Israeli authorities declared that a week-long general closure of the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip will commence on Friday ahead of the Jewish holiday of Passover, also known as Pesach. The general […]
The Israeli police released, on Wednesday, video footage showing Israeli undercover forces detaining two Palestinian minors from the Shufat refugee camp, in occupied East Jerusalem. The Israeli police said, in a statement, that Israeli undercover […]
A Palestinian student was shot and injured with Israeli live fire, on Thursday afternoon, in Tuqu village, southeast of the southern occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem. According to local sources, following funeral processions of […]
After winning the Israeli election with a slim majority, in a campaign that grew more sordid and vilifying by the day, Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to begin his fifth term as Israeli prime minister. The […]
For over 20 years, Vancouver activists have been picketing the fund-raising galas of the Jewish National Fund JNF and exposing its racist and discriminatory policies. The JNF in Canada, as in many other countries, receives […]
The Israeli army covered up the killing of a Palestinian father by illegal Jewish settlers, Israeli NGO B’Tselem has claimed. Twenty-three-year-old Muhammad Abd Al-Fatah was killed near Huwara, a village located off route 60 south […]
The Israeli authorities confiscated 51,000 dunams and isolated five villages in the Jordan Valley area in the northern occupied West Bank, an official in charge of Jordan Valley’s Israeli settlements file at the Palestinian Authority […]
The main entrance of the Azzun village, in the northern occupied West Bank district of Qalqiliya, has remained sealed off by Israeli forces for 19 consecutive days, according to local sources on Sunday. Israeli forces […]
Israeli forces rounded up ten Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the occupied West Bank, on Monday, Anadolu reports. In a statement, the army said that the individuals had been detained for “suspected involvement in popular […]
Israeli forces attacked young Palestinian students in the West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil), on Sunday, by firing tear-gas bombs and sound grenades towards them. According to local sources, Israeli forces physically attacked several students […]
A Palestinian minor was hospitalized after Israeli forces physically assaulted him in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood, in Hebron City (Al-Khalil), in the southern occupied West Bank. Local sources confirmed that Yousef Abu Aysha, 15, was […]
Dozens of Palestinian students suffered from severe tear-gas inhalation, on Sunday, after Israeli forces raided a high school in the village of Urif, in the occupied West Bank district of Nablus. According to local sources, […]
A Palestinian was shot and injured with Israeli live fire, on Saturday afternoon, in the West Bank district of Hebron (Al-Khalil). According to local sources, Israeli police forces fired live ammunition towards Hussein Abed Abu […]
Israeli forces detained two Palestinians, on Saturday, as they passed through an Israeli military checkpoint in Tel Rumeida, in Hebron (Al-Khalil), in the southern occupied West Bank. Local sources said that Israeli forces detained two […]
Airbnb has reversed its decision to ban some 200 listings by Zionist settlers in the West Bank while allowing them to continue in occupied east Jerusalem and the occupied and illegally annexed Golan Heights. The […]
A team of Palestinian surgeons at Al-Makassed Hospital in Jerusalem led by professor Nizar Hajja took out a bullet from the heart of Gazan child, Al-Watan Voice reported yesterday. Eight-year-old Ibrahim was shot while playing with his friends […]
Home-renting company, Airbnb, confirmed it would not implement a planned delisting of Jewish settlements, which are considered illegal under international law, in the occupied West Bank and would “donate proceeds from any of these bookings […]
A business seminar in Tel Aviv themed “Doing business with the European Union” leaves no doubts as to where the institution’s loyalties lie. Organized by the Delegation of the European Union to Israel, the Foreign […]
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday refused to reaffirm US support for a Palestinian state after Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu pledged to annex West Bank settlements. Testifying before a Senate subcommittee just as Israel […]
Palestinian prime minister-designate Mohammed Shtayyeh will announce the makeup of his new government in the coming days, which rival faction Hamas have already accused of being a “power grab” by Fatah. The new Ramallah-based administration […]
Israeli authorities declared that a general closure will be imposed on the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip from midnight on Monday and continuing until midnight on Wednesday, as Israelis prepare to head to […]
A Jewish settler ran over a Palestinian youth on Route 60 near the illegal Jewish settlement of Gush Etzion in the southern occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem. Muhammad Awad, head of the Palestinian Red […]
Palestinian leaders reacted with anger to Netanyahu’s vow to annex Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank if he wins another term in office. Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator and a close aide to […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that he would annex Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank if he wins another term in office, a last-minute pre-election promise likely to enrage Palestinians and the […]
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel used force “wisely” in the Gaza Strip, as Israeli soldiers have killed “more than 300” Palestinians near the eastern fence of the besieged enclave. In an interview […]
A 16-year-old Palestinian on Friday was seriously injured after being run over by a Jewish settler in the southern West Bank, according to a Palestinian official. Ibrahim Abu Zara, governor oh Hebron’s Yatta municipality, told Anadolu […]
Dozens of birds suffocated to death due to an excessive amount of tear-gas bombs fired by Israeli forces throughout the Sebastia village, northwest of the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus, on Thursday. Mayor […]
Israeli occupation authorities have advanced plans for a new bypass road for settlers in the occupied West Bank, reported the Times of Israel. According to the news site, the Defence Ministry “has granted approval for construction […]
An Israeli court yesterday extended the detention of Mustafa Kharouf, a Palestinian photojournalist who works for Turkey’s Anadolu Agency, in the West Bank. The Central Court in occupied East Jerusalem announced its decision to extend the […]
There is a memorable passage from satirist Evelyn Waugh’s perhaps purposively unremembered political masterpiece “Black Mischief” (1932), in which Basil Seal, the chief Anglo architect of a modernization program in the fictional African island nation […]
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