Sabrien Amrov is a human geographer and policy practitioner whose work examines urban change, migration, and borders, with a focus on the Middle East. She holds an MA in International Relations from the University of Ottawa and is a PhD candidate in Human Geography at the University of Toronto. Her research explores Arab refugee place-making, cognitive mapping, and social formations in transnational contexts. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Middle East Monitor, and TRT World, among other outlets.
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The Palestine Liberation Organization’s top leadership body, the Central Council, called for a halt to Palestinian security coordination with Israel in 2015. Yet PLO Chair Mahmoud Abbas has described it as sacred despite the breakdown of the peace process to end Israel’s 50-year military occupation and colonization of Palestinian territory.
Israel’s 51-day assault on Gaza calls for redoubled efforts to shake off its carefully constructed system of control of Palestinian lives throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and secure Palestinian rights. A necessary first step must be to address the donor-supported creation of Palestinian security forces that primarily serve Israel’s colonial ambitions.
