Israel Sends the Kiss of Death on Valentine’s Day
By Julie Webb-Pullman While the rest of the world sends expressions of love on Valentine’s Day, Israel sends the kiss of death to Gaza. A man now lies clinging to life in Kamal Adwan hospital […]
Month: February 2014
Israelis Outraged by EU Official Comments
Comments made by the president of the European Parliament, in which he criticized Israeli settlements and implied that Israelis receive four times more water than Palestinians, has stoked anger in Israel. The speech, made by […]
Man Killed, another Injured by Israeli Forces in Gaza
A Palestinian man was shot dead and another injured on Thursday by Israeli forces east of Gaza city. Spokesman for the Gaza ministry of health Ashraf al-Qidra said that Ibrahim Suleiman Mansour, 26, from an […]
Israel to Build New Tower in East Jerusalem
Jerusalem’s planning committee forged ahead with plans to build a nine-storey Jewish seminary in the heart of a densely-populated Palestinian neighborhood near the Old City. Plans for the new tower block, to be built in […]
Tide Turns against Israel: Pariah Status and Isolation Lie Ahead
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rarely been so politically embattled. His travails indicate the Israeli right’s inability to respond to a shifting political landscape, both in the region and […]
Playing Al-Qaeda Card to the Last Iraqi
By Nicola Nasser International, regional and internal players vying for interests, wealth, power or influence are all beneficiaries of the “al-Qaeda threat” in Iraq and in spite of their deadly and bloody competitions they agree […]
Israel Attacks Two Sites in Gaza Strip
The Israeli military says it has hit an underground rocket launcher and a “terror site” in two air strikes in the occupied Gaza Strip. An unnamed Israeli army spokesman told the AFP news agency on […]
Al-Qaeda Group ‘Leaves Besieged Syrian Camp’
Syria’s al-Qaeda-linked group Jabhat al-Nusra has began pulling out of a Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in southern Damascus, according to Al Jazeera sources. Palestinian fighters started to replace the armed rebels of Jabhat al-Nusra […]
Preserving the Abu Ghraib Culture: The Harrowing Abuse of Iraqi Women
By Ramzy Baroud “When they first put the electricity on me, I gasped; my body went rigid and the bag came off my head,” Israa Salah, a detained Iraqi woman told Human Rights Watch (HRW) […]
BDS, ‘Lawfare’ Big Winners at South African Parliamentary Conference
By Suraya Dadoo 2014 was declared the year of solidarity with the Palestinian people, and nowhere is this being taken more seriously than in South Africa. From ordinary individuals, to civil society, and those in […]
One Palestinian Man’s Reading of Susan Abulhawa’s My Voice Sought The Wind
By Hatim Kanaaneh I am no romantic poet. Yet Susan Abulhawa’s first published collection of poems (My Voice Sought The Wind, Just World Books, 2013) slices directly to my heart. Like her, I once wrote […]
The Boycott is Our Palestinian Non-violent Resistance
By Hanan Ashrawi The SodaStream controversy, which recently caught the attention of media worldwide, has highlighted Israel’s ongoing military occupation and contributed to the growing awareness of global consciousness and social responsibility towards Palestine. It […]
PA Plans Airport in West Bank, Seaport and Railway in Gaza
The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Transport has been working with Egypt to prepare plans for an airport in the occupied West Bank and a seaport and railway line in the Gaza Strip, a minister said […]
Reports: Israeli PM Meets Top Ministers over Boycott Threat
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with three of his top ministers to discuss ways to deal with the threat of economic boycotts against Israel, media reported Monday. The meeting on Sunday night was attended […]
Palestinian Fighter Wounded in Israeli Strike
A Palestinian fighter has been left in critical condition, following an Israeli air strike, the AFP news agency reported. Abdallah Kherati was riding a motorcycle in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, the Palestinian enclave bordering Israel […]
Israeli Soldiers Choke on Their Own Tear Gas
The incident took place in Jalazoun, north of Ramallah in occupied West Bank. Clashes between occupation soldiers and stone-throwing youth of the refugee camp resulted in the wounding of 10 Palestinians. They were mostly hit […]
Settlers Beat Israeli Activist Supporting Palestinians
Footage released by a rights group on Saturday appears to show Jewish settlers beating an Israeli activist as he tries to defend Palestinian farmers while Israeli soldiers look on. The videos released by joint Israeli-Palestinian […]
Israeli Forces Raid al-Aqsa Mosque
Clashes have erupted between Israeli forces and worshippers at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem after noon prayers. Israeli forces raided the mosque compound and fired stun grenades on Friday, while dozens of […]
Israeli Killed in South Tel Aviv Car Bombing
An Israeli was killed after a car bomb exploded in mysterious circumstances in south Tel Aviv on Saturday evening. Israeli sources reported that the explosion targeted a car on Sheshet Hayamim (Six Days) street in […]
Israel Ejects Palestinians from Protest Camp
The Israeli military has removed Palestinian activists protesting at a deserted village in the West Bank whose final status is a central issue in US-mediated peace talks. Hundreds of activists had been demonstrating for a […]
Israeli Razing of Palestinian Homes at Peak
Aid agencies working in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem have expressed alarm at a spike in Israeli demolitions of Palestinian property, which coincides with renewed US-backed peace negotiations. The number of demolitions increased […]
The Not So ‘Magnificent Kerry’
By S.R.H. Hashmi In his article ‘The Magnificent Kerry‘ published in the Tripoli Post on February 6, while giving credit to US Secretary of State John Kerry for averting military action against Iran and Syria, […]
OMAR: Uncovering Occupied Palestine
By Richard Falk OMAR is the second film directed by Hany Alu-Assad to be a finalist among foreign language films nominated to receive an Oscar at the 2014 Academy Awards ceremony on March 2nd. The […]
A Housing Crisis yet Demolitions in East Jerusalem
The threatened demolition of apartment blocks in East Jerusalem is adding new pressure to the city’s housing crisis, with hundreds facing the prospect of losing their homes and Palestinian residents saying they face discrimination in […]
Israel to Return Remains of Palestinian Man Held since 2002
Israel will return the remains on Sunday of a Palestinian killed by soldiers over a decade ago, an Israeli human right groups said on Thursday. Israeli rights group Center for the Defense of the Individual […]
Ultra-Orthodox Jews Protest Israeli Draft
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews have blocked highways across Israel to protest attempts to draft them into the army, clashing with police who fired stun grenades at large crowds of black-garbed men. The violent protests on […]
Danish Parliament Leader to Visit Gaza, Bypass Israel
The speaker for the Danish parliament Mogens Lykketoft is set to visit the West Bank and Gaza next week, Israeli media reported on Thursday. The website for the Israeli channel 10 reported that Lykketoft will […]
Israel ‘Okays Plans for over 550 East Jerusalem Settler Homes’
Israel on Wednesday pushed forward with plans to build more than 550 new homes in illegal settlements in annexed East Jerusalem, the city council said. In a statement listing “building permits that were approved” during […]
Delegations Visit Ein Hijleh Protest as Israeli Siege Enters 6th Day
An archbishop, a European Union delegation, the PA minister of agriculture and an Israeli member of Knesset were among the solidarity delegations that visited the protest village of Ein Hijleh on Wednesday as a military […]
Rising above Vengeance: Salt and Terror in Afghanistan
By Kathy Kelly In late January in a room in Kabul, Afghanistan, I joined several dozen people, working seamstresses, some college students, socially engaged teenagers and a few visiting internationals like myself, to discuss world […]
