A Palestinian detainee who has been on hunger strike for 28 days was moved to Israel’s Ramla prison hospital, a lawyer said Wednesday. Omar Abu Shalal, 55, from Nablus, has refused food for four weeks […]
By Tamar Fleishman – The West Bank The IDF calls it ‘the escalation of means’. That is: the use of all the Alfa (riot control measures) in the arsenal. They also call it ‘non-lethal weapons’. […]
By Stuart Littlewood My local MP, Henry Bellingham, is a Foreign Office minister whose responsibilities include the United Nations, the International Criminal Court and conflict resolution. I take this to mean he’s tasked with keeping […]
By Manal Moukaddem Here we break the ruleshere we demolish wallsApartheid walls. We play ring around the borders,pockets full of peaceful weaponslike pensand cigarettes.In café Resistance we come in pieces. Here, the expatin his comfy […]
By Ramzy Baroud Last week Marwan Barghouti, the prominent Palestinian political prisoner and Fatah leader, called on Palestinians to launch a ‘large-scale popular resistance’ which would ‘serve the cause of our people.’ The message was […]
Israeli forces have evicted a group of settlers from a disputed house in the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, a day after they were ordered to leave the property, police said. "Police have […]
By Eric Walberg – Cairo Israeli land confiscations accelerated in the 1970s and led Palestinians to organise the first coordinated demonstrations in the Occupied Territories on 30 March 1976, during which 6 Palestinians were killed. […]
By Jamal Kanj Recent report by the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation revealed that the US has provided Israel with more than $103 billion between 1949 and 2008. More than any amount spent […]
The International Criminal Court has halted a Palestinian Authority bid to clear the way for the permanent war crimes tribunal to investigate an Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip that began in December 2008. "The […]
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are to hold talks soon in what would be their first public meeting in more than two months, a senior official has said. "There are preparations with the Israeli side to have […]
Israeli forces have destroyed four Palestinian homes and dozens of electricity pylons in the West Bank, witnesses say. Israeli army tractors destroyed the houses and “52 electricity pylons” in the Makhrureh area of the West […]
By Johnny Barber – Gaza On March 30, 1976, the Palestinian people declared a general strike and demonstrated against the Israeli confiscation of thousands of acres of land in the Galilee. The Israeli’s responded with […]
By Neve Gordon ‘It is not every day that a government decides to relocate almost half a per cent of its population in a programme of forced urbanisation,’ Rawia Aburabia asserted, adding that ‘this is […]
By IRIN As Ramisyah Ali El-Zaabi fled across the Syrian border – scaling a dirt wall, crawling under a fence and dropping to the ground amid gunfire – her eight-month-old daughter slept. Afraid that her […]
By Jeremy Salt – Ankara The ‘Friends of Syria’ conference in Istanbul ended with a pledge of qualified support for the Annan plan while agreeing on concrete measures to undermine it. Saudi Arabia and other […]
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan Nineteen years after the signing of Oslo agreements that laid the ground for the establishment of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and for negotiations to resolve the conflict, the time has come […]
By Jim Miles (The Balfour Declaration – The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Jonathan Schneer Anchor Canada. Random House, Toronto, 2012.) This is the best that academic political history gets. More than simply the dates […]
By Tamar Fleishman – The West Bank This March marked the fiftieth anniversary of Algeria’s liberation from the French occupation that lasted one hundred sixty two years. Throughout the years of French rule, tens of […]
Hana Shalabi, a Palestinian woman on a hunger strike for 43 days, has been deported to the Gaza Strip after ending her fast under a deal that has been criticised by Palestinians. Shalabi has been […]
A young Palestinian man died on Monday morning from wounds suffered in an Israeli raid on his village near Ramallah last week, his family told Ma’an. Rashad Theib Shoukha, 28, was critically injured by a […]
University professors and students have held a conference in the Gaza Strip to call for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel. The event was organized by the campaign of Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions against […]
PLO official Saeb Erekat denied Saturday a report in an Israeli newspaper stating that Israel refused to receive a letter being prepared by President Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas’ letter is said to be an overview of […]
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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