Jewish settlers today razed large tracts of Palestinian-owned land in the village of Jalud, near the West Bank city of Nablus, in order to expand their illegal settlement, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. […]
Reports in the Times of Israel indicate that the annexation of land from the occupied West Bank will be suspended until 2024, confirming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence that annexation is still on the agenda. With […]
Senior officials from Fatah and Hamas, along with those from other Palestinian organizations, are discussing the creation of committees to expedite the decisions taken at the secretary general-level meeting held in Beirut last week. On […]
Preparations are underway to hold a joint meeting on Thursday, with the participation of the heads of all the Palestinian political factions at home and abroad, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Ahmad Majdalani, Secretary-General […]
Hundreds of Palestinians on Wednesday held a protest in the occupied West Bank against last week’s announcement that Israel was normalizing ties with the United Arab Emirates. Members of all Palestinian factions took part in […]
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz called on the security institution to work on renewing security and civil coordination with the Palestinian Authority. This comes after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to annex parts of the […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday revealed that the United States prevented him from carrying out his plan to annex large swathes of the occupied West Bank, Israeli media reported. Speaking to Israeli TV Channel […]
Israeli forces Friday afternoon quelled an anti-annexation march in Kafr Qaddum town, east of Qalqiliya city, injuring dozens of protestors, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Coordinator of the Local Popular Resistance Committee Murad Ishtiwi […]
On Sunday a demonstration is planned in Montréal against the Canada Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA). Under the banner “Against Israel’s annexation of the Jordan Valley. No to the Canada Israel Free Trade Agreement!”, the […]
Israeli historian, Professor Ilan Pappe, Palestinian author and journalist, Dr. Ramzy Baroud, and South African intellectual, Dr. Anwah Nagia, talk annexation, apartheid and one state in this must-watch webinar, hosted by the Al-Ikhlass Academia Library […]
The United States Democratic party released a draft of its 2020 platform on Wednesday, in which it refrained from mentioning the Israeli occupation by name. The 80-page document serves as the blueprint for the party’s […]
Preparations are underway for a massive unity rally between Hamas and Fatah, which is said to be the first of its kind since the two Palestinian factions clashed in the summer of 2007. News of […]
China’s envoy to the United Nations, Zhang Jun, spoke forcefully on Wednesday against Israel’s plan to annex large swaths of the occupied West Bank, during a UN Security Council meeting. China strongly protested Israel’s ‘unilateral […]
Jordan’s prime minister told The Guardian on Tuesday that his country would look “positively” at a “one-state democratic solution” to the Israel-Palestine conflict, suggesting the Hashemite kingdom may support a one-state solution as Israel pushes […]
The head of the Palestinian Authority Prisoners’ and Freed Prisoners’ Commission, Qadri Abu Baker, has said that Israel is insisting on the PA resuming security cooperation in return for the release of tax revenue collected […]
On July 7, the activist group Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) launched a pledge, in which signees committed to oppose Israel’s plans to annex the Palestinian West Bank. By signing […]
Israeli forces Friday afternoon opened fire at Palestinians protesting a Jewish settlement expansion in the town of Asira Ash-Shamaliyya, near Nablus, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Israeli troops opened fire towards protesters marching […]
An Israeli minister in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government said that the resurgence of the coronavirus and political divisions were the main reasons behind the delay in Israel’s annexation of occupied Palestinian land in […]
King Abdullah II of Jordan warned Monday that any Israeli unilateral moves to annex parts of the West Bank would “undermine the prospects of achieving peace and stability in the Middle East.” King Abdullah’s comments […]
Israel’s outgoing Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, is not leaving the arena without his usual, unfounded claim that the international community is subservient to the Palestinian narrative. In a recent item in the Jerusalem Post, […]
July 1 came and went and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made no formal statement regarding annexation. That left many journalists, politicians, activists, and others feeling abandoned to speculation. Declarations of support or opposition went […]
Palestinian factions in the West Bank have called for a renewed popular uprising against the illegal Israeli occupation amid continued “colonial settlement and ethnic cleansing activities,” reports the Palestinian Information Centre (PIC). They stressed that the […]
Hundreds of Palestinian women participated in a rally in besieged Gaza to protest Israel’s plan to annex nearly 30% of the occupied West Bank. The rally on Thursday, July 9, organized by the ‘Popular March […]
From seemingly defiant rhetoric to the expected capitulation, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has offered nothing in terms of a unified Palestinian stance against US President Donald Trump’s deal of the century. Going back to […]
Wednesday, July 1, was meant to be the day on which the Israeli government officially annexed 30% of the occupied Palestinian West Bank and the Jordan Valley. This date, however, came and went and annexation […]
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated once more his willingness to renew negotiations with Israel, during a phone call with Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel. Abbas had already alluded to his willingness to re-engage with Israel […]
In October 2005, The Forward reported that Directors of Israel’s three most influential ministries met to decide how to enhance the country’s image abroad by moving the focus away from religion as well as glossing […]
Israel is planning to build more than 160 new illegal settlement units in the occupied West Bank, as it prepares to annex a third of the Palestinian territories. According to the Committee Against the Wall […]
Unilateral annexation of occupied territory is illegal under international law. But this is exactly what Israel intends to do when it comes to the West Bank. In this edition, Peter Lavelle discusses why Israel is […]
The former Speaker of Knesset (Israeli parliament), Abraham Borg, said US President Donald Trump has halted the Israeli plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, Anadolu reports. In an interview with Italian daily “Il […]
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