Israeli troops have shot and wounded a physically disabled Palestinian man during an arrest operation in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, according to a prisoners’ rights group. Motazz Obeidu, 32, was “seriously wounded […]
By Jamal Kanj On October 10, 2002 I was driving the family during a short vacation at Yosemite National Park. Indifferent to the family’s holiday disposition, I scanned the radio for the best AM reception […]
The UN humanitarian coordinator on Wednesday warned that Israel’s increased restrictions on the Gaza Strip will seriously effect the civilian population. Israel closed the Kerem Shalom and Erez crossings on Monday after militants fired a […]
By IRIN – GAZA UN-run relief and distribution centres in Gaza, which provide food to around 25,000 people a day, reopened today after guarantees were given about the security of staff. “UNRWA was forced to […]
US secretary of state John Kerry has wrapped up three days of high-level Middle East diplomacy on a positive note, saying he held “very constructive talks” with Israeli and Palestinian leaders but offering few specifics. […]
By Ramzy Baroud On September 17, 2012, Ismail Haniyeh, Prime Minister of the Hamas government in Gaza, made another appeal to his Egyptian counterpart Hisham Kandil to consider setting up a free trade area between […]
‘Since the arrival of the first Zionist to Palestine, hundreds of massacres have been committed against unarmed Palestinian civilians in the name of “Israel”, making this entity synonym to death and destruction. One of the […]
The massacre at Deir Yassin in 1948 is still going on today, lawmaker Mustafa Barghouti said Tuesday, as Palestinians mark the 65th year since Jewish militias murdered over 100 Palestinian villagers. “What happened 65 years […]
The Real News: Palestinians Advocate One State Solution
By Vacy Vlazna “Everything depends on our propelling force. And what is that force? The misery of the Jews” (Theodor Herzl , father of Zionism) “If you combine three elements: the idea that we are […]
By Ira Glunts Various news sources report that the Obama administration has notified the Palestinian Authority that the new U.S. approach to peace negotiations will be based on the Arab Peace Initiative (API) of 2002. […]
(This week writer Iain Banks announced he has cancer and may have just months to live. Here he explains why, in 2010, he decided his novels would no longer be published in Israel.) By Iain […]
US Secretary of State John Kerry has met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as part of a fresh US bid to restart negotiations between Israel and Palestine. Kerry is on a 10-day tour, which will also […]
A weekend cyberattack campaign has targeted Israeli government websites. Yitzhak Ben Yisrael, of the government’s National Cyber Bureau, claimed on Sunday that hackers had mostly failed to shut down key sites. “So far it is […]
The family of hunger striker Samer Issawi handed a letter to EU officials on Monday demanding his release from Israeli prison custody, a Palestinian official said. Issawi’s family handed the letter to the Office of […]
Palestinian unions representing lecturers, university employees, teachers and writers have praised the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) for its endorsement of an academic boycott of Israel. In a letter saluting the TUI, the Palestinians said […]
UNRWA will resume distributing food aid to refugees in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said. The UN agency stopped food deliveries after dozens of protesters forced their way into […]
By June Rugh I highly recommend the new collection of essays, Generation Palestine: Voices from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, ed. Rich Wiles, Pluto Press, London, 2013. With an impressive range of contributors–Palestinian author […]
By John V. Whitbeck An article published on April 4 by the leading Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz has reported that “President Mahmoud Abbas is to suspend all unilateral measures vis-à-vis the United Nations agencies to give […]
The main UN humanitarian agency for Palestinians said it was suspending operations in the Gaza Strip after demonstrators angered by aid cutbacks stormed its headquarters. Some 800,000 Palestinians, two-thirds of Gaza’s population, depend on the […]
By Uri Avnery Obama in Israel: Every word right. Every gesture genuine. Every detail in its place. Perfect. Obama in Palestine: Every word wrong. Every gesture inappropriate. Every single detail misplaced. Perfect. It started from […]
By George Katsiaficas The current threat of a major war in Korea is akin to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, when the US and the USSR nearly waged nuclear war. Peaceful coexistence was assured […]
By Manash Bhattacharjee Commandant Guevara Man more than memory memory more than man. A scar without a wound in the masks of history. He was no engineer of lies. He was no head in the […]
President Mahmoud Abbas will temporarily refrain from unilateral action against Israel to give US-brokered peace talks a chance to resume, a Palestinian official said on Thursday. “Abbas and the Palestinian leadership have decided to give […]
Thousands of Palestinians have taken to the streets in the occupied West Bank in a show of anger over the deaths of two Palestinian protesters killed in clashes with Israel and a third who died […]
By Felicity Arbuthnot Last night and overnight, two unarmed teenagers, cousins Amer Nassar (17) and Naji Abdul-Karim Balbeisi (18) were shot dead by Israeli Defence Force troops. The two were from the village of Anabta, […]
By Awad Abdel Fattah I was fortunate this week. I had a quick and easy crossing from Jordan back into Israel. No delays, no questions, no invasive body searches and no lengthy rummaging through my […]
By Jamal Kanj Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed a $3.9 billion national budget for the 2013 fiscal year just one day before the March 31 deadline. The budget was approved without the required constitutional review […]
Israeli warplanes bombed the Gaza Strip early Wednesday, causing damage but no injuries, in the first airstrike on the enclave since a November ceasefire. Two airstrikes hit a tile factory in the Shujaiyeh neighborhood, east […]
Israeli prison doctors refused to treat Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh, who died in Israeli custody on Tuesday, and gave the cancer sufferer painkillers and antibiotics, his lawyer said. Rami Alami visited Abu Hamdiyeh in Eshel prison […]
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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