Palestine speaks: Narratives of life under occupation

Edited by Mateo Hoke and Cate Malek

For more than six decades, Israel and Palestine have been the global focal point of intractable conflict, one that has led to one of the world’s most widely reported yet least understood human rights crises.

In their own words, men and women from West Bank and Gaza describe how their lives have been shaped by the occupation.

Here are stories that illuminate the oft-ignored violations of human rights that occur daily in the occupied Palestinian territories.