The Israeli military is spraying Palestinian crops with chemicals that “will cause the surrounding vegetation to wilt and prevent its growth,” media report. The IDF told reporters the elimination of the crops ensures the security […]
Russia and the United States agree that ISIL, al-Qaeda and Jabhat al-Nusra are terrorist organisations and do not even discuss how to define Hezbollah and Hamas, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov told Interfax news […]
A Palestinian was shot dead after a suspected vehicular attack near the Huwwara military checkpoint in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus, Israel’s army said. A spokesperson for the Israeli army told Ma’an […]
Israel has imposed new rules on trucks taking goods into the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom Crossing, the only commercial border post with the territory, Palsawa has reported. The new rules were applied from […]
Palestinian Authority security forces on Wednesday prevented a peaceful Palestinian march in Ramallah’s al-Bireh neighborhood from reaching a checkpoint outside the nearby Beit El illegal Israeli settlement, protesters told Ma’an. PA forces stopped hundreds of […]
By Dr. Samah Jabr The Israeli parliament has recently approved a law that allows the sentencing of up to 20 years in prison for Palestinians who throw stones, individuals who are usually minors. This development […]
By Ramzy Baroud When I was a little boy, I used to dream of being reborn outside the hardship of the Refugee Camp in Gaza, in some other time and place where there were no […]
The Israeli authorities on Tuesday released the bodies of three Palestinians shot dead by Israeli forces after allegedly attacking Israelis. Officials with the Palestinian Civil Affairs told Ma’an that the bodies of Eiad Idies from […]
The BDS campaign, a call from over 170 organisations in Palestine to the international community to boycott, divest and impose sanctions on Israeli and international companies that benefit from the oppression of Palestinians, now celebrates its 10 […]
By Dan Freeman-Maloy The better part of a decade ago, I described the Toronto Star’s Mitch Potter as “a canary in the mineshaft of liberal Canadian racism.” A piece on 1948 Palestine published in a […]
Controversial Egyptian TV anchor, Ahmad Moussa, has paid tribute to the Egyptian army soldier who executed in cold blood a mentally ill Palestinian man near Gaza on Thursday. “I want to ask each and every […]
The year 2015 will be remembered as the year that Palestinian popular resistance spread across historic Palestine and that saw tens of thousands of Palestinians take to the streets to resist and confront Israel’s regime […]
Israel has warned Brazil that relations will deteriorate unless it accepts the former Israeli head of the West Bank settlement program as ambassador. The appointment was made four months ago and has still not been […]
The Palestinian Liberation Organisation’s Secretary of the Executive Committee and chief negotiator Saeb Erekat confirmed that he held direct negotiations with the Israelis to discuss the resumption of negotiations between the two sides. The Radio […]
Israel’s Ministry of Housing has been working on plans for thousands of housing units in the controversial E1 corridor despite the cancellation of tenders for the units in 2013, a settlement watchdog reported. International condemnation […]
Two Palestinians were shot dead after stabbing an Israeli soldier in the village of Huwwara south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, locals and Israel’s army said. An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that […]
Thousands of Palestinians attended a funeral procession Saturday for a 38-year-old Palestinian mother who was shot and killed by Israeli gunfire a day earlier. Mahdia Hammad, a mother of four, was killed by Israeli forces […]
By Stuart Littlewood At least some people are determined to kick off the New Year on a positive note. A motion to expel Israel from the United Nations is to be put to the Palestine […]
A number of senior Israeli officers have resigned recently over the failure to evaluate the outcomes of last year’s offensive against the people of Gaza, local media reported on Friday. Yesh Atid Knesset member Haim […]
Three Palestinian refugees were killed in the outskirts of the Syrian capital of Damascus on Friday, said a Syria-based Palestinian monitoring group. The Workforce for Palestinians in Syria said in a statement that two Palestinians […]
By Dr. Ahmed Al-Burai If Deniz Zeyrek, a famous leftist journalist in Turkey, was to say, “The state of Israel and its people are undoubtedly sincere friends of Turkey and our condemnations until now are […]
A Palestinian was killed on Friday after she allegedly attempted to run over Israeli Border Police officers near the village of Silwad in the occupied West Bank. Israeli police said in a statement that a […]
As many as 25 Spanish municipalities and regional governments have endorsed a resolution to boycott Israel. The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) General Coordinator Mahmoud Nawajah toldQuds Press that the resolution comes as part of […]
A member of the Israeli Knesset representing the right-wing Jewish Home Party has submitted a bill that would allow Jewish settlers to pray in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque. Bezalel Smotrich’s bill was signed by five additional […]
Thousand of Palestinians on Thursday marched in a funeral procession for a Palestinian shot dead hours earlier during clashes with Israeli military forces in the Qalandiya refugee camp near Ramallah. Twenty three-year-old Bilal Zayed was […]
Footage released on Wednesday showed dozens of young Israeli right-wing extremists, said to be linked to the suspected perpetrators of the Dawabsha family murder, celebrating the killing at a wedding last week. The images in […]
The Israeli Misgav Regional Council has proposed a new Jewish-only road connecting two Israeli Jewish settlements built in the 1980s in the Galilee Heights to the south of the Arab neighborhood of Maj Al-Koroom, Quds […]
Two Palestinians from Qalandiya were killed after carrying out a stabbing attack at the Jaffa Gate of East Jerusalem’s Old City that left three Israelis injured, Israeli police said. Israeli police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld told […]
The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution demanding Palestinian sovereignty over natural resources under Israeli occupation. The draft solution, “Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East […]
By Ramzy Baroud John Bolton is a tarnished character. The once United States Ambassador to the United Nations is now promoted as a ‘scholar’ in the pro-Israel lobby group, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Bolton […]
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