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Year: 2018

The UN’s Vision of ‘Peace’ for Palestine Excludes Ordinary Palestinians
By Ramona Wadi The UN is now adamant that the Palestinian Authority should return to govern the Gaza Strip. In the aftermath of Israel’s 2014 Operation Protective Edge, this hypothesis was raised by the US […]

Palestinian Poverty Level Almost Double Israel Average
A new report has found that the percentage of Palestinian citizens of Israel living below the poverty line is almost double the national average, pointing to a huge disparity between Palestinian and Jewish Israelis. The […]

Israel Protests against Jordan Minister Stepping on Israeli Flag
Israel says it has filed a complaint to Jordan over a picture of a Jordanian government minister stepping on an image of the Israeli flag. Jumana Ghuneimat, minister of state for information, was pictured last week […]

Gaza Economic Losses Exceeded $300m in 2018
Gaza’s economic losses exceeded $300 million in 2018 as a result of Israel’s stifling siege on the Strip, head of the Popular Committee Against the Siege Jamal Al-Khodari said yesterday. In a statement Al-Khodari described […]

Israel Exhibits Stolen West Bank Artifacts at Jerusalem Museum
Israel has exhibited artifacts stolen from the occupied West Bank at a Jerusalem museum, an Israeli newspaper reported Monday. Twenty artifacts – out of an estimated 40,000 confiscated in 1967 – are currently on display, […]

Netanyahu Scrambles to Save Israeli Right
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been left scrambling to save the country’s right-wing following the split in the Jewish Home party, pushing to lower the electoral threshold to preserve a Knesset majority. Speaking to […]

Brazil to Move Embassy to Jerusalem, Israeli Leader Claims
Brazil will move its embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, with only the date of the transfer to be decided, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Speaking during a meeting with leaders […]

Jewish Settlers Assault, Injure Palestinian in Hebron (VIDEO)
Jewish settlers attacked a Palestinian youth in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood in the Old City of Hebron (Al-Khalil), in the southern occupied West Bank, late Friday, causing him injuries. Hatem Samih al-Muhtaseb, 22, reported that […]

Palestine Urges International Probe into Jerusalem Excavations
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has called for forming an international commission to investigate Israeli excavations in the occupied city of East Jerusalem and beneath the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. In a statement on Saturday, the […]

Israel’s Jewish Home Party Splits ahead of April Election
A religious-nationalist party in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government split on Saturday, with its leaders saying they were bolting to appeal to more secular constituents ahead of an April election. The Jewish Home […]

Facebook Censors, Restores Video Accusing Israel of Using Palestinians to Test Weapons (VIDEO)
A video accusing Israel of using Palestinians to test weapons and methods of repression that it later exports around the world was removed from Facebook for several hours and was only restored after complaints. PALESTINE: […]

Israel Launches Aistrikes on Gaza
Israel launched airstrikes on Gaza late Friday. An Israeli military helicopter targeted a Hamas position in the besieged Palestinian enclave, the Israeli military said. It said it had responded after a “launch towards Israel”, claimed […]

Jewish Settlements Demand Extra Budget for ‘Security’ (VIDEO)
Illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank have sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanding that extra finances be allocated for their “security”. The letter came after about 100 settler families […]

Gaza: Palestinian Killed, 6 Injured by Israeli Forces (VIDEOS)
A Palestinian youth was killed by Israeli army gunfire on Friday while taking part in ongoing demonstrations along the Gaza-Israel buffer zone, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, Anadolu Agency reports. In a statement, the ministry said that Karam Fayyad, […]

Palestine Retaliates, Bans Israeli Imports
On Thursday, Palestine announced that the government will put in place a counter-ban on the importation on several categories of produce from Israeli. Xinhua news agency reported that the decision was made “In line with […]

Israel to Return Body of Slain Palestinian in Salfit (VIDEO)
The Israeli authorities decided, late Thursday, to return the body of a slain Palestinian youth on Friday afternoon. A Palestinian man named Elias Saleh Yassin (22) was shot by the Israeli occupation forces for allegedly […]

Al-Haq Sends Urgent Appeal to UN on Disappearance of Palestinian
Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq sent a joint urgent appeal to the United Nations (UN) Special Procedures regarding the enforced disappearance of Palestinian citizen Saleh Omar Barghouthi, 29, following his detention by Israeli forces near […]

PFLP Will Not Participate in Legislative Elections
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) will not participate in any upcoming legislative elections, a member of the PFLP Central Committee Maher Mezher said yesterday, explaining that the movement rejects the Oslo […]

Fatah Leadership Rejects PA Sanctions on Gaza
A member of the Fatah movement said the movement strongly rejects Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ steps to impose new punitive measures against the Gaza Strip. However, the source who asked not to be named […]

BDS: Banking Giant HSBC Divests from Israeli Arms Manufacturer
Human rights groups have claimed a major victory after HSBC, one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, confirmed that it fully divested from Israeli drone manufacturer Elbit Systems, which sells […]

Palestine and Its People Will Pay the Price for the PA’s Disloyalty
By Ramona Wadi We still don’t know what US President Donald Trump’s so-called deal of the century looks like. At the UN Security Council meeting last Tuesday, US Ambassador to the international organization, Nikki Haley, […]

Jewish Settlers Threaten to Kill Palestinian in Hebron
Jewish settlers verbally assaulted and threatened a Palestinian to kill him, in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil), on Thursday morning. Ziad al-Sharabati told Ma’an that he was threatened by three Jewish […]

Palestine to Apply for Full Membership at UN
Palestinian Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Minister Riyad Malki announced Wednesday that the occupied country would initiate an application to gain full membership at the United Nations. Malki said that he would initiate an application seeking […]

Israel ‘Advances Plans’ for Nearly 2,200 Settler Homes
Israeli authorities have advanced plans for nearly 2,200 settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, an NGO and Israeli media said. A defense ministry committee with responsibility for such projects on Tuesday and Wednesday approved […]

Israel’s UN Envoy to Resign to Run Against Netanyahu
Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon is expected to resign from his post in order to run against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a leadership contest which is expected to be called. According to […]

BDS Coalition to Canadian Government: Do Not Sponsor CanaDanse Festival
The Canadian BDS Coalition sent an Open Letter to the Government of Canada, and the Cities of Vancouver and Montreal, regarding their involvement in the upcoming CanaDanse Festival in Israel. The Coalition is “comprised of […]

A Question Every American Must Confront: Apartheid Israel or US Democracy?
By Ramzy Baroud Bahia Amawai is a US citizen and Texas-based language specialist who helps autistic and speech-impaired children overcome their impairment. Despite the essential and noble nature of her work, she was fired by the […]

Israeli Forces Raid, Block Towns near Hebron
Israeli forces attacked homes and tents belonging to Palestinians in the southern towns of occupied Hebron (Al-Khalil) in the West Bank, forcing them outside of their homes at gunpoint. According to local media, Israeli forces raided […]

Jewish Settlers Assault, Injure Elderly Palestinian Shepherd
Jewish settlers assaulted a Palestinian elderly shepherd in the Burqa village, in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus, on Wednesday, injuring him in the head. A Palestinian official who monitors settlement activity in […]

Israeli Forces Shoot Palestinian near Nablus
Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian man in an alleged car-ramming attempt in the occupied West Bank today as reported on Anadolu Agency. Israeli army says Palestinian shot trying to run over soldiers, civilians in […]