Palestinian

Sara Bsaiso (left) and her sister Seham Besaiso in Gaza before Sara’s injury. — Courtesy of Seham Besaiso (NEW YORK) — If someone asked Sara Bsaiso what her dream was one year ago, it would have been to finish her senior year of high school, complete her final exams and attend college or university. However, […]

Courtesy Huda Hammad (LONDON) — As a 4-year-old Palestinian child waited on Sunday to cross into Jordan for a chance at a life-saving medical procedure, a gunman was crossing from the other side to attack Israeli border guards. Accompanied by his mother and fiercest advocate, Huda, Ahmed Hammad had left Gaza a few hours earlier […]

Maja Hitij/Getty Images (PARIS) — Eight Palestinians from across the globe say they are competing in honor of their ancestral roots on the Palestine Olympic Team for this year’s Games in Paris. But as athletes join in the international competition, conflict continues to rage on in Gaza. Gaza’s Ministry of Health, controlled by Hamas, reports […]

Hafez Abduljabbar speaks with ABC News’ James Longman. CREDIT: ABC News (NEW YORK) — Tawfic Abdel Jawwad went to spend a year with his family in the West Bank after he finished high school in New Orleans, where he was born and raised. Tawfic, 17, was enjoying connecting to his roots and spending time with […]

www.fuchieh.com/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Rawan, a 10-year-old Palestinian girl, said she is fearful living in Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas war. But she can find moments to be a kid again and cheer on others at her shelter school. “We play to forget the pain we experienced,” Rawan, who lost a cousin in the war, […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Palestinian teenage brothers Nasrallah, 17, and Qassam Al-Awar, 18, still can’t believe they’re home after being imprisoned by the Israeli government for 17 months. “I didn’t know my name was on the list until 30 minutes before I was released,” Qassam Al-Awar told ABC News Tuesday. “I still couldn’t believe […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Gazan Younes Elhallaq is hiding from airstrikes in a home with 30 of his family members — seven families housed in four rooms under one roof. Many of them evacuated to the south of the Gaza Strip looking for safety from the onslaught of Israeli retaliatory airstrikes following the Oct. […]

Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Israel has blamed Palestinian Islamic Jihad for a deadly blast at a hospital in Gaza City Tuesday night. Hundreds of people were reported killed in the explosion at al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, which the Israel Defense Forces said was caused by a failed rocket launch […]