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  • Two men kneel and bow their heads over a blue press vest.
    Journalists in Gaza

    A new generation bears witness

    A new cohort of young Palestinian journalists has emerged in Gaza, reshaping the narrative and exposing the failures of Western media. This influence has come at a cost: 232 journalists have been killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.

  • A woman seen in a street with her three kids.
    Displacement in Gaza

    A whole life in one bag

    The Israeli offensive in Gaza has displaced thousands of people multiple times. Many carry with them a single bag containing identity documents, a few personal belongings and traces of the lives they left behind.

  • A row of destroyed multistory buildings.
    Pankaj Mishra on Germany, Israel and Palestine

    "An anarchic, nihilistic world"

    The West, particularly Germany, has instrumentalised Holocaust remembrance to justify state violence, argues Pankaj Mishra. A conversation on suppressed colonial histories, Western complicity in Gaza and Germany's role in the erosion of international law.

  • Children wandering among piles of rubble.
    Fostering in Gaza

    Finding parenthood in the wake of destruction

    Israel's war on Gaza has left thousands of children orphaned. Amid the devastation, couples unable to conceive are experiencing parenthood for the first time by fostering child survivors.

  • Ein Mann mit Benzinkanistern in einer Straße im Gazastreifen (picture alliance / Zumapress | D. El-Baz Apaimages)
    New books on Gaza

    Turning point, failure, moral abdication

    Four well-known authors address the global consequences of Gaza's destruction and Western support for Israel, or as one frames it: the "world after Gaza". Charlotte Wiedemann takes a look.

  • A group of women playing volleyball.
    Volleyball in Gaza

    Playing without fear

    An amateur women's volleyball team in Gaza is offering displaced people a sense of peace amid the destruction. The women on the team dream of a lasting end to Israel's war on the enclave.

  • A crumbling building surrounded by rubble.
    Musician Michael Barenboim on Gaza

    "Nothing justifies genocide"

    Violinist Michael Barenboim, leader of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, calls for an arms embargo against Israel and argues that the German media has failed in its responsibilities. He tells Qantara how he balances art and activism.

  • A man performs a handstand on the edge of a building overlooking a city in Gaza.
    Gaza documentary "Yalla Parkour"

    It all started with a smile

    The documentary "Yalla Parkour", which held its European premiere at the Berlinale, is a tribute to Gaza before 7 October—and an urgent appeal to support the survivors of the war.

  • A young boy stands with two Palestinian flags either side of him. He holds up two fingers in a peace sign.V
    Palestinian political scientist Khalil Shikaki

    "The ceasefire is unsustainable without a vision for peace"

    Khalil Shikaki has been conducting polls in Palestine since 1993. He argues that Palestinians need a unified interim leadership to pave the way for elections, and warns against Trump's destabilising plans for the region.

  • Trump holding  a document to the camera, his signature clearly visible at the bottom.
    US Middle East policy

    Is there a Trump-Netanyahu consensus?

    Trump's new administration could give Israel even greater freedom to pursue its territorial and political ambitions in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon, while the future of the ceasefire in Gaza hangs precariously in the balance.

  • A double-page drawing from Joe Sacco's "Palestine", depicting a street scene.
    Comic book author Joe Sacco

    "Gaza was where the West went to die"

    Trailblazing cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco reflects on Western coverage of the war on Gaza, oral histories, and comics as a medium for critical journalism.

  • Angela merkel stands at a podium speaking into a microphone. An Israeli flag hangs in the background.
    Israel in new Merkel memoir "Freedom"

    Merkel's reason of state

    When Angela Merkel used the word "Staatsräson" in a 2008 speech to the Israeli Knesset, she may not have expected the enduring intensity of the debate it would ignite. In the new memoir "Freedom", the former chancellor reveals her idealised view of Israel, and her reluctance to acknowledge Palestinian perspectives.

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