Minister of Justice, Ayelet Shaked, appointed an external adviser for settlement cases presented to the Supreme Court in order to dictate the state attorney’s positions and what it should say in court, making the court’s […]
By Iqbal Jassat Israel’s antagonism and hostility towards Iran is no secret. No current or previous leader of the settler colonial regime has ever shied away from proclaiming belligerent policies which does not exclude plotting […]
US President Donald Trump’s Middle East Peace Envoy Jason Greenblatt released a statement on Thursday, echoing statements by the Israeli government on the recent Palestinian reconciliation deal signed earlier this month by the rival Hamas […]
A Palestinian teenager was shot in the leg Israeli forces off the coast of the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday evening. Witnesses told Ma’an that the 19-year-old, whose identity remained unknown, was sailing off the […]
The German government has condemned the latest steps taken by Israeli authorities to expand settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory. In a statement released by the German Foreign Office yesterday, Berlin noted how “plans to construct almost […]
The Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) refugee department condemned on Thursday British government plans to celebrate the centennial of the infamous Balfour Declaration of November 2, 2017, saying it was the cause for the expulsion and […]
Some 60 British MPs and Peers have signed a letter to the UK’s Secretary of State for International Development Alistair Burt, urging him to take action to alleviate the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. […]
The Israeli Civil Administration’s High Planning Committee convened on Tuesday and Thursday, and advanced plans for 2,615 housing units in illegal Israeli settlements across the occupied West Bank, according to settlement watchdog Peace Now. Peace […]
The number of the Palestinian journalists arrested by the Israeli occupation reached 24 after two media personnel were detained at dawn yesterday, Quds Press reported. According to the Palestinian Prisoners Club (PPC), brothers Ibrahim and […]
Jason Greenblatt, the United States’ special envoy to the Middle East, responded to the Palestinian unity deal by breaking neutrality and siding with Israel on the matter. Israeli officials announced that they would not negotiate […]
The European Union has requested clarifications from Israeli authorities over recent promotion of plans, tenders and permits for thousands of settlement units across the West Bank. This week, Israeli authorities further promoted plans, tenders and […]
A Kuwaiti official yesterday told the Israeli delegation to leave the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) conference which is being held in Russia. Speaker of Kuwait’s National Assembly Marzouq Al-Ghanim told the Israeli delegation: “You should pack […]
The Gaza Strip will have three new solar energy plants operating by April, the US-based energy firm behind the project said yesterday, providing the territory with some relief from daily blackouts but far from meeting […]
Israeli forces on Wednesday demolished a building in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina, according to official Palestinian Authority (PA)-owned Wafa news agency. Wafa reported that crews from Israel’s Jerusalem Municipality, accompanied by […]
Israeli forces closed several Palestinian media companies in the occupied West Bank in a wave of overnight raids, drawing criticism from the Palestinian Authority (PA). The Israeli military authority in the occupied territories, COGAT, said […]
By Ramzy Baroud To understand the United States’ stratagem in the Pacific, and against North Korea in particular, one has to understand the fundamental changes that are under way in that region. China’s clout as […]
Two Republican politicians have submitted a resolution to Congress condemning UNESCO, days after the US announced that it would be withdrawing from the organization over its “anti-Israel bias”, according to the Times of Israel. Senator […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party is to propose a bill for a law to give immunity to Knesset members from any corruption investigations, Safa reported yesterday. The bill was proposed for the first time in […]
The Palestinian presidency condemned on Tuesday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approval of the construction of 300 housing units in the settlement of Beit El, north of Ramallah, as well as approving the construction of […]
Head of the Palestinian Authority (PA) borders and crossing committee Nathmi Muhanna arrived in the Gaza Strip on Monday in order “to carry out the first article of the reconciliation agreement signed in Cairo regarding […]
A Syrian anti-aircraft battery 50 kilometers east of the capital of Damascus was attacked by the Israeli air force. The anti-aircraft battery disabled in this attack had, according to Israeli intelligence, been the site of […]
After former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the international community was wrong to do as Israel wanted to isolate Hamas, the movement has called for the condition that it recognize Israel before being included […]
Israeli authorities reportedly announced on Monday that they would be expanding the designated fishing zone off the coast of the Gaza Strip from 6 to 9 nautical miles starting Wednesday October 18th, 2017, according to […]
World leaders were wrong to boycott Hamas after it won Palestinian elections in 2006, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has said for the first time according to the Guardian newspaper. In an interview with […]
As the olive harvest season begins, Jewish settlers have continued to assault Palestinian farmers in the southern villages of the occupied Nablus, north Jerusalem. The anti-settlement activist, Bashar Al-Qaryouti, told Quds Press that a group […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth At first glance, the decision last week by the Trump administration, followed immediately by Israel, to quit the United Nation’s cultural agency seems strange. Why penalize a body that promotes […]
By Vacy Vlazna “People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.” — Proverb Western governments that have servilely abrogated to a foreign power, i.e. Israel, their responsibilities to uphold international law can no […]
Member of the Executive Committee of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Hanan Ashrawi, said on Sunday that “if the US continues to threaten to withdraw from multilateral organizations that recognize Palestine, it will find itself outside […]
An Israeli settler on Sunday morning physically assaulted two children while they were on their way to school in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, according to local sources. Noura Nasser, principal of Qurtuba […]
Israeli settlers from Ma’on settlement near Hebron attempted to torch the mosque of Twaneh village on Sunday night, as part of their systematic attacks on the village to intimidate and deport its residents. According to […]
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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