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With Gaza’s power grid destroyed and Israel restricting the entry of fuel, private generator owners are charging high fees to provide electricity, leaving many displaced families in the dark.

Israeli election season has been dominated by Zionist debate over October 7, but this debate has not included discussion of ending the Gaza genocide because no one in Israeli society wants this to happen.

Brazil’s Oct. 25 presidential runoff is a referendum on Israel and the final test of Latin America’s rightward swing, with Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro offering starkly different paths for Palestine.

Adopting the IHRA definition of antisemitism has become a marker of Latin America's rightward shift, as governments across the region align with Israeli foreign policy and move to criminalize solidarity with Palestine.

The upcoming U.S. and Israeli elections will likely lead Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu to renew their misguided war on Iran with even greater ferocity than before in an effort to save their political lives.

A recent lawsuit successfully challenged the Trump administration's assault on the International Criminal Court. Now, families like mine, whose relatives have been killed with U.S.-supplied weapons in Gaza, might finally have a chance at justice.

Israeli settlers are blocking, assaulting, and robbing Palestinian olive harvesters. For some 100,000 families in the West Bank who rely on the harvest for income, this season may decide whether the olive harvest survives at all.

Freelance journalists in Gaza are risking their lives to document the genocide, often with no protections from the news agencies that hire them and rely on their work.

AIPAC recently spent $100,000 on mailers targeting Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan's Senate race. Is it too little, too late? mondoweiss.net/2026/10/can-... #Palestine #Israel

Mohammed bin Salman rejected Benjamin Netanyahu’s offer to help fight Ansar Allah in Yemen, but the Crown Prince may soon run out of options as Israel seeks to exploit Saudi concerns to its advantage. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/saud... #Palestine #Israel

Israel is detaining international observers for one simple reason: to prevent us from reporting on its ethnic cleansing project in Palestine. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/im-a... #Palestine #Israel

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The Palestine solidarity movement is exerting pressure on illegal Palestinian land sales in New York and New Jersey, but only Mayor Mamdani can ban them once and for all. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/mayo... #Palestine #Israel

Israeli legislative elections take place on October 27. In the first elections since October 7, 2023, all major Israeli candidates oppose Palestinian statehood, with varying degrees of explicit endorsement of genocide, annexation, and apartheid. Cartoon by Carlos Latuff. #Palestine #Israel

At Port Newark-Elizabeth, activists are escalating their tactics to stop weapons shipments to Israel. Mondoweiss reports from the port’s front lines. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/insi... #Palestine #Israel

Israel is restricting prosthetics and rehabilitation equipment from entering Gaza, leaving thousands of children waiting for a medical evacuation that may never come. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/gaza... #Palestine #Israel

Trump's war on Iran is broadly unpopular among Americans, and it's poised to sink the GOP in the upcoming midterms. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/trum... #Palestine #Israel

Israeli-imposed financial restrictions are choking Gaza's economy as banknotes run out, leaving the average consumer with a heavy price to pay. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/in-g... #Palestine #Israel

The Supreme Court’s decision to force Palestinian politician Sami Abu Shehadeh out of the upcoming Israeli elections is the latest sign that there is no place for Palestinian citizens of Israel in the ‘Jewish and democratic’ state. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/the-... #Palestine #Israel

Since August, Israeli settlers have blocked Palestinians from Umm Safa from reaching the village's only cemetery. Residents say it's the latest in a series of escalations by settlers — backed by the Israeli army — who are trying to expel them. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/in-t... #Palestine #Israel

Israel is trying to hide its crimes by banning international reporters from entering Gaza. We must reject this apartheid system of access. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/stop... #Palestine #Israel

Families and spouses in Gaza are still waiting to be reunited with their loved ones after the Israeli army suspended travel in and out of the Strip. mondoweiss.net/2026/09/pale...

The Israel lobby is losing its grip on U.S. electoral politics, but it won't go out without a fight. American Jews cannot wait to see how it plays out. The Jewish future depends on our awakening. mondoweiss.net/2026/09/amer...

Eli Clifton speaks to Mondoweiss about the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, the shifting landscape of AIPAC, and his new book, Israel's Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/they...

Israel is preparing to give settlers access to a main Palestinian thoroughfare in Ramallah, a move that would bring checkpoints and gates to one of the West Bank’s last spaces of free Palestinian movement and affordable urban growth. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/isra...

The contours of the battle over the future of the Democrats' policy toward Israel are starting to take shape, and J Street is trying to cement support for the existence of a Jewish ethno-state as the Party's bottom line. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/j-st...

