Israel detained 509 Palestinians in January from occupied Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip, including 89 children and eight women, according to Palestinian prisoners rights groups. What’s behind #Israel’s crackdown on Palestinian prisoners? https://t.co/1gQoR3CDaA […]
Former Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman yesterday warned that the next confrontation with the Gaza Strip must be the last. Lieberman said: “For nearly a year, since the [Great March of Return] started along the […]
The UK government has expressed concern about Israel’s expulsion of Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem, responding to a question from Labour MP Richard Burden. In a question to the Secretary of State for Foreign and […]
Two Palestinian photojournalists based in Gaza have won Awards of Excellence at the 76th Pictures of the Year International (POYI) from the Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, Missouri, in the United States. Congratulations to […]
By Marion Kawas In 1976, the late Shafik al-Hout sat in the living room of a house in Vancouver, Canada with local supporters and passionately tried to mobilize them to be active for Palestine. Give […]
Unemployment rate in the Gaza Strip sharply increased in 2018 to reach 52% compared with 44% in 2017, while in the West Bank it was 18% in 2018, compared to 19% the year before, the […]
A legal battle is underway in the US state of Maryland to reverse an anti-Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) legislation denounced as “unconstitutional”. Syed Saqib Ali – a former Maryland state representative – today filed […]
Israel is “intensifying” its settlement activity in and around Jerusalem’s Old City, according to NGO Ir Amim. Publishing a new map yesterday, Ir Amim described an “accelerated, intensifying chain of new facts on the ground in […]
The Israeli military is preparing for a major new offensive in the besieged Gaza Strip. The Israeli army’s Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi – who was sworn in last month – “has already prioritized preparations for a potential […]
By Ramzy Baroud American politicians from the two main parties have finally found something to agree upon. Democrats and Republicans alike want more intervention in Venezuela. “Now, despite [President Nicolas] Maduro, there is hope […]
By Jonathan Cook You might imagine that a report by a multinational observer force documenting a 20-year reign of terror by Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers against Palestinians, in a city under occupation, would provoke […]
A Palestinian teen succumbed, late Tuesday, to wounds he had sustained by Israeli forces last Friday during protests at the eastern borders of the al-Breij refugee camp in the central besieged Gaza Strip. Spokesperson of […]
Leader of the Israel Resilience (Hosen L’Yisrael) party Benny Gantz yesterday published new election campaign videos on social media, including an attack on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s support for the 2005 removal of settlers from […]
The Israeli army has prevented Palestinian activists from documenting Jewish settlers’ crimes against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil). This came after a group of Palestinian activists called Youth Against Settlement […]
A number of Israeli and international companies are facing the risk of being included on a United Nations blacklist for doing business in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to a report. The […]
By Ramona Wadi Years after the two-state paradigm was declared obsolete, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process has informed the Security Council that, “The possibility of establishing a viable, contiguous Palestinian […]
A Palestinian was shot and injured by Israeli live fire, on late Monday, east of Gaza City. Local sources told Ma’an that Israeli forces opened fire towards a group of Palestinians, east of Gaza City, […]
The Palestinian foreign minister is asking Arab countries to boycott or downgrade their representation at the upcoming US-sponsored Middle East summit in Poland. Riad Malki said that Arab nations should at a minimum send low-profile […]
Two Palestinians were killed overnight in a tunnel between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, Gaza’s interior ministry said Monday. Bozum said 39-year-old major Abdelhamid al-Akar and Sabhy Abu Qarushayn, 28, “suffocated due to the inhalation of toxic […]
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has cut the salaries of 263 employees from Gaza’s Ministry of Health, most of whom are doctors, as well as a further 400 employees from the Education Ministry, mainly teachers. Spokespersons […]
By Iqbal Jassat Last week, Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions against Israel in South Africa (BDS-SA) announced it would fight a proposed offer by Central Bottling Company, the Israeli bottler of Coca Cola, to buy Clover, a […]
By Ramona Wadi Palestinians are in dire need of humanitarian aid. So dire, in fact, that the EU has no qualms about conditioning financial aid in terms of acquiescence to the two-state paradigm. The United […]
Israeli forces opened fire at Palestinian shepherds in Khan Younis in the southern besieged Gaza Strip, on Monday. Witnesses told a Ma’an reporter that Israeli forces deployed in military watchtowers in eastern Khuzaa, in Khan […]
Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has called on the African Union to send monitors for potential Palestinian elections. While speaking at the 32nd meeting of the African Union, Abbas asked member states to support […]
UNICEF has said that it is “saddened” by Israel’s killing of two children in the Gaza Strip this weekend. In a statement yesterday, UNICEF’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa Geert Cappelaere expressed the […]
Palestinian activists on Sunday launched a campaign aimed at protecting local residents against settler attacks in the West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil). Mohamed Zghayyar, a spokesman for the NGO Youth Coalition Against Settlements, told Anadolu […]
Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, detained a Palestinian, on Saturday, who was suspected of killing a Jewish settler, who was found dead in a forest between the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo and the al-Walaja village […]
Palestinians living in the Netherlands will be allowed to register the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as their official place of birth, Dutch State Secretary Raymond Knops told the House of Representatives in The […]
By Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo Hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets of the besieged Gaza to show their support for the democratically-elected government of Venezuela and it’s legitimate leader, President Nicolas Maduro. Venezuela is struggling […]
The Israeli Prison Services yesterday announced the death of 36-year-old Palestinian prisoner Yasser Hamid Ishtea, making him the second Palestinian prisoner to die in an Israeli jail in the past three days. According to Israel’s Channel […]
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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