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Claire Gounon

Baruch Ben-Ygal, center, reacts during the funeral of his son Amit Ben Ygal, a 21-year-old Israeli army soldier who was killed in the village of Yaabed near the West Bank city of Jenin, at the Beer Yaakov military cemetery near Tel Aviv, May 12, 2020. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
October 20, 2022, 11:45 am
Father of slain IDF soldier wants grandkids from son’s frozen sperm
Amid legislation efforts, Baruch Ben-Ygal, whose son Amit was killed in a 2020 operation, says country has ‘a moral obligation’ to allow procedure
By Claire Gounon
An aerial view shows the Jerusalem neighborhood of Kafr Aqab near the West Bank city of Ramallah, on August 29, 2022. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
September 2, 2022, 9:58 am
‘It’s a jungle’: Jerusalem neighborhood across security barrier racked by anarchy
Resident whose husband was shot dead says ‘there is no authority, no police, no law’ in Kafr Aqab, a no man’s land caught between Jerusalem municipality and Palestinian Authority
By Majeda El Batsh and Claire Gounon
Illustrative: In this file photo taken on January 27, 2021, Palestinian doctors and technicians work at the IVF laboratory at the Razan Center fertility clinic in Nablus, in the West Bank. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)
April 13, 2022, 10:43 pm
Arab Israeli couples flock to West Bank clinics to choose babies’ sex
While Israel holds highest rate of IVF per capita in the world and offers free treatment to women citizens up to age 45, Israeli law strictly regulates selecting a child’s gender
By Claire Gounon and Delphine Mathieussent
Visitors walk in Manger Square on Christmas eve outside the Church of the Nativity, revered as the site of Jesus Christ's birth, in the biblical city of Bethlehem in the West Bank on December 24, 2021. (Abbas Momani/AFP)
December 24, 2021, 8:10 pm
Israelis flood Nazareth for Christmas celebrations, while Bethlehem subdued
Tens of thousands visit northern town for festive events; in the West Bank, meanwhile, locals who depend on tourism for their livelihood say health crisis ‘worse than war’
By Claire Gounon
Shoruk Shaheen, a Palestinian woman who has undergone dimple creation surgery, smiles at a clinic in Gaza City on November 30, 2021 (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)
December 11, 2021, 9:32 am
Gazan women seek dimple surgery to brighten smiles
Procedure is cheap and relatively safe in enclave with weak healthcare system; won’t invite unwanted attention in Islamist-ruled society
By Claire Gounon
Hikers walk next to sinkholes across a dried-up sea area which exposed and created a salt plain, some 20 kilometers south of Kibbutz Ein Gedi in the southern part of the Dead Sea, on January 15, 2021. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
November 3, 2021, 12:52 pm
Sinkholes on receding Dead Sea shore are ‘nature’s revenge,’ not easily appeased
Experts say that at best, dramatic changes in the way natural resources are drawn from area may stop further decline, but restoration may be beyond hope
By Claire Gounon
A Palestinian man gestures outside a United Nations health center in the Palestinian refugee camp of Jalazoun near Ramallah on April 8, 2021. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)
April 10, 2021, 11:56 pm
With Trump in rearview mirror and new aid incoming, Palestinians thank America
US State Department has announced $150 million contribution to refugee agency, after Trump severed aid in 2018
By Claire Gounon and Adel Zaanoun
Israeli Arabs and activists protest against the murder of teenager Mohammed Adas, in Jaljulia, March 12, 2021. (Flash90)
March 17, 2021, 6:28 pm
Ending violent crime a top issue for Arab Israeli voters in election
According to police, over 90% of shootings in Israel in 2020 were in Arab communities; 24 Arab Israelis killed so far in 2021; PM pledges help, but many are skeptical
By Majeda El Batsh and Claire Gounon
Israeli painter Iddo Markus speaks during an interview at his studio, surrounded by his paintings of former US president Donald Trump, in the northern port city of Haifa, on January 22, 2021 (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)
January 24, 2021, 2:02 am
120 faces: Israeli artist paints Trump from every angle
Iddo Markus, a strong critic of former US president, says he now sees him as a ‘tragic figure’
By Claire Gounon
Hallel Rabin. (Screengrab: Facebook)
November 23, 2020, 11:09 pm
Israeli conscientious objector released from military prison 
Army board accepts that 19-year-old Hallel Rabin’s pacifism is sincere, not driven by ‘political considerations’
By Claire Gounon
Palestinians demonstrate in front of the EU offices in East Jerusalem during a demonstration demanding the EU intervene against Israel's plans to annex West Bank settlements and the Jordan Valley, on June 22, 2020. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
June 29, 2020, 7:44 am
Palestinian leaders struggle to mobilize street against annexation plans
Protests against prospective Israeli move draw muted crowds, with Palestinians voicing apathy, distrust in PA leadership amid a host of other crises to deal with
By Claire Gounon
A woman sits along the empty Red Sea shore in the southern resort city of Eilat on April 17, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
April 22, 2020, 9:08 am
Israeli Red Sea resort reels from virus lockdown: ‘It’s as if a bomb dropped’
With 3/4 of Eilat residents out of jobs, local official says economic crisis poses a bigger threat than COVID-19, as city has had its ‘oxygen tube cut’ due to halt of tourism
By Claire Gounon
A video installation shows the image of a man with the emoji of a blue hart reflected on an ancient Egyptian plaque engraved with Hieroglyphs, at the exhibition "Emoglyphs: Picture-Writing from Hieroglyphs to the Emoji" at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, on December 19, 2019. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)
December 21, 2019, 4:47 pm
Israel Museum exhibit explores the emojis of ancient Egypt
In recent years humans have found themselves one again communicating through pictograms, thousands of years after the invention of ancient hieroglyphics
By Claire Gounon
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