Nachrichten aus Israel-Palästina/Palästina-Israel gibt es viele und auch nicht wenige, in denen das Dreieck Deutschland-Israel-Palästina eine Rolle spielt, genau die Schnittstelle, die uns in der Arbeit des diAk besonders interessiert.
Zusammen denken und zusammendenken – dafür bieten wir an dieser Stelle jeden Tag einen Beitrag, manchmal mit einer Einordnung/Einleitung, oft ein Hinweis auf eine spannende Verstaltung oder ein Onlineformat, dann auch wieder eine Erinnerung, zu der die Kalender und die unterschiedlichen Narrationen Anlaß geben.
Das wollen wir möglichst vielfältig tun, ohne uns jeden Beitrag oder jede Position zu eigen zu machen, aber immer in dem Bemühen über die Zeit hin die Vielfalt und die Verwobenheiten erkennbar werden zu lassen …
Crisis Appeal for Health, Emergency Support, and Survival Essentials in Gaza
As part of its Emergency Appeal: Crisis Appeal for Health, Emergency Support, and Survival Essentials in Gaza, Caritas Jerusalem continues to respond to one of the most urgent humanitarian needs facing displaced communities: access to safe drinking water.
Across Gaza, the ongoing crisis has severely damaged water infrastructure, leaving countless families without reliable access to clean water. Today, 91% of households experience water insecurity, while many people survive on less than six liters of water per person per day—far below the minimum amount required to meet basic daily needs. The lack of safe water, combined with overcrowded living conditions, damaged sanitation systems, and limited healthcare services, has significantly increased the risk of disease and has further worsened an already devastating humanitarian situation.
To help address this critical need, Caritas Jerusalem has launched a water trucking intervention, delivering potable drinking water directly to shelters, displacement camps, and communities where access to safe water has been cut off. The intervention is implemented in close coordination with local authorities and community representatives to ensure that the most vulnerable families are reached safely and equitably.
One of the communities currently benefiting from this intervention is the Al-Abraj area, where residents have endured prolonged shortages of clean drinking water.
„We have been suffering from a shortage of clean water in this area,“ says Yehia Abdo, Regional Director for Al-Abraj. „Caritas Jerusalem has now provided us with clean water, and we are grateful for your kind efforts. This is the best-quality water we have received in a long time. We truly appreciate your support.“
He explains that the community’s access to water became increasingly difficult after routes were cut off, forcing residents to travel long distances in search of safe drinking water. „This camp has an urgent need for water due to the long distances people must travel after access routes were cut off. We issued an emergency appeal, and Caritas Jerusalem responded. The water quality is excellent. Thank you, Caritas Jerusalem.“
For families living through prolonged displacement, access to clean water is more than a basic necessity—it is essential for survival, health, and dignity.
Beyond water trucking, the intervention also includes the distribution of emergency WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) kits containing essential hygiene and dignity items, helping families maintain basic hygiene standards despite the challenging conditions. Together, these interventions aim to reduce the spread of waterborne diseases, protect public health, and preserve the dignity of vulnerable households.
Through its Emergency Appeal, Caritas Jerusalem remains committed to standing alongside the people of Gaza, delivering life-saving assistance where it is needed most and ensuring that families continue to have access to one of life’s most fundamental necessities: safe, clean drinking water.
Diskussion und Performance am Mittwoch, 08. Juli 2026 19:00 Uhr in der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche
Seit dem 7. Oktober 2023 und dem andauernden Krieg im Nahen Osten sind gesellschaftliche Debatten härter und Räume für gemeinsames Nachdenken seltener geworden. Die israelische Sängerin Noa Mei und die palästinensische Künstlerin Meera Eilabouni bringen ihre Sprachen, ihre Geschichten und ihre Musik in einen gemeinsamen künstlerischen Auftritt ein.
Im Podiumsgespräch geht es um die Frage, wie der Dialog im Kontext des Nahostkonflikts möglich ist – angesichts tiefer Traumata, wachsender Polarisierung sowie der drastischen Zunahme von Antisemitismus und antimuslimischem Rassismus in Deutschland
Die Veranstaltung wird organisiert von Studierenden der TU Berlin im Rahmen des Seminars und Forschungsprojekts „Versöhnung als Provokation?“ unter der Leitung von Dr. Esther Gardei am Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung.
