A 23-year-old Palestinian was critically injured with live fire during clashes Wednesday before dawn in the al-Duheisha refugee camp in the southern occupied West Bank Bethlehem district, as Israeli forces conducted a detention raid in the camp. Local sources told Ma’an that Israeli forces raided several houses in the camp,[…]
The Palestinian Resistance Movement, Hamas, is expected to officially recognise a Palestinian state on 1967 borders – but still without recognising Israel – in a new political charter to be unveiled soon. The ruling party in Gaza has been working to revise its charter, written in 1988, which critics accuse[…]
Israel’s government has approved the building of the first new settlement in 20 years in the occupied West Bank – a move swiftly condemned as an obstacle to peace based on a two-state solution. The move late on Thursday – considered illegal under international law – was adopted less than[…]
Israel has hosted a summit at the United Nations in protest at the Palestinian-led ‘Boycott, Divest and Sanctions’ (BDS) movement. The BDS movement, launched in 2005 as a non-violent campaign to press Israel to obey international law and end its illegal occupation of Palestinian territory, has gathered momentum in recent[…]
While Ahmed Kathrada is known for his fight against the Apartheid regime in South Africa, the man affectionately known in political circles as ‘Uncle Kathy’ has through his experience as an ex-political prisoner called attention to the plight of Palestinians. Kathrada’s involvement in the anti-Apartheid activities of the African National[…]
Hamas authorities have shut the Gaza border with Israel after the killing of a senior commander, which Hamas blamed on “Israel and its collaborators”. The rare measure reflected Hamas’ shock after the killing of Mazen Faqha , who was found shot dead at the entrance of his Gaza City home[…]
Israel built 2,630 illegal settler homes in the occupied West Bank in 2016, an increase of 40 percent compared to numbers from 2015. According to figures released by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday, construction was at its “second highest” in 15 years, falling slightly short of the 2,874[…]
A new United Nations report accuses Israel of having established “an apartheid regime that oppresses and dominates the Palestinian people as a whole”. The publication comes amid renewed debate about whether, through its settlement policy and rejection of Palestinian self-determination, the Israeli government is creating – or even has already[…]
The Israeli army targeted multiple sites across the besieged Gaza Strip with airstrikes and artillery fire midday Monday leaving at least four Palestinians injured, hours after an Israeli army spokesperson said that a rocket fired from Gaza landed in an open area in southern Israel that caused no injuries or[…]
The Media Review Network has condemned the decision by the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to offer Israeli politician Tzipi Livni a senior position in the international body. Livni’s role in various Israeli governments has been controversial. Livni served as Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2006 – 2009 under former Prime[…]
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