Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has laid the cornerstone for an embassy in Brazil – what will be the first such Palestinian delegation in the western hemisphere. A ceremony was held on Friday to initiate […]
By Richard Lightbown On 26 December thousands turned out in Istanbul to welcome the Mavi Marmara back to the port. A large banner on the starboard side featured photos of the nine martyrs from the […]
The Palestinians are set to ask the UN Security Council to condemn Israeli settlement construction, according to a copy of a draft resolution obtained by the AP news agency. The move reflects growing Palestinian discontent […]
Noble Energy, a US-based oil and gas firm, along with its Israeli exploration partners, have confirmed the discovery of a huge offshore gas field called Leviathan, 130km off the coast of the Mediterranean port of […]
An Israeli court found Moshe Katsav, the country’s former president, guilty of rape and other offences in a unprecedented conviction for a former head of state. "Katsav’s testimony was riddled with lies," the three-judge panel […]
By Ramzy Baroud When the Iraqi army fell before invading US and British troops in 2003, the latter’s mission seemed to be accomplished. But nearly eight years after the start of a war intended to […]
By Jesse Rosenfeld Half way down a hill, sandwiched between Jerusalem’s Hadassa hospital and Hebrew University, sits the compact and overcrowded occupied East Jerusalem village of Issawiya. Before crossing the makeshift police checkpoint of concrete […]
By Mohammed Mar’i – Ramallah The Palestinian Authority (PA) will present the UN Security Council (UNSC) with a draft of a resolution declaring statehood in the coming days, a senior Palestinian official said on Wednesday. […]
By Stephen Lendman On December 24, Ecuador became the fifth Latin American country to recognize ‘the Palestine state as free and independent within its borders since 1967.’ An accompanying statement read: "Sadly, the Middle East […]
Muhammad Dahlan, the former Fatah strongman who is rumoured to be out of favour with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has been suspended from the Palestinian political leadership. Dahlan was banned from attending faction meetings, […]
In another anti-Palestinian move, the wives of a group of leading Israeli rabbis have called on Jewish women to avoid marrying or working with Arab men. The demand, made in a public letter signed by […]
Israelis are about evenly split in support and opposition to the plan of a group of rabbis who say Jews should avoid selling or renting property to non-Jews, according to a recent survey. Dozens of […]
Israeli renaissance aircraft have once again violated Lebanon’s airspace, flying over most parts of the country, including the capital Beirut. A statement released by the Lebanese army said on Wednesday that a number of Israeli […]
Palestinian democratically elected Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has called on the Arab League to adopt effective measures to restrain Israeli aggressions toward the besieged Gaza Strip. In a message to Arab League Secretary General Amr […]
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has suggested that an "interim agreement" with the Palestinians could be a solution to reaching a comprehensive peace accord in the Middle East. But the Palestinians shrugged off the […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Half a million trees planted over the past 18 months on the ancestral lands of Bedouin tribes in Israel’s Negev region were bought by a controversial Christian evangelical television channel that […]
By BDS National Committee (BNC) On the morning of 27 December 2008 Israeli forces initiated a 23-day military offensive against the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip killing more than 1400 and injuring over 5000 Palestinians, […]
By Salim Alam – London After passing through heavy security requiring IDs, questions about organizational and political affiliation and how far they had travelled, about 200 people gathered in a synagogue in Bayswater London to […]
By Mazin Qumsiyeh It has been some 130 years since the first European Jewish settlement was established with the explicit aim of taking over the country. The few thousand native Palestinian (Arab) Jews did not […]
By Various Authors – Gaza, Palestine We the Palestinians of the besieged Gaza Strip, on this day, two years on from Israel’s genocidal attack on our families, our houses, our roads, our factories and our […]
Palestinians have described resistance as the most preferred way to establish an independent and free state, the results of a new opinion poll indicate. The opinion poll conducted by Arab World for Research & Development […]
Authorities in the Gaza Strip have warned that the health problems of impoverished Gazans have been intensified due to a crippling four-year-old siege by Israel. The Gaza Strip’s Ministry of Health said on Monday the […]
A new report released by the Israel Bar Association (IBA) says the situation in Israeli prisons is terrible for inmates and that the detention centers look more like dungeons than prisons. Most solitary cells are […]
Israel prime minister says a deadly strike on a Turkish-backed Flotilla, which was heading for Gaza, was a move in line with “standards” and rejects the prospects of any apology to Turkey. "We will not […]
Thousands in Turkey have welcomed the return of the lead vessel of an Ankara-backed aid convoy, which took a deadly Israeli assault on its way to the Gaza Strip. Mavi Marmara rolled into the dock […]
Israel is reportedly ready to acknowledge that it was behind the assassination of senior Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in the United Arab Emirates in January 2010. The incoming chief of the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad […]
Egypt is building surveillance towers along the border with the Gaza Strip as part of its measures to step up restrictions on the besieged coastal enclave. Egyptian security officials said on Saturday that the first […]
Israeli forces have launched yet another attack into the besieged coastal enclave of Gaza, killing two Palestinians in an apparent fire exchange. Reports indicate that the two Palestinians died east of the southern Gaza city […]
A top Israeli official says the United States may soon join other countries that have formally recognized an independent Palestinian state, if Tel Aviv continues to stall the peace process. Industry, Trade and Labor Minister […]
By Lillian Rosengarten ‘Israeli military kills 20-year old Gazan for herding animals too close to buffer zone.’ — Adam Horowitz, December 24. The International Solidarity Movement in Gaza reported: “Yesterday morning Salama Abu Hashish, 20 years, was […]
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