Palestinian football chief Jibril Rajoub on Thursday appeared to soften his stance on a threatened vote at the FIFA congress to expel Israel from world football’s governing body. “We remain open until the last moment,” Palestinian FA president Rajoub told AFP. “Everything is possible and we are open to every[…]
Senior PLO officials on Tuesday rebuffed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposal to resume peace talks that would allow the annexation of settlements, stressing that all construction in the occupied West Bank is illegal. “It’s a request to continue illegal settlement construction with Palestinian consent. This looks like one state[…]
Progressive Jewish artist and activist Dror Feiler is in South Africa for a 10 day speaking tour. Feiler, an accomplished saxophonist, grew up on an Israeli Kibbutz in the 1960s. Dror initially served as a paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces but defected in 1973 as one of the first[…]
An Israeli court on Thursday ruled to release imprisoned Palestinian MP Khalida Jarrar under house arrest, the head of the Palestinian Authority’s Prisoners’ Affairs Committee said. Issa Qaraqe told Ma’an that Jarrar will be released to house arrest and forced to pay a 20,000 shekel ($5,180) fine. The court gave[…]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday ordered the suspension of a controversial measure banning Palestinians from riding the same buses as Jewish settlers when returning from Israel to the West Bank. The announcement came several hours after a three-month pilot project which was approved by Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon[…]
Israel Football Association chief Rotem Kamer said Tuesday that a Palestinian attempt to oust it from world football governing body FIFA was “cynical” and counter to the spirit of sport. Kamer’s remarks came as FIFA chief Sepp Blatter was in the region in a bid to reach a resolution on[…]
Dozens of right-wing Jews entered the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday to mark the anniversary of Israel’s seizure of East Jerusalem’s in 1967, known by Israelis as “Jerusalem Day.” Director of Al-Aqsa mosque Sheikh Omar al-Kiswani told Ma’an that more than 160 “extremists stormed the squares[…]
Now living in the narrow concrete streets of Bethlehem’s Duheisha refugee camp,Hajjeh al-Jaafari dreams of returning to the town where she was forced to flee sixty-seven years ago. Well into her mid 80’s, Hajjeh remembers the day her family were forced to flee the village ofDeir Rafat, west of Jerusalem.[…]
Three Palestinians were injured by live fire during a Nakba Day demonstration in the Gaza Strip on Friday, witnesses said. Locals told Ma’an that Israeli soldiers opened fire on peaceful demonstrators east of Gaza City, hitting three men in the legs. Dozens of Palestinians were taking part in the march[…]
OPINION by Zaachira Suliman – An annual calendar event during the month of May is the commemoration of the Nakba. Nakba day is the day of the “catastrophe”, which refers to the destruction of Palestinian society in 1948 when approximately 750 000 Palestinians were forced into exile by the Zionist[…]
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