On Tuesday, demonstrators gathered outside the UN office in Gaza City to demand the release of Palestinian prisoner Hana Shalabi. The female prisoner is one of the detainees re-arrested by Israeli forces over the past few […]
Gaza’s only power plant has been forced to shut down for the second time in two weeks due to a fuel shortage, the energy authority in the Gaza Strip said Tuesday. Energy officials appealed to […]
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has announced plans to reconsider all its security, political and economic agreements with Israel in the coming days. Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Hana Amira […]
By Ramzy Baroud The initial clarity of Egypt’s revolutionary discourse has been replaced by perplexing discussions involving a range of issues from ‘Islamists vs liberals’ to football violence. The latest such issue involves the rift […]
By Mahmoud El-Yousseph Hanaa Shalabi is on hunger strike. She is a Palestinian female political prisoner from the village of Burgin near Jenin. She was kidnapped from her home on February 16, 2012 by Israeli […]
By Meagan Kay When emergency relief turns into a protracted crisis, what happens to the aid that falls between short-term humanitarian relief and development assistance over the medium-term? Who should deliver it? Who should oversee […]
By Dallas Darling It was on this day, February 29, 1948, that 28 British soldiers were killed as a mine exploded under the Cairo-Haifa train. Lehi, also known as Stern Gang, a Zionist terrorist group, […]
By The Center for Constitutional Rights – Olympia, WA and New York, NY Today, in a lawsuit brought against current and former members of the Olympia Food Co-op board of directors for their decision to […]
A member of the public freedoms committee set up to implement a reconciliation deal between Hamas and Fatah said Monday that the factions are bypassing the group on the issue of political prisoners. The parties […]
The University of Paris 8 has canceled an anti-Israeli conference in the French capital despite its initial approval of the academic gathering. The French university issued a statement on Sunday, claiming that the decision to […]
Thousands of young Palestinians will receive access to financial loans to support their new businesses through a United Nations-backed initiative announced today, which seeks to stimulate the creation of new jobs in the Middle East. […]
By Hisham H. Ahmed As many people may already know, the English meaning of the Arabic word Assad is lion. In the jungle, the lion is viewed as the king, as he is expected to […]
A 29-year-old woman, who was re-arrested by Israeli forces four months after her release from jail in a prisoner swap deal, has been on hunger strike for eleven days, relatives told Ma’an on Saturday. Hana […]
Abbas Slams Israel’s Policy of Ethnic Cleansing Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas said Israel uses “heinous methods and policies” to erase the Arab, Islamic and Christian character of occupied East Jerusalem (al-Quds). The Palestinian Authority […]
By Stuart Littlewood Imagine a handful of engineering students imprisoned in the tiny Gaza enclave taking on the cream of Europe’s technical universities in a competition to build a race car and compete with it. […]
Israeli police have clashed with Palestinian worshipers at the holy site of al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, killing one and injuring at least 15 Palestinians. Clashes broke out after Israeli police fired tear gas at […]
The Palestinian Authority on Friday condemned Israel’s approval of 500 new settler homes and retroactive approval of 200 more in the northern West Bank. The settlement expansion in Shilo, near Nablus, and the legalizing of […]
The EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has censured Israel for its recent decision to construct new homes in occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank. "The High Representative is deeply concerned by the approval […]
By Ralph Nader Anthony Shadid, called the ‘most gifted foreign correspondent in a generation’ by his then Washington Post colleague, Rajiv Chandrasekaran (author of the widely heralded book "Imperial Life in the Emerald City"), didn’t […]
Egyptian authorities and Hamas officials reached an agreement on Thursday to end the energy crisis in the Gaza Strip. Hamas spokesman Taher al-Nunu said a deal had been reached after "intensive negotiations" between Gaza Prime […]
Hundreds of Palestinian detainees, imprisoned in Israeli jails without charge or trial under so-called administrative detention, have decided to boycott Israeli military courts in an effort to battle their imprisonment. According to a statement issued […]
The top United Nations envoy for the Middle East peace process today described as ‘deplorable’ Israel’s announcement that is has given approval to a large number of new settlement units deep inside the occupied Palestinian […]
By James Gundun – Washington, D.C. They couldn’t believe their ears. After months of backroom negotiations and a week of intense lobbying reduced the United Nations to Moscow’s ‘consensus,’ nyet still reverberated throughout the Security […]
By Charlotte Kates ‘As for your judicial apparatus…: it is one of the instruments of the occupation whose function is to give the cover of legal legitimacy to the crimes of the occupation, in addition […]
The Israel government says it plans to construct hundreds of new settlement units in the occupied West Bank despite international opposition. An Israeli committee is set to give the go-ahead for the constructions in the settlement […]
Hamas officials met on Wednesday in Cairo and ended an internal dispute about the recent agreement signed in Doha, an official said. Izzat al-Rishq said that the movement has agreed on the principles of the […]
By John V. Whitbeck Dear President Abbas, There was visible and audible euphoria at the UN General Assembly in September when you announced Palestine’s application for UN membership, at UNESCO’s Paris headquarters in October when […]
Reviewed by Ludwig Watzal (Tikva Honig-Parnass, False Prophets of Peace. Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine, Haymarket Books, Chicago, Ill. 2011, 262 pp.) This book explores the Israeli Zionist Left’s discourse regarding the, Jewish […]
By Julie Webb-Pullman – Gaza Gaza today celebrated the news that Khader Adnan had ended his hunger strike following an agreement that his administrative detention will not be renewed, and he will be released by […]
By Ramzy Baroud On two occasions in my life I found myself living close to the South China Sea. The sea became my escape from life’s pressing responsibilities. But there is no escaping the fact […]
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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