The New Dark Age

Gaza women describe Israeli kidnapping, interrogations

In the latest Grayzone report from the ground in Gaza, 39-year-old mother Abier Mohammed Gheben describes how invading Israeli forces kidnapped her and subjected her to humiliation and violent threats as they interrogated her in captivity.

Israel has flaunted its mass abduction, public humiliation and torture of men of all ages across the Gaza Strip, but its abuse of Palestinian women has received less exposure.

A muralist’s message of resistance on Gaza’s ruins

The Grayzone meets Amal Abo Al-Sebah, a displaced Palestinian artist in the besieged Gaza Strip. We see Amal chronicle the destruction her neighbors endured and the resilience they have displayed through a series of colorful murals painted on the ruins of a home in the city of Rafah destroyed by an Israeli airstrike.

“I want to send a message to all Arab countries with this artwork,” Amal said. “A message that we’re attached to this land and we’re not leaving it.”

Teaching class in Gaza without schools

The Grayzone meets Ahmad Al-Naami, a teacher in the besieged Gaza Strip, where most schools and nearly all universities have been systematically destroyed by the Israeli military. In a tent in Rafah”s newest refugee camp, Al-Naami finds a class of enthusiastic young students, eager to learn in defiance of their occupier’s campaign of destruction.

Gazans care for zoo lions as they fight famine

Step inside the only recreational park left in the Gaza Strip: the Rafah Zoo, where zookeepers and local residents fight to keep lions alive as they face missile strikes and growing famine brought on by Israeli’s starvation siege.

Antiwar Israelis face jail, terrifying repression for speaking out

Journalist Jeremy Loffredo reports from inside Israel, where the country’s tiny minority of antiwar Jewish citizens face harsh repression, ugly social consequences, and even jail time for speaking out against the military campaign in Gaza. Loffredo interviews several Israeli dissidents about the violence they have experienced since October 7, and the climate of state-enforced fear that has engulfed their society.