Abrupt Leadership Change: Society
It is necessary to rebuild a representative Palestinian national body through consensus in order to reinvigorate resistance. The national body must be made up of democratic intuitions, movements, and associations that represent the different components of Palestinian society in order to unify them in collective action. Further analysis on this intersection is not available at this time.

Latest Analysis

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.
 Politics
In this Policy Lab, Al-Shabaka analyst Amjad Iraqi joins host Tariq Kenney-Shawa to examine Israel’s electoral landscape, the limits of its so-called opposition camp, and what the election means for the future of the Palestinian struggle.
Al-Shabaka Amjad Iraqi
Amjad Iraqi· Sep 22, 2026
 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.