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Year: 2013

UNRWA: 15 Palestinians Dead from Hunger in Syria Camp
At least 15 Palestinians have died of hunger since September in a besieged refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees told AFP on Monday. “Reports have come in over […]

PFLP: Hamas Should Not Abandon Ideology
Hamas are a vital component of the Palestinian nationalist struggle and should not abandon their ideology, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said Monday. The statement from the leftist group was in response […]

Veteran Prisoners to Be Released after Midnight
Twenty-six veteran Palestinian prisoners will be released after midnight at Ofer detention center near Beitunia in the West Bank and at Erez crossing in the northern Gaza Strip simultaneously, an official said Monday. Undersecretary of […]

Israeli Violations of Human Rights and Academic Freedom
By Ron Forthofer Michael Roth recently attacked the American Studies Association over its resolution calling for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. Roth called the resolution a “repugnant attack on academic freedom, declaring academic institutions […]

Iraq’s Persecuted Christians
By Hussein Al-alak The Christmas day attacks against Iraq’s Christian community has once again thrust this besieged and dwindling minority back into the media. Iraqi Christians have been reduced from a sizable minority of over […]

On the ‘Jewish State of Israel’: Disarming Netanyahu
By John V. Whitbeck News reports continue to suggest that one of the primary roadblocks to any agreement in the current round of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations is the understandable Palestinian refusal to accept the Israeli demand […]

Grim Horror Surrounding Our ‘Little Town of Bethlehem’
By Stuart Littlewood London’s Christmas was made gloomier this year – and rightly so – by the appearance in the courtyard of St James’s Church, Piccadilly, of a replica of the hated Israeli annexation Wall […]

Of Hunters and Policemen
By Tamar Fleishman – Qalandiya, the West Bank There were no electricity for five days and no water in Qalandiya refugee camp, said Mahmud. “Just as it was at your place”, he said. I thought […]

Five Years of Brutality – Bequest of Cast Lead
By Ibrahim Vawda – Johannesburg Many will spend the day recalling these moments in time five years ago that stunned the world. It is difficult to pinpoint exactly what sears these moments into the mind’s […]

In Video: Nabi Saleh Woman Shot at Close Range by Israeli Forces
Activists from Nabi Saleh have released a video showing an Israeli soldier shooting a Palestinian woman in the leg at close range following clashes on Friday afternoon. The video, uploaded by prominent local activist Bilal […]

7 Palestinians Injured in Clashes with Israeli Forces on Gaza Border
Seven people suffered from excessive tear gas inhalation in clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces east of Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday. Witnesses told Ma’an reported that Israeli forces fired […]

US: Third Group of Palestinian Prisoners to Be Released a Day Late
Israel has informed the United States that the third group of veteran Palestinian prisoners will be released a day later than originally promised. Spokeswoman for the US Department of State Jen Psaki said in a […]

Open Letter from Gaza to Moddi: Do Not Entertain Our Oppressor!
[Editor’s note: since the publication of this appeal, Moddi issued a statement in which he canceled his trip to Israel. Please read full text below.] Dear Moddi, We are a group of academics, students and […]

‘Blood Diamonds’ and Israel’s Diamond Export Industry
By Sean Clinton In November, members of the Kimberley Process (KP), meeting in plenary in South Africa, squandered what was probably their last good opportunity to ban the sale of all blood diamonds, including cut […]

Little Hala and the Herods of Israel
By Vacy Vlazna On Christmas Eve, while Christians knelt in churches to honor the birth of the eternal light of the Child of Bethlehem – the Child of peace, Israeli Herods struck Gaza and the […]

Israel Plans to Build Hundreds of New Settlement Homes
Israel will announce plans for new settlement construction next week, coinciding with the release of a third batch of Palestinian prisoners as part of peace talks, an official said on Thursday. Palestinians have warned repeatedly […]

Israeli Forces Storm Heart of Bethlehem in Rare Daytime Raid
Israeli forces raided the center of the southern West Bank cities of Bethlehem and Beit Jala on Thursday afternoon, detaining four Palestinians under heavy armed escort. In a rare daytime raid into the heart of […]

Israel Marks 5th Anniversary of Operation Cast Lead with Air Strikes on Gaza
By Julie Webb-Pullman On the fifth anniversary of its brutal Operation Cast Lead, Israel launched a series of attacks on the Gaza Strip on Thursday night, injuring at least two people. One of the injured […]

2013: Assessing the Conflict in Syria and Egypt – The War Continues
By Ramzy Baroud 2013 has expectedly been a terrible year for several Arab nations. It has been terrible because the promise of greater freedoms and political reforms has been reversed, most violently in some instances, […]

Israel Strikes Gaza after Border Shootings, 3 Dead in Violence
Israeli air forces launched airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, killing a 3-year-old Palestinian child and injuring her mother and brother, after an Israeli and a Palestinian were shot dead at the border in the northern […]

Prisoner Samir Issawi Released from Israeli Jails
The Israeli prison service released prominent Palestinian prisoner Samer Issawi on Monday evening, freeing him to return to his East Jerusalem home. Local sources told Ma’an that Issawi was set free from Shatta prison in […]

For the Palestinians, al-Nakba Did not End in 1948
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan For the Palestinians, the 1948 al-Nakba did not end in the establishment of Israel. It has been a continuous ongoing process of dispossession, Judaization and cleansing. Peaceful Palestinians have presented an […]

What Are They Doing to Rafah?
By Huda Julie Webb-Pullman Norway, Washington DC, Sydney, Australia and Wellington, New Zealand have already done it. The United Kingdom, Germany, Greece and Italy are about to. Activists all around the planet are today presenting […]

Video: Ramzy Baroud on Gaza, Resistance and Need to Retell History
Video – English with French subtitles [Comprenez, de l’intérieur de Gaza, comment le peuple palestinien a vécu la signature des Accords d’Oslo : les espoirs suscités et immédiatement déçus, la désillusion et la colère suscitée […]

To Keep Gaza on Brink of Disaster is Security Interest of Israel
By Iqbal Jassat A startling new revelation by Wikileaks claims that Israeli officials told their American counterparts of a secret policy to keep Gaza on brink of humanitarian crisis. Classified ‘Secret’ it is addressed from […]

Conversation with Ilan Pappe: We Don’t Have the Luxury to Wait Any Longer
(For The Wall has ears; conversations for Palestine – Follow us on facebook here) Florent Barat: Ilan, you are an historian, you’ve published numerous books, amongst them the famous and controversial for some people “Ethnic […]

BDS: Permanent Address for Palestinian Solidarity
By Ramzy Baroud The intellectual dishonesty of Israel’s supporters is appalling. But in some odd way, it is also understandable. How else could they respond to the massively growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign? […]

Northern Ireland and the Israel/Palestine ‘Peace Process’
By Richard Falk I visited Belfast the last few days during some negotiations about unresolved problems between Unionist and Republican (or Nationalist) political parties, I was struck by the absolute dependence for any kind of […]

Kerry’s Framework Agreement: US Plans ‘Gazafication’ of the West Bank
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth In recent days, US and European diplomats have been engaged in a frenzy of activity on the Israeli-Palestinian front, before they settle down for the usual two-week Christmas hibernation. A […]

Gaza Refugees Displaced by Storm Protest outside UNRWA
Dozens of Palestinians from Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp on Wednesday demonstrated in front of UNRWA offices to demand that the UN agency repair their homes following a four-day storm which caused widespread damage in the […]