Palestine was granted full membership in the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, under the Vienna Convention. The Palestinian Environment Quality […]
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’ speech at the Arab League Summit in Tunisia last month only accentuated the usual groveling to external actors, while speaking of “decisive steps and decisions.” Yet, instead of specifying a […]
Despite the dissonance between Israel and humanitarian aid, there is no lack of propaganda seeking to portray the settler-colonial state as a shining beacon for others to emulate. A forthcoming photo exhibition is now set […]
At the UN Security Council last Friday, US Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt failed to garner support for Israel’s decision to deduct $11 million from the tax revenues to be transferred to the […]
The United States came under sharp criticism from 14 other United Nations Security Council nations for its decision to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights in violation of international law. The Security Council met […]
The UN is openly flaunting its priorities and, sadly, human rights are far from a major concern for the international organization. Since its creation post-World War Two, and having established itself as the platform which […]
US President Donald Trump has recognized the occupied Golan Heights as Israeli territory in an election boost for visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, drawing a sharp response from Syria, which once held the strategic land. […]
US President Donald Trump on Monday formally recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Israel-occupied Golan Heights, reversing decades of US policy. The announcement came as Benjamin Netanyahu visited the White House in a trip the Israeli […]
In September 2004, Arun Gandhi’s visit to Palestine revived conversations about the role of nonviolence in the Palestinian liberation struggle. In March 2019 he will return, only this time he will give a lecture at […]
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) yesterday condemned Israel’s “apparent intentional use of unlawful lethal and other excessive force” against civilian protesters in the Gaza Strip during the Great March of Return. In addition […]
Two Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire following protests along the fence separating besieged Gaza from Israel, the enclave’s health ministry has announced. The health ministry spokesman, Ashraf al-Qudra, told AFP the two men, […]
Jeremy Hunt, the British foreign secretary, has revealed that the UK will oppose the United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) permanent agenda item on human rights abuses in Palestine. Writing in the Jewish Chronicle, Hunt […]
Tens of thousands of Palestinian women participated in the weekly massive demonstrations dubbed the Great March of Return, under direct Israeli fire along the perimeter fence with Israel. The women are usually walking with all […]
Israel deprives Palestinians of benefiting from natural resources of water which constitutes a “violation of legal responsibilities as an occupying power,” Special UN Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Occupied Palestinian Territory Michael Lynk said. […]
Israel yesterday warned it would use “uncompromising force” against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip should the UN Security Council not condemn the alleged launching of two rockets towards Tel Aviv. Israel’s Ambassador to […]
Israeli police said the entrances to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound will be reopened on Wednesday morning, a day after they sealed off the gates in response to what they said was a firebombing of a […]
The United Nations postponed last week for the third time the publication of a blacklist of Israeli and international firms that profit directly from Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied territories. The international body had […]
Hypocrisy, lying, disdain for the victims of ‘our’ policies and other forms of rot run deep in Canadian political culture. The latest example is former prime minister Paul Martin nominating Irwin Cotler for the Nobel […]
What UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in his remarks to the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People affirmed the inherent hypocrisy of international institutions towards Palestine and Palestinians. “As […]
Israeli naval forces opened fire, on Monday, towards Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of the northern besieged Gaza Strip. A Ma’an reporter said that Israeli naval forces opened fire at Palestinians fishing boats within […]
Head of the British Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn has called for the UK government to condemn Israel’s killing of Palestinians as well as to freeze arms sales to the occupation state. His remarks came in […]
A United Nations (UN) probe said, on Thursday, that Israeli security forces may have committed war crimes killing scores of Palestinians and wounding more than 6,100 suppressing weekly protests in the besieged Gaza Strip over […]
Israel deliberately targeted children and journalists during peaceful protests in Gaza, putting them in breach of international law, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) said in a report today. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held secret talks with Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita in September, US news website Axios has reported. The meeting, which took place on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly […]
Senior Hamas leader Mohammad Nazzal has revealed that his movement is preparing for an international tour for its chief Ismail Haniyeh. Nazzal pointed to arrangements with Egypt to facilitate this, Al-Ray News Agency reported yesterday, reiterating that […]
A number of Israeli and international companies are facing the risk of being included on a United Nations blacklist for doing business in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to a report. The […]
Years after the two-state paradigm was declared obsolete, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process has informed the Security Council that, “The possibility of establishing a viable, contiguous Palestinian state has been […]
UNICEF has said that it is “saddened” by Israel’s killing of two children in the Gaza Strip this weekend. In a statement yesterday, UNICEF’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa Geert Cappelaere expressed the […]
Russia has refused to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, despite previously recognizing the west of the city as Israel’s capital. The announcement was made yesterday by Russia’s Ambassador to Israel, Anatoly Viktorov, […]
The US has said that Israel had “every right” to expel a UN monitoring force from the occupied West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil). US State Department spokesman Robert Palladino yesterday said that it was […]
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