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Dois cidadãos portugueses foram detidos pelo exército israelita a 8 de outubro, em Rantis, na Cisjordânia ocupada, duran...
09/10/2026

Dois cidadãos portugueses foram detidos pelo exército israelita a 8 de outubro, em Rantis, na Cisjordânia ocupada, durante a apanha da azeitona.

Integravam um grupo de cinco portugueses que acompanhava famílias palestinianas na colheita. Um dos detidos é jornalista. Segundo as informações divulgadas, Israel não apresentou qualquer justificação para as detenções. Continua por esclarecer onde se encontram, em que condições estão detidos e se existe alguma acusação formal.

Neste carrossel olhamos também para a forma como a notícia foi contada. Analisamos a designação «Forças de Defesa de Israel», reproduzida por vários órgãos de comunicação social, e a descrição de uma aldeia palestiniana como «zona de colonatos». Comparamos ainda a resposta do Governo com a de maio, quando a detenção de dois médicos portugueses na flotilha para Gaza levou à convocação do embaixador israelita no próprio dia.

Estas detenções acontecem num contexto de violência quotidiana contra os agricultores palestinianos durante a colheita, que raramente chega às manchetes, e dentro do mesmo sistema de ocupação que sustenta o genocídio em Gaza.

Exigimos ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros acesso consular imediato, esclarecimento público sobre o paradeiro e a situação jurídica dos detidos, a convocação do embaixador de Israel e uma intervenção diplomática pela sua libertação imediata e incondicional.

Partilha este post e contacta os deputados da Comissão de Negócios Estrangeiros. As fontes estão indicadas em cada slide.

Neste carrossel olhamos também para a forma como a notícia foi contada. Analisamos a designação «Forças de Defesa de Isr...
09/10/2026

Neste carrossel olhamos também para a forma como a notícia foi contada. Analisamos a designação «Forças de Defesa de Israel», reproduzida por vários órgãos de comunicação social, e a descrição de uma aldeia palestiniana como «zona de colonatos». Comparamos ainda a resposta do Governo com a de maio, quando a detenção de dois médicos portugueses na flotilha para Gaza levou à convocação do embaixador israelita no próprio dia.

Estas detenções acontecem num contexto de violência quotidiana contra os agricultores palestinianos durante a colheita, que raramente chega às manchetes, e dentro do mesmo sistema de ocupação que sustenta o genocídio em Gaza.

Exigimos ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros acesso consular imediato, esclarecimento público sobre o paradeiro e a situação jurídica dos detidos, a convocação do embaixador de Israel e uma intervenção diplomática pela sua libertação imediata e incondicional.

Partilha este post e contacta os deputados da Comissão de Negócios Estrangeiros. As fontes estão indicadas em cada slide.

No dia 8 de outubro, dois cidadãos portugueses foram detidos pelo exército israelita em Rantis, uma aldeia palestiniana ...
09/10/2026

No dia 8 de outubro, dois cidadãos portugueses foram detidos pelo exército israelita em Rantis, uma aldeia palestiniana na Cisjordânia ocupada. Integravam um grupo de cinco portugueses que acompanhava famílias palestinianas durante a apanha da azeitona. Um dos detidos é jornalista.
Até ao momento das primeiras notícias, não tinha sido apresentada qualquer justificação pública para as detenções. O Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros português limitou-se a informar que a sua representação em Ramallah estava a acompanhar a situação.
Em maio deste ano, perante a detenção de dois médicos portugueses numa flotilha com destino a Gaza, Portugal convocou o embaixador israelita no próprio dia. Em outubro, a resposta pública conhecida é outra.

Mas há uma segunda questão que merece atenção: a forma como estas detenções foram noticiadas.
Vários órgãos de comunicação social portugueses reproduziram a designação «Forças de Defesa de Israel». Outros descreveram Rantis como uma «zona de colonatos», identificando uma aldeia palestiniana através das estruturas de colonização israelitas que a rodeiam.

