President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday that he is planning to visit Iran soon, although a date has yet to be decided. The Palestinian president, who was speaking to a delegation of Polish journalists in Ramallah following his resignation from the PLO Executive Committee on Saturday, said that Iran was “a sister[…]
A Palestinian prisoner’s hunger strike has sparked new calls for Israel to curb its use of administrative detention under which prisoners may be held without trial indefinitely. Mohammed Allan, 31, ended his 66-day hunger strike on Thursday after Israel’s top court suspended his administrative detention. He entered a coma twice before[…]
Israel’s High Court on Wednesday suspended a detention-without-trial order on hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Muhammed Allan but said he must remain in hospital pending a decision on his future. “Due to the petitioner’s medical condition he will remain in intensive care,” said the ruling, seen by AFP. “This means that for[…]
Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian after he stabbed a Border Police officer near Beita in southern Nablus, Palestinian medics and Israeli police said. Israeli police identified him as 21-year-old Rafeeq Kamil Rafeeq al-Taj, based on his identity card. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society earlier identified him incorrectly as his[…]
Pro-Palestinian sympathises have been encouraged to continue donning attire that highlights the “legitimate struggle” of the Palestinian people, amidst an uproar over Virgin Active’s decision to eject a well-known activist from its gym facility in Houghton, Johannesburg. Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) national coordinator, Muhammed Desai was forcibly removed from[…]
Saudi Arabia has announced that it will provide $35 million to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in a bid to avert a financial crisis within the organization, a statement said. Yousef al-Bassam, Managing Director of the Saudi Fund for Development, said the donation aims to mitigate a funding crisis within[…]
Between 4 and 11 July, fifteen young South Africans were taken on an all-expenses paid trip to Israel by the South African Israel Forum (SAIF). The group comprised of five students who were occupying executive positions on their university Student Representative Council (SRC), or leadership positions within the South African[…]
OPINION by Firoz Osman – Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, blames ‘renegade’ Jewish settlers for the gruesome murder of Palestinian infant, Ali Saad Dawabsheh. Mahmoud Abbas and his Palestinian Authority, in cahoots with Israeli security to protect the very Settlers responsible for the murder, shrewdly deflected culpability filing a complaint[…]
Palestinians in a number of refugee camps across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday reportedly closed main roads near the camps to protest a possible decision by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees to delay the school year. Ahmad Abu Kheiran, the head of a popular committee in the southern[…]
The South African chapter of the international NGO, Action Aid, together with various South African human rights and Palestine solidarity organisations hosted a visiting Palestinian humanitarian worker, activist and Action Aid Palestine representative, Ibrahim Ibraigheth. Ibraigheth is speaking at a series of events in Johannesburg this week with regards to[…]
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