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Month: June 2017

Eid Holidays Difficult Time for Palestinian Mothers in Israeli Jails
54 Palestinian women are currently held as prisoners in Israeli jails, according to a statement from a lawyer from the Palestinian Committee of Prisoner’s Affairs. Lawyer Hanan Al-Khatib said that the 56 prisoners – 13 […]

Support for Israel Among US Jewish Students Plummets
Support Israel in America by Jewish students has dropped by 30 percent, a new survey has revealed. Commissioned by the pro-Israel marketing group, Brand Israel Group (BIG), the report showed that support dropped from 84 […]

Lieberman: Not a Single Palestinian Refugee will Return to their Lands
During a speech at Israel’s Herzliya conference, aimed at discussing the country’s national policies, ultra-right Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman rejected the possibility of Palestinian refugees from historic Palestine, which Israel was built on, being […]

Israeli Construction Plan for Palestinians in Area C ‘Will Take Two Decades’
Amid an Israeli media firestorm and outrage from ultra right-wing Israeli politicians in recent days over plans to allow the construction of thousands of housing units for Palestinians in Area C, new reports have emerged, […]

Palestinian Family Refuses Israeli Narrative of Son’s Death
Hours after a 23-year-old Palestinian man was shot dead near Israel’s Qalandiya military crossing in the central occupied West Bank early Tuesday evening, Israeli forces raided his hometown and detained his father, with the family […]

Rights Group: Gaza Facing Worst Medical Crisis in Years
An Israeli human rights organisation has warned against the consequences of what it described as “the worst medication crisis facing the besieged coastal enclave in years,” with the main victims of the crisis being cystic […]

Building Israeli Settlement ‘Aims to Thwart Trump’s Efforts’
Nabil Abu Rudeineh, Palestinian presidential spokesman, said on Tuesday the announcement by the Israeli government to build a new settlement in the occupied West Bank “thwarts peace efforts of US President Donald Trump.” “This announcement […]

Israel vs. the United Nations: The Nikki Haley Doctrine
By Ramzy Baroud The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, seems to be championing a single cause: Israel. When Haley speaks about Israel, her language is not merely emotive nor tailored to […]

Palestine’s Youngest Female Mayor Elected
Yusra Mohammed Badwan recently became Palestine’s youngest female mayor, in the town of Azzun in the northern West Bank. Badwan, 25, was elected after her independent list, the Prisoners’ Bloc, won in the local elections. […]

World Council of Churches Pressed to Support BDS
The National Coalition of Christian Organizations in Palestine (NCCOP) recently urged the World Council of Churches (WCC) to “recognize Israel as an apartheid state,” reported the Palestine News Network. In the open letter, the Palestinian […]

On World Refugee Day, Estimates Show 66% of Palestinians Became Refugees in 1948
On the anniversary of World Refugee Day, and one month after the 69th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, or “catastrophe,” it is estimated that 66 percent of Palestinians who were living in British-Mandate Palestine in […]

Report: Israeli Army Accelerating Surveillance Network Across Occupied West Bank
Israeli news daily Haaretz published a report Sunday night, detailing the extensive network of surveillance cameras and “other monitoring devices” that the Israeli army has set up across the occupied Palestinian territory, boasting of the […]

Proposed Bill to Strip Palestinians in Israel of Their Citizenship
A proposed Israeli bill seeks to strip perpetrators of anti-occupation resistance attacks of their Israeli citizenship and their families of legal residency permits, Israeli media reported. According to Israel Hayom, the bill was introduced by […]

Israeli Officials Not Happy with Plan to Build Palestinian Houses
A number of Israeli officials have called on the Israeli government to cancel a plan that would allow for the construction of 14,000 housing units for Palestinians in Area C — the 60 percent of […]

Trump’s Aides to Meet with Netanyahu and Abbas This Week
Jason Greenblatt, US President Trump’s top national security aide, and Jared Kushner, senior advisor and son-in-law, will meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week, the white house said […]

Palestinian University Ranked in Top Three Percent Worldwide
For the first time in its history, Birzeit University in the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah has been included in the QS World University Rankings 2018. From a pool of 26,000 universities worldwide, […]

More Electricity Cuts in Gaza Put Patients’ Lives at Risk
Israel started to reduce electricity supplies to the besieged Gaza Strip on Monday, despite being urged by humanitarian organizations not to implement the decision, which came at the request of the Palestinian Authority (PA). Electricity […]

Amid Investigation, Kushner to Seek Israel-Palestine Solution
The senior adviser to the US President Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, will travel to the Middle East this week. The purpose of the trip is to push for a peace deal between the Israelis and […]

Israeli Police Storm Al-Aqsa Mosque, Attack Worshipers
Israeli police stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem on Sunday morning, right after worshipers at the site were protesting against the provocative visit of a group of Jewish settlers to the Islamic holy site. […]

Israeli Forces Detain Two B’Tselem Researchers in Hebron
Israeli forces detained two field workers for Israeli human rights group B’Tselem in the occupied Palestinian city of Hebron in the southern West Bank on Sunday, the group reported, adding that one of them had […]

The Real Terrorists in Occupied East Jerusalem
By Rima Najjar East Jerusalem is occupied by Israel. It is also illegally annexed. It is also illegally separated from the rest of the West Bank by an illegal wall. In Jerusalem, Israel boasts of 220,000 illegal Jewish settlers settled […]

1967 ‘Censored Voices’ against National Evil (VIDEO)
By Vacy Vlazna “What unites all types of evil, which are created in the different worlds of national and social interest groups, is that the “decent citizens” of all the worlds always require a semblance […]

Israeli Authorities Sentences 27 Palestinians to Administrative Detention
Israeli authorities issued administrative detention orders — imprisonment without charge or trial based on undisclosed evidence — for 27 Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons since the start of June, according to a statement released on […]

UK Might Censor Palestinian Expo Event, Activists Fear
Activists in the UK have said they fear one of the largest Palestinian cultural events in Europe is at risk of being censored by the government, Aljazeera reported. Officials have given event organizers Friends of […]

Lieberman Advocates Shuttering Al-Jazeera Israel Bureau
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Wednesday that he backs the idea of closing the Israel bureau of the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera Network. “There is no reason for Al-Jazeera to continue to transmit from Israel,” […]

Swiss Parliament Blocks Move to Criminalize BDS
The Swiss parliament has blocked a move to criminalize the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign aimed at Israel’s abuse of human rights in occupied Palestine. Although MPs voted in favor of a motion calling […]

Expert: Palestinians Receive 50% Less Aid This Ramadan
Palestinians living in the besieged Gaza Strip are receiving 50% less funding and aid than would normally be entering the Strip during Ramadan, according to a Palestinian economic expert. This has meant local charity organizations […]

Rights Group: Gaza Facing Worst Medical Crisis in Year
An Israeli human rights organisation has warned against the consequences of what it described as “the worst medication crisis facing the besieged coastal enclave in years,” with the main victims of the crisis being cystic […]

‘The Art of Sharing Life’: Documenting Life in Palestinian Camps in Lebanon (Part I)
Following three days of training in Shatila camp in Beirut, and a day of fieldwork, participants in the ‘The Art of Sharing Life Stories with the Masses’, produced twelve projects, each of which conveyed a […]

Israel and PA Failed To Prosecute War Crimes: UN
The UN high commissioner for human rights has accused Israeli and Palestinian authorities of failing to fully investigate alleged violations of international humanitarian law and human rights, in a new report released on Monday. “Impunity […]