...José S. Vericat Fatah leaders routinely accuse Hamas of plotting to establish an “emirate” in the Gaza Strip. Gaza is in fact turning into a statelet separate from the West Bank, but it is Israeli policies that are driving the “Gaza is Palestine” option with a series of measures that have been...

... This sample of photos from 16 August–15 November 2017 aims to convey a sense of Palestinian life during this quarter. The Hamas-Fatah reconciliation agreement, the one hundredth anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, and Palestinian Authority attacks on press freedoms (including its arrest...