Based on fieldwork in Lebanon a new report from DIIS focuses on how the Palestine refugees living in camps since 1948 perceives the new situation and which consequences the crisis has for their living conditions: How are the Palestinians affected by the influx of about 1.5 million Syrian...

Changing with rapid speed, the current political geography of the occupied Palestinian territory has de facto come to undermine a two-state solution and is turning the official aim and end point of international negotiations at best into a naive mirage for policymakers and at worst into a facade...

The emergence of new Islamist groups challenging Hamas from within is demarcating a new tendency towards inter-Islamist rivalry in Gaza. Based on original empirical data this report maps the Islamist milieu in Gaza. It offers a critical examination of how Hamas has governed Gaza since 2007 and...