Vol. 7 No. 015 (2024): Issue 015

Cover of العدد 15, Almuntaqa

Issue 15 of Almuntaqa (2024) includes the following studies and articles: “Editor's Note” (Editorial Board); “Gaza: Moral Matters in Hard Times” (Azmi Bishara); “The United Nations Early Warning Mechanism for the Prevention of Genocide and its Obstruction in the Case of Palestine” (Aicha Elbasri); “On the Depraved Legal Debate over the Responsibility to Protect in Gaza” (Mohammed Hemchi); “Detection, Neutralization, and Destruction: The Limits of Israel’s Strategy against Gaza’s Tunnels” (Majd Abuamer); “Assessing the Economic and Social Impacts of Israel’s War on Palestine” (Raja Khalidi, Qais Iwidat); “The Israeli War Against UNRWA and Its Impact on Palestinian Refugees” (Ayat Hamdan); “Identity, Anxiety, and War: Hezbollah and the Gaza Tragedy” (Adham Saouli); “Policies without Sovereignty: Palestinian Electricity under Occupation in Gaza” (Ibrahim Rabaia); “How Israel Lost the 2023 Gaza Propaganda War” (Basim Tweissi); “From Expulsion to Self-Rule: The Zionist Quest to Bury Palestine Alive” (Tariq Dana); “Gaza: The Lost Years of Development (2007-2018)” (Omar Shaban).

Published: 2024-09-01
Issue totals:288 views440 downloads

المقالات

  • Gaza: Moral Matters in Hard Times 23 views35 downloads

    Author: Azmi Bishara
    8-29

    This essay explores the moral dilemmas posed by the atrocities committed in Gaza and the stifling of any moral judgment of these crimes. It argues that morals are not limited to transcendent...

  • The United Nations Early Warning Mechanism for the Prevention of Genocide and its Obstruction in the Case of Palestine 22 views39 downloads

    Author: Aicha Elbasri
    30-59

    This study addresses a major research gap concerning the exclusion of Palestine from the UN’s early warning mechanism for genocide prevention since its establishment in 2004. It examines the...

  • On the Depraved Legal Debate over the Responsibility to Protect in Gaza 25 views34 downloads

    Author: Mohammed Hemchi
    60-69

    This paper investigates the legal debate over the relevance and applicability of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle to the Gaza Strip and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The...

  • Detection, Neutralization, and Destruction: The Limits of Israel’s Strategy against Gaza’s Tunnels 25 views50 downloads

    Author: Majd Abuamer
    70-79

    Ever since taking control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, Hamas has heavily invested in underground infrastructure. It has developed a massive tunnel network that it regards as both an economic...

  • Assessing the Economic and Social Impacts of Israel’s War on Palestine 22 views45 downloads

    Authors: Raja Khalidi, Qais Iwidat
    80-90

    The offensive on Gaza, in which 2.2 million lives have been thrown into the mire of humanitarian devastation, has decimated an already ravaged economy, rendering “recovery” to pre-2023 largely...

  • The Israeli War Against UNRWA and Its Impact on Palestinian Refugees 24 views34 downloads

    Author: Ayat Hamdan
    91-98

    When Israel accused twelve UNRWA employees of participating in Hamas’s military operation on 7 October 2023, more than twenty states announced the suspension of aid to the agency. UNRWA...

  • Identity, Anxiety, and War: Hezbollah and the Gaza Tragedy 23 views33 downloads

    Author: Adham Saouli
    99-114

    This study explores Hezbollah’s puzzling engagement in Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Gaza. Why has it limited its war to the Lebanese-Israeli border area? Why did not it engage in a...

  • Policies without Sovereignty: Palestinian Electricity under Occupation in Gaza 25 views37 downloads

    Author: Ibrahim Rabaia
    115-126

    This study sheds light on the electricity sector in the Occupied Palestinian Territories since 1967, with a focus on the Gaza Strip. It explores the determinants of public policies regulating...

  • How Israel Lost the 2023 Gaza Propaganda War 25 views28 downloads

    Author: Basim Tweissi
    127-141

    This study sheds light on the Israeli propaganda narrative during the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza. It is based on a qualitative content analysis of the messages that shaped the narratives,...

Editorial Note

  • Editor's Note 24 views37 downloads

    Author: Editorial Board
    5-6

    Genocide in Gaza: The Ongoing Nakba

Book Reviews

  • From Expulsion to Self-Rule: The Zionist Quest to Bury Palestine Alive 25 views34 downloads

    Author: Tariq Dana
    143-145

    ALI JARBAWI, From Expulsion to Self-Rule: The Zionist Quest to Bury Palestine Alive (Beirut: Arab Institute for Research & Publishing, 2023), pp. 517.

  • Gaza: The Lost Years of Development (2007-2018) 25 views34 downloads

    Author: Omar Shaban
    146-149

    MAZEN EJLAH, Gaza: The Lost Years of Development (2007-2018) (Ramallah: Palestine Research Center, 2020), pp. 210.