New reports have surfaced on the arrest of yet another Jewish organ trading gang in the United States involved in the abduction of Algerian children. Dr. Mustafa Khayatti, the head of the Algerian National Committee […]
The UN Secretary General has denounced Israel’s plan for building new settlements as "contrary to international law", calling on Tel Aviv to stop all settlement activities. In a statement issued on Wednesday to denounce the […]
Israel’s High Court has ordered the demolition of what it terms as "illegal constructions" built by the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. On Wednesday, the court ruled that the government should implement the demolition […]
Some 1,200 students at al-Karmel High School for boys in Gaza City returned to class on 25 August without history and English textbooks, or notebooks and pens – all unavailable on the local market. Severe […]
Amid rumors in the Israeli media about the mysterious disappearance of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reports reveal that he made a secret visit to Moscow to discuss Russian arms sales to Iran and Syria. Netanyahu […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The increasingly harsh political climate in Israel under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government has prompted the leadership of the country’s 1.3 million Arab citizens to call the first general strike […]
The leader of Hamas has called for Palestinian reconciliation before elections, saying unless his movement is accepted by its rival Fatah, democracy will not lead to unity. Khaled Meshaal, who lives in exile in the […]
Palestinian leaders are "seriously considering" a one-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, former US president Jimmy Carter has said. After visiting the Middle East, Carter said in an opinion article of The Washington Post newspaper […]
Palestinian East Jerusalem lacks public educational facilities and many classrooms are cramped, according to a new report by Ir Amim, an NGO working in East Jerusalem, and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI). […]
By William James Martin In pondering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict I have found that very few people actually have a basic understanding of the conflict nor could they define it in even rough approximating terms. Thus […]
Israel will approve construction of hundreds of new homes in West Bank settlements before weighing a freeze sought by Washington in a move announced on Friday that fuelled Palestinian outrage. The plan was also certain […]
A Palestinian teenager has succumbed to death because of grave injuries he suffered after Israeli soldiers opened fire at him in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian medical sources identified the 13-year-old teenager […]
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has canceled his visit to Israel, in the face of continuing tension stemmed from an article in a Swedish newspaper. Bildt has declared that the visit which was scheduled for […]
By Ahmed Barqawi The lack of subtlety in Israel’s policy of aggression and land theft towards the Palestinians can only be attributed to our gift of silence, one for which the Israelis’ are appreciative and fully […]
By James Gundun Nobody likes anti-climax, except for maybe Israel. After heightened speculation that President Obama was hammering out his own Middle East peace plan, the smoke cleared and left nothing behind. Apparently Obama has […]
By Jim Miles The Rejection of Palestinian Self-Determination The Struggle for Palestine and the Roots of the Israeli-Arab Conflict. Jeremy R. Hammond. Lulu, 2009. The story of Palestine is poorly represented in western media, generally […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The hyperventilating by Israel’s leaders [1] over a story published in a Swedish newspaper last month [2] suggesting that the Israeli army assisted in organ theft from Palestinians has distracted attention […]
Norway has decided to divest from the Israeli arms firm Elbit over its role in the construction of the West Bank separation wall. Norway’s finance minister, Kristin Halvorsen, made the announcement at a press conference […]
On a visit to Damascus, the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has labeled Israel as a ‘genocidal’ and ‘killer’ state, while calling for the return of the Golan Heights to Syria. "The state of Israel has […]
Israeli warplanes have launched an attack on the city of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian and Israeli officials say. An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed the early Friday airstrike, saying that the Israeli fighter […]
Israeli tanks and bulldozers have invaded the eastern border areas of the Gaza Strip, destroying cultivated agricultural Palestinian land. Palestinian fighters retaliated by firing home-made shells at the invading forces. No injuries were reported from […]
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) says that in August, a total number of 63 Palestinians have been kidnapped from the West Bank by Israeli soldiers. Most of the kidnappings took place in the southern West […]
By Jim Miles Kite flying activities go well beyond the physical phenomenon of wind blown materials flying tethered to their earth bound launchers. It is an activity including local knowledge of winds and landscapes, knowledge […]
By George S. Hishmeh As the stage has reportedly been set for US President Barack Obama to spell out his much-awaited ideas on a Palestinian-Israeli settlement at the opening of the United Nations General Assembly […]
By Najwa Sheikh – Gaza The month of Ramadan has come this year to the people of Gaza along with the new school year reminding them of the hard living conditions they have endured with the crushing […]
Israeli soldiers have shot a Palestinian youth dead outside a West Bank refugee camp near the town of Ramallah. Palestinian police identified the teenager as Muhammad Nayif on Tuesday. Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Centre confirmed the […]
The family of a Palestinian at the center of the organ-theft story in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet has called for a probe into the death of their son. The family of Bilal Ahmed Ghanem–the 19-year-old […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago In August 2009, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) published a special report titled: "Locked In: The Humanitarian Impact of Two Years of Blockade on the […]
By Ayman Quader – Gaza Everyday in the news, I hear about the suffering of the Gaza fishermen – one was killed, others wounded, and the Israelis are firing on still others. And I wanted […]
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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