While thousands are expected to make their way to what has been tipped as ‘one of the largest protest rallies’ in Cape Town since the fall of apartheid, a group of women plan to do a lot more than just march on Saturday. According to Ayesha Salie, about 500 women[…]
Gaza rebels fired a barrage of rockets at Israel on Friday as Palestinian factions at talks in Cairo refused to extend a 72-hour ceasefire in the devastating month-long conflict. But negotiations for a new truce were still ongoing in the Egyptian capital, as residents in southern Israel took shelter from[…]
With tens of thousands of Capetonians expected to flood the city centre for Palestine solidarity march on Saturday, organisers are tightening up logistics. While security, marshals and emergency services will be on standby, the organisers, National Coalition for Palestine (NC4P), is also coordinating transport for protestors outside of the CBD.[…]
Capetonians are channelling their passion for Palestine into something creative. Since the start of the conflict in Gaza a month ago, a number of locals are being more than social media ‘clicktivists’ and creating novel ideas. Despite the horror of the military assault on Gaza, one of the more positive[…]
Outraged by the death of over 400 children as a result of Israel’s intense assault on Gaza, a group of local women have initiated an artwork campaign to remember the dead by name, rather than statistics. They will be creating banners that will be on display at a mass march[…]
A leader of the Palestinian group Hamas has said there will not be a renewal of the Gaza ceasefire that ends on Friday unless Israel meets some of its demands. Ismael Radwan told Al Jazeera: “The truce will not be renewed; it cannot be renewed without real achievements. As we[…]
Scenes of mass destruction, coupled with smell of decomposing bodies, welcome about half-million of Palestinians as they left UN shelters and ventured into Gaza streets after announcing a 72-hour ceasefire on Tuesday. “This is complete destruction,” Zuhair Hjaila, a 33-year-old father of four, told Reuters on Tuesday, August 5. “I[…]
Israel is willing to extend a ceasefire that ended a month of fighting in Gaza beyond a Friday deadline, an Israeli official has said, but Hamas has denied that a new deal has been reached. The official, quoted by the Reuters news agency, said: “Israel has expressed its readiness to[…]
A temporary ceasefire is holding in the Palestinian Gaza Strip as Egyptian mediators pursue talks with Israeli and Palestinian representatives on a long-lasting end to the war that has devastated the Palestinian territory. Egyptian intelligence officials met in Cairo with a high-level Israeli delegation late on Tuesday, a day after[…]
Following talks to jampacked audiences in Cape Town, Prof Ilan Pappe takes on Johannesburg this week for the next leg of his South African speaking tour. Pappe is an Israeli academic and historian that is in effective exile due to his academic work, support of the Palestinian struggle and in[…]
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