OPINION by Azeezah Kanji – One year after the onslaught of violence Israel called “Operation Protective Edge,” Gaza is still in ruins. Infrastructure, homes, and psyches destroyed by the assault remain shattered; according to Oxfam International, it could take more than 100 years to rebuild Gaza’s housing, education, and health[…]
Israeli authorities on Tuesday said they had foiled plans to attack Jews at the Joseph’s Tomb shrine in Nablus in the occupied West Bank and arrested four Palestinians. The suspects allegedly planned to plant home-made bombs at the site and open fire on visiting Jews, the Shin Bet domestic security[…]
OPINION by Iqbal Jassat “Israel is technically defenseless and humiliated” claims Gordon Duff, senior editor of Veterans Today. Duff, a US Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War, writes that it is not conjecture and while not a positive prospect for peace, is entirely the result of Netanyahu’s scheming. He[…]
A Palestinian prisoner’s hunger strike has sparked new calls for Israel to curb its use of administrative detention under which prisoners may be held without trial indefinitely. Mohammed Allan, 31, ended his 66-day hunger strike on Thursday after Israel’s top court suspended his administrative detention. He entered a coma twice before[…]
A senior Islamic Jihad leader on Friday rejected Israeli claims that the group fired rockets from Syria into Israel’s Galilee region, as Israel’s military targeted the Syrian Golan Heights in response. During a conference held in front of the ICRC headquarters in Gaza on Friday in support of Muhammad Allan,[…]
Rockets hit an Israeli village near the Lebanese border on Thursday and Israel struck back in the Syrian Golan Heights, saying the rare salvo had been launched there by an Iranian-backed Palestinian radical group. The group, Islamic Jihad, denied the Israeli allegation. It had previously threatened reprisals should one of[…]
Israel’s High Court on Wednesday suspended a detention-without-trial order on hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Muhammed Allan but said he must remain in hospital pending a decision on his future. “Due to the petitioner’s medical condition he will remain in intensive care,” said the ruling, seen by AFP. “This means that for[…]
Israeli authorities on Monday offered to free Palestinian hunger striker Muhammad Allan if he leaves the country, a demand his lawyer immediately dismissed, while the Israeli Supreme Court postponed taking a decision on whether to release him. Issa Qaraqe, the head of the Palestinian Authority Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs, said that[…]
Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian after he stabbed a Border Police officer near Beita in southern Nablus, Palestinian medics and Israeli police said. Israeli police identified him as 21-year-old Rafeeq Kamil Rafeeq al-Taj, based on his identity card. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society earlier identified him incorrectly as his[…]
The Israeli authorities on Sunday morning confiscated a tract of land adjacent to the eastern wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque near the Golden gate, Palestinian sources told Ma’an. Jawad Siyam, the director of Wadi Hilweh Information Center in occupied Easy Jerusalem, told Ma’an that Jerusalem inspectors from the Israeli Nature and[…]
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