Bodies of two teenage Palestinians, with bullet holes in them, have been found in the southeast of Gaza City, Palestinian medics say. The two were identified as Salah Abu Attwa and Imad Faraj, both 17. […]
By Belén Fern
By Belén Fern
Israeli secret service has acknowledged that a kidnapped Palestinian engineer has been kept in an Israeli jail for questioning. Dirar Abu Sisi, 42, was whisked away in the early hours of February 19 after boarding […]
By Richard Lightbown Hopes that the popular uprising in Egypt will lead to the permanent opening of the Rafah Crossing into the Gaza Strip suffered a setback on 13 March when an Anglo-French medical team […]
By James Petras One of the key distinctions between a capitalist and a non-capitalist (socialist, feudal, absolutist state) economy is the separation of state and private enterprise. In a capitalist state, economic enterprises are supposed […]
Two Palestinians have been killed and several others injured after Israeli forces struck different targets in the Gaza Strip, a report says. According to Palestinians, the incidents took place early Saturday in Gaza. Medic also […]
Veteran US reporter Helen Thomas has once again lashed out at Israeli policies on suppression of Palestinians and said Israeli lobbies are controlling the White House. Thomas, the 90-year-old former dean of the White House […]
Many Palestinian farmers, including women and children, have come under Israeli fire along the so-called “buffer zone” in the northern and eastern parts of the Gaza Strip over the past two years. The Israeli-defined buffer […]
Palestinian activists have called on UNESCO to prevent Israel from building a settlement on an ancient Palestinian village called Lifta. The activists said on Friday that the village — known for its vibrant, creative, and […]
By Shafiq Morton – Benghazi Ajdabiya, the eastern town and opposition stronghold, gets bombed during the night. Well, a shell lands in the town. Not much damage, but lots of fear. Everybody knows there is […]
By Elizabeth Warkentin Most of us take the right to citizenship for granted. It is a fundamental human right after all. Yet, in Kuwait, this is debatable. Amidst the vociferous demands for democratic change that […]
By Iqbal Jassat – Pretoria Has the American dream of permanent supremacy in the oil-rich region of the world been shattered? It’s a question that not only haunts influential institutions that function as pillars of […]
By Felicity Arbuthnot – London ‘If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.’ — George Orwell. The bombing of Libya will begin on or nearly […]
By R. Taylor The current UK Government is ‘the most hostile to Israel in living memory.’ So says Melanie Phillips, formerly a respected UK journalist now better known for her militant anti-Islam stance and her Israel-is-never-wrong/blame-everyone-else […]
By Samah Sabawi The morning news of the Itamar murders broke out, I got a call from my father, a man from Gaza whose entire life was derailed by Israel’s occupation of his land. He […]
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has said he is willing to visit the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip in an effort to promote reconciliation between the rival Fatah and Hamas factions. In a speech on Wednesday, Abbas […]
There is no information on the whereabouts of a Palestinian engineer kidnapped in Ukraine by the Israeli spy agency back on February 19. Dirar Abu Sisi was abducted by Mossad agents on February while on […]
Jordan’s Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh says Israel’s illegal settlement activities in the Palestinian occupied territories should be completely frozen. "Settlement activities should be completely stopped in the occupied Palestinian territories as well as all unilateral […]
By Mikail Jubran Popular revolt has transformed Tunisia. A budding revolution takes hold in Egypt. Civil war is raging in Libya. Social unrest intensifies in Yemen, and sectarian strife heightens in Bahrain. What this all mean […]
By George S Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas took the right step in condemning in strong terms the massacre last week of a five-member Israeli family, including two children and an infant, […]
By Mohamed Khodr While Gaddafi’s planes are flying to kill, Libyans are dying in the plains of the desert. Since oil is thicker than blood the Europeans and Americans are deliberating and divided on whether […]
The Republic of Uruguay has recognized a free and independent Palestinian state on the lands occupied by Israel in the Six Day War. In a statement released on Tuesday, the Uruguayan foreign ministry said the […]
Palestinians have staged massive demonstrations in the Hamas-administered Gaza Strip and the Fatah-run West Bank, calling for unity among the rival factions. Thousands of Palestinians on Tuesday hit the streets of Gaza’s Square of the […]
Israeli fighter jets fired several rockets at a building near the former Jewish settlement of Nitzarim on Wednesday. Two people were killed and another sustained injuries in the aerial attack. The structure suffered serious damage […]
By Douglas Smith From the outset, Chile is probably one of the last countries one would consider when trying to understand the effects of the Nakba and the depth of the ongoing Palestinian refugee crisis. […]
The parents of an American victim of Israeli settlement activities in occupied Palestine have filed a lawsuit against the Israelis responsible for their daughter’s death in 2003. Rachel Corrie’s parents, Craig and Cindy, are pursuing […]
A prominent Palestinian activist, jailed for organizing demonstrations against Israel’s West Bank separation wall, has been freed after 15 months in Israeli detention. The 39-year-old coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements […]
A senior Israeli intelligence official has reportedly established a secret operation room in northern Iraq to instigate anti-government protests in Syria in an effort to destabilize the country. The operation room, equipped with sophisticated surveillance […]
By Ramzy Baroud The global boycott movement (BDS) and other related campaigns were aimed at exposing Israeli transgressions against the Palestinian people and galvanizing international solidarity. What is so uplifting to see now is how […]
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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