Yara M. Asi

Simply pausing & not stopping Israel’s bombing of Gaza to vaccinate children at risk of polio shows the limits of efforts to save them, writes Yara Asi.

Whether it's a brief ‘pause’ on killing Palestinians or aid temporarily allowed to enter Gaza, Israel is not demonstrating humanitarianism, its failures to fulfil duties under international law & resuming attacks shows this, argues Yara M. Asi.

The UN World Food Programme’s cuts to food aid have been detrimental to Palestinians. But given the politicised nature of funding & donations, the only solution to food insecurity is ending Israel’s oppression not growing dependence, writes Yara Asi.

The UN repeatedly excluding Israel from the list of countries that commit violations against children is deeply hypocritical given the Secretary-General himself has described the hellish lives of Palestinian children in Gaza, argues Yara Asi.

The Oslo Accords were never about peace or justice. Three decades on, they have only served to cement Israel's occupation and settler colonial expansion, while allowing the world to abandon the Palestinian cause, writes Yara M. Asi.

The first Palestinian Prisoners Day was commemorated 49 years ago. Israel has spent the decades refining its oppressive measures against 800,000-plus Palestinians who have been imprisoned since the occupation began, writes Yara M. Asi.

Israel’s medical permit system which prevents Palestinians who require lifesaving treatment from travelling to services in other areas is another mechanism used to control and inflict violence on the Palestinian people, writes Yara M. Asi.

Israeli forces have already killed 41 Palestinians this year. Many of them were children whose families are unlikely to receive any justice, writes Yara M. Asi.

Following a recent trip to the West Bank, Yara Asi warns about the desperate reality of young Palestinians who are faced with increasing Israeli violence and repression, high unemployment and very little hope. They feel their only option is to leave.

In the face of a brutal occupation and unjust imprisonment that strips them of their bodily autonomy, Palestinian prisoners use individual and collective hunger strikes to reclaim their agency from the Israeli regime, writes Yara M. Asi.