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Where things stand. A ceasefire has held in part since 10 October 2025. Gaza’s health ministry, which operates under the de facto authorities, reports 1,334 people killed since then, to 2 September 2026. Most of Gaza’s 2.1 million people are approaching the rainy season in overcrowded displacement sites, and settler violence in the West Bank remains high, according to the UN (OCHA, 4 September 2026). Checked 21 September 2026. Every link goes to its own source. Download as PDF

Displaced~1,900,000 · 9 in 10 people in Gaza

Each box is 100,000 people, from our article.

Listen

Start with the music.

Streams and album sales pay artists directly. These are starting points, not a canon.

  • Mohammed Assaf

    From Gaza; won the second season of Arab Idol. Patriotic hymns and classic Arabic love songs.

  • DAM and Shadia Mansour

    DAM has made Palestinian hip-hop since 1999; Shadia Mansour is one of its best-known voices.

  • Bashar Murad

    Singer-songwriter and video artist in East Jerusalem. His debut EP Maskhara came out in 2021.

  • Kamilya Jubran

    Oud and qanun player and vocalist, formerly the lead singer of Sabreen. Artistic director of the nonprofit Zamkana.

  • Saint Levant

    Born in Jerusalem in 2000. Multilingual pop, R&B, and hip-hop.

  • Palestinian music, explained

    Sabreen, El-Funoun, and how a modern Palestinian sound took shape.

Look

Look at the art.

Painters and museums that carry the place with them.

  • Sliman Mansour

    Born 1947 in Birzeit; co-founded the League of Palestinian Artists. Lives and works in Jerusalem and Ramallah.

  • Malak Mattar

    Gaza-born painter who began at 13 and sold her first works through Instagram.

  • Emily Jacir and Dar Jacir

    Artist Emily Jacir founded the Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research in Bethlehem.

  • Palestine Museum US

    A museum in Woodbridge, Connecticut, showing Palestinian art.

Read

Good news, and reporting you can check.

Stories of people building something, then outlets that show their sources. Read across the spectrum.

Good news and analysis

Reporting

Follow

People and pages, close to the ground.

Follow widely and check claims against a second source, including the UN and outlets on more than one side. Journalists in Gaza work in real danger, and their accounts are also contested.

Journalists and creators

  • Bisan Owda

    Filmmaker and journalist from Gaza. Emmy and Peabody for “It’s Bisan from Gaza and I’m Still Alive” (2024).

  • Motaz Azaiza

    Photojournalist from Gaza; on TIME’s 100 most influential list.

  • Plestia Alaqad

    Journalist and poet from Gaza; her book The Eyes of Gaza came out in 2024.

  • Hind Khoudary

    Gaza journalist who has written for The New Arab, Middle East Eye, and +972.

Local groups

Give

Give where it lands.

We list organizations, not individual crowdfunding pages, which are the hardest to check. Rising Tigers doesn’t handle your money.

Relief

Peacebuilding

  • Combatants for Peace

    American Friends of Combatants for Peace is on Charity Navigator’s Gaza list.

  • ALLMEP

    Funds and coordinates 200+ peacebuilding groups.

Watchdog list: Charity Navigator’s Gaza page. Stick to registered charities: unvetted transfers can be fraud and, in some cases, a sanctions problem. Check any charity before you give: Charity Navigator, CharityWatch, and Candid. Be wary of anyone who asks for gift cards, crypto, or a wire transfer.

Buy

Buy from the people who make it.

Buying supports makers. To fund relief, use Give.

  • Hirbawi keffiyeh

    Woven in Hebron since 1961 by the Hirbawi factory, described as the last one in the territories. This store gives its proceeds to the Arab American National Museum.

  • Handmade Palestine

    A social enterprise in Ramallah that works with 30+ artisan groups. Its guide explains how to spot fake keffiyehs: the pattern is woven, not printed.

  • Sunbula tatreez

    An embroidery manual and tatreez keffiyehs, fairly traded and handcrafted.

  • Vetted Palestinian brands

    The Institute for Palestine Studies’ list of brands that hire local makers in Gaza and the West Bank. Check that each still ships.

Understand

A short history, with the disputes marked.

Dates and figures come from the sources linked; where sources disagree, the box says so.

1917–1948
British rule (the Mandate) follows the Ottoman Empire. In 1947 the UN proposes partitioning Palestine.
1948
Israel declares independence and a war follows. About 750,000 Palestinians flee or are expelled, an event Palestinians call the Nakba. Historians debate the causes.
1967
Israel takes the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza. The occupation continues.
1993
The Oslo Accords create the Palestinian Authority.
2005–2007
Israel withdraws its settlers and troops from Gaza. Hamas takes control of the Strip in 2007, and Israel and Egypt restrict movement in and out.
7 October 2023
Hamas-led attackers kill about 1,200 people in Israel and take about 250 hostage (Israeli figures). Israel launches a war in Gaza.
Since 7 October 2023
Gaza’s health ministry reports more than 73,000 people killed and more than 173,000 injured (73,246 and 173,727 as of 24 July 2026, relayed by the UN Health Cluster).
September 2025
A UN Commission of Inquiry finds that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. Israel rejects the finding. South Africa’s case at the ICJ is still open.
10 October 2025
A ceasefire begins, with a hostage exchange and a surge in aid. Violence continues at lower intensity.
2026
Reconstruction materials stay restricted, and settler violence in the West Bank is high.

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