Christians in the Gaza Strip will not be allowed to visit holy cities such as Bethlehem and Jerusalem to celebrate Christmas this year, Israeli authorities said on Thursday, Reuters reports. Gazan Christians will be granted permits to […]
British voters are at the polls as the Tories, led by Boris Johnson, and the Labours, led by Jeremy Corbyn, each seeks a majority. Corbyn is a long-time supporter of the Palestinian people’s struggle against […]
It was a scandal of the highest caliber. On November 23, the senate of the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa was practically bullied into reversing an earlier decision calling for the academic […]
Israeli forces today sealed off the northern entrance to Nahalin town, located to the west of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, said a municipal source. Head of Nahalin Council Hani Fanoun told WAFA […]
Brown University yesterday voted in favor of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to financially pressure Israel into ending the occupation of the Palestinian territories and allow full equality for its Arab-Palestinian […]
Senior officials joined ambassadors and other representatives from the international community in New York on Wednesday to commemorate the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, officially observed each year on November 29. Established […]
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Senate last week rejected a resolution to join an academic boycott of Israel. The ballot, held on Friday, saw 68 percent of the 363 members oppose the proposal which would […]
Israel has “tightened its restrictions” for Palestinian farmers trying to access their land located on the other side of the illegal Separation Wall, reported Haaretz. Most of the Wall’s route lies inside the occupied Palestinian territory – […]
Palestinian officials say Jewish settlers attacked five villages in the occupied West Bank overnight, torching vehicles and olive trees, and leaving graffiti on the walls of homes. Ghassan Daghlas, a spokesman for the Nablus governorate, says the Jewish settlers set […]
Doctors at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem yesterday removed the eye of Palestinian photojournalist Moath Amarneh who was shot by an Israeli sniper on Friday. A committee of specialists decided that Amarneh’s left eye must be […]
Has Netanyahu’s criminal conduct grown in leaps and bounds? It certainly has even though his coterie of fellow thugs and band of die-hard white supremacists deny it. The folly and contempt whereby he continues to […]
Boycott Campaign – Palestine (BCP) yesterday condemned Argentina and Uruguay for playing an international friendly match in Tel Aviv. Despite Israel’s recent aggression on Gaza killing 35 Palestinians, Argentina and Uruguay national football teams are […]
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has asked the head of the Blue and White Party, Benny Gantz, not to form a government backed by the Arab-majority parties, Kan reported yesterday. According to the Israeli broadcaster, Rivlin extended […]
Palestinian prisoner Nael Barghouthi yesterday entered his 40th year in Israeli jails yesterday and was placed in solitary confinement for seven days, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said. Barghouthi, the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner in Israeli […]
Dozens of journalists Sunday suffered from suffocation after inhaling tear gas fired at them by Israeli forces during a solidarity sit-in in support of injured photojournalist Moath Amarneh, to the north of the occupied West […]
For several weeks since the JStreet conference, various political commentators have focused on how Democratic candidates speaking at the gathering include the possibility of leveraging aid to Israel as part of their campaign platforms. In […]
It has been a week of appalling abuses committed by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank – little different from the other 2,670 weeks endured by Palestinians since the occupation began in 1967. The difference […]
Israeli forces yesterday demolished Palestinian houses in Bedouin communities east of occupied Jerusalem. Dawood Al-Jahalin, a spokesperson for the Abu Nuwwar Bedouin community, east of Jerusalem, said that the Israeli forces stormed several Bedouin communities east of the town of Al-Eizariya […]
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Social media users have called out the Israeli army for a Twitter post celebrating two female soldiers for cutting off their hair for a good cause. The Israeli army said the pair donated their hair to make […]
Israeli forces have committed over 600 violations against Palestinian journalists this year, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said in a report this week. The syndicate said the most violent form of violations was through opening fire at […]
An Israeli plan to run a cable car over Jerusalem to the walls of the Old City has angered Palestinians who say it would erase their heritage in areas they seek for a future state, Reuters reports. […]
A UN body has announced that Israel’s Jewish Nation-State Law contravenes international human rights laws ratified and adopted by Israel, Arab48 reported yesterday. The news website reported that the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights […]
The act of Palestinian activists covering their faces during anti-Israeli occupation rallies is an old practice that spans decades. The masking of the face, often by Kufyias – traditional Palestinian scarves that grew to symbolize […]
Israeli occupation forces were filmed yesterday assaulting a Palestinian father in front of his small child, reported the Times of Israel. The footage, which went viral on social media, was recorded in Hebron (Al-Khalil), in the […]
Video footage that has gone viral online showed an Israeli Border Police officer shooting a Palestinian man who had his back turned toward the officer, his hands up and was walking away. In the short video, […]
Israeli forces last night and on Sunday morning detained eight Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, according to a statement released the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). Israeli occupation forces assaulted Minister of […]
Jewish settlers attacked this morning a Palestinian family in the town of Dura in the southern West Bank and beat its members despite the presence of soldiers in the area, according to sources. Settlers broke […]
In the months leading up to the 2020 elections, some frontrunners are placing the mention of Palestine on the table. This has been partly because groups like IfNotNow have entered the political arena in order […]
The plans for 2,342 settler homes in the occupied West Bank have been given final approval for construction by Israel, confirmed settlement watchdog Peace Now. Approval for a building permit for the construction of the […]
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