By Ameed Faleh and Cody O'Rourke
By Ameed Faleh and Cody O'Rourke
Large-scale Israeli military operations have expanded beyond the northern West Bank into the central and southern governorates, including Qalandiya refugee camp and Kafr Aqab in Jerusalem governorate. According to the Palestinian Negotiations Affairs Department, in the first 35 days of 2026, Israeli forces carried out 1,723 military invasions and 985 arrests in the West Bank. This pace is slightly higher than 2025, when forces averaged 48 invasions and 28 arrests per day across the full year.
The daily average remains grim — approximately 1.5 demolition operations per day, displacing roughly 6 people and destroying 4 to 5 structures every 24 hours. These figures are ONLY for the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and omit the destruction across Gaza and Palestinian homes inside of 1948 Palestine
Much of our everyday opposition to Zionism focuses on delegitimization within immediate spaces. This includes boycotts, disruptions, efforts to sever academic partnerships, and challenges to cultural normalization. These actions matter as they interrupt complicity and fracture consensus. Yet they are not the full struggle.
According to the data drawn from the Attacks on Health Care in Countries in Conflict (SHCC) Data, Israeli attacks resulted in at least 102 health workers killed, dozens more injured, and countless ambulances damaged or destroyed in 2025. The data reveal a systematic pattern of violence that has devastated Gaza’s healthcare system (which is the goal) while simultaneously restricting Palestinian access to medical care in the West Bank.
A critical reminder that zionism functions as an extension of western imperialism.
The frequency of demolition operations has also intensified. In 2025, demolitions occurred on 216 distinct days — nearly 60 percent of all days throughout the year. The average of 1.5 incidents per day represents a threefold increase from the 0.5 incidents per day recorded in the earlier years of the dataset.
How the Good Shepherd Collective is able to do the work inside and out of Palestine, despite not being funded by large institutions.
An important conversation by Bana Abu Zuluf.
Life in Palestine has taught me that there is a time for despair and a time for hope, a time to resist and a time to wait. For two years, Palestinian Christians cancelled Christmas—refusing celebration, despite the economic toll, in solidarity with Gaza and the thousands imprisoned in the zionist prisons.
The data from this reporting period (November 18 – December 12, 2025) reveals a region under sustained western imperialist violence waged through the zionist movement. The impunity that Israel has been granted has ensured that ceasefire agreements fail to provide meaningful protection to Palestinians. The 1,498 documented incidents and 223 fatalities represent only the verified toll; the actual humanitarian cost is undoubtedly higher.
We can only do this work because people like yourself are willing to invest in a future of justice. We're reaching out to you to ask if you'd make a financial contribution to the work here in Palestine.
We can only do this work because people like yourself are willing to invest in a future of justice. We're reaching out to you to ask if you'd make a financial contribution to the work here in Palestine.
The question is unavoidable: Why should organizations that fund illegal settlements, support foreign military forces, or advocate for policies that violate international humanitarian law retain their 501(c)(3) status? It is time to challenge the charitable designation of institutions whose work directly finances the erasure of Palestinian life.
The international left’s embrace of “one democratic state” as the self-evident endpoint of Palestinian liberation often fails to account for what Palestinians themselves wish to preserve: not just rights in the abstract, but a way of life, a cultural fabric, cities and villages that remain theirs.
Mohammed Ibrahim’s imprisonment and torture by the Israeli state lay bare not just Zionism’s systematic brutalization of Palestinian children, but a darker truth: this violence meets silence because it is not foreign to US culture — it is embedded within it.
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