Despite warnings from Israeli authorities that it will seek to intercept a Gaza-bound fleet harbouring pro-Palestinian activists, the Freedom Flotilla III has now set sail for the besieged coastal strip. The initiative is the third in a series of attempts to break through an Israeli enforced blockade on Gaza, in[…]
Pro-Palestine solidarity groups have described the United Nations report on last year’s Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip as “devastating”. The 183-page report released on Monday details how in total over 2251 Palestinians were killed, including 551 children. More than 11000 Palestinians, including 3436 children, were injured with almost 10[…]
Former president FW de Klerk, who helped end apartheid, says sanctions against Israel would be “counter-productive”. FW de Klerk told Israel Radio on Sunday that comparisons between apartheid South Africa and Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians are “odious”, and that he prefers “dialogue and negotiation as a way to get[…]
The Hamas movement has denied that it reached a long-term agreement with Israel, member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine’s politburo said Wednesday. Saleh Zeidan’s statement came after a Palestinian faction meeting that included the Hamas movement, the DFLP, PFLP, Islamic Jihad and the PPP in the[…]
Israel and Hamas have been holding an indirect exchange about ideas for cementing a long-term truce in the Gaza Strip, Hamas sources said Tuesday. The exchanges have gone through a number of Arab and European channels in a bid to firm up a ceasefire agreement that took hold last August,[…]
Israel has blocked a visit to the Palestinian territories by a UN rights envoy, an official said Monday, just ahead of the publication of a United Nations report on last year’s Gaza war. It was the second time Makarim Wibisono, the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied[…]
Israeli soldiers seen on video beating an unarmed Palestinian received punishment Sunday ranging from confinement to base to a verbal rebuke, the army said. Footage of Friday’s incident, at Jalazoun refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, showed troops striking the Palestinian civilian with their fists and a rifle butt.[…]
Israel on Sunday defended its conduct in the 2014 Gaza war as “lawful” and “legitimate” in an inter-ministerial report into the deadly 50-day conflict. Israel claimed its forces did not intentionally target civilians or civilian targets, drawing conclusions that were rejected out of hand by the Palestinians. The internal report, which[…]
The head of French telecoms giant Orange told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday his company had nothing to do with a campaign to boycott Israel, despite Israeli allegations. “I regret, deeply, this controversy,” Stephane Richard told Netanyahu in English in videotaped remarks distributed by the premier’s office. “I want[…]
Israel says no action will be taken against those involved in the last year’s bombing of Gaza beach that left four Palestinian children dead, saying that it was an accident. “The… case has been closed following the completion of a criminal investigation,” the Israeli army said in a statement on[…]
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