Jonathan Adler

1 month ago | 972mag.com | Jonathan Adler |Dikla Taylor-Sheinman |Georgia Gee

On the first day of Ramadan, Yasser Abu Aram sat and stared despondently at his plot of land in Khirbet Samra in the occupied West Bank. Months of relentless harassment by young Israeli settlers — who stole his livestock and encircled the small shepherding community day and night — had taken their toll. “Everything that is happening here is also happening in the surrounding communities,” Abu Aram told +972 Magazine. “Today it’s me.

1 month ago | 972mag.com | Jonathan Adler |Ruwaida Amer

I heard the missile before it exploded. It was 2 a.m., and I had just woken up to pray and read the Quran. I went to the bathroom, when suddenly the door swung open: our home shook with the bomb’s impact. We later learned that one of our neighbors’ houses, in the Al-Fukhari neighborhood in Khan Younis, had been directly targeted. Across the Gaza Strip, Palestinians awoke to the resumption of Israel’s genocidal war.

1 month ago | 972mag.com | Jonathan Adler |Georgia Gee |Dikla Taylor-Sheinman

Ibrahim Mashahra and his family of six have been homeless for over two months now, after he was forced by Israeli authorities to destroy his own house in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabal Al-Mukaber. The Jerusalem Municipality and National Enforcement Unit had threatened to tear down Mashahra’s home since 2018 for “building without a permit.” In December 2024, he received an official demolition order, giving him just three weeks to vacate or demolish the home himself.

1 month ago | rb.gy | Jonathan Adler |Georgia Gee |Dikla Taylor-Sheinman

Ibrahim Mashahra and his family of six have been homeless for over two months now, after he was forced by Israeli authorities to destroy his own house in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabal Al-Mukaber. The Jerusalem Municipality and National Enforcement Unit had threatened to tear down Mashahra’s home since 2018 for “building without a permit.” In December 2024, he received an official demolition order, giving him just three weeks to vacate or demolish the home himself.

1 month ago | 972mag.com | Jonathan Adler |Ruwaida Amer

Around noon one Sunday in December 2023, Intisar Al-Awdah’s 21-year-old son, Salem, told his mother that he was leaving their UN shelter in Deir Al-Balah to bring blankets for the rest of the family, who were shivering in the cold of Gaza’s winter. Salem never came back. To this day, his mother has no idea where he went or how she lost him. Al-Awdah, 55, had already lost her 25-year-old son, Khaled, in the first week of Israel’s assault on Gaza in October 2023.