In Jordan and Lebanon, the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) has registered nearly 5,000 Palestinian refugees from the 17-month conflict in Syria. As both countries are already home to large Palestinian refugee populations, the […]
Hamas’ politburo in Damascus is still open and has not moved to Cairo, the party’s representative in Yemen said Wednesday. "The movement’s office in Syria did not move to Cairo, it was not closed and […]
By Jim Miles (Freedom Sailors. Ed. Greta Berlin and Bill Dienst, M.D. Free Gaza Movement, 2012.) It is difficult to imagine the thoughts and feelings of the people who are forcing the hypocrisy and lies of […]
By Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Dennis Banks, Russell Means and Stephane Hessel We are writing to you on behalf of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP), an international people’s tribunal that was created to expose […]
By ISM The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is deeply concerned by the verdict of Judge Oded Gershon that absolved Israel’s military and state of the 2003 murder of American ISM activist Rachel Corrie. Rachel was […]
By Ramzy Baroud The recent approval by South Africa’s cabinet to distinguish between products made in Israel and those made in illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank was both politically sound and morally consistent […]
By Amnesty International – Washington, D.C. Amnesty International condemns an Israeli court’s verdict that the government of Israel bears no responsibility in the death of Rachel Corrie, saying the verdict continues the pattern of impunity […]
Palestinian leaders and factions on Tuesday slammed an Israeli court’s decision which rejected accusations of negligence over the 2003 killing of American activist Rachel Corrie. An Israeli court had cleared Israel’s military of any blame […]
An Israeli court has ruled in a civil case that the Israel army was not at fault in the bulldozer death of American pro-Palestinian activist Rachel Corrie nearly 10 years ago. Corrie was 23 years […]
By IRIN – Gaza City This month’s border attack in the Sinai Peninsula, which killed 16 Egyptian soldiers, has bolstered calls to shut down a network of underground tunnels between Egypt and the isolated Gaza […]
The Gaza Strip will not be "liveable" by 2020 unless urgent action is taken to improve water supply, power, health, and schooling, according to the United Nations’ most comprehensive report on the Palestinian territory. "Action needs […]
High ranking Palestinian Authority officials ordered the suppression of protests in Ramallah against negotiations, rights groups said Monday. The Council of Palestinian Human Rights Organizations on Monday announced the results of its inquiry into a […]
By Ramzy Baroud There was once a young man from a very small Italian town called Bulciago who wished to change the world. As soon as he finished his exams, he began his quest. He […]
By Ismail Salami – Tehran With over 2000 highly operational nuclear weapons already in the world, it seems ridiculously ironic to try to attribute global insecurity to Iranian nuclear energy program which the US, Israel […]
By Ernest Corea – Washington, D.C. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s decision to attend the sixteenth summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM16) in Tehran from August 26 to 31 follows the precedent set by his predecessors […]
By Ludwig Watzal When Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defence Minister Ehud Barak are not demonising Iran and its leadership, their colleague Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman starts talking, or even better, writing bizarre […]
By Jamal Kanj The defection on 6 August of Syrian Prime Minister Riad Farid Hijab was a public relation blow to the regime of Bashar Assad but had no other significance. In Syria, power is […]
A court in Egypt has sentenced a man to five years in prison and another 75 people to one-year suspended sentences in connection with attacks on the Israeli and Saudi embassies in Cairo last year, […]
Dozens of foreign peace activists were denied entry into the West Bank by Israeli authorities at the Allenby Bridge crossing on Sunday evening, organizers of the third ‘Welcome to Palestine’ initiative said. "The Welcome to […]
By Uri Avnery I was not interested in Paul Ryan, the man about to be nominated by the Republican party for the office of vice-president, until the name Ayn Rand popped up. Ayn Rand, it […]
By K. P. Fabian With the Free Syrian Army being supplied aid by the West and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, the endgame for the Syrian regime has begun. Does Assad’s exit guarantee the replacement […]
The Palestinian Authority applauded South Africa on Thursday after its cabinet voted to identify goods made in the occupied West Bank as separate from normal Israeli products. Abdul Hafiz Nofal, the PA’s deputy economy minister, […]
By Victor Kattan – Al Shabaka A Freedom of Information request with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) by Al-Shabaka has led to the release of new documents on Gaza’s gas fields, and surprising […]
(On the massacre of South African miners.) By Raphael D’abdon Walking to schoolin marikanai have seen black children staringat their fathers’ lifeless bodieson their way to school.stale blood clots under theirperfectly polished shoes.at schoolall the […]
By Jamal Kanj Western and Israeli media are lush with purported leaks on joint efforts of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defence Minister Ehud Barak trying to enlist reluctant military brass on a […]
South Africa’s cabinet has said it had approved the placing of Occupied Palestinian Territory labels on imported goods from Jewish settlements. "This is in line with South Africa’s stance that recognizes the 1948 borders delineated by […]
Senior PLO official Hanan Ashrawi on Wednesday said the Israeli government was waging a campaign of "distortion, hatred and incitement" which created "a culture of impunity, racism and exclusivity." Ashrawi condemned written remarks by Israel’s […]
By IRIN – Majdal Shams While conflict rages just kilometers away in Syria, the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights remains quiet. But there are signs that the 17-month old conflict has touched the areas’ Arab residents. In […]
By Ramzy Baroud Somewhere in my home I have a set of photo albums I rarely go near. I fear the flood of cruel memories that might be evoked from looking at the countless photos […]
By Shafiq Morton – Cape Town An op-ed (Cape Argus, 17 August) by Ben Levitas, chairman of the Cape Council of the South African Zionist Federation, alleges that South Africa’s foreign policy is now unfairly, […]
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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