A linguagem não é um detalhe secundário do jornalismo. Determina o que é apresentado como normal, o que exige explicação e a partir de que perspetiva compreendemos os acontecimentos.
Rantis é uma aldeia palestiniana em território ocupado. Os colonatos israelitas na Cisjordânia violam o direito internacional, como reafirmou o Tribunal Internacional de Justiça em julho de 2024.
A apanha da azeitona, da qual dependem dezenas de milhares de famílias palestinianas, é há muito marcada por ataques de colonos, restrições de acesso às terras e violência militar. As detenções de cidadãos europeus chegam às manchetes. A violência quotidiana contra os palestinianos que vivem e trabalham nestas terras raramente recebe a mesma atenção.

A detenção destes dois portugueses exige uma resposta urgente. E deve também obrigar-nos a olhar para os milhares de palestinianos sujeitos a um sistema de ocupação, detenções arbitrárias e violência institucional, sem a proteção diplomática de um passaporte europeu.

31/08/2026

For Samer Makhlouf, sumud, steadfastness, is part of Palestinian identity itself, not just a reaction to this particular war. Palestinians have rebuilt after every Nakba, and they are doing it again now, in the West Bank and in Gaza. What separates the occupied from the occupier, he argues, is rootedness: those who belong to the land do not surrender it, however long the occupation lasts.

This pattern is not new. Since 1948, Palestinians have rebuilt homes, institutions, and cultural life through wave after wave of displacement: the Nakba, then 1967, 2008-09, 2014, 2021, and the devastation since October 2023. Scholars, Palestinian and international, have documented sumud as both a political stance and a daily practice, lived in farming, in art, and in the refusal to leave ancestral land even under demolition orders.

🗣️ In this clip from the latest episode of YALLA, Samer Makhlouf, executive director of Al-Kasaba Theatre and founder of the Palestine Cultural Incubator, speaks about sumud and Palestinian steadfastness across generations of displacement.

📺 Full episode on 's YouTube channel, and on major podcast platforms (not Spotify, for ethical reasons).

🍉 YALLA: conversations about Palestine, against silence and erasure.

28/08/2026

The destruction of Palestinian cultural institutions in Gaza is not incidental to the war. Samer Makhlouf describes a target list built specifically around cultural and historic sites, meant to sever Palestinians from their collective memory: the museums, the crafts, the heritage that hold a people to their history and to each other.

The scale of the damage backs this up. As of March 2026, UNESCO had verified damage to at least 164 cultural heritage sites in Gaza, and the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism counted 226 of 316 key sites destroyed or damaged, including mosques, churches, libraries, and archives. UNESCO has called for their protection under international law, which prohibits the deliberate targeting of cultural heritage even in war. Reconstruction has been estimated at 70 billion dollars, a cost measured not only in buildings, but in what those buildings held.

🗣️ Samer Makhlouf ties the destruction of Palestinian cultural institutions directly to displacement, arguing that erasing cultural memory was meant to weaken Palestinians' connection to the land itself. For Samer, this is a cultural genocide running alongside the genocide against Palestinian lives.

📺 Full episode on 's YouTube channel, and on major podcast platforms (not Spotify, for ethical reasons).

🍉 YALLA: conversations about Palestine, against silence and erasure.

25/08/2026

Samer Makhlouf, from Al-Kasaba Theatre in Ramallah, says that when artists are killed, cultural sites destroyed, and audiences displaced, physical reconstruction is not what matters most. What matters is keeping knowledge, hope, and connection to the land alive in people's minds. He describes Israel's assumption that erasing Palestinian culture is a matter of waiting for the older generation to die, and says that assumption has failed. Palestinians, he says, keep passing down what happened, generation after generation, since the Nakba.

This isn't only a claim about memory. As of March 2025, UN HQ had verified damage to at least 164 cultural heritage sites in Gaza, while the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism counted between 200 and 300 key sites destroyed. Reconstruction has been estimated at 70 billion dollars over many years. UNESCO has documented the destruction of libraries, archives, mosques, churches, and museums across the Gaza Strip since October 2023. Cultural infrastructure does not fall by accident at that scale.

📺 Full episode on 's YouTube channel, and on major podcast platforms (not Spotify, for ethical reasons).

🍉 YALLA: conversations about Palestine, against silence and erasure.

