In the occupied West Bank, Palestinians struggle to access water toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR JORDAN VALLEY, West Bank — Mansour Arara, 24, sits in the shade of a tree with a group of friends next to the Al-Auja freshwater spring. Interim agreements from the 1990s have allowed for a water disparity between Israelis and Palestinians, and Israel’s occupation of the …
Since the war began, two friends have spent most evenings holed up at the Ramallah television studio where one of them works. Mohammad Al Farra, center right, carries son Yosef, 8, on his shoulders as he and his family march at a Ramallah rally calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. Mohammad Al Farra reacts to news of the death of …
CNN — Loved ones thought the three Palestinian college students who’d grown up like brothers would be safer in the United States – certainly in Vermont, celebrating a classic American holiday – than back in Israeli-occupied Ramallah. Abdalhamid will have a “full and speedy recovery,” Price said during the news conference, even as Ahmad was “in quite a lot of …
Colleagues of the slain Al Jazeera journalist say in life and death, she inspired them to tell the story of Palestinians. Shireen!” Within minutes, many of them were either in front of, or behind the camera, doing live news bulletins and telling the whole world the dreadful news as they received it: “Shireen was dead.” While still in shock over …