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Palestine and the Middle East

Illustrations show protesters for democracy and human rights holding flags from Algeria, Lebanon, and Palestine

Illustrations show protesters for democracy and human rights holding flags from Algeria, Lebanon, and Palestine

  • This image depicts a Palestinian fire truck next to an Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) armoured vehicle

    Fighting fire with fellowship

    As Palestinian firefighters face multiple threats under occupation, Rachel Spence reports on acts of solidarity and support between international workers’ unions

  • A composite image of a business man running up a graph of missiles holding a breifcase of money

    Corporate profiteering and the war on Iran

    Amid the war on Iran, UK economic policy allows the super-rich to profit while the public struggle with living costs, writes Jake Woodier

  • A Palestinian boy on a donkey looks at Israeli military vehicles, during a large scale military training in the northern Jordan Valley, West Bank

    Zionist pogroms and shepherding outposts

    In their latest dispatch from the West Bank, Farah, Calico and Noah report on evolving Israeli tactics for stealing Palestinian land

  • A creative mosaic of fragmented images, with colours of Palestine and a woman wearing a keffiyeh visible

    Unions for Gaza

    Palestine is a live issue in the trade union movement, writes Bernard Regan, with eighteen unions are affiliated to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Here’s how they’re taking action – and you can support them

  • A montage of b&w photographs of generals and a statue being pulled down

    Iran ’53: The coup that changed the Middle East

    When Iran’s elected prime minister, Mohammed Mossaddegh tried to nationalise oil, Britain and the US helped overthrow him. Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi traces how covert interventions continue to shape the region

  • A person in jeans and a white shirt stands arms outstretched looking over a valley

    In pictures: West Bank lives

    With global attention on Gaza, an already grave situation in the Palestinian West Bank has intensified. A Solidus Collective photographer documents two years of change

  • Three Palestinian children with their backs to the camera watching Israeli military vehicles attempting to intimidate them in the West Bank

    Breaking the sword in occupied Palestine

    In the first dispatch of our series Breaking the Sword, three clandestine organisers working in the West Bank report on settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing