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Month: July 2017
Palestinian Family Rejoices for New Baby, a Product of Smuggled Sperm
A Palestinian prisoner became a father of a baby boy yesterday after he smuggled his sperm out of Israel’s Gilboa prison last year, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Commission has revealed. The head of the Committee, […]
Israel Could Lose UN General Assembly Voting Rights
Israel could lose its voting rights at the UN General Assembly if the government keeps its pledge of cutting UN funding by $10.7 million. Since the end of 2016, Israel has cut funding to numerous […]
Only the News That Fits: How American Media Erase Palestine – Even Alternative Media
By Alison Wier A few years later I wrote about Palestinian toddlers killed by Israeli drones, and a few years later about Palestinian children shot in the head. I wrote stories about dead Palestinian mothers, […]
Israeli Settlers Urge Cabinet to Hold Meeting at Ibrahimi Mosque
Settlers have urged the Israeli Cabinet to hold a meeting at the Ibrahimi Mosque in occupied Hebron (Al-Khalil) in defiance of UNESCO’s recent ruling that it is a Palestinian heritage site. The UN cultural body […]
Israeli Court Sentences Two Brothers to Five Years in Prison
An Israeli military court at Israel’s Ofer detention center in the central occupied West Bank sentenced two Palestinian brothers from the village of Surif in the southern Hebron district to five years in prison for […]
Fighting the Wrong Enemy: Why Americans Hate Muslims
By Ramzy Baroud Two officers sought me from within a crowd at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. They seemed to know who I was. They asked me to follow them, and I obliged. Being of Arab […]
Israel’s Ever-more Sadistic Reprisals Help Shore up a Sense of Victimhood
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth When Israel passed a new counter-terrorism law last year, Ayman Odeh, a leader of the country’s large minority of Palestinian citizens, described its draconian measures as colonialism’s “last gasp”. He […]
Israeli War Game Camps Attract Tourism
Ever wanted to try and shoot a Palestinian? Israel has set up a military simulator which allows tourists to do just that. Controversial fantasy “anti-terrorism” camps set up in the occupied West Bank provide visitors […]
Palestinians Denounce Orthodox Patriarchate for Selling Land to Israel
Dozens of Palestinian activists and representatives of Christian Orthodox groups organized a sit-in on Sunday in the southern occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem to denounce the Greek Orthodox Church Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, […]
Germany Watching Israeli Settlement Plans ‘with Concern’
The German government said on Monday that it was gravely concerned about Israeli settlement plans in East Jerusalem. It said in a statement by the German Foreign Ministry that it was “watching with great concern” […]
Israeli Settlers Raid Palestinian Village, Spark Clashes
Clashes broke out late Monday night between young Palestinian men and Israeli forces who stormed the village of Kifl Haris in central occupied West Bank district of Salfit to escort hundreds of Israeli settlers on […]
Israel Holds Chairwoman of Palestinian Women’s Union without Charge or Trial
Israeli authorities sentenced Khitam Al-Saafin, the chairwoman of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committee, to three months in administrative detention on Sunday. The head of the legal unit for prisoners’ rights group Addameer, Mahmoud Hassan, […]
200,000 Palestinian Children Take Part in UNRWA’S Summer Camp in Gaza
186,000 children have registered to participate in a month-long program of summer activities organized by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). The ‘Summer Fun Weeks’ (SFWs) […]
Responding to UNESCO Resolution, Netanyahu Announces Building of Settlement Museum
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently announced his decision to withhold a further $1 million in Israel’s membership dues to the United Nations and invest this money in a settlement museum, in protest of a […]
Children with Cystic Fibrosis in Gaza in ‘Mortal Danger’
Scores of Palestinian children being treated at a Gaza City Hospital for cystic fibrosis are facing possible imminent death, relatives and medical sources told Ma’an. Rights groups described the current situation in Gaza as the […]
