The European Union has denounced Israel’s illegal settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories as "unacceptable." "Settlements are illegal under international law. These decisions should be reversed," EU Foreign Affairs chief Catherine Ashton said in […]
Tel Aviv has begun transferring Palestinian prisoners to jails in the south and central Israel, ahead of their upcoming release within the next few days. Israeli Radio said that the transfer measure took place early […]
The Palestinian prisoners society on Sunday released the names of 9 female detainees it said are not included in the prisoner exchange set to take place on Tuesday. Suad Ahmad Abdul Raouf, Lina Ahmad al-Jarbuni, […]
Israel has published a list of 477 Palestinian prisoners to be released in the first stage of a swap deal for the captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. The list, released on Sunday by Israel’s justice […]
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, has condemned reports of Israeli plans to build more than 2,600 housing units in illegally occupied East Jerusalem, saying further settlement activity was "unacceptable". "The secretary-general is deeply concerned at […]
By Mahmoud El-Yousseph and Tammy Obeidallah This list was compiled in order to dispel the hate propaganda and blatant lies Christians United for Israel (CUFI) is being allowed to spew at Van Buren High School […]
(The following is a condensed version of Susan Abulhawa’s speech at the Al-Awda Center grand opening) By Susan Abulhawa Summary: Susan Abulhawa presents an argument to abandon all negotiations with Israel and to abandon calls […]
A website allied to Hamas, the Palestinian faction which governs the Gaza Strip, has released a list of Palestinian prisoners it expects to be freed from Israeli jails as part of an exchange deal between […]
By Uri Avnery On Yom Kippur eve last week, when real Jews were praying for their lives, I sat on the seashore of Tel Aviv, thinking. It was my first Yom Kippur without Rachel, and […]
Israel has announced plans to build thousands of new settler units in occupied East Jerusalem showing disregard for agreements reached with the Palestinian Authority. Israel’s Lands Administration has released a plan to construct 2,610 new […]
The US has said it opposes "any effort to legalize" illegal settlement outposts on Palestinian land, after the Israeli government set up a panel to explore ways to do so. Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime […]
Fatah leader Azzam al-Ahmad said Wednesday that his meeting in Cairo with Hamas chief Khalid Mashaal was "positive" and that reconciliation talks would restart "soon." Al-Ahmad, who heads the Fatah delegation in talks with Hamas, […]
Israeli settlers have attacked a girls’ school in the West Bank as Israel steps up violence against Palestinians in the occupied territories. The incident occurred on Thursday when a group of Israeli settlers raided Kortoba […]
By Ismail Salami In a ‘united against Iran campaign,’ the US government has accused Tehran of orchestrating an assassination plot against the Saudi envoy in Washington, a move which is to be seen as part […]
By Eric Walberg – Cairo The current crisis of capitalism is textbook Marx. Greedy capitalists, craven politicians, scheming bankers, dispossessed masses. It is also textbook Lenin. Imperial wars awakening the masses to revolt – though […]
By Ali Younes – Washington, D.C. The alleged Iranian assassination plot against the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Adil Al Jubiar can be described as the dumbest covert operation in the history of intelligence. […]
By Alison Weir To better understand the Palestinian bid for membership in the United Nations, it is important to understand the original 1947 UN action on Israel-Palestine. The common representation of Israel’s birth is that […]
Palestinian families are eagerly awaiting the publication of the names of the more than 1,000 detainees that are to be released in a ground-breaking prisoner swap deal with Israel. The Israeli cabinet approved the agreement […]
As many as 2,000 Palestinian prisoners have joined a hunger strike staged by their fellow Palestinian inmates to assert innocence and protest at miserable confinement conditions in Israeli jails. Those newly on the strike action […]
Families of Palestinian prisoners and Gilad Shalit are preparing for the return of their relatives, a day after Hamas and Israel reached a historic deal freeing 1,027 Palestinians in exchange for the Israeli soldier. No […]
By Stuart Littlewood The dodgy relationship between Britain’s defence secretary, Dr Liam Fox, and his friend Adam Werrity has been entertaining the media and public here for the last several days. Werrity, a onetime flat-mate […]
By Ahmed Amr – Cairo The thrill is gone, the euphoria has faded and our mass delusions have been swept away to make room for the reality that there never was an Egyptian revolution. Eight […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Jewish far-right groups responsible for a series of arson attacks on West Bank mosques over the past year broke dangerous ground last week when they turned their attention for the first […]
Israel and Hamas agreed Tuesday to swap more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for Israeli captive soldier Gilad Shalit, resolving one of the most emotive and intractable issues between them. Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal said Israel […]
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has asked for a taskforce to be set up to look at ways to legalize houses in illegal settlements that are built on private Palestinian land, according to Israeli […]
The United Nations human rights office called on Israel today to stop attacks by settlers against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, citing a spike in violence in recent weeks resulting in serious physical […]
Israeli settlers have burned more than 100 olive and fig trees on farmland near the city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, witnesses say. The incident took place on Tuesday in the Palestinian village […]
By Ramzy Baroud On July 1 2002, US planes bombed an Afghan wedding in the small village of Deh Rawud. Located to the north of Kandahar, the village seemed fortified by the region’s many mountains. […]
By Ralph Nader Inside the barricading bubbles surrounding the Wall Street plutocrats and the Washington oligarchs who service them, there must be worry. After three years of disclosed ‘lying, cheating and stealing’ as one prosecutor […]
Fears are growing about the health of imprisoned PFLP leader Ahmad Saadat, as Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails entered day 14 of a hunger strike sparked by Saadat’s solitary confinement. Head of the Palestinian Prisoners’ […]
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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