With proliferating closures, checkpoints, and settler attacks, Palestinian medics say routine ambulance journeys have become life-or-death ordeals.

During previous Israeli attacks, 30-41% of those killed were women and children. Between 7 October and 24 November 2023, that figure was 67%.

In May 2026, the State of Israel was added to the United Nations (UN) blacklist of governments that commit sexual violence in conflict zones. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reported that the ag...

In May 2026, the State of Israel was added to the United Nations (UN) blacklist of governments that commit sexual violence in conflict zones. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reported that the ag...

On April 9, 2026, news broke that the Israeli government had recently authorized the construction of 34 new settlements in the West Bank—nearly six times the number approved in the thirty years follow...

Background Since October 2023, the destruction of Gaza’s health care system and the barriers to providing critical hospital-based health care services to the Palestinian population have been extensive...

Like thousands of others across occupied Palestine, five-year-old Mohammad Abu Asad has cancer. Mohammad was diagnosed in the early 2020s with an aggressive form of leukemia, a cancer of the blood and...

MSF’s short-lived compliance with Israel exposed how aid workers in Gaza are trapped under military control & no safety guarantees, writes Yara M. Asi.

MERIP is seeking pitches for our Summer 2026 issue exploring visual art and cultural production in the Middle East and North Africa. We invite submissions that center artistic practices and cultural…

The Israeli government’s forced displacement of the populations of three West Bank refugee camps in January and February 2025 amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said ...

In late December 2025, two months after the much-lauded ceasefire agreement that was meant to end the physical destruction of Gaza and bring a significant increase in desperately needed aid, Israel an...

In late December 2025, two months after the much-lauded ceasefire agreement that was meant to end the physical destruction of Gaza and bring a significant increase in desperately needed aid, Israel an...

In reality, while the bombing has slowed, much of what the ceasefire accomplished merely relegated Gaza to old news, much as how escalating violence and land seizure in the West Bank over the past few...

For more than a year, the al-Saudi Maternity Hospital was the only functioning hospital in al-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur in western Sudan. The largest medical facility in the city, it had alr...

Syria’s Assad regime launched relentless attacks on health care infrastructure during its war against its own people. Israel has since used the same tactics in the Gaza war, though it has imposed heav...

On a cold night in January 2022, Omar Assad, an elderly Palestinian American man, was driving back to his town in the West Bank after a night of playing cards at his cousin’s house. According to a lea...

The intense Israeli forces' offensive in Gaza City, Palestine, is putting our staff and patients at an unacceptable level of risk to continue our lifesaving activities.

On July 7, 2024, an Israeli bombing in Khan Younis, Gaza, killed the parents, brother, and sister of a three-year-old Palestinian boy named Adam. While Adam’s life was spared, he was severely injured ...

Just one week after October 7, 2023, more than 800 scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies, and genocide studies signed a public statement “to sound the alarm about the possi...

Experts discuss the current situation on the ground in Gaza and around the world as a growing number of states continue to break with Israel over its conduct in the besieged strip.

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After another deadly weekend in Gaza in which at least 67 Palestinians were reportedly killed seeking food, UN aid teams on Monday described “mayhem” and starvation in the enclave as the Israeli milit...

Getting sick in Gaza means entering a system that is itself on life support. To see a doctor in the first place, if you can’t afford the outrageous cost