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Jessica Buxbaum

Jessica Buxbaum

Jessica Buxbaum is a Jerusalem-based journalist covering Palestine and Israel. Her work has been featured in Middle East Eye, The National and Gulf News. Follow her on Twitter: @jess_buxbaum

As Israel continues its bombardment on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Christians, leaders, and municipal authorities have called off Christmas celebrations.

22 December, 2023

In-depth: The Temple Mount movement has for years sought to change the Jerusalem holy site's status quo. With the war in Gaza, it now senses an opportunity.

20 December, 2023

In-depth: Incendiary language of extermination, ethnic cleansing, and the wholesale destruction of Gaza, including with nuclear weapons, has become part of mainstream discourse in Israel during the war.

30 November, 2023

In-depth: Alongside the ground invasion and devastating bombing campaign in Gaza, Israel is waging a separate war in the West Bank, with mass arrests, army killings, settler violence, and aerial strikes.

02 November, 2023

In-depth: Israel's settler movement is seizing the chance to displace Palestinians and exert more control in Area C of the West Bank, with political backing from far-right ministers.

19 October, 2023

In-depth: Empowered by Israel's far-right government, skyrocketing settler violence is driving Palestinians in the occupied West Bank from their homes in record numbers.

26 September, 2023

Analysis: The Kingdom's decision to appoint its first ever ambassador to Palestine amid ongoing normalisation talks sends a clear message to both the US and Israel that a deal is only possible if Saudi demands are met.

23 August, 2023

In-depth: After a decades-long legal fight, the eviction of the Sub Laban family highlights the role of settler organisations and Israeli judicial authorities in displacing Palestinians in Jerusalem to make way for settlement expansion.

25 July, 2023

In-depth: Human rights groups say Israel's military legal system serves as a whitewashing tool allowing soldiers to evade responsibility for killing Palestinians.

22 June, 2023

In-depth: A new first-of-its-kind study on the Tantura massacre using cartographic, testimonial, and photographic evidence could be a turning point in how the historical record of the 1948 Nakba is viewed.

05 June, 2023