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Month: August 2017

‘Our School is Destroyed’: Israel Razes EU-Funded Schools for Palestinian Children (VIDEO)
Israeli authorities have bulldozed several EU-funded structures in the West Bank, set up to provide local Palestinian children with an opportunity to get an education near home. While Israel claims the buildings were illegal, Belgium […]

As Palestinians Celebrate Eid: Israel Holds 6500 Palestinians in 24 Jails
Some 6,500 Palestinian prisoners are currently held in 24 Israeli jails, camps and detention centres, Quds Press reported, quoting the head of the Palestinian Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs (CDA). Issa Qaraqe said that […]

Israeli Forces Raid and Close Prisoners Radio Station
Israeli authorities raided and shut down a Palestinian radio station for six months for allegedly “inciting terrorist attacks” during predawn hours on Thursday in Hebron city in the southern occupied West Bank. Israeli soldiers raided […]

‘Every Day is a Bad Day at Qalandiya Checkpoint’: Special Report
By Viktor Bournonville Like all of us, Palestinians need to earn a living. For many of them it involves going through sets of turnstiles, a metal detector and X-ray scanning of their carry-ons on the […]

US Envoy Calls for PA Control of Gaza
US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace envoy said on Wednesday that the Palestinian Authority (PA) must resume its control over the government in the besieged Gaza Strip during a tour of the Gaza-Israel border. […]

Jordan Demands Netanyahu Reinstate Al-Aqsa Ban on Knesset Members
A Jordanian government official condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to lift a ban on Israeli Knesset members from visiting Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday, calling the move “irresponsible.” Muhammad […]

Israeli Embassy Reopens in Cairo
Israel has returned its diplomatic staff to Egypt some eight months after its embassy’s closure, the Associated Press reported yesterday. Whilst the Israeli Foreign Ministry refused to comment on the issue, airport officials anonymously informed […]

Israeli Denial of Medical Care Leads to the Death of 15 Gazans
Some 15 Gaza residents have died since the start of 2017 after Israel denied terminally ill patients the necessary permits to travel outside the besieged Strip for medical treatment. Al-Mezan Centre for Human Rights revealed […]

Iran Restores Relationship with Hamas, Resume Support of Military Wing
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a statement that he was “ready to put aside all disagreements (with Hamas) for the sake of supporting Palestine and the Palestinian people as well as the […]

Rohingya: Horrors Multiply as Tragedy Worsens
By Iqbal Jassat Arson, killings and rape have become operative challenges for Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya population as they face wave after wave of an orchestrated campaign of ethnic cleansing. Reviled as illegal migrants and rendered stateless […]

UN Chief Guterres Advocates End to Israeli Blockade on Gaza
In a visit to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres called for Palestinian national reconciliation and demanded that Israel’s decade-long blockade on the territory be lifted, describing life in […]

UN Secretary General: There is No Plan B to the Two State Solution
Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres said on Thursday that there was “no plan B to the two-state solution” during a conference with Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, as part of the UN leader’s […]

UK to Investigate Death of Palestinian Cartoonist Naji Al-Ali 30 Years Later
British counterterrorism police have reopened an investigation into the murder of Palestinian cartoonist Naji Al-Ali 30 years after he was shot and killed in London, according to BBC News. The Metropolitan Police have appealed for […]

Israeli Settlers Threaten to Sexually Assault Palestinian Women
Israeli rights group B’Tselem released a video today showing a group of settlers from Israel’s illegal Kiryat Arba settlement in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron hurling abuse through a loudspeaker at Palestinians […]

The Terror Next Time: The Daesh Story Is Not Ending
By Ramzy Baroud Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, has been reduced to rubble. It has been finally conquered, snatched back from the notorious group, Daesh, after months of merciless bombardment by the US-led war coalition, […]

Israeli Minister: BDS More Anti-Semitic than Alt-Right
Alleged anti-Jewish hatred from the far-left is more significant than that from the far-right; Israeli Diaspora Minister Naftali Bennett has told the Times of Israel. In an interview last week, Bennet argued that the sight […]

Palestinian Rights Groups Condemn Abbas’ ‘Exceptional Law’
The Palestinian Council of Human Rights Organisations called on Sunday for the Palestinian Authority to stop adopting new laws including restrictions and violations of rights guaranteed by the Constitution, as well as the international conventions […]

‘American and Democratic’ is Possible, but ‘Jewish and Democratic’ is Not
By Rima Najjar As Richard Falk points out, “anti-Semitism, and its links to Nazism and Fascism, and now to Trumpism, are genuinely menacing”, but Jews who call Trump himself an anti-Semite (in the sense of having […]

US Delegation Needs Months to Prepare Peace Plan
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ foreign affairs advisor Nabil Shaath said Monday that in their visit with Abbas last week in Ramallah, the US delegation to the region “asked the Palestinian leadership to give United States […]

Netanyahu Accuses Iran of Building Missile Production Sites in Syria, Lebanon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Iran is building sites to produce precision-guided missiles in Syria and Lebanon, with the aim of using them against Israel. At the start of a meeting in […]

Thousands of Palestinians Detained for Political Protest Over 50 Years of Occupation
Sunday marked 50 years since the Israeli government issued Military Order 101, a “draconian law” that has been used to suppress Palestinian political expression in the occupied West Bank for decades, Amnesty International said in […]

Israel to Hold Vote on ‘Jewish State Law’
The Knesset, Israel’s parliament, is expected to advance the so-called “Jewish State bill” — also referred to as the “Nationality” or “Nation State bill” — next month according to Israeli media, amid ongoing controversies over […]

Israel Extends Detention of Palestinian NGO Worker
Israeli authorities have extended the remand of Salah Hamouri, a human rights defender and field researcher for Palestinian prisoners’ rights group Addameer. The NGO said in a statement on Sunday that a judge at the […]

US Bright Star War Games Revival in Egypt Not A Bright Idea
By Iqbal Jassat Egypt under the military dictatorship of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, has been rewarded yet again by the United States for being a faithful ally in America’s quest for dominance in the North African region […]

8-year-old Palestinian Girl Dies after Being Struck by Israeli Settler Car in Nablus
An 8-year-old Palestinian girl was killed on Saturday after being struck by an Israeli vehicle in the Nablus district of the northern occupied West Bank, according to Israeli sources. According to Israeli police spokeswoman Luba […]

Israel Revoked Citizenship for Hundreds of Israeli Arabs
The Israeli authorities have revoked the citizenship of hundreds – maybe thousands – of Israeli Arabs in the southern Negev region over the past two years, Israeli daily Haaretz revealed Friday. According to the newspaper, […]

Hamas Bans Officials from Meeting Mohammed Dahlan
Hamas has banned its officials from holding personal meetings with the former security chief Mohammed Dahlan in the wake of the deterioration of his relations with the Fatah movement, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed revealed on Friday. Local […]

Israel to Separate Jewish-Only Settlement from a Refugee Camp by Another Wall
Israeli media reported on Thursday that Israeli authorities have allocated 5.5 million shekels (more than $1.5 million) to the construction of a wall around Israel’s illegal settlement of Beit El, in order to separate it […]

Abbas to Pay Prisoners’ and Martyrs Allowances ‘Even If It Costs Him His Seat’
Mahmoud Abbas has sent a message to the US saying that he will continue to pay allowances to the families of prisoners and martyrs, even if it costs him his seat, Israel’s Kan news has […]

The Antisemitism Fallacy; Let’s Focus on Palestinians
By Blake Alcott Speaking to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on July 16, 2017, French President Emmanuel Macron repeated the popular formula that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic. According to Macron, anti-Zionist and anti-Israel expressions are “a new […]