After two catastrophic years, what awaits Palestine in 2026?

First published by the New Arab on 24/12/2025 As Israel's ceasefire violations continue in Gaza & expulsions escalate in the West Bank, Kamel Hawwash explains why he sees little hope for change in 2026 I am regularly asked for my view on what will happen in Palestine in 2026. While it is possible to speculate, …

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Israel’s violence surges in the occupied West Bank sine October 7

Newsmakers special on 7/10/2025 https://youtu.be/g659RqYlzrI?si=DbvgG46G96HInoEU

Israel’s genocide on Gaza 2 years on: Remembering October 7

The Newsmakers special on TRT World on 7/10/2025 https://youtu.be/ZtHAUGAcA0c?si=KdKwN3KoJ9H9H51j

Experts Analyze Donald Trump’s Controversial ‘Gaza Takeover’ Plans

GMT on Al Arabiya English on 5/2/2025 Interview starts at 4 minutes https://youtu.be/xyATtBO_V9I?si=o-6eoJrb7KiAIbiq

Experts Analyse the Gaza Ceasefire Deal And Discuss its Longterm Impact

Global News Today on Al Arabiya English on 16/1/2025. My contribution starts at 21 minutes https://youtu.be/6vU1K1_oGiI?si=smC7sjglWGlEp6_N

Opinion: Palestine: Why Mahmoud Abbas and his team must go

First published by the Middle East Eye on 14/2/2022 Central Council meeting showed, yet again, that our leaders are unaccountable to the people Palestinian political leaders must back away from their illegitimate positions and stop trying to take the Palestinian people for fools. At a meeting last week of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)’s central council in …

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To honour Tutu’s legacy, we must side with the oppressed not the oppressor

First published by the Middle East Eye on 31/12/2021 Tutu would have wanted a commitment from world leaders to fight injustice, inequality, and Apartheid wherever they occurred, including in occupied Palestine Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu (L) listens to a survivor from the Al-Asamneh family in Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip on 28 …

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Watch: Palestine-Israel tensions as Israel rejects the reopening of the US Consulate in East Jerusalem

I joined the Edge A news Turkey TV on 9/11/2021 Segment starts 30 minutes in. https://fb.watch/9asdK0q9k5/

My comments on the Abbas Gantz meeting in Ramallah

I was a guest on In Focus, Indus News on 31/8/2021 The segment on the Abbas Gantz meeting starts 30 minutes into the programme. https://youtu.be/LBf5R_RLQ5M

It is time for Israel to lift the cruel and futile siege on Gaza

First published by TRT World on 21/5/2021 Exactly what purpose is the blockade of Gaza serving? The bombs have stopped dropping on Gaza, as have the rockets and projectiles launched out of the besieged territory. A temporary and unconditional ceasefire has been secured by Egypt. This really is deja vu. We were there in 2008-9, …

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