UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says he regrets that no progress has been made to solve the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The situation in Gaza, and particularly the suffering of the Palestinian people, is a […]
Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh says the resistance movement remains committed to the liberation of the Palestinian territories from the Israeli occupation. "Islamic resistance movement of Hamas will not back down and will continue its […]
By Mary Rizzo Barack Obama is a very handsome man. He has the charisma of a showman. He speaks very well, and what’s more, he can even dance. It’s not clear whether that is sufficient […]
By Catherine Wilson – London As the sun touched the horizon, a rose glow filled the sky over the town of Beet Jala, near Bethlehem. In the home of Palestinian artist, Rana Bishara, the haunting […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY SEATTLE/TORONTO/LONDON – A promotional short film for a new book on Gaza is being released worldwide today, days before the official book launch in the U.K., to commemorate […]
The Palestinian movement Hamas is celebrating its 22nd anniversary with a ceremony in the Gaza Strip, an area it took control of more than two years ago. Thousands of supporters wearing green, the party’s colour, […]
The Israeli cabinet has approved a proposal by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allocate millions of dollars in extra funds to "national priority zones" in the West Bank. The cabinet voted on Sunday to approve […]
Hezbollah deputy leader sheikh Naim Qassem has ruled out a war with Israel, but says the movement is fully ready to repel any assault by the regime on the country. "We have an interest in […]
Israeli rabbis have ruled that all Palestinian prisoners should be killed on the spot if captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is killed by the Hamas movement. "If Gilad Shalit, heaven forbid, is executed or not […]
The secretary general of the Palestinian National Reconciliation Committee, Eyad al-Sarraj, has stated that Egypt has agreed to host immediate talks between Hamas and Fatah before they sign the Egyptian proposal. Sarraj said that this […]
The Organization of the Islamic Conference has strongly condemned the profanation of a mosque by Israel extremists in the West Bank. "The profanation of the mosque and the torching of Koran copies found in it, […]
Thousands of social activists from various non-governmental organizations have marched through the streets of Tel Aviv in protest against Israel’s welfare policy, high unemployment and the issues of foreign workers. The participants, marking International Human […]
Medical workers in the Gaza Strip said Saturday that Israeli forces killed a Palestinian farmer in the center of the impoverished, under-siege coastal sliver. Sami Abu Khousa, 40, was killed near the Al-Bureij refugee camp […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel A short historical quiz: Which state: 1. Arose after a holocaust in which a third of its people were destroyed? 2. Drew from that holocaust the conclusion that only superior […]
By Khalil Nakhleh – Ramallah I remember it was one Sunday afternoon, sometime around one or two o’clock, when my father barged running into the house shouting "we have to leave, we have to leave". […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London Poor Berlanty. What did she do to deserve this crushing blow to her hopes and life chances? The Israeli High Court has denied her justice – again – and prevented […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago The Cape Town, South Africa-based Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) "conduct(s) large-scale, policy-relevant, social-scientific projects for public-sector users, non-governmental organisations and international development agencies," and disseminates its findings widely. In May […]
Israeli soldiers arrest the leader of non-violent protests against Israel’s segregation wall in the West Bank. Friends of the 38-year-old Abdullah Abu Rahmeh say that Israeli soldiers broke into his home on Thursday night and […]
The Israeli Supreme Court has opposed a petition that calls for granting permission to the Palestinian residing in the Gaza Strip to visit relatives in Israeli detention camps. According to an Israel Radio report on […]
Israel’s largest extra-parliamentary and oldest peace movement, Peace Now, has presented evidence that shows Tel Aviv is not fulfilling its promise to freeze West Bank construction activities. According to data gathered by Peace Now, the […]
Renowned American sociopolitical analyst Noam Chomsky says Israel functions as Washington’s main weapons storage base in the Middle East. "Israel is essentially a US military base, the US positions weapons there, that’s a very close […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The fatal shooting by Israeli soldiers of an Israeli man earlier this week as he tried to scale a fence into the Gaza Strip was reportedly part of a drastic procedure the […]
The US gives a cold shoulder to a European Union communiqué urging Jerusalem Al-Quds be divided between Palestinians and Israelis. On Tuesday, European foreign ministers decided to reduce a Swedish-brokered statement on Jerusalem Al-Quds as […]
Israeli authorities have prevented a European parliamentary delegation from visiting the Gaza Strip which has long been under a crippling siege. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to ban high-profile diplomats from entering Gaza under […]
By James Gundun – Washington D.C. Conflicting inhabitants of the Holy Land, if nothing else, must surely agree that the universe works in strange ways. God by any name operates beyond human understanding. Deep inside […]
Hamas’ political leader Khaled Meshaal says Tel Aviv’s intransigence has put obstacles in the way of a prisoner swap deal with Israel. Meshaal, the head of Hamas’ political bureau, noted that the Islamic Resistance Movement, […]
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By Ramzy Baroud So this is how democracy works? In 2004, France banned headscarves and school principals chased after young "defiant" Muslim girls who continued to cover their heads in school. Now, following a national […]
Christian and Muslim figures have warned that Israel intends to impose a fait accompli at the Al-Aqsa Mosque as part of its Judaization campaign that targets East Jerusalem Al-Quds. During an emergency meeting held in […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is an "independent legal body dedicated to the protection of human rights, the promotion of the rule of law, and the upholding of […]
A recent New York Times made many claims about the ‘mass rape’ of Israeli women on October 7. But two leading Palestinian media organizations, The Palestine Chronicle and Friends of Palestine Network, conducted a joint investigation, the outcome of which resulted in the ‘The Black Dress’, a groundbreaking 18-minute documentary looking into allegations and the possible falsification of evidence.
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