Photo by Mosab Shawer / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images
Photo essay by The Electronic Intifada documenting conditions across the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip during March 2026, 5 months into the October 2025 ceasefire and 1 month into the US-Israeli war on Iran. In the West Bank, Israeli forces killed 15 Palestinians and settlers killed 6 more during the month, including 4 members of the Bani Odeh family shot in their car in Tammoun; the UN reported nearly 1,700 Palestinians displaced by settler violence and access restrictions in the first quarter of 2026, surpassing the total for all of 2025, alongside sweeping movement restrictions, the closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque during Eid al-Fitr, and the eviction of 15 families from Silwan in East Jerusalem. In Gaza, more than 200 Palestinians had been killed near the Yellow Line, which the Israeli military treats as a free-fire zone, since the ceasefire; an estimated 1.7 million people remained sheltering in approximately 1,600 displacement sites; and volunteers worked to restore the library of the Great Omari Mosque, reduced from approximately 20,000 books to fewer than 4,000. Recommended for researchers and educators seeking a photographic record and data summary of March 2026 conditions across Palestine, with the settler-driven displacement documentation, Yellow Line data, and cultural heritage record providing important evidence of Israel's continued targeting of Palestinian civilian life during the ceasefire.
