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Month: November 2014

Haniyeh: Hamdallah Must Carry out Responsibilities in Gaza
Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Monday urged Prime Minister Rami Hamallah to carry out his responsibilities in Gaza. Speaking to Ma’an on Monday, Haniyeh said that Palestinians in Gaza have been disappointed with the […]

Palestinian Bus Driver Found Hanged in Jerusalem, Sparks Riots
A Palestinian bus driver has been found hanged inside his vehicle at a depot in Jerusalem, with the Israeli police saying the man committed suicide, while the driver’s family claim he was lynched by Israelis. […]

Israel will ‘Never’ Limit Settlement Building in East Jerusalem – Israeli FM
Israel will never stop its settlement constructions in occupied East Jerusalem, according to Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. “One thing should be clear: we will never accept the definition of building in Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem […]

UN Investigation Committee Hears Testimony in Jordan
The investigation committee of the UN Human Rights Council has listened to testimonies of victims’ families and civil society organizations, the representative of Palestine to the HRC said Saturday. Speaking to Ma’an, Ibrahim Khreisha said […]

Police: Palestinian Stabs Israeli with Screwdriver in Jerusalem
A Palestinian man stabbed an Israeli man with a screwdriver in occupied Jerusalem on Sunday, Israeli media and police reported. The victim was taken to hospital in moderate condition, police said. “Police searching for suspect […]

Vast Majority of Israeli-on-Palestinian Crime Claims Routinely Unsolved – Rights Group
Israeli police have proven vastly inept at solving reported crimes against the Palestinian population: a staggering 92 percent of complaints end up closed with no justice served, according to the Yesh Din human rights group. […]

Palestinian Activists Cross Separation Wall in Protest Action
Dozens of Palestinian activists crossed Israel’s separation wall on Friday near Qalandia checkpoint as part of a series of non-violent protest actions to demonstrate solidarity with Jerusalem. Activists used makeshift ramparts, ladders and cut through […]

Calling It ‘One-Sided’, Israel Refuses Cooperation with UN Gaza War Probe
Israel has officially declined to cooperate with the UN Human Rights Council committee’s investigation into the country’s 50-day ‘Operation Protective Edge’ over possible war crimes committed, saying it is obvious the probe will find it […]

Kerry Meets Abbas as Israeli-Palestinian Tensions Soar
US Secretary of State John Kerry met President Mahmoud Abbas in Jordan on Thursday for talks aimed at calming a wave of violence gripping Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. The meeting in Amman came […]

Israeli Navy Sinks Palestinian Fishing Boat off Gaza Coast
Israeli naval boats on Wednesday evening fired at and sank a Palestinian fishing boat in the sea off the coast of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Witnesses said that army boats fired shells at […]

Marwan Barghouthi in Solitary after Calling for ‘Armed Resistance’
The Israeli Prison Service on Wednesday moved jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi to solitary confinement in Hadareim prison, a day after he sent a widely-published letter from prison calling for armed resistance against the Israeli […]

200 New Homes for Jerusalem Settlers Approved
An Israeli planning committee on Wednesday approved plans to build 200 homes in a Jewish settlement neighborhood of annexed East Jerusalem, a city councilor told AFP. East Jerusalem has been shaken by months of clashes […]

The Age of TV Jokers: Arab Media on the Brink
By Ramzy Baroud As I was finalizing my research for this article, I found myself browsing through a heap of hilarious videos by mostly Egyptian TV show hosts Tawfiq Okasha and Amr Adeeb. In one […]

From Jail, Barghouthi Urges ‘Armed Resistance’
Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouthi urged the Palestinian leadership to give its backing to “armed resistance” against Israel in a letter published Tuesday as a wave of violence surged. The call came after months of […]

Merkel’s Wall of Hypocrisy
By Vacy Vlazna “The Berlin Wall, this symbol of state abuse cast in concrete, took millions of people to the limits of what is tolerable, and all too many beyond it.” On the 25th anniversary […]

