
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‘They destroy, we build’: Gazans rebuild their homes out of mud and rubble
As Israel continues to prevent the entry of reconstruction materials into Gaza, Palestinians rebuild their homes with salvaged rebar, recovered limestone, and clay. “This is the evidence of our love for our land,” Fayez Abu Shamala tells Mondoweiss.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
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Gaza’s archaeological heritage was destroyed in Israel’s genocide. These volunteers are trying to salvage it from the rubble.
As Israeli strikes leveled museums and 5,000-year-old sites across Gaza, volunteers dug through the rubble by hand to save what they could. Meanwhile, looted artifacts quietly resurfaced in a Paris exhibition.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
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Palestinian Christians are disappearing. Warnings are not enough.
Church leaders, activists, and Palestinian media keep sounding the alarm: Palestinian Christians are leaving the Holy Land. We need an institutional and economic strategy that makes staying a viable choice, not just a moral one.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
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After giving up on military force, Trump’s new plan to defeat Iran is…more economic sanctions?
Trump's "Operation Economic Outcast" to impose secondary sanctions on countries trading with Iran is a tacit admission of U.S. military defeat. But sanctions haven't worked for 47 years, and Iran won't let the U.S. decide when the shooting war ends.
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Mondoweiss [Unofficial] @mondoweiss.net.web.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
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Children in Gaza are afraid flying their kites will get them killed
Israel regards any kite flown in Gaza as an "act of war" and has ordered the army to treat them like drones. "I don't know what we can do that won't anger Israel," says Muhammad Owais, 13, who struggles to understand the rules of this new reality.
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