The Israeli police briefly detained Washington Post’s Jerusalem bureau chief William Booth and reporter Sufian Taha on Tuesday afternoon. The two journalists, who have government-issued press cards, were detained while interviewing residents of the Old City at the Damascus gate, in East Jerusalem. They were reporting on the recent wave[…]
Local pro-Palestinian activists have warned that they will not allow former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres on South African shores. Peres is expected to visit South Africa for a one day visit on February 28th, in order to raise funds for the Israel United Appeal and United Communal Fund. The[…]
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said that his government is planning stages of a multi-year project to surround the entirety of Israel with security barriers to defend against what he called “wild beasts” in the region. Haaretz quoted Netanyahu as saying: “At the end, in the State of[…]
Israeli forces shot a 16-year-old Palestinian boy during clashes in the southern district of Hebron’s Al-Arrub camp on Tuesday. Doctors at the al-Mizan hospital in Hebron told Ma’an News the boy was shot in the chest during the clashes. He was evacuated to the hospital but succumbed to his wounds.[…]
Israeli naval forces on Wednesday detained four Palestinian fishermen off the Gazan coast and seized their boats, locals said. The detainees were identified as Muhammad al-Saiedi, Mahmoud Saiedi al-Saiedi, Marwan al-Saiedi, and Jihad Kaskin. Israeli forces regularly detain Palestinian fisherman off the coast of Gaza, often claiming they went beyond[…]
OPINION by Iqbal Jassat For how long will the South African government remain bystanders while Israel keeps gobbling up Palestine? It’s a concern expressed not only by Palestinian victims of Israel’s land grab policies, but also by local solidarity activists. The argument made in favour of more effective action is informed by[…]
Clashes broke out on Sunday afternoon between Palestinian youths and Israeli forces in the village of Jabaa near Ramallah City in the West Bank after a checkpoint was closed, keeping hundreds of cars stranded. Witnesses said that that the Jabaa checkpoint, located at one of the main entrances to Ramallah,[…]
The hearing of a hunger-striking Palestinian journalist whose weight has fallen below 30kg must be moved forward in order to save his life, the defendant’s lawyers said. The Israeli Supreme Court said on Tuesday that it would consider an appeal to release 33-year-old Mohammad al-Qeq, a Palestinian journalist engaged in[…]
At a memorial for her Jewish mother who died in 2012, Tami Gold put a white scarf she bought in Palestine on the gravestone, closing her eyes and singing John Lennon’s Imagine. It had been the favourite song of her mother – an opponent of Israel’s occupation of Palestine –[…]
A Palestinian was shot and injured on Monday in the southern occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem, following an alleged stabbing attack which left one Israeli in serious condition, an Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an. An Israeli army spokesperson said a “terrorist” broke into a building in the illegal Israeli[…]
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