Hamas said yesterday that it is ready for elections and handing over the Rafah Crossing to the unity government, the Anadolu Agency reported. Hamas’s remarks came in response to claims by Palestinian Authority (PA) President […]
By Richard Falk Makarim Wibisono announced his resignation as UN Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestine, to take effect on March 31, 2016. This is position I held for six years, completing my second term in June […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told high-level government officials that Tel Aviv must prevent the collapse of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, or prepare for a worst-case scenario, local press reports. Netanyahu […]
Israeli Arab Member of the Knesset Hanin Zoabi called for Greece’s Aegean Airlines to apologise to Arab Israelis it forced off its flight on Sunday, Arab48.com reported. Aegean Airlines forced two Israeli Arabs to disembark […]
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday announced that the PLO would officially make a decision next week regarding the upholding of contractual relations with Israel. The president made the announcement during a speech delivered in […]
By Mahmoud Zidan At the beginning of the New Year, I cannot help but remember Hadeel Rajabi, an eleven-year-old child. Do I need to say that she’s like all children at this age, full of […]
A video showing clips of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit while in Hamas captivity was released on Sunday by the Izz Eddin Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, who are responsible for Shalit’s capture in […]
Figures released by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics on Thursday suggested that Palestinians will outnumber Israeli Jews in historic Palestine by 2020. The results of the Palestinian census were released as 2015 came to […]
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan The Palestinian refugees in Gaza ended another year of decimated lives and livelihood in a man-made hell on earth. During the year, lives of the Gazans have changed for the worse […]
By Jeremy Salt The killing of Shaikh Nimr Bakr al Nimr is not without many contexts. A powerful critic of autocratic rule in Bahrain as well as Saudi Arabia, he had been a thorn in […]
By Ramzy Baroud Although intended to inspire his Fatah Party followers, a televised speech by Mahmoud Abbas on the 51st Anniversary of the group’s launch highlighted, instead, the unprecedented crisis that continues to wreak havoc […]
The UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, Makarim Wibisono, has resigned. Wibisono quit on Monday, accusing the Israeli authorities of failing to grant him access to Palestinian areas. “Unfortunately, my efforts […]
By Eugene Sigaloff I We sail upon the ocean, The sun is overhead, The boat is gently rocked, As if I were in bed. The others all around me, They seem to be afraid, I […]
Israeli military prosecutors on Sunday charged two Palestinian 12-year-old boys with attempted murder and possession of knives, the prisoners’ rights group Addameer said. A lawyer for the group, Muhammad Mahmoud, told Ma’an that the charges […]
Israeli forces have struck the small Lebanese town of Wazzani, north of the Israel-Lebanon border, local media reported, adding that there are fears of damage and injuries. The IDF has confirmed the attack, saying it […]
By Dr. Ahmed al-Burai “I counted all the gunshots in his chest one by one. Why did they shoot him? He was naked and waving with his hands pleading for their help to get medication […]
The Israeli air force early Saturday morning launched airstrikes across the Gaza Strip targeting Hamas facilities after rockets were fired from the besieged enclave, army officials said. Official sources in Gaza told Ma’an that Israeli […]
2015 was a year of phenomenal growth for the BDS movement. MEMO’s Jehan Alfarra takes a look at the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement, with exclusive interviews with academics and activists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hjH-4acE5A
The start of 2016 sees the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip entering the 10th year of the Israeli-led and internationally-backed blockade of the territory, which is exacerbated by Egyptian support. The blockade started in the […]
Israeli authorities on Friday handed over the bodies of 23 Palestinians killed while suspected of carrying out attacks on Israelis, Palestinian officials said. Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances caravanned into the southern occupied West Bank city […]
A shooting was carried out Friday near a Tel Aviv pub killing two Israelis and injuring seven, Israeli police and medics said. An Israeli police spokesperson Luba al-Samri said in a statement that the shooter […]
Egyptian authorities opened the tightly controlled Rafah Crossing to let the corpse of the Palestinian man killed by Egyptian soldiers into the Gaza Strip, Anadolu reported on Wednesday. Sources from Gaza’s interior ministry told Anadolu […]
By Eric Walberg The defeated ogre, licking his wounds, finds little comfort from his hawkish “best friend”, despite his love for Israeli birds for whom he helped raise more than ten million Canadian dollars to […]
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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