35,000 Palestinians still Displaced from 2014 War
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) released a statement on Friday that highlighted the continuous devastation faced by residents of the besieged Gaza Strip three years after Israel’s 2014 offensive, as tens of thousands of Palestinians […]
Nablus: Israel Orders Work on Natural Reserve to Stop
Israeli forces ordered on Sunday a halt on cultivating works at a natural reserve in the village of Khirbet al-Tawil, south of Nablus, according to local sources, Wafa news agency has reported. Yousef Deriya, member […]
Jewish Ethnicity, Palestinian Solidarity, Human Identity – Interview with Richard Falk
By Richard Falk [The following interview with Abdo Emara, an Arab journalist was published in Arabic; it is here republished in slightly modified form. The changes made are either stylistic or clarifying. There are no […]
India/Israel Axis of Colonial Occupation Will Fail – in Kashmir and in Palestine
By Iqbal Jassat Observers and analysts of political trends in India since the defeat of the Congress Party at the hands of an extreme rightwing movement, the BJP, will not be surprised by recent turn […]
Report: Israel Committed 310 Violations against Palestinian Journalists since January
Some 310 violations have been committed by Israeli forces against journalists since the start of the year, the Committee for the Support of Journalists revealed in a report. The report, which covers the period between […]
First In Palestine: Electricity Generated From Sewage
For the first time in Palestine, Palestinian engineers managed to produce electricity from sewage in the city of Nablus in the West Bank, after establishing a sewage treatment facility, Wafa News Agency reported. “Sewage and […]
#AirCanadaComplicity: Air Canada and Israel Aerospace Industries
By Marion Kawas July 8, 2014 marked the beginning of 51 days of hell for Gaza and its civilian population. July 8, 2014 was the start of the last brutal Israeli military attack on Gaza […]
EU Condemns Israel’s Illegal Settlement Plans
The European Union (EU) condemned Israel’s plans to advance some 1,500 new illegal settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem in a statement released Friday, which said the plans “undermines the viability of the two-state solution […]
Israeli Forces Attack and Injure Palestinian, Korean Activists
Israeli forces injured six Palestinians and a Korean activist on Friday in the village of Kafr Qaddum in the northern occupied West Bank district of Qalqiliya during the village’s weekly march against the Israeli occupation. […]
23 Female Palestinian Prisoners Reportedly Assaulted by Israeli Prison Staff
The head of the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs released a statement on Wednesday saying that twenty-three Palestinian women had reported being assaulted by Israeli prison officials in Israel’s Damon prison. Issa Qaraqe said that […]
Palestinian Government Hails UNESCO’s Refuting of Israeli Claims In Jerusalem
The Palestinian government in Ramallah hailed on Wednesday a new UNESCO resolution refuting Israeli claims in occupied East Jerusalem and calling all Israeli measures there as null and void. Government spokesman Yousef al-Mahmoud said the […]
Instead of Taylor Force Act, Congress Should Consider Rachel Corrie Act, Orwah Hammad Act
By Kathryn Shihadah Sometimes it takes a tragedy to bring about change. The story of Taylor Force is one such tragedy. A young American in the prime of his life was stabbed to death in an unnecessary, […]
Israel’s Illegitimate Tactics against Palestinian Armed Resistance vs. Legitimate Global Security Concerns
By Rima Najjar Israel, a rogue state if ever there was one, pursues its “security” as a Jewish Zionist entity on all of Mandate Palestine through demonizing Palestinian Arabs, whom it has long subjected to […]
Dutch Group Raises Largest Palestinian Flag in Europe
An organization in the Netherlands has raised the world’s largest Palestinian flag in Europe, according to a statement released by the group on Wednesday. The organization, called KOFIA, said in a statement that the flag […]
New Head of Hamas Ismael Haniyeh Affirms Commitment to Resistance
In his first speech at the new Head of the Hamas politburo, Ismail Haniyeh stressed that the Palestinian right of return, the liberation of Palestinian lands and holy sites, and the establishment of an independent […]