Ahmad Ibsais

United States

Contributor at Freelance

Articles

Gaza's aid system isn't broken. It's working exactly as designed

1 week ago | aljazeera.com | Ahmad Ibsais

First generation Palestinian American and law student On May 27, thousands of Palestinians surged towards an aid distribution site in Rafah - desperate for food after months of starvation - only to be met with gunfire from panicked private security contractors. What the world witnessed at the Tal as-Sultan aid site was not a tragedy, but a revelation: The final, violent unmasking of the illusion that humanitarian aid exists to serve humanity rather than empire.
Gaza’s aid system isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as designed - Ahmad Ibsais

1 week ago | qoshe.com | Ahmad Ibsais
Military intervention must be used to stop the genocide in Gaza | Ahmed Ibsais

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Ahmad Ibsais

On 20 May, the secretary-general for humanitarian affairs at the United Nations stated that 14,000 babies would be dead unless the blockade was lifted immediately. The day before, the former Knesset member Moshe Feiglin said: “Every child in Gaza is the enemy.” And now, world leaders in the UK and France threaten vague “concrete actions” if Israel “does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid”.
Nakba of the Children: How Israel is Targeting the Palestinian Future

3 weeks ago | theintercept.com | Ahmad Ibsais

“Please, don’t put him in the fridge!” she said. “He can’t bear the cold.”Her voice cracked as she pleaded with medics not to place her 2-year-old son Omar in the morgue. She had tried for nine years to have a child. Then, in the instant it takes an airstrike to crash into a building in Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip, he was gone. We often hear that the genocide in Gaza that began in October 2023 has taken the lives of so many innocent people.
Note to Thomas Friedman: It is not only ‘this’ Israeli government that has carried out ethnic cleansing

3 weeks ago | mondoweiss.net | Ahmad Ibsais

As the genocide in Gaza continues—70% of all infrastructure, 500,000 facing immediate forced starvation as blockade continues into its third month, and an average of 30 children killed a day over the past 584 days—a growing chorus of world leaders and institutions now echo what Palestinians have been saying for decades: this is genocide. This is ethnic cleansing. But alongside those admissions comes another narrative, more insidious than silence. It tells us that this is all Netanyahu.
Israel is annihilating Palestinian children. Amer Rabea was one of them | Ahmad Ibsais

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Ahmad Ibsais

Amer Mohammed Rabea was 14 years old. He was a US citizen. On 7 April 2025, he was shot and killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city of Turmus Ayya. There was no warning. No investigation. Just a bullet, a body and a silence so deep it threatens to swallow justice whole. The killing of a child should rupture the world. Instead, Amer’s death joined a growing ledger of erased Palestinian lives, tallied but never mourned by those in power. There was no state department briefing.
إعادة إعمار غزة ومعركة الفلسطينيين ضد مشاريع الإقصاء

2 months ago | noonpost.com | Ahmad Ibsais

ترجمة وتحرير: نون بوستفي الليلة السابعة عشر من رمضان – وهي فترة مخصصة للصلاة والتأمل والرحمة – احترقت غزة. ومرة أخرى، تملأ شاشاتنا صورًا مُفجعة لا يمكن وصفها: أجساد صغيرة ملفوفة بأقمشة ملطخة بالدماء، وآباء يحملون رفات أطفالهم في أكياس بلاستيكية، وأمهات يصرخن إلى سماء تمطر موتًا بدلًا من الرحمة.
Palestinians must have the final say in Gaza’s reconstruction | Ahmad Ibsais

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Ahmad Ibsais

On the 17th night of Ramadan – a time meant for prayer, reflection and mercy – Gaza burned. Once again, our screens fill with images too harrowing to describe: tiny bodies wrapped in bloodstained cloth, fathers carrying their children’s remains in plastic bags, mothers screaming into skies that rain death instead of mercy. In less than an hour, Israeli airstrikes killed over 350 Palestinians, including 90 children.
How Western media silence enables the killing of Palestinian journalists

2 months ago | mondoweiss.net | Ahmad Ibsais

On March 24, 2025, we witnessed the deliberate killing of yet another Palestinian journalist. Hossam Shabat, a 24-year-old reporter for Al Jazeera Mubasher and contributor to Drop Site News, was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike targeting his vehicle in northern Gaza. Hours earlier, Mohammad Mansour, a correspondent for Palestine Today, was also killed in Khan Younis. These were not accidents.
When speaking up for Palestine becomes a crime

2 months ago | mondoweiss.net | Ahmad Ibsais

As a Palestinian, I learned very young that our very existence was a form of protest. Every family gathering that turned into a political discussion and every celebration existed in defiance of forces that would rather see us disappear.