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Month: August 2017
In 10 years, Up to 500 Jewish Families Will Reside in Sheikh Jarrah: Israeli Settler Leader
Arieh King, director of a right-wing settler organization which targets the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, told an Israeli newspaper on Thursday that up to 500 Israeli families would move into Sheikh Jarrah […]
Israel Prevents Palestinian Students from Entering School in Al-Aqsa Mosque
Israeli police prevented 160 Palestinian secondary school students from entering the Shari’ah School in Al-Aqsa Mosque on Thursday, under the pretext that their school books are based on the Palestinian curriculum, Quds Press has reported. […]
Israel Charges Head of Islamic Movement, Raed Salah with Incitement
An Israeli court has charged Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement, with incitement to “terrorism” in connection with deadly unrest at a Jerusalem holy site last month, the justice […]
UN Allocates $2.5 Million to Gaza as NGO Warns of Humanitarian Emergency
The United Nations Coordinator for Humanitarian Aid and Development Activities (OCHA) released a statement on Thursday confirming that $2.5 million of the UN’s Humanitarian Fund was being donated to the besieged Gaza Strip in order […]
Al-Araqeeb Village’s Residents Asked to Pay Cost of Demolishing Their Village
An Israeli court last week ruled that several residents of the unrecognized village of Al-Araqeeb in the Negev of southern Israel must pay the costs for demolitions carried out by Israeli forces, which have completely […]
Netanyahu to Putin: Israel Threatens to ‘Defend Itself’ if Iran ‘Lebanonizes’ Syria
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Russian President Vladimir Putin that Israel is ready to take unilateral intervening action to prevent “Iranian influence” in the Syrian war, to which Russia responded by reaffirming their position […]
French-Palestinian Arrested by the Israeli Army, Macron Urged to Intervene
A young French-Palestinian has been arrested by the Israeli army “for no reason”. Salah Hamouri was picked up by soldiers on Tuesday night as he slept at his home in occupied East Jerusalem, his wife […]
Deadly Clashes Reported in Ain al-Hilweh Refugee Camp
At least five people have been killed and 35 wounded in nearly a week of fighting in the largest Palestinian camp in Lebanon. Two members of the Palestinian group Fatah were killed on Wednesday during […]
Israeli Forces, Settlers Assault Hebron Mayor, Prevent Entry to Schools
Israeli settlers verbally assaulted Mayor of Hebron Taysir Abu Sneina and physically blocked him from accessing a number of schools in Hebron’s Old City in the southern occupied West Bank on Wednesday morning, as Israeli […]
Israel Steals Mobile School Units in Palestinian Village One Day Before School
Days after residents in an isolated Bethlehem-area village received stop-work orders for mobile homes being set up as a school – structures for which locals insisted they had obtained the necessary permits – Israeli forces […]
Israel, US ‘Morally Repugnant’ for Trying to Block UN List of Firms Working in Settlements
Reports emerged this week that the Trump administration was working with the Israeli government to obstruct the publication of a United Nations “blacklist” of companies working in Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory. […]
Libya: Human Traffickers Hold Seven Palestinians
Human traffickers have been holding seven Palestinian refugees in Libya for a month, Shehab news agency reported on Tuesday. The seven were trying to get to Europe. The Task Group for Palestinian Refugees in Syria […]
Israeli Government: Confiscation of Palestinian Land ‘Benefits Palestinians’
The Israeli government defended its “Regularization law” at the Israeli Supreme Court on Monday saying that the expropriation of Palestinian-owned land would benefit Palestinians because they would receive financial compensation for it. The hearing came […]
Nuclear Apocalypse: Trump and Kim Should Not Hold the World Hostage
By Ramzy Baroud Not too far away from Seattle, Washington there are eight ballistic-missile submarines carrying the world’s large shipments of nuclear weapons. The 560-foot-long black submarines are docked at the Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, hauling […]
US Zionists Say Trump’s Adviser is Hostile to Israel and Pro-Hamas
Conservatives in America are leading a campaign to convince US President Donald Trump to fire his National Security Adviser, Israel Today reported on Tuesday. They accuse H R McMaster of being hostile to Israel and pro-Hamas, Hezbollah […]
