Palestinian detainee Muhammed Allan restarted a hunger strike Wednesday after Israel arrested him and reinstated his internment without trial, his lawyer said, with a previous such protest having lasted two months and brought him near death. “He is currently on hunger strike,” lawyer Jamil al-Khatib told AFP. Israeli police said[…]
Under fire from the local pro-Palestinian fraternity over a recent visit to Israel, Congress of the People (COPE) leader, Mosiuoa ‘Terror’ Lekota has sought to play down concerns of alleged support for the Zionist state. Lekota was joined on the trip by party leaders of the IFP, ACDP, UDM and[…]
The director of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Sheikh Omar al-Kiswani, said Sunday that Israel had effectively taken over the holy site, after a day of violent clashes between Palestinian worshipers and Israeli police took place there. Kiswani told Ma’an that having brought the compound under occupation in 1967, “today, the[…]
Palestinians clashed with Israeli police at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Sunday just hours before the start of the Jewish New Year, police and witnesses said. The clashes came with tensions running high after Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon last week outlawed two Muslim groups that protect the mosque,[…]
The United Nations General Assembly voted late Thursday in favor of raising the Palestinian flag at its headquarters in New York by an overwhelming majority, in a symbolic diplomatic victory in the PLO’s campaign for statehood. A resolution was adopted by member states with 119 in favor, eight voting against[…]
Palestinian pensioner Zahra Zahroura always imagined seeing out her days in her adopted Syrian hometown of Homs, sustained by the hope that being made a refugee once was enough for any lifetime. But as the war in Syria worsened the 84-year-old was forced to flee a second time, aiming for a[…]
The UN is expected to allow the Palestinians to raise their flag at its headquarters in New York in a symbolic move highlighting Palestinian aspirations for statehood. The General Assembly will vote on Thursday on a draft resolution that diplomats say is almost certain to garner a majority in the[…]
In the charred concrete remains of the home in Duma where the Dawabsheh family used to live, a group of schoolgirls wrote messages on the wall. “I love you, my teacher,” wrote one girl. Another simply wrote the name “Reham” inside of a heart. Reham Dawabsheh, a 27-year-old teacher, died[…]
Some 13,000 Palestinian structures in the occupied West Bank are currently under Israeli demolition orders, leaving residents and homes “in a state of chronic uncertainty and threat”, the UN said Monday. A report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) also highlighted the difficulty Palestinians face in[…]
A draft resolution on raising the Palestinian flag at the United Nations will likely be adopted next week in time for President Mahmoud Abbas’ visit to New York, the Palestinian envoy said on Thursday. The UN General Assembly will vote on 10 September on the measure that is almost certain[…]
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