The Ministry of Health in Occupied Gaza, Palestine is appealing to South African specialist medical personnel and NGOs to pitch in to help alleviate an unprecedented crisis that could see hundreds of young Palestinians at risk of limb amputation. Since Palestinians began mobilising in protest at the fence separating Gaza[…]
Israeli settlers vandalized and spray painted racist, anti-Arab slogans, on a local mosque, on Monday, in the Deir Dibwan village, east of the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah. Mansour Mansour, the mayor of the Deir Dibwan, said that Israeli settlers stormed the village and spray painted racist, anti-Arab[…]
Israel has said the work to strengthen its fence along the Gaza Strip entered a new phase with construction starting on a massive new barrier along the frontier. “Over the weekend we began building the above-ground barrier along the Gaza border,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told journalists on Sunday before[…]
Israeli authorities have shot and killed three Palestinians and demolished 20 Palestinian-owned buildings in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem between January 15-28th, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territory said in its latest report. The OCHA report said that[…]
Parents of children and staff at Gaza’s Al-Rantisi children’s hospital have been telling Middle East Eye of their fears as the facility comes close to running out of fuel. Gaza’s health ministry warned this weekend that hundreds of patients across the besieged strip face an unknown fate in the coming[…]
Thousands of Palestinians across the occupied West Bank demonstrated against the Palestinian Authority’s controversial social security law, amid fears that the fund will be mismanaged. Shops and businesses in Bethlehem, Ramallah, Nablus, and other major West Bank cities shut their doors on Tuesday, while hundreds of Palestinians protested in Ramallah,[…]
The World Food Programme (WFP) has suspended or reduced aid for some of its Palestinian beneficiaries in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip due to funding shortages, an official has said. Some 27,000 Palestinians are no longer receiving aid through the United Nations programme since January 1 in the[…]
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has suggested the right of return for Palestinian refugees could be removed from any eventual peace settlement with Israel. Speaking at an event on Tuesday with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington DC-based neoconservative think-tank with pro-Israeli sympathies, Haley was[…]
There has been a chorus of criticism against the Zionist state of Israel after a controversial law ‘Nation-State’ bill, declaring that only Jews have the right of self-determination in the country was passed this week. The European Union, Turkey, Qatar, Bahrain are among the voices to have roundly condemned the[…]
Israel and Hamas agreed to restore calm in the Gaza Strip, a spokesman for Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza, said on Saturday. “With Egyptian and United Nations efforts it has been agreed to return to the era of calm between (Israel) and Palestinian factions,” Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum[…]
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