A disabled Palestinian man sustained severe wounds and bruises to his face and body after a private Israeli security guard beat him in the occupied East Jerusalem town of Silwan on Wednesday evening, Felesteen newspaper […]
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Friday condemned the decision by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to delay long-awaited polls. “The decision to postpone the planned Palestinian elections, including the legislative elections originally scheduled for […]
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced last night that the first Palestinian national election in 15 years has been postponed until Israel allows the vote to take place in Jerusalem. The election was due to […]
(The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, A Daughter’s Quest, and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil. Charlotte Dennett. Chelsea Green Publishing. London/White River Junction, VT. 2020.) Titles can be deceptive […]
A Palestinian man sustained injuries today after he was shot by Israeli occupation forces near the village of al-Nashash, south of the city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian news […]
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday said elections will be postponed until there is a guarantee that voting can take place in occupied East Jerusalem, further delaying polls in a country that last voted […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reappointed Blue and White leader Benny Gantz as justice minister in the current caretaker government, local media reported yesterday. On Tuesday night, the Israeli High Court froze Netanyahu’s attempt […]
In a dramatic escalation representative of global outrage against Israel’s tsunami of crimes against Palestinians, a new report has made scathing findings on them. New York-based Human Rights Watch, (HRW), released a detailed legal report […]
Israel said Thursday that it had re-opened the fishing zone off the blockaded Gaza Strip, after closing it earlier this week. “Following security consultation, it was decided today to re-open the fishing zone,” said a […]
A Palestinian shepherd was injured today after extremist Jewish settlers severely assaulted him northwest of the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, according to sources. Ibrahim Hamdoun, 66, from the village of Mareeha, told WAFA […]
Hamas yesterday said it believes the expected announcement to cancel the Palestinian general elections comes under external pressure, a statement said. “We believe that postponing or canceling the elections is a result of external pressure […]
President Mahmoud Abbas received today at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah the Representative of the European Union in Palestine, Sven Kuhn von Burgsdorff, and discussed with him the latest developments regarding holding Palestinian legislative elections […]
Human Rights Watch’s Israel and Palestine director, Omar Shakir, spoke with The New Arab’s Arabic-language sister site, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, about the ground-breaking report which has been widely shared on social media. HRW has said that […]
At a recent virtual J Street Conference, US Senators, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren broke yet another political taboo when they expressed willingness to leverage US military aid as a way to pressure Israel to […]
The Palestinian BDS National Committee has called on the Palestinian Authority to cancel its membership in the East Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF), saying the membership “gives legitimacy to Israel to steal natural gas off the […]
Jewish settlers Wednesday overnight set three Palestinian-owned vehicles on fire near the village of Beit Iksa, northwest of Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Local sources said that a group of Jewish settlers […]
Israeli forces on Monday detained at least 11 Palestinians, mostly from the occupied city of East Jerusalem, according to security sources and witnesses. They confirmed that Israeli police rounded up three Palestinians after assaulting them […]
Palestinian prisoner Imad Sawarka has entered the 40th day of his hunger strike in protest of his continued administrative detention by Israel in Ashkelon prison, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club announced yesterday. “Sawarka’s health has been […]
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is set to announce the cancellation of the Palestinian elections under the pretext of Israel’s refusal to allow Jerusalemites to cast their votes, various local and Israeli sources have reported. […]
Human Rights Watch said Tuesday that Israel is committing the crime of “apartheid” by seeking to maintain Jewish “domination” over Palestinians and its own Arab population, an explosive allegation fiercely denounced by Israel. Currently under […]
The Israeli government has banned Palestinian fishermen from working off the coast of Gaza, Wafa news agency has reported. Already prevented from fishing in the full 12 nautical miles of occupied Palestine’s own territorial waters, […]
Israel’s status as an apartheid state is likely to be cemented further with a new report by Human Rights Watch concluding that the occupation state has crossed the threshold to be classified as such. The […]
Over thirty years ago, James Baldwin was the subject of a PBS documentary The Price of the Ticket (1989) in which he reflected on what he considered a lack of progress in combatting racism in […]
President Mahmoud Abbas is going to head a meeting on Thursday night to discuss the legislative elections and other developments, today said Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh. The elections have been planned for May 22, and […]
Israeli police have conceded to Palestinian demands to remove a barricade around occupied East Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate, which has been by Israel to control the movement of Palestinians in the Al-Aqsa Mosque area. Israeli police […]
Ramadan, the holy month of fasting in Islam, should be a time of spiritual reflection and a reordering of the Ummah’s collective priorities. Unfortunately, in the age of globalization, unmitigated consumption and self-centered, individualistic approach […]
Three Palestinians were injured late Saturday by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, Anadolu Agency reports. A ministry statement said three Palestinians were treated from gas inhalation in […]
Protests took place in the city of Jaffa near Tel Aviv on Friday over plans to evacuate buildings inhabited by Palestinian citizens of Israel in the al-Ajami neighborhood and sell them to Jewish investors. Using […]
Palestinian journalist and detainee in Israeli jails, Alaa Rimawi, has been on an open-ended hunger strike for the fourth day in a row, according to the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission. Rimawi, who works as […]
Three people were injured by Israeli army gunfire and many sites were destroyed in several Israeli strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip last night and early this morning, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Israeli soldiers […]
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