Lubna Masarwa

1 month ago | middleeasteye.net | Omar Abdel-Mannan |Lubna Masarwa

For three years, I shared a house with a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto. It was a beautiful old Palestinian house in West Jerusalem, a house that Israelis had seized in the Nakba in 1948, which was divided into two. I lived in the front and he lived in the back. He used to wait for me every day in the garden that both sides of the house shared, and tell me stories about the ghetto - about the sense of destruction, and how he managed to sneak food to his family.

1 month ago | middleeasteye.net | Omar Abdel-Mannan |Lubna Masarwa

For three years, I shared a house with a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto. It was a beautiful old Palestinian house in West Jerusalem, a house that Israelis had seized in the Nakba in 1948, which was divided into two. I lived in the front and he lived in the back. He used to wait for me every day in the garden that both sides of the house shared, and tell me stories about the ghetto - about the sense of destruction, and how he managed to sneak food to his family.

1 month ago | middleeasteye.net | Lubna Masarwa |Huthifa Fayyad |Joseph A. Massad

Israel is poised to move forward with a highly contentious settlement project east of Jerusalem that would effectively divide the occupied West Bank in two, according to Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. “This is how we effectively kill the Palestinian state,” Smotrich, a far-right minister who also oversees settlement activity and civilian affairs in the West Bank, said during a conference on Tuesday.

1 month ago | middleeasteye.net | Lubna Masarwa

Israeli settler incursions at Al-Aqsa Mosque compound have increased by more than 18,000 percent since 2003 when Israeli authorities began allowing settlers to bypass the Islamic Waqf management and controversially enter Islam's third-holiest site. According to figures from the Waqf, the organisation that administers the historic mosque complex, exactly 289 settlers entered Al-Aqsa in 2003 through the Mughrabi Gate, which stands near the Western Wall.

1 month ago | middleeasteye.net | Lubna Masarwa |Abed Abou Shhadeh

Eighteen months into the ongoing genocide in Gaza, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gave a speech before the Palestinian Central Council this week that - at least superficially - warrants serious attention. His words highlight the depth of the Palestinian tragedy.