The law of unintended consequences: Europe has finally started to address a humanitarian crisis partially of its own making: the growing wave of refugees from the war-torn Middle East. As EU members grapple with binding […]
The director of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Sheikh Omar al-Kiswani, said Sunday that Israel had effectively taken over the holy site, after a day of violent clashes between Palestinian worshipers and Israeli police took place […]
By Jamal Kanj Five years ago at a stop during my book signing tour in San Diego, I met an adorable toddler named Farah. She was being treated in the US for severe burns she […]
Reviewed by Mike Kuhlenbeck Many mainstream reporters have been fired over the years for doing what poet Remi Kanazi does so well in his latest book Before the Next Bomb Drops: tell the truth about […]
Palestinian pensioner Zahra Zahroura always imagined seeing out her days in her adopted Syrian hometown of Homs, sustained by the hope that being made a refugee once was enough for any lifetime. But as the […]
Israel has identified those responsible for the arson attack that killed three members of the Palestinian Dawabsheh family two months ago but has not arrested them to protect the identity of their sources, the defence […]
Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli demonstrators clashed outside British Prime Minister David Cameron’s London residence on Wednesday ahead of a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Police officers separated the two groups and took away at […]
By Ramzy Baroud What does it mean to be a ‘liberal Arab’? Even in the West, definitions of the ‘liberal’ vary. In the American context, the demarcation of the ‘liberal’ overlaps cultural and political lines. […]
By Ilan Pappe A few weeks ago, a very important conference took place in London organised by the NGO, Middle East Monitor, focusing on Latin America’s engagement with the cause of Palestine. The most striking […]
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine said Tuesday that the Palestine National Council session has been suspended until further notice, with the consent of all PLO factions. No official statement has been issued […]
Israeli military analyst Amos Harel said yesterday that the growth in Russian military aid supporting the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad will change the rules of the game for Israel. Harel said in an […]
By Jonathan Cook Israel’s Benjamin Netantahu is reluctant to unlock horns with the White House, even as he faces almost certain defeat in trying to block President Barack Obama’s deal with Iran. Last week, when […]
Palestinian officials in the Gaza Strip have warned of the dangers of an Egyptian plan to flood the Egypt-Gaza border with seawater in an effort to destroy cross-border tunnel activity. According to Mazen Al-Banna, vice-president […]
By Alan Hart There is a strong case for saying that Palestine is a lost cause. And it, the case, can be summarised as follows. * The nuclear-armed Zionist (not Jewish) state of Israel is […]
By Jamal Kanj Many years ago I read Men in the Sun, a novel by late Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani. He, along with his young niece Lamis, were blown up by Israel in 1972. In […]
Riham Dawabsha, the mother of 18-month-old Ali Dawabsha who was burned alive in an arson attack by Israeli extremists on July 31, died from her injuries late Sunday, after fighting for her life for over […]
By Mohammed El Majdalawi A year after the attack on Gaza I still cannot forget that pain that took root deep in my heart to hear the voice of my family mixed with the sound […]
By Jeremy Salt The connections between the body of the small boy washed up on the beach at Bodrum, the destruction at Palmyra and the hundreds of Libyans drowning in the same Mediterranean the parents […]
Eight Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails continued their hunger strikes on Friday in protest of their administrative detention, a report by the PA’s Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs said. The report said that Ghassan Zawahra, who […]
By Adriano Mérola Marotta Stateless Palestinians like Aaed Al-Shalabi have been stuck in a legal limbo in Sweden for 17 months without signs of a resolution. He fled his home in Baghdad, Iraq, together with […]
By Joe Dyke -Beirut Imagine Syria didn’t exist – that the war never happened. Suddenly Europe’s migration crisis doesn’t look so bad. The two EU countries that receive the vast majority of arrivals by boat […]
Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian child near the shores of the Beit Lahiya village in the northern Gaza Strip, medics said. Medics told Ma’an that Bilal Abu Amro,11, was shot in the thigh […]
Some 301 Palestinian minors are being held in Israeli jails, a report released yesterday revealed. Quds Press reported a report released by the Palestinian Ministry of Information in Ramallah who have been monitoring the situation […]
By Dr. Mousa Abu-Marzouk The Israeli occupation has closed the doors to Al-Aqsa Mosque from 7.30am to 11.30am, during which they prevent worshippers from entering the mosque. This is being carried out in light of […]
Israeli police and the IDF might be given the right to open fire on Palestinians who throw stones and Molotov cocktails. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also announced deployment of additional police to Jerusalem, the […]
As rumors spread that Mahmoud Abbas could soon step down as Palestinian president, a recent poll reveals that the leader holds support among just 16 percent of the Palestinian public. Despite the low support rate, […]
President Mahmoud Abbas told Fatah’s central committee that he has no intention of standing in the the coming elections for the PLO Executive Committee, the secretary-general of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, Amin Maqbul, said Tuesday. […]
By Ramzy Baroud The crisis of leadership throughout Palestinian history did not start with Mahmoud Abbas and will, regrettably, be unlikely to end with his departure. Although Abbas has, perhaps, done more damage to the […]
The Gaza Strip, ravaged by wars and nearly a decade of a grueling Israeli blockade, could become uninhabitable for residents within just five years, the United Nations development agency said Tuesday. “The social, health and […]
The beginning of a new academic year has been put off for nearly 50 Christian schools in Israel. Almost 33,000 pupils, mostly Palestinians, have had to stay at home due to a funding dispute with […]
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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