Just a handful of Palestinians today gathered at the Manger Square in Bethlehem to mark the start of Christmas Eve as the coronavirus pandemic has put a damper on this year’s celebrations. Unlike previous years […]
The fourth Israeli election within two years promises to be different than the previous three elections. The next election is tentatively scheduled for March 2021. It followed the collapse of the government coalition erstwhile headed […]
It is convenient to surmise that Israel’s current political crisis is consistent with the country’s unfailing trajectory of short-lived governments and fractious ruling coalitions. While this view is somewhat defensible, it is also hasty. Israel […]
Morocco formally signed a normalization agreement with Israel during a visit to the presidential palace by an Israeli delegation on Tuesday. Prime Minister Saad Eddine El Otmani signed the declaration in the presence of King […]
Ongoing attacks by Jewish settlers on Palestinians are part of a large campaign aimed at seizing more Palestinian lands and imposing new realities on the ground, B’Tselem warned yesterday. “These attacks are being carried out […]
Israeli forces dawn Wednesday shot and injured a Palestinian in the town of Bani Nai‘m, near the occupied West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil), according to The Palestinian news agency WAFA. Security sources told WAFA […]
The Israeli government collapsed on Tuesday at midnight local time after the country’s parliament failed to meet a deadline for passage of the 2020 and 2021 budgets. Israel will now head to its fourth elections […]
Talks between Israel’s Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) with Likud parties broke down yesterday evening after the former backtracked from agreements related to putting off passing the budget bill and avoiding the fourth election in […]
Twenty four Members of the European Parliament signed a petition calling on Israel to lift its 14-year blockade on Gaza to allow medical supplies in, after coronavirus cases spiked in the enclave. The petition, launched […]
The United States has passed a $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill to support industries and workers affected by the ongoing pandemic, of which hundreds of millions of dollars have been granted to Israel and its […]
Israeli forces today ordered a halt on the construction of a water well east of Ad-Dhahiriya town, near Hebron (Al-Khalil), according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Member of the Popular Committees in Southern Hebron, […]
Palestine National Council (PNC) called on the parliaments and federations of the world to support UNRWA to overcome the biggest unprecedented financial crisis in its history this year. In identical messages sent by PNC Speaker, […]
Palestinian group Hamas on Sunday accused the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of supporting Israeli occupation in violation of Palestinians’ rights, Anadolu Agency reports. “Statements made during visits by some Emirati officials to the [Israeli] occupation […]
Palestinian Gross Domestic Product (GDP) declined by 12 percent in 2020 compared to 2019 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. In a joint statement, the Palestinian Monetary Authority and the Palestinian Bureau of Statistics […]
A group of European parliamentarians from national parliaments of the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Spain and Sweden, along with members of the European Parliament, have written to US President-elect Joe Biden […]
In a recent interview with Michael Arria, Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean discuss their book Palestine: A Socialist Introduction (2020). The collection argues that socialism should be viewed as an important element in the struggle […]
Israelis have caused a remarkable tourism boom in the UAE, with over 50,000 visiting from Tel Aviv since the two countries signed a normalization agreement, a report has said. Tens of thousands of tourists flew […]
Illegal Jewish settlers uprooted today a number of olive saplings belonging to Palestinian farmers in the village of Hares, near the town of Salfit in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian news agency WAFA. […]
The Israeli army today prevented Palestinians from planting olive trees in their lands in the village of Jaloud, near the West Bank city of Nablus, under the pretext it was “state land,” according to the […]
Dozens of armed Jewish settlers, escorted by Israeli occupation soldiers, attacked today several Palestinian homes after raiding the neighborhood of Tel Rumeida in the city of Hebron (Al-Khalil), according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. […]
The notion that the COVID-19 pandemic was ‘the great equalizer’ should be dead and buried by now. If anything, the lethal disease is another terrible reminder of the deep divisions and inequalities in our societies. […]
A new political party was officially announced in Israel on Thursday by Knesset member Gideon Sa’ar who split from the ruling Likud party headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Anadolu Agency reports. The Israeli state-owned […]
Jewish settlers today destroyed water pipelines and trees in al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya village, near the city of Nablus, according to the Palesitnian news agency WAFA. Khaled Daraghmeh, a local landowner, said that a group of settlers […]
A Palestinian young man was shot and injured in the face with a rubber-coated steel bullet fired by Israeli forces in the village of Kufr Malik, near Ramallah, in the central West Bank, according to […]
The assault on free speech within Britain’s Labour Party speaks like a ghost from my past. I was banned from public speaking in apartheid South Africa almost sixty years ago. My crime aged 23, was […]
Israel could be open to cooperating with Gulf states on missile defense and help act as a regional bulwark against Iran, a top defense official said on Tuesday. “Things can be done, maybe in the […]
Israeli soldiers fired warning shots towards Lebanon yesterday after a chicken crossed the border. Nine-year-old Hussein Chartouni, from the southern village of Meiss Al-Jabal, chased his frightened fowl towards the border, triggering panic among Israeli […]
Dozens of Palestinian students and teachers today suffocated from teargas fired by the Israeli military inside their school in the village of Anin, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, according to the […]
Plans are underway to launch an Israel-Morocco Chamber of Commerce following the recent normalization between the two countries with a meeting scheduled on December 25 in Tel Aviv to discuss its inauguration. World Morocco News […]
Jewish settlers attacked and chased Palestinian shepherds while they were grazing their livestock in the village of Kisan, east of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Ahmad […]
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