“What in fiction is enjoyable and beautiful is often terrifying in real life.”
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‘A Mass Assassination Factory’: Inside Israel’s Calculated Bombing of Gaza
“Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an artificial intelligence system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza, a +972 and Local Call investigation reveals.”
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Notable reads by Atef Abu Saif, Sonia Smith, James McNaughton, Dorothy Wickenden, and Kevin Koenig.
No Human Being Can Exist
How can a person make up for seven decades of misrepresentation and willful distortion in the time allotted to a sound bite?
‘I Remember The Silence Between The Falling Shells’: The Terror of Living Under Siege as a Child
“I was 10 years old in 1992 when Kabul was bombarded by warring forces, and life became a cycle of hunger, fear and horror.”
Doomsday Diaries
“The very notion of Palestinian civilians vanishes. This is the first kind of death.”
What Happened to Milad? A Palestinian Father Searches for His Son.
One man’s quest to find his son lays bare the reality of Palestinian life under Israeli rule.
Mothering on the Borders
Yifat Susskind stands at three of the world’s most militarized borders and reflects on what is revealed about these zones of separation and violence when we see them from the perspective of mothers.