Gaza and the West Bank: Dispatches from Catastrophe (I)
https://world-outlook.com/2026/04/30/gaza-and-the-west-bank-dispatches-from-catastrophe-i/
[1 of 2 parts of a dispatch from #JewishCurrents, with an intro by #WorldOutlook]
April 30, 2026
In Nov.-Dec.2025, Jewish Currents reached out to some two dozen Palestinians from #Gaza and the #WestBank â all of whom the magazine had previously interviewed after October 7 â to ask them how their lives had changed since they last shared their stories.
The resulting testimonies are difficult to read. They show the effects of years of industrialized, live-broadcast massacres and colonization, particularly in Gaza, where more than 10% of the population is estimated to have been killed or injured in the last two years.
âWhat all the voices share is disillusionment: with the political parties #Hamas and #Fatah; with supposed allies like #Arab countries; with international systems such as the #UN; and with notions of international law and justice writ large..."

Gaza and the West Bank: Dispatches from Catastrophe (I)
At the end of 2025, Jewish Currents reached out to about two dozen Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank â all of whom the magazine had previously interviewed after the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 â to ask them how their lives had changed since they last shared their stories. âThe resulting testimonies are difficult to read,â says the introduction to these stories. âThey show the effects of years of industrialized, live-broadcast massacres and colonization, particularly in Gaza, where more than 10% of the population is estimated to have been killed or injured in the last two years." This is the first of two parts.







