Israel aims to force Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to leave the enclave through a strategy of pressuring them and making their living conditions hard, says a UN special rapporteur. “One of the tactics I […]
Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh told Palestinian high school students on Wednesday that the upcoming week of talks between Hamas and Fatah leaders in Cairo will put to rest all outstanding feuds between the parties. […]
Palestinian energy officials have blasted Israel for the looting of Gaza’s natural resources, saying the reserves legally belong to Palestinians. Earlier this week, American crude oil and gas exploration giant, Noble Energy, obtained permission from […]
Israel has pledged to further increase arms sales and military cooperation with China in an attempt to win Beijing’s vote against Palestinians’ bid for recognition at the UN, a report says. Speaking at a news […]
Palestinian officials say they will be ready to unveil a new unity government at a meeting between Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president and Fatah leader, and Khaled Meshaal, the Hamas chief, in Cairo next week. […]
Unemployment in the Gaza Strip remains among the highest in the world and real wages have continued to decline every year since Israel imposed a blockade of the area, according to a new report from […]
By PSCABI and PYAIA – Gaza Dear Mark ‘Barney’ Greenway, Shane Embury, Danny Herrera, & Mitch Harris of Napalm Death: We are Palestinian students and youth based in Gaza, among 1.5 million in a tiny […]
By Richard Lightbown After he returned from his ordeal on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Fiachra O’Luain, the mate on the Challenger I, was asked if he would go again to break the siege of Gaza. […]
Egypt’s state security prosecution has begun questioning an Israeli man suspected of spying for the Mossad intelligence agency, the official MENA news agency says. The man, detained on Sunday, was identified as Ilan Chaim Grapel. […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to meet Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in a bid to convince Italy to oppose a Palestinian statehood. Netanyahu and nine Israeli ministers arrived in Italy on Sunday […]
By Ramzy Baroud For most Palestinians, leaving Gaza through Egypt is as exasperating a process as entering it. Governed by political and cultural sensitivities, most Palestinian officials and public figures refrain from criticising the way […]
By Joe Catron On a warm, sunny afternoon, I met Eman Sourani and Rana Baker in an airy outdoor café several blocks from the port of Gaza. Both are members of the Palestinian Students’ Campaign […]
By Abdul-Majid Jaffry President Obama in his recent speech embraced the Palestinians’ demand to draw the boundary of their aspiring state along the 1967 border. This is not the first time a U.S. President has […]
By Stuart Littlewood It was a simple question. On 27 March I wrote to my Member of Parliament asking: ‘What is the British Government planning to do, please, to safeguard British subjects (and indeed the […]
‘Criminal acts’ were cited as reasons behind the ouster of former Fatah strongman in Gaza Muhammad Dahlan from the party, a statement said Sunday. According to Al-Jazeera, President Mahmoud Abbas, the chairman of Fatah, has […]
Israel’s Foreign Ministry has launched a global diplomatic campaign to thwart a Palestinian move to seek statehood recognition at the United Nations in September. The ministry has also barred its ambassadors around the world from […]
amas has opposed Fatah’s nomination of Salam Fayyad for the post of prime minister in a transitional Palestinian government, exposing differences over implementing a Palestinian reconciliation deal between the rival groups. At a meeting late […]
By Rana B. Baker – Gaza What a pity being asked if you have ever been to your capital city and all that you have to say is: ‘I would love to go there one […]
By Jeremy Salt – Ankara The attack on Libya is a copy-book example of high imperialism – gunboat diplomacy in the crudest fashion. Extraordinarily, only eight years after Iraq, the US and European governments are at […]
By Tamar Fleishman It started off with a demonstration. The women walked in the front line in a non-violent civil protest. The protesters who headed towards the checkpoint were halted by military ammunition. Gas and stun […]
By Uri Avnery My hero of the year (for now) is a young brown-haired Palestinian refugee living in Syria called Hassan Hijazi. He was one of hundreds of refugees who held the demonstration on the […]
By Jeff Halper Imagine. September 22nd (or 23rd or 24th), the day after the Security Council recognizes Palestine as a member state within the 1967 borders and it is ratified in the General Assembly by […]
By Yusi El Boujami, Gabriel Matthew Schivone, and Ryan Velasquez Today, in the Western World, as Arizona and the nation await the fateful decision by AZ Schools Chief John Huppenthal – expected later this week […]
Hospitals in Gaza are at crisis point due to shortages of supplies, medical services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya said Thursday. Warehouses have run out of over 178 types of medicine, the spokesman said, adding that […]
By Ramzy Baroud – Gaza A ‘Hamas commander’ drove a beat-up gray van in northern Gaza and theatrically spoke on his walkie-talkie as I sat in the passenger seat. The van was almost barren, save […]
By James Petras The recent rash of civilian killings by NATO forces in occupied Afghanistan raises several basic questions: Why do US-NATO air and ground forces kill so many civilians, so persistently, over such long […]
The Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip has been reopened after a four-day closure, Hamas officials announce. The gateway, which is the only point of access to the outside world for Palestinians […]
Israeli settlers have been accused of attacking a mosque in the occupied West Bank, setting alight carpets and spraying Hebrew graffiti on its walls. Palestinian residents of al-Mughayyir village awoke for dawn prayers to find […]
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan By the end of the last century, more people than ever before in human history lived in countries whose governments were democratic except for postcolonial Arabs. Arabs were living under authoritarian […]
Interview by Emanuel Stoakes (An interview with Frank Barat – UK-based human rights campaigner, author and filmmaker – on recent events, Netanyahu and the current state of affairs for the Palestinian cause.) A newcomer to the conflict […]
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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