Last week, the Palestine marathon was held for the first time in three years in Bethlehem and Gaza. The Palestine marathon is an annual event for many Palestinians locally and around the world, and participants run to tell a different story about Palestine as well as the effect of Israel’s Occupation on Palestinians’ freedom of movement. This year’s marathon was centered on hope. In Gaza, 2,523 people, including 15 amputees, participated in a 5K, determined to live and persevere despite the devastation. In Bethlehem, over 10,000 people ran a 10K along routes hemmed in by checkpoints and the apartheid wall. Holy God, we thank you for the resilience and

On February 15, after over three years of harassment and abuse from Israeli authorities since he was 16 years old, Shadi Khoury (Sabeel co-founder Samia Khoury’s grandson) was sentenced to 32 months in prison and a fine equivalent to $3,836  His family then submitted an appeal against the conviction and sentence, along with a request to freeze the order for Shadi to report to prison. On Sunday March 29, 2026, The Supreme Court decided to suspend the implementation of that order and scheduled a hearing on April 16 to review Shadi’s case. On April

The Global Sumud Flotilla   Photo: Brahim Guedich   by Jonathan Kuttab On Wednesday, a flotilla of 55 ships carrying humanitarian relief to Gaza was intercepted in international waters off the Greek Islands by armed Israeli naval vessels. The Israelis forcefully boarded 20 ships, kidnapping 175 of their occupants, who come from many countries, and destroyed the equipment of some ships and towed others towards Ashdod. This confrontation could not provide a more stark contrast between two opposing world views: On the one side was the

Rightwing Naftali Bennett and centrist Yair Lapid announce new party before Knesset vote expected later this year Somebody needs to stop the evil – Peter The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is facing the prospect of running against a rightwing-centrist super coalition in elections later this year after two of his most formidable political rivals combined forces in an attempt to oust him, inviting a third party leader to join them. In a move that some analysts compared to the centre-right coalition that removed Viktor Orbán from power

God bless him – Peter Pope Leo XIV has positioned himself as the most political pope in many years. The consequences are being felt in Israel and the territories as well Last Sunday, exactly one week after Easter, the U.S. president took to social media to launch an attack on the pope. Donald Trump declared that Leo XIV was “weak on crime, and terrible for foreign policy,” adding that the first American-born pope would not have been elected without his help. The background to the sharp

Totally illegal but who cares anymore – Israel breaks the law every day, all day and nobody does anything about it – PeterThe Global Sumud Flotilla has been intercepted on its way to Gaza by the Israeli Defense Forces. “In a violent raid in international waters, Israeli naval forces have intercepted, boarded, and systematically disabled various boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla,” a social media post by the organisation said. Earlier on Thursday morning, the organisation reported on Telegram the boats were “approached by military speedboats,

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Engineer and two drivers killed in recent weeks as scarcity of clean water fuels spread of preventable diseases More Israeli evil – Peter Israeli forces in Gaza killed a water engineer and two drivers who transported water to displaced families over four days in mid-April, exacerbating severe shortages of clean water that are fuelling the spread of preventable disease. Israeli limits on the shipment of soap, washing powder and other hygiene products into Gaza have also forced prices up, adding to the challenge of keeping clean and avoiding

Good news – Peter Loyalists of President Mahmoud Abbas won most races in Palestinian municipal elections, election officials say, in a vote that for the first time in nearly two decades included a city in the Gaza Strip run by rival Hamas. Saturday’s ballot marked the ‌first elections of any kind in Gaza since 2006 and the first Palestinian polls since the Gaza war began more than two years ago with Hamas’ cross-border attack on southern Israel. Abbas’ West Bank-based Palestinian Authority (PA) said the inclusion