By Julie Webb-Pullman While the rest of the world sends expressions of love on Valentine’s Day, Israel sends the kiss of death to Gaza. A man now lies clinging to life in Kamal Adwan hospital […]
Comments made by the president of the European Parliament, in which he criticized Israeli settlements and implied that Israelis receive four times more water than Palestinians, has stoked anger in Israel. The speech, made by […]
A Palestinian man was shot dead and another injured on Thursday by Israeli forces east of Gaza city. Spokesman for the Gaza ministry of health Ashraf al-Qidra said that Ibrahim Suleiman Mansour, 26, from an […]
Jerusalem’s planning committee forged ahead with plans to build a nine-storey Jewish seminary in the heart of a densely-populated Palestinian neighborhood near the Old City. Plans for the new tower block, to be built in […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rarely been so politically embattled. His travails indicate the Israeli right’s inability to respond to a shifting political landscape, both in the region and […]
By Nicola Nasser International, regional and internal players vying for interests, wealth, power or influence are all beneficiaries of the “al-Qaeda threat” in Iraq and in spite of their deadly and bloody competitions they agree […]
The Israeli military says it has hit an underground rocket launcher and a “terror site” in two air strikes in the occupied Gaza Strip. An unnamed Israeli army spokesman told the AFP news agency on […]
Syria’s al-Qaeda-linked group Jabhat al-Nusra has began pulling out of a Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in southern Damascus, according to Al Jazeera sources. Palestinian fighters started to replace the armed rebels of Jabhat al-Nusra […]
By Ramzy Baroud “When they first put the electricity on me, I gasped; my body went rigid and the bag came off my head,” Israa Salah, a detained Iraqi woman told Human Rights Watch (HRW) […]
By Suraya Dadoo 2014 was declared the year of solidarity with the Palestinian people, and nowhere is this being taken more seriously than in South Africa. From ordinary individuals, to civil society, and those in […]
By Hatim Kanaaneh I am no romantic poet. Yet Susan Abulhawa’s first published collection of poems (My Voice Sought The Wind, Just World Books, 2013) slices directly to my heart. Like her, I once wrote […]
By Hanan Ashrawi The SodaStream controversy, which recently caught the attention of media worldwide, has highlighted Israel’s ongoing military occupation and contributed to the growing awareness of global consciousness and social responsibility towards Palestine. It […]
The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Transport has been working with Egypt to prepare plans for an airport in the occupied West Bank and a seaport and railway line in the Gaza Strip, a minister said […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with three of his top ministers to discuss ways to deal with the threat of economic boycotts against Israel, media reported Monday. The meeting on Sunday night was attended […]
A Palestinian fighter has been left in critical condition, following an Israeli air strike, the AFP news agency reported. Abdallah Kherati was riding a motorcycle in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, the Palestinian enclave bordering Israel […]
The incident took place in Jalazoun, north of Ramallah in occupied West Bank. Clashes between occupation soldiers and stone-throwing youth of the refugee camp resulted in the wounding of 10 Palestinians. They were mostly hit […]
Footage released by a rights group on Saturday appears to show Jewish settlers beating an Israeli activist as he tries to defend Palestinian farmers while Israeli soldiers look on. The videos released by joint Israeli-Palestinian […]
Clashes have erupted between Israeli forces and worshippers at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem after noon prayers. Israeli forces raided the mosque compound and fired stun grenades on Friday, while dozens of […]
An Israeli was killed after a car bomb exploded in mysterious circumstances in south Tel Aviv on Saturday evening. Israeli sources reported that the explosion targeted a car on Sheshet Hayamim (Six Days) street in […]
The Israeli military has removed Palestinian activists protesting at a deserted village in the West Bank whose final status is a central issue in US-mediated peace talks. Hundreds of activists had been demonstrating for a […]
Aid agencies working in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem have expressed alarm at a spike in Israeli demolitions of Palestinian property, which coincides with renewed US-backed peace negotiations. The number of demolitions increased […]
By S.R.H. Hashmi In his article ‘The Magnificent Kerry‘ published in the Tripoli Post on February 6, while giving credit to US Secretary of State John Kerry for averting military action against Iran and Syria, […]
By Richard Falk OMAR is the second film directed by Hany Alu-Assad to be a finalist among foreign language films nominated to receive an Oscar at the 2014 Academy Awards ceremony on March 2nd. The […]
The threatened demolition of apartment blocks in East Jerusalem is adding new pressure to the city’s housing crisis, with hundreds facing the prospect of losing their homes and Palestinian residents saying they face discrimination in […]
Israel will return the remains on Sunday of a Palestinian killed by soldiers over a decade ago, an Israeli human right groups said on Thursday. Israeli rights group Center for the Defense of the Individual […]
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews have blocked highways across Israel to protest attempts to draft them into the army, clashing with police who fired stun grenades at large crowds of black-garbed men. The violent protests on […]
The speaker for the Danish parliament Mogens Lykketoft is set to visit the West Bank and Gaza next week, Israeli media reported on Thursday. The website for the Israeli channel 10 reported that Lykketoft will […]
Israel on Wednesday pushed forward with plans to build more than 550 new homes in illegal settlements in annexed East Jerusalem, the city council said. In a statement listing “building permits that were approved” during […]
An archbishop, a European Union delegation, the PA minister of agriculture and an Israeli member of Knesset were among the solidarity delegations that visited the protest village of Ein Hijleh on Wednesday as a military […]
By Kathy Kelly In late January in a room in Kabul, Afghanistan, I joined several dozen people, working seamstresses, some college students, socially engaged teenagers and a few visiting internationals like myself, to discuss world […]
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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