As death toll exceeded 70 over three-day Israeli offensive on besieged Gaza strip, Palestinian health ministry officials have warned that Israeli is using internationally-proscribed weapons which were apparent in incinerated and torn out bodies of victims. “Israel used internationally-banned weapons in its two previous wars on Gaza,” Palestinian Health Ministry[…]
The ANC Youth League (ANCYL) in the Western Cape has called upon the South African government to recall the South African ambassador to Israel and to expel the Israeli ambassador from South Africa. The party has added its voice to growing outrage over the Israeli military’s offensive against Gaza, which[…]
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has urged citizens of both Palestine and Israel to stand up and say enough is enough. “Once again, the people of Israel and Palestine are embroiled in a deadly contest of tit-for-tat violence in which there can never be victors, only losers,” Tutu said in a[…]
The South African Palestinian solidarity movement has unequivocally denounced the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) “campaign of brutalisation and murder” of the Palestinian population of Gaza. In the past 24 hours the IDF has murdered 27 Palestinians and injured scores more. On Wednesday, pro-Palestinian activists from the anti-war lobby group War[…]
Israel arrested six Jewish suspects Sunday in the grisly slaying of a Palestinian teenager who was abducted and burned alive last week – a crime that set off a wave of violent protests in Arab sections of the country. Leaders of the Jewish state appealed for calm amid signs the[…]
The first Jumuah at the Masjdul-Quds in Jerusalem in the occupied territories of Palestine has not been met without conflict. The Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) spoke to some Palestinians via Skype this week for a first hand analysis on the current situation in the occupied West Bank. This followed the[…]
Israel has started moving troop reinforcements to its border with the Gaza Strip, its military says, raising the possibility of an expanded operation in the Palestinian territory in response to intensifying rocket fire. Thursday’s movement of tanks and artillery forces came after 11 Palestinians were wounded in Israeli air raids[…]
Capetonians will be have a chance to engage with well known Palestinian human rights activist and author, Omar Barghouti, when he arrives in South Africa between the 4th and 8th of July. Barghouti is one of the founding members of the non-violent boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel movement.[…]
Following calls from Palestine solidarity and BDS activists, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has began divesting from the controversial security company G4S. G4S is complicit in Israel’s illegal detention, torture and incarceration of Palestinian political prisoners. The world’s richest man Bill Gates held a stake of more than 3pc in the[…]
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