https://znetwork.org/author/amirahass/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:18:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/amirahass/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/under-the-radar-quiet-and-persistent-population-transfer-is-underway-in-the-west-bank/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/under-the-radar-quiet-and-persistent-population-transfer-is-underway-in-the-west-bank/#respond Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:18:50 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291246 Nabi Samwil, in September. The village lies in the Seam Zone: an immense area open to Israelis and closed to Palestinians. | Photo credit: Yahel Gazit / Haaretz As the strike force of Yesha-stan (combining Yesha, the official acronym for Judea, Samaria and Gaza, with the state-like suffix -stan) devotedly carries out its missions in [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/under-the-radar-quiet-and-persistent-population-transfer-is-underway-in-the-west-bank/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israeli-sadism-in-a-nutshell-amira-hass-on-israeli-prisons-settler-violence-gaza-ceasefire/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israeli-sadism-in-a-nutshell-amira-hass-on-israeli-prisons-settler-violence-gaza-ceasefire/#respond Sun, 19 Oct 2025 13:33:06 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1290157 Just days after the U.S.-backed ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas went into effect, President Trump has issued new threats against Hamas, saying Thursday the United States would back a military intervention against the group if it fails to uphold the ceasefire agreement. “There is the fear all the time that the war will be [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israeli-sadism-in-a-nutshell-amira-hass-on-israeli-prisons-settler-violence-gaza-ceasefire/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-life-looked-like-for-palestinians-before-october-7/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-life-looked-like-for-palestinians-before-october-7/#respond Mon, 07 Oct 2024 16:31:12 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1273371 The daily lives of Palestinians have long been racked by occupation, apartheid, and systemic violence, culminating in the devastation currently unfolding in Gaza. Even before the escalation of events on October 7 of last year, the realities of living under Israeli oppression were a punishing testimony to the inhumanity of settler colonialism. In the following [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-life-looked-like-for-palestinians-before-october-7/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/for-displaced-gazans-leaving-rafah-is-moving-from-one-hell-to-another/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/for-displaced-gazans-leaving-rafah-is-moving-from-one-hell-to-another/#respond Fri, 10 May 2024 15:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1266101 According to Palestinian reports, 22 Palestinians, among them eight children including babies, were killed by Israeli bombs and shells in eastern Rafah overnight into Monday. On its website, the Wafa news agency posted a video showing mothers weeping as they said their last goodbye to their children, who were bound in white cloth. In Israel, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/for-displaced-gazans-leaving-rafah-is-moving-from-one-hell-to-another/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-lords-army-isnt-stupid-it-pushes-for-mass-expulsion-of-palestinians/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-lords-army-isnt-stupid-it-pushes-for-mass-expulsion-of-palestinians/#respond Thu, 09 May 2024 15:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1266091 “On Friday, April 26, at 13:00, a group of settlers invaded the southern part of Madama village [south of Nablus] and departed shortly afterward,” the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Negotiations Affairs Department reports on its website. It also reports that on the same day, at 11:45 A.M., “a group of settlers entered the farming lands of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-lords-army-isnt-stupid-it-pushes-for-mass-expulsion-of-palestinians/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-gaza-a-six-year-old-lies-before-a-tank-among-the-bodies/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-gaza-a-six-year-old-lies-before-a-tank-among-the-bodies/#respond Thu, 08 Feb 2024 16:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1261865 The name Hind Hamada won’t mean anything to Israelis. And why would it? But her smiling face is probably now familiar to every Palestinian household. A displaced Palestinian family on the road between Khan Yunis and Rafah, last week.Credit: MOHAMMED SALEM/Reuters The name Hind Hamada won’t mean anything to Israeli TV consumers. And why would [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-gaza-a-six-year-old-lies-before-a-tank-among-the-bodies/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-settlers-arent-pausing-the-expulsion-and-dispossession-in-the-west-bank/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-settlers-arent-pausing-the-expulsion-and-dispossession-in-the-west-bank/#respond Fri, 13 Oct 2023 14:44:48 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1255731 Israeli security forces neglected the defense of communities near the Gaza Strip because they have been preoccupied with defending the settlers in the West Bank, their land seizures, and their rites of stone and altar worshiping. This is one of the inescapable conclusions to be drawn from the atrocities committed on Saturday. It comes as no surprise, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-settlers-arent-pausing-the-expulsion-and-dispossession-in-the-west-bank/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/outrage-soars-in-occupied-west-bank-after-israel-kills-11-injures-500-palestinians-in-nablus-raid/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/outrage-soars-in-occupied-west-bank-after-israel-kills-11-injures-500-palestinians-in-nablus-raid/#respond Sat, 25 Feb 2023 13:53:41 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1240150 Transcript This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. 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