Collapse of the PA: Society

Jamil Hilal is an independent Palestinian sociologist and writer, and has published many books and numerous articles on Palestinian society, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, and Middle East issues.  Hilal has held, and holds, associate senior research fellowship at a number of Palestinian research institutions.  His recent publications include works on poverty, Palestinian political parties, and the political system after Oslo.  He edited Where Now for Palestine: The Demise of the Two-State Solution (Z Books, 2007), and with Ilan Pappe edited Across the Wall (I.B. Tauris, 2010).

Any new uprising must reflect the range of Palestinian experiences and needs in the formulation of resistance strategies, so long as they uphold the values of freedom, equality, social justice, and human rights. It would also need to be open to interacting with the national, regional, and international spheres. Further analysis on this intersection is not available at this time.

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This Focus On engages with some of the most pressing aspects of this escalation in the West Bank since October 7, 2023. It features analyses by Al-Shabaka members and contributors that show how collective punishment of Palestinians has led to a collapse in access to food, healthcare, work, and education. The compilation also examines the Palestinian people’s resistance to the expansionist Israeli scorched-earth policy, and the political leadership’s complicity and failures.
 Civil Society
This policy brief argues that the health sciences—from public health to epidemiology, nursing, medicine, pharmacology, and nutrition, among others—have a distinct role to play in preventing and documenting the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza and other settings, as well as in generating evidence to inform accountability processes.
 Politics
The Israeli genocide in Gaza has laid bare the extent to which the world remains structured by racial colonial hierarchies and exposed the limits of an international legal order that emerged alongside Western imperial expansion. In this roundtable, Palestinian legal scholar Noura Erakat and Jake Romm, legal advisor and US representative for the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), reflect on what becomes of international law after Gaza.
Al-Shabaka Nour Joudah
Noura Erakat,Jake Romm· Aug 25, 2026