Alessandra Bajec is a freelance journalist specialising in the Middle East and North Africa. Previously living in Palestine, then in Cairo, she is currently based in Tunis.
Growing Israeli violence in Jerusalem is prompting warnings from Palestinian church leaders about the future of one of the world's oldest Christian communities
Israeli army raids, biometric data collection, and weekly arrests are normalising a military administration in Syria's southwest that resembles the West Bank
By passing a new law to register West Bank land as state property, Israel is fast-tracking a decades-long process of annexing the occupied Palestinian territory
Israel's ban on dozens of international NGOs from Gaza has fuelled fears of a growing humanitarian crisis and the territory's deepening political isolation
Locked away for decades, Marwan Barghouti could unite Palestinian politics and energise the drive for statehood, which is why Israel sees him as such a threat
The Gaza ceasefire will expose the horrific cost of Israel's genocide as efforts turn to finding those under the rubble and counting the war's true death toll