The Endgame of the US ‘Islamic State’ Strategy
By Nicola Nasser Dismantling what the former US President George W. Bush once described as the Syria – Iran component of the “axis of evil,” or interrupting in Iraq the geographical contiguity of what King […]

Bennett’s ‘One-State Solution’: Israeli Version of Apartheid
By Ludwig Watzal Israel’s economy minister Naftali Bennett, the leader of the right-wing party “The Jewish Home”, published an article in the New York Times in which he buried the concept of a “two-state solution” […]

Stabbing in Settlement ‘Kills Israeli,’ Palestinian Suspect Shot Dead
Israeli media reported Monday that a Palestinian stabbed three settlers in the Jewish settlement of Alon Shvot near Bethlehem, killing an Israeli. The Israeli news site Ynet reported that a Palestinian got out of his […]

Struggle of Abu Khdeir Family: Pulling Down a Boy’s Photo
By Tamar Fleishman “They burned him and he was still alive”, I heard this sentence from everyone of the members of the Abu Khdeir family, when I came to their home two days after the […]

7 Birzeit Students Injured in Clashes with Israeli Forces near Ofer
Seven Palestinians were struck by rubber-coated steel bullets on Thursday afternoon during clashes between Israeli soldiers and students from Birzeit University which took place near Israel’s Ofer detention center west of Ramallah. Sources at Birzeit […]

For 1st Time since 2007, Gaza Exports Goods to West Bank
Israel allowed the export of agricultural products from Gaza to the West Bank for the first time since 2007 on Thursday, and officials said more would be allowed in in the coming week. One truck […]

Naftali Bennett’s Wake-up Call to the West
By John V. Whitbeck Naftali Bennett, Israel’s Minister of the Economy and leader of the Jewish Home Party, a major component of the current Israeli government, is widely seen as the politician on the rise […]

Political Prophecies: Sealing the Fate of al-Aqsa
By Ramzy Baroud Israel’s decision to shut down al-Aqsa Mosque on Thursday, 30 October, is not just a gross violation of the religious rights of Palestinian Muslims. In fact, the rights of Palestinian Muslims and […]

Amnesty Berates Israel for Civilian Deaths in Gaza War
The Israeli military displayed “shocking disregard” for civilian lives in Gaza during its devastating 50-day war on militants in the Palestinian territory, Amnesty International said in a report Wednesday. Amnesty documented eight instances in which […]

Body of Jerusalem Attack Suspect to Be Released at Midnight
An Israeli court on Wednesday ruled that the body of Ibrahim al-Akkari, shot dead by Israeli forces after reportedly attacking pedestrians with a car, will be released to his family for burial later this evening. […]

PLO to Submit UN Resolution ‘This Month’
The PLO will submit a draft resolution to the UN Security Council later this month calling for an end date to Israel’s 47-year occupation, a senior official said Tuesday. The text, which the PLO has […]

The Forgotten Palestinians of Lebanon
By Vacy Vlazna To enter the lost city, go through me. Through me you go to meet a suffering unceasing and eternal. You will be with people who, through me, lost everything. —Dante’s Inferno “It […]

Palestine: Between Unjust International System and Discredited Leadership
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan The UN General Assembly (UNGA) passed a motion on November 29, 2012 recognizing Palestine as a non-member observer state by a vote of 138 supporting the motion to 9 including the […]

On the List – Knocking on the Gates of the Pentagon
By Kathy Kelly – Kabul Yesterday, in the Afghan Peace Volunteers’ (APVs’) “Borderfree Center” here in Kabul, I heard someone banging on the front gate and hurried downstairs to open it. As it happened, I […]

Aqsa Restrictions Continue for Palestinian Worshipers
Israeli forces continued to impose restrictions on Palestinian access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Monday, closing the majority of entry gates and denying entry to men under 40. Director of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Omar […]