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Dear Khani,

Last week, our team broke another damning investigation about gross human rights violations related to Israel’s now 448-day assault on Gaza. The investigation by Local Call (in partnership with +972 Magazine) found that the Israeli government has been systematically subjecting Palestinian detainees to inhumane conditions, torture and humiliation in the Ofer prison camp, mirroring conditions in the now closed Sde Teiman camp. Our report is based on testimonies from 19 Palestinian detainees, some current and some since released, and places Israeli authorities squarely in the spotlight for illegal and unethical mistreatment of prisoners. You can read the full report here. 

Reporting like this requires years of relationship-building, months of research and a commitment to unwavering accuracy. As we reach year-end, we hope you’ll give generously to support this critical work. The stakes have never been higher and we need you to help break stories like these and give them the widest and most impactful reach possible. 

Our journalism and deep outreach are ensuring that the mainstream media and those in positions of power keep their eyes on the daily horrors in Gaza, contributing to mounting public pressure to end the war and hold human rights violators to account. Here’s what we’re paying attention to in Israel-Palestine. 

As the war on Gaza rages, the Israeli government is deepening its defense of settler violence and widening Israeli takeovers of Palestinian lands. Settler violence has led to entire Palestinian villages being wiped off the map – more than 50 rural communities were forced to abandon their homes this year, amid intensifying attacks, threats, and harassment by Israeli settlers, almost always backed by soldiers and police. The trend is not exclusive to the West Bank or East Jerusalem – inside Israel, the village of Umm al-Hiran faces erasure, capturing the “entire history of Zionism’s injustices in one Bedouin village.” Fully emboldened by a government aligned with settler expansion and violence, hundreds of settlers, elected officials and government ministers gathered in a closed military zone in Gaza in a call to ethnically cleanse and annex the Gaza Strip. 

In Gaza, Israel’s deliberate dismantling of healthcare in the Strip, which includes direct and indirect destruction of hospitals and healthcare facilities, has had devastating consequences that will endure long after the conclusion of the war. With growing concerns that Prime Minister Netanyahu, despite Israel’s killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, has no interest in ending the war, some have stepped up their resistance. Israeli teens are refusing to serve in the army while one hostage family leader has become an ‘anti-regime dissident’ insisting on a shared Israeli-Palestinian future. Meanwhile, international activists are facing the brunt of a new Israeli authorities task force that uses threatening interrogations, false charges and swift expulsion orders to punish solidarity volunteers, part of a growing trend silencing dissent inside Israel and globally.

We'll continue to report on these stories and more. You can follow Just Vision on Facebook, Instagram and X and follow Local Call – our Hebrew-language news site run in partnership with 972 Advancement of Citizen Journalism – by signing up for the Local Call newsletter (in Hebrew). You can also find a selection of our articles cross-published by our partners in English on +972 Magazine.