Israeli tanks have fired into the Gaza Strip, allegedly in response to shots fired from there at Israeli troops, the Israeli army claimed, adding that none of its soldiers were injured in the gunfire. The […]
By Jonathan Cook There is an astounding double standard being applied to the US presidential election result. A few weeks ago the corporate media were appalled that Donald Trump demurred on whether he would accept […]
Residents of the illegal settlement outpost of Amona in the central occupied West Bank voted on Sunday to approve a relocation plan put forward by the Israeli government, after weeks of discussions trying to assuage […]
Three Palestinian MPs, who have been stripped off their diplomatic immunity by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, have sought protection at the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Ramallah today. The three […]
The United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner published a press statement on December 17 2016, which denounced the “daily violations” of Palestinian human rights and international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. […]
The Hamas movement’s military wing Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades released a statement today confirming that the Tunisian aviation engineer Muhammad al-Zawahri who was reportedly assassinated on Thursday in Tunisia was one its leaders and manufactured […]
Footage has emerged on Facebook showing Israeli occupation forces setting fire to Palestinian property in Nablus, West Bank. Firefighters Under Occupation published the CCTV recording which dates back to September 22 and clearly shows Israeli […]
The municipality of Bethlehem has decided to choose ‘mercy’ as a theme of the Christmas Tree erected at the Church of Nativity in the city, “since it is what is most needed for the Palestinian […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly held two meetings over the past weeks regarding the demolition of Palestinian homes and structures inside Israel and occupied East Jerusalem, according to Israeli news site Arutz Sheva. […]
Outgoing United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon today urged Israeli lawmakers to reconsider a bill to legalize Israeli settlements built on private Palestinian land as Arab states mull putting forward a Security Council resolution on settlements. […]
US President-elect Donald Trump has chosen right-winger David Friedman as America’s next ambassador to Israel. The 57-year-old lawyer is strongly critical of the long-held US goal of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He also […]
United Nations officials expressed their outrage at Israeli accusations that the UN is funding a school in Gaza that “glorifies terror.” Ofir Gendelman, the spokesperson of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the Arab […]
Like Trump, you can dislike Bashar, dislike the Syrian system, and support the need for reform without allowing yourself to be sucked into this vortex of dishonesty put out by a media accusing everyone else […]
The Ramallah Anti-Corruption Crimes Court sentenced Muhammad Dahlan, a dismissed member of the Fatah movement living in exile in the United Arab Emirates and longtime rival of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, to three years in […]
France is said to have postponed until early next year a planned Palestinian-Israeli peace conference originally slated to be held on December 21, Palestinian officials said on Wednesday. The Palestinian Ambassador to France, Salman el-Herfi, […]
The largest student union in Britain has officially endorsed the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, in a significant success for Palestine solidarity activists. The University of Manchester’s Student Union Senate voted last Thursday to […]
The lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Club has convoyed a message from Nael Albarghouthi to his family that the he is slated “to be released from Israeli jail after serving his sentence.” Albarghouthi spent a […]
An Islamic Jihad delegation which had visited Cairo recently delivered a message from the Egyptian government to Hamas, Almasryoun website reported. The jest of the message is that Cairo is ready to have good relationship […]
By Ramzy Baroud When a veteran war reporter like Robert Fisk constructs his argument regarding the siege of Aleppo based on ‘watching’ video footage, then one can truly comprehend the near impossibility of adequate media […]
UNICEF announced on Tuesday that 41 per cent of disabled Palestinian children suffer from more than one disability, Safa news agency has reported. The statistic was revealed at a workshop in the Gaza Strip, where […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth At first glance, it looked like a generous promotional stunt by Israel to aid the Palestinians’ struggling tourism industry. Israeli military authorities published this month a video on social media […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his visit to Kazakhstan on Tuesday is historic, as it is the first visit of n Israeli Prime Minister to this dominantly Muslim country in Central Asia. Netanyahu claimed […]
Israeli officials will reportedly boycott Margot Wallström, the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, who is making an official visit to Tel Aviv and Ramallah on Thursday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is refusing to meet with […]
By Ramzy Baroud After years of holding the Palestinian struggle hostage to their factional-feud, the current enemy of Palestinian unity today is not just the Fatah-Hamas dispute. According to Mouin Rabbani, writing in Al Jazeera, another […]
A Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) delegation met with US officials in Washington, D.C. on Monday as a final meeting with President Barack Obama’s administration before the transition to President-Elect Donald Trump in January. A joint […]
Two thirds of Palestinians believe the two-state solution is no longer viable and want Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to step down, a Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) poll revealed on Wednesday, as […]
A senior adviser of President-elect Donald Trump reiterated on Monday that moving the US Embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem would be a “very big priority” for the incoming administration. Kellyanne Conway’s comments received wide coverage […]
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority President, has stripped five Fatah MPs off their diplomatic impunity, according to Palestinian sources in the Palestinian Parliament and Presidency, which asked for their identity to be kept secret. According […]
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, PFLP, has hailed the victory of Palestinian hunger strike after he was a released from Israeli jail yesterday, following a 71-day hunger strike to protest Israel’s refusal […]
British Prime Minister Theresa May today announced the government’s formal adoption of a definition of anti-Semitism that includes criticism of the State of Israel and Zionism. The PM made the announcement in a speech for […]
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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