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Items by Dr Oroub El-Abed
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Beyond Gaza: The expanding geography of displacement
The War on Gaza continues and has not stopped. It is even expanding to wider geography of displacement and has been unfolding across the Eastern Mediterranean. The Zionists are empowered to widen their gradual restructuring of the land: depopulating borderlands, fragmenting societies, erasing cultural landscapes, and normalising permanent instability across…
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They escaped Gaza: Now they are trapped elsewhere
While global headlines fixate on the expanding confrontation between Israel and Iran, another story is quietly disappearing from view. It is not only the devastation inside Gaza that is being overlooked. It is also the fate of those who managed to leave. They escaped the bombs. But they did not…
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Gaza’s winter as a weapon of war: Living in tents of cloth and cold
By any measure of humanity, the sight is unbearable: tents stitched from old blankets, torn clothes, and scraps of plastic laid directly on the sandy ground of Gaza. What passes for “shelter” today is little more than a thin membrane between life and death. These makeshift structures—funded initially by an…
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Erasing roots, stealing seeds and engineering flight
The recent raid by Israeli forces on the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) in Ramallah—during which young female employees were blindfolded, tied, filmed, and the organization’s seed bank and files were confiscated—should not be treated as a marginal incident of intimidation. It exposes the deeper architecture of displacement operating…
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A new face of ethnic cleansing: From siege to demographic engineering
When a chartered flight carrying more than 150 Palestinians from Gaza landed in Johannesburg last week, confusion filled South African airwaves. As reported by The Guardian (15 Nov 2025), the passengers — weary, hungry, and bewildered — were held on board for hours, unable to explain where they had come…
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The decay of international tools: Forced displacement and starvation in Gaza
In Gaza today, amid rubble, starvation, and mass graves, the language of international law is being turned on its head. Israel and its allies have unveiled the idea of a “humanitarian city” in Rafah’s Mawasi area, presented as a safe zone where displaced Palestinians might survive in tents and makeshift…
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The hunger war in Gaza against displaced Palestinians: Starvation as a weapon
In Gaza today, a hunger war is unfolding before the world’s eyes — a siege in which starvation is being wielded not by drought or pestilence, but by deliberate political and military design. For months, the people of Gaza have endured a blockade that goes far beyond the fog of…
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A “Humanitarian City” built on ruins: The final displacement of Gaza
In the summer of 2025, as much of the world busies itself with debates over ceasefires and hostage deals, Israel has unveiled a chilling plan: the creation of a “humanitarian city” on the ashes of Rafah. In the language of bureaucracy and security, Israeli officials describe it as a controlled…
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Palestinians cannot be uprooted: Palestine is theirs, and no power on earth can sever that bond
US President Donald Trump’s recent assertion that Gaza’s population should be resettled in Egypt, Jordan or elsewhere is more than just unconscionable; it is an explicit endorsement of forced population “transfer”, a war crime and a crime against humanity under international law. His remarks were not made in a vacuum;…
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The Illusion of safe zones: The human cost of Gaza’s conflict
One of the most insidious tactics employed by Israeli authorities in their plan to control Gaza and its cities is the concept of “safe zones”. While the purported intention is to protect civilians, these zones are often depicted as a façade for erasing the Palestinian presence through violent means. The…
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Resistance against another uprooting from the land of Palestine
Forced to relocate due to the relentless impact of aggressive shelling, widespread destruction and military directives issued by Zionist Israelis instructing them to move southward, nearly 1.7 million residents of Gaza find themselves confined within an area spanning less than 65 kilometres. Having endured the dire consequences of these circumstances…