Visualizing Palestine

A record number of Palestinian children were held in Israeli military detention at the end of 2025, and a record proportion of these children were held without charge. Following the International Day of the Palestinian Child (Sunday, April 5) and ahead of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day (April 17), this visual summarizes what they experience. From arrest, to interrogation, incarceration and finally release, the children are denied their basic human rights including deprivation of contact with family, denial of legal representation and medical care, and enduring physical, psychological, and sexual violence and abuse. #FreeTheChildren, a coalition-based initiative, is raising awareness and demanding the immediate release of all the detained children. At least 350 Palestinian children are known to be detained currently, while Israeli officials refuse to disclose the number of children disappeared from Gaza into military custody. Head to the links in bio to learn how you can participate in the campaign, and download this visual to raise awareness this upcoming Sunday and throughout April. This campaign unfolds against a backdrop of well-documented Israeli brutality against more than 9,000 Palestinian prisoners. In March alone, the Israeli Knesset passed a new apartheid law to impose the death penalty against Palestinians; the Israeli military dropped charges against five Israeli soldiers who were filmed raping a Palestinian man in an Israeli military facility; and an unsealed Israeli court case revealed that a Palestinian child was starved to death during six months in Israeli prison in 2025, for which no one has been held responsible.

A year ago, we released “Questions from Palestinian Children in Gaza,” created in collaboration with the #NoChildATarget campaign, featuring Palestinian children’s questions documented by staff at the Palestine Trauma Center-UK’s clinic in Gaza. One year later, we have updated the visual with new data accompanying the same questions, which especially resonate as communities across the region face the expanding specter of U.S.–Israeli aggression, including the killing of more than 1300 people in Iran, 160 of whom were children killed in a strike on an elementary school. As the U.S. and Israel attack Iran in a flagrant violation of international law, Gaza remains under siege. The closure of the Rafah Crossing continues to block vital aid. This moment is not isolated — it reflects decades of U.S. and Israeli impunity for war crimes, where Gaza has often functioned as a testing ground. View the updated visual at the link in our bio.

Education in Gaza is survival, dignity, and the foundation for recovery. Through Taawon's ISNAD program, you can sponsor a student at one of Gaza’s three public universities to resume and complete their studies through distance learning. Learn more at the link in bio.

Join us this Sunday! You must register to join the discussion & receive access to the films: Register at: Tinyurl.com/VFHL-May2026 #FreePalestine #Israel #Palestine #StandWithPalestine #IsraelPalestineConflict #CeaseFireNow #HumanRights #Gaza #Jerusalem

Tomorrow, May 15, marks the 78th anniversary of the Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic), the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians in 1948. The Nakba is not only a historical event, but an ongoing reality of displacement, dispossession, siege, and violence that persists across generations. Visit our website to discover these and other resources about the ongoing Nakba.

Since its founding in 1948, Israel has engaged in a long-term erasure of the indigenous Palestinian presence, from home demolitions to attacking centuries-old olive groves, destroying antiquities, and reframing archaeological evidence. Israel has redrawn regional maps to exclude Palestinian names and landmarks, renamed streets, and outlawed the Palestinian flag to deny the very existence of Palestine through physical, spatial, and linguistic erasure. Alongside erasure is cultural appropriation of Palestinian regional cuisine, music, and dance. We can stem this process by celebrating this ethnically unique culture, from dabke to tatreez, from music, to libraries to poems and images. These are carriers of a resilient cultural identity that refuses erasure. What can you do to resist and celebrate? You must register to join the discussion & receive access to the films: Register at: Tinyurl.com/VFHL-May2026 #FreePalestine #Israel #Palestine #StandWithPalestine #IsraelPalestineConflict #CeaseFireNow #HumanRights #Gaza #Jerusalem

Watch the curated videos included in the registration confirmation email at your convenience ahead of the discussion. Join the Q&A discussion with: Abdelfattah Abusrour: Founder and Director, Alrowwad Cultural and Arts Society, Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem George Harb: Director of Exhibitions and Programs, Museum of the Palestinian People; founder, Zaman Project Hanan Hamed: CEO, Autism Superhero Palestine; founder, Canaan Wellspring Dabke Dance Troupe Ahmed Hmeedat (Moderator): Administrator & faculty, Human Rights and International Law program, Al-Quds Bard College You must register to join the discussion & receive access to the films: Register at: Tinyurl.com/VFHL-May2026 #Israel #Palestine #IsraelPalestineConflict #CeaseFireNow #HumanRights #Gaza #Jerusalem

In today’s story from our Growth of A Movement interactive timeline, we highlight the pension fund divestment campaigns that have led some of the world’s largest pension funds to divest from corporations due to their involvement in violations of international law and Palestinian human rights. Amid continued Israeli genocide in Gaza, accelerating annexation in the West Bank, and U.S.-Israeli regional agression, this platform will continue to highlight the critical role of grassroots organizing in the struggle for justice and freedom in Palestine and the region. Visit our timeline for more stories and updates (/).

Since its founding in 1948, Israel has engaged in a long-term erasure of the indigenous Palestinian presence, from home demolitions to attacking centuries-old olive groves, destroying antiquities, and reframing archaeological evidence. Israel has redrawn regional maps to exclude Palestinian names and landmarks, renamed streets, and outlawed the Palestinian flag to deny the very existence of Palestine through physical, spatial, and linguistic erasure. Alongside erasure is cultural appropriation of Palestinian regional cuisine, music, and dance. We can stem this process by celebrating this ethnically unique culture, from dabke to tatreez, from music, to libraries to poems and images. These are carriers of a resilient cultural identity that refuses erasure. What can you do to resist and celebrate? You must register to join the discussion & receive access to the films: Register at: Tinyurl.com/VFHL-May2026 #Dabke #Israel #Palestine #IsraelPalestineConflict #CeaseFireNow #HumanRights #Gaza #Jerusalem

Did you miss our showcase with our Practioner in Residence, @visualizing_palestine ? The exhibition is now on display in the Kevorkian Center's Ettinghausen Library! Check out our student's work as well as selected visuals from Visualizing Palestine's portfolio. On display until May 14, 2026. Open 9AM to 5PM for NYU community. 👈️ Swipe to get a closer look at our students' visuals!

📍Göttingen, Germany . . [Die in diesem Post verwendeten Aufnahmen stammen teils von anonymen Zusendungen, teils aus Berichterstattung von Demonstrationen. Der Post dient der Dokumentation politischer Ereignisse und ruft zu keinen Straftaten auf.]

We worked with animator Amjad Jarrar (Instagram: @amjad.jarrar ) and audio artist Iyas Horani (Instagram @sakkennnnn ) to animate “Colonial Violence and Reproductive Injustice in the West Bank." This visual, which we launched with our partner @miftahpal (the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy) in January 2025, examines the colonial roots of reproductive injustice in the West Bank. It complements MIFTAH’s "Women of Palestine" series, which highlights multiple gender-specific impacts of Israeli settler colonialism on Palestinian women. Grounded in a reproductive justice framework, the animation draws on the definition that reproductive justice is “the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities” (SisterSong). This framework, shaped by generations of activism by marginalized communities, helps illuminate the intersecting forms of oppression affecting Palestinian women, families, and communities.