Israeli naval forces attacked an international third party monitor on Wednesday in Gazan territorial waters. Civil Peace Service Gaza works as part of a non-violent initiative to monitor human rights abuses in Gaza. Israeli forces […]
By Neve Gordon Political change is slow. One doesn’t go to sleep in a democracy and wake up in a fascist regime. The citizens of Egypt and Tunisia can attest to the fact that the […]
By Nicola LoFoco Three months have passed since April 15, 2011, that damned day when Vittorio Arrigoni’s life was ripped away from us at the hands of Islamic fundamentalists. The truth surrounding his disappearance and […]
By Ramzy Baroud If you happen to be a Palestinian government employee, chances are you will receive only half your usual salary this month. The other half will only be available when international donors find […]
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has vowed to pursue the bid for statehood at the UN General Assembly in New York in September. The announcement comes after mediators of the Middle East Quartet failed to […]
Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) has taken a swipe at the United States and blasted Washington for condoning “racist” Israeli policies. “The only option facing the world today, especially the United States, is to use all […]
Israeli military forces have killed a young Palestinian man in the northern West Bank city of Nablus only hours after a Palestinian woman was injured in an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip. Palestinian security […]
Israeli warplanes have once again launched a strike against the tunnels area in Rafah in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The attack took place late on Wednesday after a similar strike happened in […]
The Palestinian leadership plans to seek recognition of statehood from the United Nations in September but would be willing to postpone the bid if peace talks restart with a clear timetable, the (PA) foreign minister […]
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, along with other officials from the Quartet member countries met in […]
By Hatim Kanaaneh The last session of the Rachel Corrie court case in Haifa had been repeatedly postponed on account of the weightiness of the witness. Colonel Pinhas Zuaretz, better known by his nickname, Pinky, […]
By Stuart Littlewood Churchill, in his Battle of Britain speech 71 years ago, said: ‘If we can stand up to him [Hitler], all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move […]
By Amnesty International A law passed by the Israeli Knesset (parliament) making it an offence to call for a boycott against the state of Israel or its West Bank settlements will have a chilling effect […]
Members of Palestine’s original communist party are urging the Palestinian Authority to withstand intimidation from the US over a plan to seek recognition of statehood at the UN in September. The head of the Palestine […]
By IRIN For three years now a UK medical journal, the Lancet, has been working with Palestinian health professionals and researchers to document the effects of stressful living – coping with economic difficulties and shortages, […]
Israeli officials say they hope to expel within 72 hours 118 pro-Palestinian activists that were arrested and denied entry upon their arrival at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport on a peaceful mission. Israeli officials detained […]
By Mohammed Bsiso Amongst the multiple uprisings throughout the Arab world, Syria might prove to be the most complex and potentially the most dangerous. Syria’s position in the Middle East is unique as it borders […]
By Jim Miles (Between Two Worlds: A documentary by Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman) This documentary presents a powerful and evocative discussion at the personal level of the changing and challenging nature of Jewish values […]
Israeli police have arrested six pro-Palestinian activists and detained more than 100 other people participating in a fly-in protest at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv. The arrested activists, all Israeli citizens, timed their […]
Turkey’s prime minister said on Friday that Israel must apologise for last year’s deadly raid on a Turkish ship bound for Gaza, as well as lift its blockade of the territory, if it wants to […]
By Stuart Reigeluth The Palestinians have been standing in line for decades, waiting to join the global family of nations, waiting for international recognition, waiting most of all for the superpower seal of approval. There […]
By Hagit Borer For 44 years now, the people in the territories occupied by Israel in 1967 have been awaiting their freedom. In Gaza, people have been waiting for five years for a release from […]
Israel expelled 25 pro-Palestinian activists who landed at Ben Gurion airport on Friday and was interrogating another 30 suspects there, police told AFP. "Twenty-five have been sent back where they came from," police spokeswoman Luba […]
Israeli authorities have served international airlines with a blacklist of 300 individuals in a bid to block the journey of pro-Palestinian activists into occupied Palestine. The Interior Ministry of the Tel Aviv regime has ordered […]
By Kathy Kelly – Athens It looked like a scene from an opera. Massed in the doorway and second floor balconies of a quaint building in Athens, facing a magnificent view of the Parthenon, Spanish […]
By Tamar Fleishman This child has a face and a name. He has a father and a mother who worry, who don’t know where Mahmud had been taken to and on what grounds. They probably […]
By Uri Avnery For Several weeks now, our army and navy have been in a state of high alert, bravely facing a deadly threat to our very existence: ten little boats trying to reach Gaza. […]
The United States has warned Palestinians against seeking statehood at the United Nations, describing the move as a ‘bad idea.’ US State Department Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said on Wednesday that Washington’s position on “the idea […]
The Greek coast guard on the island of Crete has blocked a small French boat carrying activists to the impoverished Gaza Strip, says an organizer. Claude Leostic with the French boat Dignite El Karameh said […]
By Richard Levy As you will probably know from press reports, our efforts to sail the US boat to Gaza – the Audacity of Hope – has fallen short of its mission. We had expected […]
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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