In a world first, British surgeon Dr. Shafi Ahmed live-streamed an operation using Google glasses allowing students around the world to get a doctor’s view of the procedure last Thursday. Medical students and staff in […]
Israeli authorities’ closure of 35 Palestinian quarries in the occupied West Bank since March is threatening the livelihoods of 3,500 workers and may constitute “collective punishment,” a Human Rights Watch report revealed on Thursday. The […]
Some 15 per cent of the Jews who moved to Israel from the former Soviet Union have now left the country, Israel’s Channel 10 revealed yesterday. They moved to many countries with the majority now […]
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan In their attempt to win the Jewish vote and money, the presidential candidates from the US major parties typically pledge their affection and support for Israel. While Israel is the one […]
A Palestinian man severely wounded in an explosion on a Jerusalem bus on Monday evening has succumbed to his wounds, a spokesperson for the Shaare Zedek hospital told Ma’an on Wednesday evening. The spokesperson said […]
By Ramzy Baroud “We won’t act like them, we will not use violence or force, we are peaceful, we believe in peace, in peaceful popular resistance.” This was part of a message issued by […]
Radical right-wing Israeli activists gathered in Jerusalem on Monday, where speakers called for the destruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, and the construction of a Temple. The event, held on Mount […]
By Brian Wood The trust of a child, the openness of their hearts and souls, is one of the most stirring experiences to possibly have in this form and on this earth. I could not […]
The Israeli Supreme Court has sentenced Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, to nine months in prison over charges of “inciting violence” in a religious sermon dating back to […]
That’s an increase of only $159 million since the last time the World Bank issued data on the donations in August 2015, and major pledgers continue to fall short: Qatar has given only 15 percent […]
Palestinian prisoners Lena Jarbouni, the longest serving woman prisoner, who has entered her fifteenth year in Israeli prisons, and Khalida Jarrar, Palestinian parliamentarian feminist, leftist and prisoner advocate, issued messages to the Palestinian people on […]
Jordan has decided to halt the installation of surveillance cameras inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah al-Nsoor said on Monday. The decision was reached after “some of our people in Palestine complained […]
A bus has exploded in Jerusalem, leaving around 16 casualties, Israeli media report, citing emergency medical services. The massive explosion occurred in Hebron Way, west Jerusalem, with police citing “a militant attack” as the probable […]
Palestine hopes a French initiative to revive peace talks between it and Israel will be backed by major world powers, including Russia, saying recognition of statehood is not a “political risk” but a “value,” Foreign […]
Now, as Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi announced his country had redrawn its naval borders with Saudi and conceded the islands of Sanafir and Tiran, it has become evident that Saudi was in talks with […]
The one-day Australians for Palestine Symposium “In the Eye of the Storm: Palestine and the New Media” was held in Melbourne, Australia at the Telstra Conference Centre on Thursday 31 March 2016 with keynote speakers […]
Hundreds of Palestinians rallied on Sunday in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip commemorating Palestinian Prisoner’s Day. The rally in Gaza City, which was organized by a prisoners’ committee representing various Palestinian factions, marched from […]
A recent resolution adopted by the UN’s culture agency criticizing “Israeli aggression” and restrictions on Muslim worship at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque has prompted accusations by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the resolution ignores Jewish […]
By Rachel Astarte In Jerusalem There is a quiet I am looking for from bulldozers from blastings from smoldering anger There is a place I have never seen although I have imagined it during childhood […]
By Dr. Abdel Sattar Qassem Europe’s recent announcement that Jerusalem is the capital of two states to be achieved through negotiations between Palestinian and Israel was a rejection of Sweden’s proposal that there be explicit […]
The Committee to Support Palestinian Journalists said on Saturday that Israel has detained 43 journalists in the occupied Palestinian territory since October 2015, including two foreign reporters. The New York-based committee said in a report […]
Nearly two years after Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip, the war bitterly divided Sen. Bernie Sanders and front-runner Hillary Clinton during a contentious Thursday night Democratic presidential debate. Asked if he thought Israel’s attacks, […]
The US has accused Israel of an “excessive use of force” against Palestinians, amounting to a violation of human rights, in its annual report of global human rights abuses. The US Country Reports on Human […]
By Aida Qasim Why do you laugh like a giddy school girl in your mid life? And why does your face rebel against the artist’s chisel? Growing cactus in your garden rather than respectable hyacinth […]
Palestinian refugees in the Yarmouk camp are facing a dire humanitarian situation amid the intensification of clashes between Daesh and Al-Nusra Front in the camp, the Jafra Foundation has revealed. Clashes began the two groups […]
An Israeli military court confirmed on Thursday that it would charge an Israeli soldier with manslaughter over the high-profile killing of a Palestinian in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron in March. The […]
The Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality in the Israeli Knesset is to discuss today a draft bill that would separate Arab and Jewish women in the maternity wards of Israeli hospitals, […]
Reviewed by Jim Miles (Ally – My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide. Michael B. Oren. Random House, New York, 2015.) Reading a work that would obviously be very pro-Israel sets up an anticipatory set of […]
By Iqbal Jassat Will media blackout on Tiran and Sanafir now be lifted following Saudi monarch’s recent high profile visit to Egypt? This appears to be the expectation if Arab media is to be believed […]
By Ramzy Baroud “Whether he made a mistake or not, is a trivial question,” said an Israeli Jewish man who joined large protests throughout Israel in support of a soldier who calmly, and with precision, killed […]
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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