An Australian man is among the detained passengers on board two boats carrying humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip that were intercepted by Israeli naval forces on Friday. Michael Coleman, 35, was one of […]
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak has dismissed as "delusional" recent reports regarding the increasing possibility of Tel Aviv launching a military strike against Iran. “Israel had not yet decided to […]
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine has found that Israel’s practices against the Palestinian people are in violation of the prohibition of apartheid under the international law. After two days of proceedings, the Tribunal and its […]
By Stuart Littlewood You can read about it on a British government website. ‘The UK and many other countries have serious concerns about the Iranian Government’s policies,’ says the Foreign Office, ‘its failure to address […]
By Ismail Salami The ‘DG [director General] of all states, but in agreement with us’ was how the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano was described by the US mission in Vienna. According […]
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By Ramzy Baroud Another mission accomplished, or so it seems. Israeli navy has managed to thwart yet another civil society ‘provocation’ (as described by the Israeli Embassy in Dublin, Irish Times, November 4). Thus the 27 […]
Israel’s Jerusalem municipality plans to build more than 50,000 new homes in the city’s occupied eastern sector over two decades, Israeli media reported on Sunday. A study commissioned by Israel’s Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barakat to […]
Impoverished Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip are looking to aid agencies to deliver food assistance during this Eid Al-Adha holiday season. International NGOs, many Islamic, have been purchasing sheep and cows in preparation for […]
US Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs Andrew Shapiro says the US and the Israeli regime are set to hold their ‘largest and most significant’ joint military maneuvers without offering details about the time and location […]
At least three Palestinians have been injured by Israeli tank shrapnel east of the beleaguered Gaza Strip. According to Palestinian sources, Israeli forces stationed at Nahal Oz, one of the crossing points from Gaza into […]
By Ben Lorber, ISM, West Bank As this year’s olive harvest sends Palestinian families across all of historic Palestine out to their olive trees, a new nonviolent resistance group called Refusing to Die In Silence […]
Nations that come into existence by dispossessing, imprisoning and slaughtering the indigenous population have two problems with history: 1. Its ugliness makes it hard to glorify.2. Its shortness exposes the tenuousness of any claim that […]
By Edward S. Goldstein As an American Jew with lifelong involvement in Jewish cultural and religious life, I watched the unfolding of the Palestinian application for UN membership with both admiration and a sense of […]
By Ben Lorber – ISM, West Bank In the immediate aftermath of the illegal capture of the Freedom Waves flotillas, Israel’s public image has been tarnished, as reports of violence at sea surface to counteract […]
By Stuart Littlewood Arthur Balfour’s infamous ‘Declaration’ was written 94 years ago this week. Palestinians, of course, don’t need reminding. And to mark the anniversary Israel ordered its warships to carry out yet another act […]
By Ismail Salami – Tehran In recent days, there has been a vociferous interest in Israel, the US and the UK in fanning the flames of Iranophobia in what observers see as a political red herring […]
By Lillian Rosengarten For a moment, when I knew there were two ships with 27 activists nearing the waters that would bring them to the shores of Gaza, I imagined no war ships would come […]
By Baher Kamal – Cairo The four-decade-long bid to free the Middle East from all weapons of mass destruction (WMD) starting with nukes, will move next year to Helsinki as Finland surprisingly decided to host […]
The Israeli military boarded on Friday two vessels bound for the Gaza Strip, activists and army officials said. The Tahrir, a yacht crewed by Canadian activists, was being boarded about 35 nautical miles from the […]
Riyad al-Maliki, the foreign minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA), says Palestinians will not accept anything less than full UN membership and do not want an upgrade to an observer state in the world body. […]
Israeli naval forces have boarded two boats carrying pro-Palestinian activists bound for the Gaza Strip, foiling the latest attempt to break the four-year Israeli blockade of the territory. The Canadian vessel Tahrir and the Irish […]
By Eric Walberg – Cairo The Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt’s Debts was launched at the Journalists’ Union 31 October, with a colourful panel of speakers, including Al-Ahram Centre for Political & Strategic Studies Editor-in-Chief […]
Israel has announced that its navy will attempt to stop two boats carrying pro-Palestinian activists bound for the Gaza Strip, in the latest attempt by activists to break the four-year Israeli blockade against the territory. […]
Hamas has condemned an Israeli threat to intercept a Gaza-bound aid convoy as “official piracy,” calling on international organizations to protect the humanitarian aid ships. "We consider the Israeli threat to these ships as an […]
Israeli forces have killed two Palestinians in an attack on the northern part of the blockaded Gaza Strip as Tel Aviv steps up attacks against civilians in the besieged territory. The incident occurred on Thursday, […]
By Uri Avnery Everybody knows the scene from school: a small boy quarrels with a bigger boy. ‘Hold me back!’ he shouts to his comrades, ‘Before I break his bones!’ Our government seems to be […]
Israel has test-fired a ballistic missile capable of reaching Iran from the Palmachim base, according to a report on Israeli radio. The test of a rocket propulsion system on Wednesday comes amid increased debate around […]
International activists say two ships carrying humanitarian assistance and pro-Palestinian campaigners have set sail from Turkey in a new attempt to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. A statement issued by the activists in […]
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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