Egyptian mediators have begun separate talks with Hamas and with Israel to flesh out details of a ceasefire agreed last week that ended eight days of fighting in the Gaza Strip. An Egyptian official told […]
Hamas chief-in-exile Khalid Mashaal telephoned President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday to confirm the Islamist movements’ support for the upcoming UN bid, the official news agency Wafa reported. Hamas reiterated Mashaal’s call in a statement stressing […]
By Ahmed G. Ferwana – Gaza Smiling out of exhaustion as I wished a nice weekend to my colleagues and students, I left the American International School of Gaza – AISG, where I work as […]
By Iqbal Jassat The defining moment that stood out in vindication of Hamas’ triumph over Israel was when its leader Khaled Meshal presided at a global press conference signaling Israel’s embarrassing defeat. That its a […]
(from my safe distance) By Nasser Barghouty In whose name they allow themselves to hurt you? To what end? To what beginning? Have they said as much to you? Have they counted your tears? Have […]
By Sarah Gillespie – London It is a rather curious time for Hollywood to launch a blockbuster movie based on the worst US/Iranian diplomatic fallout in history. Currently Iran is threatened with attack from the […]
By Stuart Littlewood Israel’s latest onslaught has spectacularly backfired. First, the courage and resilience of the Palestinians in Gaza has won the hearts and minds of the world. In Stephen Lendman’s words, “we’re all Gazans […]
By Felicity Arbuthnot – London “Light the fire so I can see my tears On the night of the massacre …” — Samih al-Qasim, 1939 – present It was that “pinpoint accuracy”, “surgical strike” stuff […]
A senior Hamas official in the Gaza Strip said on Saturday the group will continue to procure weapons after its ceasefire with Israel, and he expects support from Iran to the movement to grow further. […]
Gaza residents say that Israel has eased some border restrictions as part of its ceasefire with the Palestinian territory’s Hamas government, allowing farmers to visit land near its security fence and letting fishermen head further […]
By Richard Falk The Gaza Ceasefire, unlike a similar ceasefire achieved after Operation Cast Lead four years ago, is an event that has a likely significance far beyond ending the violence after eight days of […]
The Hamas government in Gaza has deployed security forces near the border with Israel after two shooting incidents in the aftermath of Wednesday’s ceasefire. A Reuters photographer and other witnesses said Hamas officials, coming closer […]
By Ayah Abubasheer – Gaza Since the beginning of Israel’s ‘Operation Pillar of Defence,’ the number of Palestinians killed or injured has risen dramatically. How harsh, I feel, to use the word “number” since we […]
One Palestinian has been killed and at least 10 others have been wounded after Israeli soldiers, stationed at the border line between the Gaza Strip and Israel, opened fire on them, medical sources say. Health […]
By Shafiq Morton – Cape Town, South Africa Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defence in Gaza may be over, but the biggest issue of all – the Palestinian-Israeli conflict – still remains unresolved. With the Oslo […]
By Ershad Abubacker The first casualty in any war is Truth, and the latest escalation in violence between Israel and Gaza was no different. Israel and the mainstream media fed by it repeated the rhetoric […]
By Dina Jadallah The war on Gaza combines the characteristic drastic brutality towards Palestinians and Arabs that Israel periodically demonstrates with the lack of effectiveness in achieving its stated goals that those who follow and […]
By Ismail Salami – Tehran At a time when the beleaguered Gaza became haunted by Israeli bombs and the innocent women and children were brutally killed by Israelis, US President Barrack Obama together with Secretary […]
Home Sick By Hamzeh Ibrahim In pursuit of my true home, the green earth I roam, the dirt that lies beneath my feet doesn’t feel like home. I roam, I roam for a better path, […]
Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian man east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip late Thursday after he approached a fence on the border, medics said. The incident occurred less than 24 […]
By Eva Bartlett – Gaza Nov 21, al Aqsa hospital, Deir al Balah. At approximately 2pm, Mubarak Ibrahim Abu Houly, 24, was walking among the olive trees on his land when the drone hit him, […]
By Jonathan Cook ‘It’s time for Palestinians in Israel to stand firm against the Bantustan plan of Oslo’ The following interview was conducted in Nazareth with Awad Abdel Fattah, secretary general of the National Democratic […]
By James Gundun – Washington D.C. Israel’s fresh bombardment of Gaza and its political aftershocks have reinforced a maddening status quo: Hamas’s armed resistance cannot reverse Israel’s statehood, IDF operations cannot physically destroy Hamas’s resistance, […]
By Stuart Littlewood In 2009 when Israel’s 22-day blitzkrieg was over, nearly 1,400 Palestinians had been wiped off the planet of whom four-fifths were civilians and 350 children, and over 5,000 wounded. Israel had destroyed […]
By Jamal Kanj Israel’s wars on Gaza have not ceased since Palestinians exercised their free, democratic election in 2006. The relentless warfare has alternated between bloody and muted, but let’s clarify some distortions. Contradictory to […]
By Mohammed S. AlNadi Following the news of an imminent ceasefire, I was waiting impatiently for that moment—9 pm local time (1900 GMT)—when ceasefire would be announced. It was still 08: 25, but I kept […]
By Samir Bennis – New York As I was leaving my office on Thursday evening, I passed by a demonstration in front of the Israeli Mission to the United Nations. I stopped by and exchanged […]
By Richard Lightbown Let there be no illusions about this article. It is being written from the comfort of a computer armchair more than a thousand miles away from the conflicts of the Middle East. […]
In a rare display of unity, leaders of Hamas, Fatah and other Palestinian factions on Thursday celebrated the end of the war on Gaza and called for parties to end the split with the West […]
By Uri Avnery The mantra of this round was Once And For All. “We must put an end to this (the rockets, Hamas, the Palestinians, the Arabs?) Once and For All!” – this cry from […]
A recent New York Times made many claims about the ‘mass rape’ of Israeli women on October 7. But two leading Palestinian media organizations, The Palestine Chronicle and Friends of Palestine Network, conducted a joint investigation, the outcome of which resulted in the ‘The Black Dress’, a groundbreaking 18-minute documentary looking into allegations and the possible falsification of evidence.
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