Erekat Calls on UK to Recognize Palestine
Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Saeb Erekat, Tuesday called on the United Kingdom to recognize the State of Palestine on the 1967 borders and to reconsider plans to celebrate the 100 years […]
Israeli Forces Destroy Home in Bedouin Village
Israeli bulldozers, escorted by Israeli police forces, demolished a home in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Wadi al-Niam in the Negev region of southern Israel on Tuesday morning. Residents of Wadi al-Niam are among tens […]
On anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism: Charlottesville Through a Glass Darkly
By Richard Falk I suggest that Zionists fond of smearing critics of Israel as ‘anti-Semites’ take a sobering look at the VICE news clip of the white nationalist torch march through the campus of the […]
Israeli Police Block Delivery of Palestinian Textbooks to Jerusalem Schools
Israeli police stationed at the Lions’ Gate entrance to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem prevented textbooks from being delivered to Palestinian schools located inside the walled holy site on Tuesday, a day […]
Abbas: We Asked Israel to Resume ‘Security Cooperation’
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has insisted that he asked Israel to resume security cooperation, but Israel preferred not to reply, Safa News Agency reported on Sunday. The claim was revealed originally by Haaretz. Speaking […]
Abbas Says He Can’t Understand US Position on Palestine-Israel Conflict
In a meeting with the left-wing Israeli Meretz party on Sunday in the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly expressed his confusion regarding the US stance on Israel and […]
Israeli Forces Escort 1,000 Illegal Settlers into West Bank Town Overnight for Ritual
Nearly a thousand Israeli settlers raided town of Kifl Haris in the central occupied West Bank overnight before dawn Monday, where they performed religious rituals at a holy site in the town as soldiers restricted […]
Israel Soldiers Demolish Palestinian Kindergarten in West Bank
Israeli forces have reportedly demolished a kindergarten in the Bedouin community of Jabal al-Baba in the outskirts of al-Eizariya in the occupied West Bank district of Jerusalem. According to a report from Jerusalem-based al-Quds News […]
PFLP Calls for Resistance Campaign to Rebuild Punitively Demolished Palestinian Homes
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian (PFLP) has called for a broad campaign to rebuild homes that have been punitively demolished by Israel. Israel has come under harsh condemnation over the past several […]
Netanyahu to Discuss Middle East with Putin
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will discuss the Middle East with Russian President Vladimir Putin when they meet in the Russian resort of Sochi next week, his office said on Saturday. Israel is concerned Iran […]
Palestinian Authority Sends Medical Aid to Venezuela
The Palestinian Authority (PA) sent on Sunday three trucks loaded with medical supplies to be sent to Venezuela, following an order from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs Riad al-Malki told Ma’an […]
Israelis Soliders Attacked by Israeli Youth Who Mistook them for Palestinians
Two Israeli soldiers were attacked on Friday night in a public park in the town of Pardes Hanna-Karkur, south of Haifa in northern Israel, by a group of young Israelis who allegedly thought the soldiers […]
Portuguese Photographers Pledge to Boycott Israeli Government, Cultural Institutions
Over 40 Portuguese photographers, teachers of photography and photography students pledged on Saturday, which marked World Photography Day, not to accept professional invitations or financing from Israel, and to” refuse to collaborate with Israeli cultural […]
Israeli Forces Shoot Dead 17-year-old Palestinian
Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teen wielding a knife on Saturday in the occupied West Bank, police said. A 17-year-old Palestinian allegedly approached a group of Israeli paramilitary policemen stationed at a West […]
Israeli Forces Ban Journalist from Jerusalem after Hours of Detention
Israeli police on Friday released journalist Sabrin Diab, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, under the condition that she observe a one-month ban on entering Jerusalem city, after she was detained on Thursday afternoon at the […]