Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and 1984 Nobel Peace winner, on Monday nominated Marwan Barghouti for the Nobel Peace Prize. This is the sixth nomination for the imprisoned Palestinian parliamentary member. Ma’an reported that Tutu wrote in a letter shared by the Palestinian Liberation Organization on Tuesday, “The nomination of[…]
Video has emerged showing a knife getting kicked closer to the suspected assailant in Hebron killed in the infamous March incident. The footage was shown at a court looking into whether an IDF soldier committed manslaughter by killing the wounded attacker. The video exposing tampering with evidence at the scene[…]
31st of May has been declared as the World Solidarity Day With Gaza by the world campaign for the support of women boats to Gaza, in commemoration of the sixth anniversary of the Israeli attack on the Mavi Marmara flotilla. On May 31st 2010, nine Turkish activists were killed by[…]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect on Monday of reviving a 2002 Arab peace initiative that offers Israel diplomatic recognition from Arab countries in return for a statehood deal with the Palestinians. Netanyahu’s comments were a formal response to a speech last week by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah[…]
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas visit to South Africa has been met with scepticism from some Palestinian activists, with one lobby group calling it nothing more than a “PR exercise”. Abbas is holding bilateral discussions with President Jacob Zuma and the counterparts are expected to discuss initiatives aimed at resolving the[…]
OPINION by Iqbal Jassat Wearing a BDS T-shirt in France is a criminal offense. This latest move by French authorities to invoke legislation which bars antisemitism in order to harass and intimidate Palestinian solidarity activists, is not only ridiculous, but borders on insanity. It follows desperate attempts by Israel to[…]
South African President Jacob Zuma will host Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas this week as he arrives in the country on a working visit. In a statement issued by the Presidency on Tuesday, Presidency spokesman Dr Bongani Ngqulunga said that Zuma would host Abbas on Wednesday as they meet to hold[…]
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was Sunday in Israel to advance his country’s plan to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts in the face of opposition from his counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu. Valls, who arrived on Saturday night, is to meet Netanyahu on Monday before travelling to Ramallah on Tuesday to hold talks[…]
As we commemorate Nakba Day, the great catastrophe of the Palestinian exodus from what is today referred to as Israel Proper, we mourn the loss of innocent lives in the struggle toward Palestinians self-determination. The Nakba resulted in 80 per cent of Palestinians becoming refugees, fleeing to the West bank,[…]
OPINION by Dr Saeb Erekat The Palestinian people, the Nakba is a collective tragedy whose wounds have yet to heal 68 years later. What we call the ‘Catastrophe’ is not just the destruction of at least 436 villages or the forced displacement of 70 percent of our people, but of[…]
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