The Israeli Civil Administration is planning to confiscate 1,200 dunams (1.2 square kilometres) of land from Palestinian villages in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus, a local monitor said today. Ghassan Dhaglas, who […]
The council leader of the village of Duma in the occupied West Bank has accused the Palestinian Authority of negligence in the months prior to an arson attack on a home in the village on […]
On the Occasion of World Poetry Day (21.3.2016), Gaza- based human rights activists released an amateur video-clip in support of the Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayyadh, who has been detained in a Saudi prison since January […]
A Palestinian youth was killed by Israeli forces near an illegal settlement in the southern occupied West Bank on Saturday after he allegedly stabbed a soldier, Israeli security sources said. Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri […]
The current intifada in the West Bank and Jerusalem might negatively affect the routine Israeli military exercises, the Israeli army has warned. Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported the Israeli newspaper Makor Rishon saying Israeli army sources fear […]
By Richard Falk For six years (2008-2014) I acted as UN Special Rapporteur for Occupied Palestine, and found myself routinely and personally attacked by the top UN diplomats representing the U.S. Government. Of course, I […]
The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms, known as MADA, recorded a total of 599 violations against media freedoms throughout the year, in what the group’s general director, Moussa Rimawi, said was the “highest […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said rights group Breaking the Silence had “crossed a red line” following allegations that the group collected classified information from members of the Israeli military. The PM launched the allegation […]
By Seif al-Din Abdel-Fattah Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon admitted in his speech at the annual AIPAC conference, the largest Zionist lobby supporting Israel in the US, that the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi and the installation […]
By Iqbal Jassat As South Africa emerged from the annual calendar event known as #IsraelApartheidWeek (IAW), the country has plunged into an abyss of shame following huge controversies arising from allegations of “state capture”. Dark, threatening clouds gathered […]
By Mueen Al-Taher Palestinian teacher Hanan Al-Hroub has been chosen as the best teacher in the world. She received the $1 million prize in a ceremony in Dubai, in which she stood tall and proud, like […]
Israeli authorities had prepared comprehensive evacuation plan for the Israeli settlements in the occupied Golan Heights and Galilee in case a new war erupts on the northern border, Israeli newspaper Maariv reported yesterday. According to […]
A Palestinian child whose family was killed in an arson attack committed by Israeli settlers last year was welcomed by major Spanish football club Real Madrid on Thursday. Ahmad Dawabsha, 5, arrived at the Real […]
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely claimed yesterday that Israel maintains secret relations with Indonesia, Quds Press reported Israeli media saying. She also claimed that a representative of the Israeli foreign ministry had recently visited […]
Two Palestinians were shot dead on Thursday after a stab attack left an Israeli soldier injured near the illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel in the northern occupied West Bank district of Salfit, an Israeli army […]
By Ramzy Baroud A foray of condemnations of the boycott of Israel seems to have fallen on deaf ears. Calls from Western governments, originating from the UK, the US, Canada and others, to criminalize the […]
An Israeli court in Jerusalem on Wednesday sentenced seven Palestinian children to jail time ranging from 12 to 39 months for alleged stone-throwing, a lawyer with prisoners’ rights group Addameer said. Lawyer Muhammad Mahmoud said […]
Israeli forces on Wednesday morning demolished three structures and issued demolition orders for a further two in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. In the village of al-Khader south of Bethlehem, Israeli forces tore […]
An Israeli soldier and settler have broken into the hospital room of former hunger striker Mohamed al-Qeq at Al-Afula Hospital and threatened to kill him, Al-Resalah newspaper reported on Tuesday. According to Al-Qeq’s wife, Fayhaa […]
The number of female Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails had risen to 64, including 14 minor, Quds Press reported the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club (PPC) saying yesterday. In a statement, the PPC said that the […]
By Eugene Sigaloff March 16, 2003 (I): The View from the Caterpillar That Rachel Corrie, stupid cunt, She thought that she’d alone confront A Caterpillar armed with steel, She thought that she could make a […]
The contentious topic of how to react to armed Palestinians on Israeli territory has taken a new twist, as the country’s chief Sephardic rabbi called to ignore warnings by the Army not to overreact, and […]
Head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Khaled Meshaal, said that his movement aims to avoid wars, stressing that what is occurring in the West Bank is a popular uprising and what is practiced by the […]
The Israeli government yesterday confiscates more than 2,000 dunams of Palestinian land in Jericho, east of the occupied West Bank, local radio reported. According to Israeli Radio, the government issued a map of the land […]
Israel has reinstated a policy of confiscating vast swathes of Palestinian land for settlement expansion in a trend not seen since the pre-Oslo period in the 1980s, Peace Now reported Tuesday. The Israeli settlement watchdog […]
By Dr. Hani Al-Masri A full year has passed since some vital decisions taken by the Palestinian Central Council (PCC) were put under the microscope in what looked very much like a way to ensure […]
Israeli media sites yesterday quoted a “religious edict” issued by Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel Yitzhak Yosef encouraging the killing of any Palestinian armed with a knife. “If a terrorist comes at someone with a […]
Three Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli troops on Monday morning after they allegedly carried out two consecutive attacks near an illegal Israeli settlement in the southern occupied West Bank in which four Israeli soldiers […]
Israeli authorities denied entrance to the occupied West Bank to an Indonesian delegation headed by Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi on Sunday morning. The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that Marsudi was […]
A Palestinian teacher from the occupied West Bank on Sunday won the Varkey Foundation’s 2016 Global Teacher’s Prize “for her work educating children in Palestine.” Hanan al-Hroub, from Duheisha refugee camp in the southern occupied […]
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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