Israel has received a humiliating rebuff over its recent remarks about Hezbollah arms after a senior official said the movement’s weaponry are not Tel Aviv’s business. Hezbollah-affiliated government minister Hussein Hajj Hassan said Friday that […]
Thousands of Palestinians have held a demonstration in Gaza City as well as the West Bank, demanding the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons. The demonstrators who took to the streets of Gaza City, […]
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics says more than 7,000 Palestinians are currently held under life-threatening conditions in Israeli prisons. In the run up to the Palestinian Prisoners Day, scheduled for Saturday, the office issued […]
Former mayor of Jerusalem (al-Quds) has been arrested on suspicions of receiving some $750,000 in bribe in Israel’s biggest real estate scandal. Uri Lupolianski, who was arrested on Wednesday, allegedly received NIS 3 million (nearly […]
The US Secretary of State has urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to create a Palestinian state and resolve disputes with Palestinians. Speaking at a dinner attended by the ambassadors of Israel and several Arab […]
Israeli soldiers have opened fire on Palestinian resistance fighters near a separation fence east of Gaza City, killing a member of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. Palestinian medics found on Friday a dismembered body after being informed […]
By Franklin Lamb – Beirut Tensions are rising in Lebanon between elected representatives in Parliament, ‘Unity’ Cabinet members and the American Embassy, as the 27th anniversary of the attack 1983 attack on the US Embassy […]
By Stephen Lendman Occupied Palestinians and Israeli Arabs never had rights in a state affording them solely to Jews. Now even they’re at risk as democratic freedoms fast erode on their way to extinction; to […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth An Arab member of the Israeli parliament is demanding that a newspaper be allowed to publish an investigative report that was suppressed days before Israel attacked Gaza in winter 2008. […]
Jordan has summoned the Israeli ambassador over the regime’s new threat to force out tens of thousands of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank. Israel ambassador Dani Nevo was summoned to the Jordanian Foreign Ministry […]
Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat says Israel has turned into a regime worse than South Africa before the collapse of apartheid. "Never in the darkest hours of South African apartheid were the blacks prevented (from […]
Israeli forces backed by bulldozers have demolished two homes in the occupied West Bank, leaving at least nine Palestinians homeless. Palestinian rights organizations said on Wednesday that the bulldozers destroyed a home in the village […]
Jewish settlers have desecrated a mosque in the flashpoint West Bank town of Nablus and set afire two vehicles outside the Muslim worship house. Unknown vandals forcibly entered the Bilal Ben-Rabah Mosque in the village […]
An Israeli human rights group has called on the international community to press Tel Aviv to revoke its decision of expelling Palestinians from the West Bank. "The Fourth Geneva Convention imposes a complete ban on […]
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington D.C. Benjamin Netanyahu has done it again. The Israeli prime minister has dug his head this time deeper into the sand on the eve of the international conference on nuclear […]
By Ramzy Baroud Li Changchun is often referred to as one of the most powerful men in China, in Asia and, increasingly, in the world. He is a member of the Standing Committee of the […]
By Stephen Lendman International law protects refugees and asylum seekers, Article I of the 1951 UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees calling them: "A person who owning to a well-founded fear of being […]
The Palestinian prime minister has sharply criticised a new Israeli military order that could allow the army to expel tens of thousands of Palestinians from their homes. Salam Fayyad condemned the order on Tuesday, saying […]
Two Palestinians and at least three others were injured in a fierce gun battle that broke out early Tuesday between Islamist Jihad fighters and the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip, witnesses and the radical […]
Former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei has expressed support for Palestinian resistance, calling Gaza the world’s largest jail. In a report published by UPI on Tuesday, ElBaradei described resistance the only […]
Hundreds of Palestinians held a rally against a new Israeli threat to expel West Bank residents after the Arab League declared full support for their resistance. Palestinians attended the sit-in demonstration on Tuesday after the […]
Israeli authorities have decided to approve the construction of a new synagogue and school in East Jerusalem (al-Quds) on occupied Palestinian land. The erection project will be carried out in the Gilo settlement on the […]
The chief Palestinian negotiator has called for international pressure on Israel to revoke a military order to deport Palestinians from the West Bank. Israel has issued two orders giving military officials broad and almost total […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth An Israeli journalist who went into hiding after writing a series of reports showing lawbreaking approved by Israeli army commanders faces a lengthy jail term for espionage if caught, as Israeli […]
By Jeremy R. Hammond The following is excerpted from The Rejection of Arab Self-Determination: The Struggle for Palestine and the Roots of the Arab-Israeli Crisis, by Jeremy R. Hammond. Click here. In 1947, Great Britain, […]
Syria calls on the international community to unite in the face of Tel Aviv’s intentions to purge the occupied West Bank of its Palestinian residents. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Monday the world had to […]
Israel has reportedly put on hold the construction settlements that require approvals from district planning committee in al-Quds (Jerusalem). Staff members of Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee said they have been ordered to stop […]
Anat Kam has relinquished her journalistic immunity as the source of Ha’aretz reporter Uri Blau, calling on him to return all the documents she allegedly leaked to him. Her lawyer Avigdor Feldman said he had […]
Former Israeli soldier Anat Kam says she has taken secret military documents as evidence of war crimes committed by Tel Aviv in the occupied West Bank. Kam, 23, is indicted for espionage over stealing 2,000 […]
By Ahmed Amr It was bound to happen. The Israelis have decided to opt for outright ethnic cleansing. As of April 13, 2010 – the Israelis military will be accorded the power to deport any […]
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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