The tribal societies of the Ottoman Middle East underwent significant transformations from the latter half of the nineteenth century onwards, shaped by a complex interplay of the global trends, Ottoman centralization, and the resulting urban-rural intertwinements. While the available scholarship has addressed these developments, it is difficult to claim that they provide adequate contextualization of the female tribal agency. This talk will argue that the women of the Arab tribes played remarkable roles in the adaptation of their communities to Ottoman modernization, using the example of three sheikhas (wives, sisters and mothers of tribal chiefs). They contributed to evolving imperial policies in a negotiating direction. It will focus on how these sheikhas emerged in the political, social, and judicial spheres of the urban and rural Middle East to defend their community’s interests. In addition, this talk will discuss how the tribal female leadership contributed to the development of the new political and social tools indicating how they actively participated in the tribal resistance against the Ottoman expansionism in early decades of the Tanzimat reformism and the processes of negotiations that followed and resulted with the integration of the tribal groups in the new system of the governance.
Talha Çiçek is an associate professor at the School of History, University College Dublin. Formerly, he was the British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow at SOAS, England, and Humboldt Experienced Research Fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. He is the author of the two books, War and State Formation in Syria: Cemal Pasha’s Governorate during World War I (Routledge, 2014) and Negotiating Empire in the Middle East: Ottomans and Arab Nomads in the Modern Era, 1840-1914 (Cambridge UP, 2021). Currently, he is working on the history of the Arabian horse in a global context and leading an ERC Consolidator Grant entitled „Global Capitalism and Rurality: Agency, Commodification and Socio-Ecological Transformation of the Middle Eastern Countryside, 1870-1945“.
Ein Beitrag von Fanny Oz-Salzberger auf Qantara.de (Zuerst: Ein neues Israel, Internationale Politik, Mai 2026)
Ein Zitat daraus:
„Ein neuer Naher Osten mag in der Entstehung begriffen sein. Die dringlichere Frage ist aber, ob damit auch ein neues Israel entsteht – und ob dieses Israel auf lange Sicht demokratisch bleiben wird. Sollte das nicht geschehen, dann wird es von keinem militärischen Sieg aufgewogen werden können.“
Zur Quelle die Selbstauskunft: „Jacobin ist eine führende Publikation der sozialistischen Linken. Wir bringen Euch scharfe und lesbare Analysen zu Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur. 2011 in New York geboren, erscheint Jacobin auf Englisch, Spanisch, Italienisch, Portugiesisch, Griechisch und Niederländisch – und seit 2020 auch auf Deutsch.“
Im OS-Teil der Berliner Zeitung erschien gerade ein Beitrag zur Einschätzung des Wahlverhaltens der „russischen Community“ – in all ihrer Heterogenität – durch Lilly Galili (Tel Aviv), auch ein guter Einstieg für unseren nächsten DienstagZoom am 7. Juli zu den kommenden Knessetwahlen.
Over the past three years, Israel has dramatically reshaped the West Bank area around Jerusalem, often referred to in Israeli political discourse as “Greater Jerusalem.” Through accelerated settlement expansion, the establishment of outposts and related infrastructure, and escalating state and settler violence against Palestinian communities, annexation of this area is advancing at full force.
While annexation has largely been understood as the deepening of Israeli control over the space, application of Israeli sovereignty, and the obstruction of a future Palestinian state, Ir Amim’s new report underscores how the forcible transfer of Palestinian communities is central to the annexation paradigm. Expulsion and displacement are not side effects of annexation, but rather inextricable components of it.
These developments are part of a broader Israeli government agenda across the West Bank: expanding Israeli territorial contiguity while pushing Palestinians into disconnected enclaves within an increasingly fragmented Palestinian space. This strategy is unfolding throughout the West Bank, but it is especially visible around Jerusalem.
The report details the cumulative system of pressure being used to make life unsustainable for Palestinian communities, including land confiscation, settlement and outpost expansion, demolition orders and denial of building permits, military closure orders, new permit regimes, settler and military violence, severe restrictions on movement, and the closure of entire areas to Palestinian access.
Israelis who won’t join the army straight out of high school tell Haaretz why October 7 – and the massive Israeli military response to it – was a major catalyst in their decision, and why they are not persuaded by arguments of peace through violence | Linda Dayan
Entering the West Bank from Israel is like passing into a parallel universe, with a military checkpoint serving as portal. One overarching structure but two realities: in people, law and policing.
Israel has been steadily altering the West Bank’s human and physical landscape since it first occupied the territory in 1967. As Crisis Group expert Joost Hiltermann found, it now controls Palestinians’ freedom of movement to an unprecedented degree, with ruinous socio-economic effects.
