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By Stephen Lendman On June 6, 1967, when Israeli forces invaded Gaza and the West Bank, on the second day of the so-called Six-Day War (June 5 – 10, 1967), they entered three Palestinian villages […]
British lawmaker and anti-war activist George Galloway says Egypt is using bureaucracy as a pretext to impede humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. Galloway and 449 other human rights activists who are part of the […]
The people of Gaza Strip marked on Sunday, December 27, the first anniversary of Israel’s deadliest-ever offensive against their besieged coastal enclave, with the scale of destruction still standing as witness to the devastation. "The […]
By Jeremy R. Hammond One year ago today, Israel launched ‘Operation Cast Lead’, a murderous full-scale military assault on the small, densely populated, and defenseless Gaza Strip. The operation resulted in the massacre of over 1,300 […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel Did we win? Tomorrow (December 27) marks the first anniversary of the Gaza War, alias Operation Cast Lead, and this question fills the public space. Within the Israeli consensus, the […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London Gee, thanks President Mubarak… Thanks for ruining Christmas for so many. But that’s par for the course in the cesspit of treachery that is the Middle East. The human tragedy […]
Remember Gaza, Read the Book, Tell the Story For Immediate Release – Please Circulate Widely LONDON – "And so I begin. His name was Mohammed Baroud, and he was a good man," is how Ramzy […]
In a new Israeli escalation, occupation troops killed six Palestinians Saturday, December 26, in two separate attacks in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip. "This operation represents a dangerous escalation,” Palestinian Prime Minister […]
By Bianca Zammit – Gaza ‘Is this our fate? Is this what we are worth? Nothing more than pictures on the wall?’ said Um Rabia referring to what has now become a custom in Palestine, […]
By Nicola Nasser – The West Bank "In the absence of all hope, we cry out our cry of hope,” Palestinian Christian leaders, representing churches and church-related organizations, meeting in Bethlehem on December 11, concluded […]
By Franklin Lamb – Beirut "Regarding Al Manar it’s personal for Israel. The reason is that Al Manar did to the Israeli government propaganda machine during and following the July 2006 war what Hezbollah fighters did […]
By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad During a talk in Dublin A few years back a respected left luminary postulated that one cause of rising extremism in Pakistan was the increasing number of young people turning to […]
Israeli, Palestinian and international organizations are urging British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Foreign Secretary David Miliband to refrain from amending its laws just to prevent the persecution of Israeli officials on war crimes and […]
Israel has threatened another massive war against the Gaza Strip as the impoverished enclave continues to suffer in the aftermath of the devastating January offensive. Israeli planes have been dropping thousands of leaflets across Gaza, […]
By Neve Gordon ‘Why,’ I have often been asked, "haven’t the Palestinians established a peace movement like the Israeli Peace Now?" The question itself is problematic, being based on many erroneous assumptions, such as the […]
Palestinian Authority officials say they will bring the case of Israel’s organ theft from Palestinians to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. During a press conference held in Ramallah on Wednesday, Palestinian Minister of […]
By Ramzy Baroud It seems that the targeting of Muslims and Islam has become a kind of national theater in France. Unlike theater, however, the disturbing trend can, and will turn ugly – in fact […]
The head of Hamas political bureau, Khaled Meshaal, says the construction of an enormous metal barrier by Egypt equals a new war against Gazans. In a statement televised by Al-Quds satellite channel, Meshaal echoed remarks […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London Dignitaries, emissaries, human rights delegations, fact-finding trippers… they come and go, but Gaza’s suffering continues and day by day gets worse, thanks to the corrupted leadership of the international community […]
The Israeli occupation forces are hijacking the spirit of Christmas in the occupied West Bank, restricting tourists’ movement and portraying Bethlehem as unsafe war zone. "When tourists see the wall, they think they are going […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has asked Israel for more commitment to the peace process, saying a decision to limit some aspects of settlement construction is not enough. "We have approved [Benjamin] Netanyahu’s decision to […]
Hamas has accused Israel of hindering a prisoner swap deal after Tel Aviv expressed reservations over the return of some of the released Palestinian prisoners to their homes in the occupied West Bank. In its […]
British Member of Parliament George Galloway has leveled strong criticism at Arabs over their inaction and failure to play a role in organizing aid convoys to the besieged Gaza Strip. “It is a shame that […]
As Gaza is still reeling under a choking Israeli siege for two years and a half, the world has betrayed the 1.6 million people in the strip by failing to act to end the blockade, […]
A marathon meeting of the Israeli cabinet to discuss a possible exchange of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for an Israeli soldier held in the Gaza Strip, has ended without agreement. The meetings at the office […]
By Bianca Zammit – Gaza As the days of December 2009 draw in, two events which each have a role to play in world peace draw closer. The first is on the 27th and is […]
Israel has admitted that it harvested organs from the dead bodies of Palestinians and Israelis in the 1990s, without permission from their families. The admission follows the release of an interview with Jehuda Hiss, the […]
The German mediator overseeing talks between Hamas and Israel over the release of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and hundreds of long-serving Palestinian prisoners has given the two sides 2 to 3 weeks to reach […]
An Israeli Knesset member says there is evidence showing that deceased Palestinians were stripped bare of their vital organs while in police custody in Tel Aviv. Israeli politician and leader of the Arab nationalist party, […]
The Hamas government has set up a committee to provide information to European lawyers investigating Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip. "We provide documents, reports and evidence of crimes to all international bodies aiding […]
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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