"Every diplomatic avenue has been tried and has failed," writes Ousman Noor. "It is in this vacuum—where international law is ignored and political will is absent—that the call for humanitarian and military intervention is not only justified, but legally and morally required."

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Sign the petition for the U.N. to deploy a multinational protection force to Gaza

"There is a multigenerational trauma hiding amidst all this destruction: the psychological impact on Gaza’s surviving children," Diana Safieh notes. "Israel’s war on Gaza is not a war on Hamas. This is aggression and a deliberate use of starvation as a weapon of genocide on Palestinian children and childhood, imagination, development and potential."

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Logain Hamdan, writing from Gaza, shares what the fig tree her grandfather planted decades ago means—practically and emotionally—amid a genocide: "That fig tree became more than just a tree. It became our one-and-only chance. Our small miracle. The link between a man who once planted a fruit tree and the family he unknowingly saved two decades later."

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"The Washington Report spoke to Jamal Jum‘a, coordinator of the Stop the Wall campaign, in August, to learn more about current conditions in the West Bank, which are often overshadowed by the genocide in Gaza. He used the Arabic term for 'grinding' to describe the effect of Israeli moves on Palestinians in the West Bank, who are being hit by many forces simultaneously." 

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