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Trending News: Palestinian Family Says Cheese For The CameraBuilding Among Destruction: UN Aids Gaza FarmersKiller of Shireen Abu Akleh IdentifiedWho was Gaza’s Mayor in 1939?John Esposito: Explained Islam With CompassionThe Key of ReturnThree DancersSad Woman of PalestineIsraeli Settlers Torch a Mosque Near Hebron, Burn 2 HomesPalestinian Woman Dies Waiting For an Ambulance at Israeli CheckpointPottery Jug Quenches Thirst of GazansJournalist Account of Gaza Destroyed But Refused to be Beaten‘Dad, What’s a Ballistic Missile?’A Freedom Fighter, NOT a TerroristDr Mitri Raheb: ‘…Where is The Arab World…’Remembering Edward SaidNetanyahu Could be Arrested if he Steps in New YorkJewish Settlers Set a Home on Fire Near NablusIsrael Kills 19, Injures 60 in Gaza in 24 HoursLebanese Media in The Age of Political ConspiraciesDon’t Forget Palestine!Israeli Settlements Shoot up!Mahmoud Darwish: I will live, even if life betrays me and I will dream, even if dreams abandon meMargot Saba Abdo: A Photo Pioneer in JerusalemMustapha Barghouti: ‘Repression Will Not Deter The Palestinian People’Gaza: Thousands For The Egyptian Aid Worker Who Organized World Cup ScreeningsMan Behind An Arab Media Giant2.2m Gazans Forced Into 100 Square KilometersGaza Pays Tribute to Late Arab PrinceFaces From GazaPro-Israel Supporter Lindsey Graham Dead at 71Shakespeare and PalestineOutrage: Israel Kills 4 Sisters in Al MawasiHonoring The Lost SoulsNGO Documents 48 Resistance Acts Against Israel70,000 Attend The Friday Prayers in Al AqsaIsrael Targets a Hospital in Gaza With a Quadcopter BombGhasan Kanfani: The Novelist, Activist, Fighter, Marxist and MusicianPalestine in ColorIsrael Demolishes Palestinian SchoolStitching PalestinePitfalls of HormuzGaza: 35,000 People in Every Square KilometerFrance: Free Dr. Hussam Abu Safiye!Poll: 3 in 10 Americans Believe Israel Committed Genocide in GazaIsrael Forces Man, His Son to Tear Down Their HomesWorld Cup, Wimbledon Kicks: Flags, Nepotism, Red Cards and a Watermelon!Ghassan Kanafani: Israel Feared His Pen, And Assassinated HimIn Defense of Dr Mustafa Al BarghoutiGaza Lives Without ElectricityHow Israel Destroyed Education in GazaIreland Passes Bill to Ban Imports From Israeli SettlementsThe Art of MutilationPeace Now:  2025 Worst ‘Terror’ Year For Israeli Settlements  Israeli Drone Kills Egyptian Committee Official in GazaBride of HaifaNew York: AIPAC Stranglehold No More !Reserve Officer: The Israeli Army is in ‘Moral Deterioration’‘When Will I Bury My Sister’Gaza, Srebrenica: Two Genocides Years ApartThe Gaza Holocaust25 Palestinians Spent a Quarter-Century in Israeli PrisonsIsraeli Bulldozers Demolish Two Homes in Palestinian TownGaza Death Toll Tops 73,000 With 173,571 InjuredGaza City: 8 Bodies Recovered From The RubbleHorror‘No Date Set For US Visit’: Netanyahu Hints at Differences With TrumpIn June Israeli Settlers Violate Al Aqsa Sanctity 540 TimesMalak Mattar: An Artist From GazaRevisited: The ‘Miracle Baby’ StoryShukri Badr Qutaina: A Journalist Fighting The British MandateWomen From The Past: Sulafa Hassan Taher HijjawiBaby Dies as Israeli Army Refuses to Allow Him to Cross Barrier125 Israeli Settlers Raid Al Aqsa MosqueWhat is Sejjil?Netanyahu Has Lost Against Iran and He Knows it!Hebrew Media: 90,000 Wounded Soldiers Amid Funding CrisisAfter Spending 40 Years in Israeli Jails….Maher Younis DiesMona Saudi: A Sculptor Once Accused of Seeking to Kill David Ben-GurionPalestineDr. Hussam Abu Safiya: His Life Teetering on DeathUS Tried to War Iran Israel May Try to Kill its NegotiatorsTen Years Since the Palestinian RevolutionFrom The WreckageIsrael Kills 560 Palestinian Footballers, Trainers – Sports OfficialSo History Doesn’t Forget: Israel Killed 21,500 Children in its War on GazaRemains of Orieb Al Rayes Finally Uncovered From The Rubble of Her HomeFrench City Grants Marwan Barghouti Honorary CitizenshipIsrael Chips at The Arab Face of Jerusalem‘I Haven’t Forgotten Gaza’Israeli Military: “One of The Most Criminal Armies in the World”1000 Days of GenocideMenachem Begin: Jewish Cook and Der Yasin’s Massacre50,000 Palestinians Performed Friday Prayers in Al AqsaGaza Genocide 1000 Days on….Genocide in GazaIsrael Tightens Confinement of Marwan Al BarghoutiHormuz Strait in The Checkered CeasefireMedia Cries Foul: CBJ Removes 20 Martyred Palestinian Journalists From its RecordsUN: Israeli Expansion Risks Civilians
Sun. Jul 19th, 2026

The Key of Return

“Childhood Hope” by artist Evone Alawi.

Original Oil Painting is available for purchase from the owner

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    CrossFireArabia

    Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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