A young boy plays with fireworks as he celebrates during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan along the alley in Gaza City.
Palestinian workers unload a truck from 20,000 doses of Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine upon its arrival to Gaza Strip, at the Rafah crossing border with Egypt. The 20,000 doses of ...
Palestinian children wait in line while holding pots to receive free meals of green pea stew cooked by Samera Abu Amra, unseen, for distribution to poor residents in Gaza City. Amr...
Palestinian farmers pick fresh strawberries from their family farm, in the early morning in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip.
A Palestinian waiter dressed as Santa Clause holds a child for a photograph in a restaurant on the beach in Gaza City.
Dozens of Islamic scholars march while holding defaced pictures of French President Emmanuel Macron during a protest against the publishing of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad t...
The karate coach of Khaled Sheikh el Eid, front, and his sons and daughters, train together on the roof of their family house, during the coronavirus pandemic, at Rafah refugee cam...
A worker wearing protective gear sprays disinfectant on a donkey cart as a precaution against the coronavirus, in Gaza City.
Workers wearing protective gear spray disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus, at the main market in Gaza City. The Middle East has some 20,000 cases of the virus, wit...
Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel.
Hamas supporters burn a poster with a picture of U.S. President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and American flag during a protest against the Mideast plan anno...
Palestinian children throw stones over the Israeli separation wall during a protest against Israel and the Untied States in the West Bank village of Bil'in, near Ramallah.
A youth launch stones toward an Iron gate in the Israeli separation wall during an anti Israeli U.S. protest in the West Bank village of Bil'in, near Ramallah.
Palestinian protesters stand holding pictures of the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, in front of burning tires during a protest against the U.S. Mideast peace plan, in Gaza C...
An explosion caused by Israeli airstrikes is seen on Gaza City. Israel reportedly targeted several Hamas military sites in the northern Gaza strip after claims that Palestinian mil...
The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa, center, leads a Christmas day Mass at the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Chr...
The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa, center, leads a Christmas day Mass at the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Chr...
A Palestinian Christian man plays with his baby as they wait for the Christmas Mass outside the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza City.
Palestinians pick strawberries at a farm, in Beit Lahyia, northern Gaza Strip.
A Palestinian youth stands amid the crater of a destroyed house following overnight Israeli missile strikes, in Al-Qarara, east of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip.
Why would someone like Edward Said give his life to intellectually opposing a majoritarian Jewish state if its successor was to be a majoritarian Muslim nation? Why would the Palestinian struggle have a claim on our solidarity, if it’s only goal was to create yet another denominational state?...A radical friend of mine objected to my characterization of Hamas as a fundamentalist and sectarian party. Think of its extraordinary record of public service, he said, the schools it runs, the hospitals and orphanges that it has built, the commitment it has shown to constructively improving the lot of the Palestinian people. I had to point out to him that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh could claim credit for exactly the same achievements. And since he wouldn’t want Indian Muslims, Christians and Sikhs to live in an India defined by Hindutva, we should be wary of a party like Hamas that would have Christians, Jews and Muslims live in a state defined by political Islam.