As part of a U.S.-brokered agreement with Israel and Lebanon, residents of some southern villages are cautiously returning to their homes. What they have found is a shell of their former lives, and a daily menacing presence of the Israeli occupation. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/life...

In addition to the unrelenting bombardment, Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of losing their lives and limbs through the unexploded ordnances that the Israeli army leaves behind. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/unex...

Palestinians with Israeli citizenship are no longer asked to pledge allegiance, but to renounce their own history. Palestinian Knesset candidate Sami Abu Shehadeh did exactly that before Israel's Supreme Court, and was pushed out anyway. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/the-...

Nearly 38 percent of Palestinian students in East Jerusalem now study the Israeli curriculum, while the rest of the students' textbooks are being censored line by line, stripping mention of Jerusalem, prisoners, the Nakba, and freedom fighters. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/isra...

Four Times reporters, 53 paragraphs, and no mention of AIPAC’s new stealth strategy: hiding Israel and running ads on unrelated issues in primaries. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/new-... #Palestine #Israel

Can a temporary consensus government advance Palestinian self-determination in the homeland and the diaspora? mondoweiss.net/2026/10/the-... #Palestine #Israel

The Israeli army has bulldozed over 1.6 million olive trees in Gaza since the beginning of the genocide in 2023, threatening the livelihood and heritage of olive farming communities, and the survival of a centuries-old Palestinian cultural tradition. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/afte...

Since October 7 and the Gaza genocide, U.S. opinions on Israel and Palestine have drastically shifted. The power of Zionist propaganda has been permanently weakened, and the U.S.-Israel relationship is in a more precarious position than ever before. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/the-...

After three years of genocide, two decades of a criminal siege, and a century of occupation, we must confront Zionism from all directions until Palestine is free. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/no-r... #Palestine #Israel

In Gaza, an entire generation of children born into the genocide has no memory of how life was like before, and doesn't know about the world outside Gaza's walls. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/the-...

Bisan Owda explains what having money in Gaza means today after 3 years of genocide.

From my uncle's exasperated sighs over olive groves we can no longer reach, to the iron gates the Israeli army has erected at the edge of my village, there is one word we use to cope: 'aadi', or, "normal" in Arabic. But this reality is anything but. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/thre...

The struggle for Palestinian liberation is a threat to the global world order. That's why no one is "stopping" Israel. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/thre... #Palestine #Israel

Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the so-called ceasefire in Gaza, we look at a brief timeline of a long-established Israeli practice of sabotaging negotiations and violating ceasefire agreements to advance their goals. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/a-br... #Palestine #Israel

In scattered tents across Gaza, families once bound by shared meals and evenings by the sea now focus solely on survival. The rituals that once bonded fathers to their children, or women to their neighbors, have been shattered by Israel's genocide. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/geno...

The documentary film by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor follows the predictable script of the regretful soldier, but the subjects in NAZA express something darker: mourning the loss of power. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/shoo...

After relying on an unreliable Trump for defense, suspending normalization talks with Israel, and losing access to the Bab-al-Mandab Strait, Saudi Arabia turns to hesitant allies for help. mondoweiss.net/2026/09/saud...

Settler attacks in the West Bank are ongoing with the enthusiastic approval of the Israeli army, as Palestinians are barred from accessing their own land, and their olive groves, for the fourth year in a row. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/one-... #Palestine #Israel

Israeli courts put on a show of indicting criminals who kill and maim Palestinians, but the final verdict — a presidential pardon and a hero's welcome — is already predetermined. mondoweiss.net/2026/09/the-...

In addition to the unrelenting bombardment, Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of losing their lives and limbs through the unexploded ordnances that the Israeli army leaves behind. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/unex...

Netanyahu’s speech at the UN General Assembly was not directed at the world, but Israelis. He was trying to convince them that Israel doesn’t need to change, as long as it stands united against the world — and lives by the sword. mondoweiss.net/2026/09/neta...

Child marriage in Gaza is surging, with 20.6% of recent marriages involving girls under 18. Amid hunger, displacement, and a collapsed legal system, girls are losing their childhoods to a "protection" that doesn't exist. mondoweiss.net/2026/09/the-...

The documentary film by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor follows the predictable script of the regretful soldier, but the subjects in NAZA express something darker: mourning the loss of power. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/shoo... #Palestine #Israel

Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda reflects on three years of genocide in Gaza, a life lost forever, and her unending work to tell the truth. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/vide... #Palestine #Israel