25/08/2026

Reem Khatib describes the turnstile at Israeli checkpoints, an iron gate whose design was originally patented to herd animals on farms. For Palestinians, its sound is inseparable from the checkpoint. She recalls one person who travelled to Jordan, walked into a gym, heard the same turnstile at the entrance, and instantly felt the need to check whether their ID was on them. A small, subtle sound, carried in the body, twice a day, in and out.

This is what military control does to the everyday. Checkpoint 300, between Bethlehem and Jerusalem, is one of the busiest in the occupied West Bank: more than 7,000 Palestinians pass through daily, many queuing from before dawn and waiting hours inside single-file metal lanes to cross a few kilometres. The West Bank is fragmented by hundreds of Israeli checkpoints and physical obstacles, turning short journeys into long ones and ordinary movement into permission. The body learns the sound, and never fully unlearns it.

🗣️ In this clip from the latest episode of YALLA, Reem Khatib, researcher and curator based in Jerusalem and Bethlehem, speaks about how the machinery of occupation lives on in the senses, long after you've crossed.

📺 Full episode available on 's YouTube channel, and on major podcast platforms (not Spotify, for ethical reasons).

🍉 YALLA: conversations about Palestine, against silence and erasure.

31/07/2026

They took a pop song, put it on a loop, and turned it into a weapon.

Reem Khatib describes an interview from her research: at Checkpoint 300, a ten-second clip of a popular song played on repeat while Palestinians were held in line. One man told her he felt it in his chest, pressing down, taking his breath away. Afterwards, hearing that same song anywhere, even at his grandmother's house, made his body brace for a soldier to appear. As Reem puts it, this is also a form of torture.

Checkpoint 300, between Bethlehem and Jerusalem, is one of the busiest crossings in the occupied West Bank. More than 7,000 workers pass through daily, many queuing from 2 or 3am and waiting one to three hours inside single-file metal cages to cross a few kilometres. Journalists have documented workers fainting, suffocating, and leaving with broken ribs in the crush. Forcing people to listen, on repeat, while trapped, is a recognised method of psychological torture.

🗣️ In this clip from the latest episode of YALLA, Reem Khatib, researcher and curator based in Jerusalem and Bethlehem, speaks about how sound is weaponised at Israeli checkpoints.

📺 Full episode on 's YouTube channel, and on major podcast platforms (not Spotify, for ethical reasons).

🍉 YALLA: conversations about Palestine, against silence and erasure.

28/07/2026

Before the brain can give it meaning, sound is already inside the body.

Reem Khatib explains that listening is the earliest sense to develop and the last to leave us, and that sound reaches the nervous system without asking permission. For Palestinians at a checkpoint, this isn't neutral. Any sound tied to that place can pull them back to a memory of violence already lived, or forward into violence they expect. Either way, it takes them out of the present moment.

This isn't only metaphor. Sound has been turned into a weapon against Palestinians before. In late 2005, Israeli jets broke the sound barrier at low altitude over Gaza, night after night. Doctors at Gaza's Shifa Hospital recorded a 40% rise in miscarriages and a doubling of cardiac admissions. The UN condemned the campaign as collective punishment and said it was causing panic attacks in children.

🗣️ In this clip from the latest episode of YALLA, Reem Khatib, researcher and curator based in Jerusalem and Bethlehem, speaks about sound as an extension of colonial control, and what occupation does to the way Palestinians hear their own lives.

📺 The full episode is available on 's YouTube channel, and on major podcast platforms (except Spotify for ethical reasons).

🍉 YALLA: conversations about Palestine, against silence and erasure.

27/07/2026

"What did you actually do, to say this about yourself?"
"I don't know. Look around you. Everything is against us."

Saed Zboan hears this exchange again and again inside Aida camp: people starting to feel that the problem is their existence, not the occupation they live under.

The occupation, he says, cares less about the narrative abroad. The world has seen enough to know what's happening. So the effort has turned inward: making Palestinians doubt their own story, feel like a burden, isolated even from themselves.

🗣️ In this clip from the latest episode of YALLA, Saed Zboan, from the Aida Youth Centre, talks about growing up in Aida refugee camp and about this quiet form of psychological pressure.

📺 Full episode on 's YouTube channel and on major podcast platforms (not Spotify, for ethical reasons).

🍉 YALLA: conversations about Palestine, against silence and erasure.

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