Israel denounced the Palestinian decision to join the International Criminal Court in order to seek to prosecute Israeli officials as hypocritical. “The Palestinian decision to join the ICC to initiate judicial proceedings against Israel is political, cynical and hypocritical,” the foreign ministry said. Palestine formally joined the ICC Wednesday in[…]
Senior member of the PLO’s executive committee, Saeb Erekat, marked Wednesday as a “national and historical day for Palestinians,” as Palestine officially became a member of the ICC and a committed signatory to the Rome Statute. Erekat added that the move is a “quality transformation in the strategy of Palestinian[…]
Internationally recognised as an advocate for the rights of Palestinians, Professor Farid Esack says an academic petition calling for French universities to stop a ban on his lecture has had a major impact. Three hundred global academics have signed a petition demanding that French universities not succumb to pressure from[…]
The human rights group Amnesty International said in a report Thursday that Palestinian fighters committed war crimes during the 2014 Gaza conflict by killing both Israeli and Palestinian civilians using indiscriminate projectiles. The report comes after two other reports issued in late 2014 that accused Israel of war crimes for[…]
Israel has spied on US negotiations over Iran’s nuclear programme and fed the obtained intelligence to Republican Congress members in order to undermine support for the talks, the Wall Street Journal reported. The Israeli effort was part of a campaign to help build a case against the emerging terms of[…]
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to Israel’s Arab citizens on Monday for remarks he made during last week’s parliament election that offended members of the community. The move appeared to be an attempt to heal rifts and mute criticism at home and in the United States. Netanyahu drew accusations of racism[…]
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have softened his tone from hard-line statements made during his re-election campaign about the establishment of a Palestinian state. In a TV interview on Thursday – just two day after he won re-election – Netanyahu said that he remains committed to Palestinian statehood,[…]
Days after winning re-election, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday backtracked from hard-line statements against the establishment of a Palestinian state in the face of a diplomatic backlash. In the closing days of his campaign, Netanyahu said there could be no Palestinian state while regional violence and chaos persist[…]
Israel’s military says it has opened several criminal investigations into incidents that took place during last year’s Gaza war against Hamas. In a statement late Thursday it says the Military Advocate General ordered six investigations, two of which were concluded with no wrongdoing found. One case concerns the death of[…]
OPINION by Iqbal Jassat- Racism wins. These two words encapsulate the results of Israel’s latest election. Though early exit polls indicated a tie between the two contesting blocs, official election returns give Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud a more decisive margin of victory. “Against all odds: a great victory for[…]
WhatsApp us 