For the first time in Israel’s history, a political movement has been declared an unlawful association on the basis of government claims that are not grounded even ostensibly in security rationales, but instead are based on ideological reasons. The Israeli defence minister’s administrative order outlawing the northern branch of the[…]
Suspected Israeli settlers early Tuesday attacked a Palestinian home in a Ramallah-area village in the occupied West Bank in what appeared to be a revenge attack for the arrest of Jewish extremists who carried out a deadly attack last summer. Hussein al-Najjar, 30, told Ma’an that settlers arrived to his[…]
Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos welcoming earlier on Monday the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas referred to the sincere, traditional and enduring friendship between the Greek and the Palestinian people. Regarding the solution of the Palestinian problem, Pavlopoulos noted that Greece’s positions are timeless, traditional and are not going to change, and[…]
South Africans need to play a role whereby they constantly remind government to act independently and impartially within the paradigm of a constitutional state, this especially in cases relating to the country’s stance on Palestinian rights. So says local attorney, Ziyaad Patel, who was amongst a South African delegation who[…]
Down an unpaved road near the mosque of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, Mustafa al-Louh stepped out of his home into the chilly night air. “There was no reason for them to bomb us,” he told Al Jazeera. “We never threatened the Israeli state in any way.” During[…]
Palestinian lawmakers in Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, have denounced a parliamentarian’s campaign to ban an influential Arab party from the legislative process. In a video posted on his on Facebook, former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu (Israel is Our Home) party, called on Israelis to[…]
Palestinians have denounced Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon’s announcement that there is not “enough proof” to prosecute Jewish settlers who burned alive a Palestinian family in late July. The arson attack took place nearly five months ago in the occupied West Bank village of Duma and killed three members of[…]
Israeli forces on Wednesday shot dead two Palestinians during a predawn military raid in the Qalandia refugee camp near Ramallah, locals and medics said. Locals in the occupied West Bank refugee camp told Ma’an that hundreds of Israeli soldiers and dozens of military vehicles stormed the area around 1 a.m.,[…]
By Ramzy Baroud – Throughout her hunger strike, that of exactly 47 days, Hana Shalabi never slept consistently for a number of hours. In the first few days of her strike, she would doze off only to wake up with the sudden fear that someone was trying to hurt her.[…]
A motorist rammed into a bus stop in Jerusalem on Monday, injuring at least nine people before he was shot dead, Israeli police said, in what appeared to be latest in a surge of Palestinian street attacks. The casualties from the incident near the western entrance to the city, leading[…]
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