The newly-touted “rules-based order” by the U.S. is its latest smokescreen for a foreign policy based on illegal threats and uses of force and a doctrine of “might makes right.” The world is reeling in ...
Raed ShakShak is a resident of Gaza and the outreach coordinator for We Are Not Numbers. He graduated from Al-Azhar University in Gaza with a degree in English language and literature.
No one can ignore the events in Palestine. No one disputes the horror of it all. Images of the Israeli bombing of Gaza and the human toll exacted against the Palestinians who live in Gaza ...
Ahmed grew up in Gaza, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in English literature from al-Azher University and was the inspiration for/original project manager for We Are Not Numbers. He later won the UK’s prestigious ...
U.S. policy has perpetuated the crisis and atrocities of the Israeli occupation by unconditionally supporting Israel in three distinct ways: militarily, diplomatically and politically. The U.S. corporate media usually report on Israeli military assaults in ...
There are two separate Sheikh Jarrah stories – one read and watched in the news and another that receives little media coverage or due analysis. (By: Ramzy Baroud, Mintpress News) There are two separate Sheikh ...
“Israel cannot be considered a democracy, for it works to advance and perpetuate the supremacy of one group of people, Jews, over another, Palestinians.” (By: Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams) The prominent Israeli human rights organization ...
Samantha Power has been an outspoken advocate of US humanitarian intervention, promoting the Iraq war and defending human rights abusers like Israel and Saudi Arabia. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) President-elect Joe Biden has selected ...
Mainstream outlets are largely ignoring the IDF’s near-daily attacks, which began in early August. (By: Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams) Israeli air and ground forces continued to attack Gaza Monday while continuing to tighten a devastating ...
“The fact that explosives designed to rip apart human anatomy are dropped from the sky many times per day for no other reason than to exert control over foreign countries should horrify us all.” (Caitlin ...
Citizen Truth spoke with the Gaza representative for the BDS movement following recent moves by the Trump administration criticized for targeting growing support for BDS. On December 11, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive ...
“We saw him on the ground and told him to crawl. But then a military vehicle raced up and a soldier fired at him, shooting him in the right leg. Soon a helicopter came and ...
A family mourns the loss of nine after a recent Israeli airstrike struck a civilian home in Gaza in a case of possible mistaken identity. At her asbestos-roofed home in the central Gaza Strip city ...
Palestinian political factions, including the rival major parties Fatah and Hamas, are tentatively calling for general Palestine elections for both the parliament and presidency. In a letter sent by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to all ...
Hours after the Israeli army wounded scores of Palestinian border demonstrators in the Gaza Strip, projectiles from Gaza were fired into nearby southern Israeli towns. On Friday afternoon approximately 100 Palestinian border demonstrators in Gaza ...
A spokesman for the Islamist Hamas party pointed fingers at the Palestinian Authority in the wake of two suicide bombings in Gaza. On Tuesday, the ruling Hamas party in Gaza declared a state of emergency ...
As the Muslim world marks Eid al-Adha, the Palestinian residents in Gaza face economic hardships that make it difficult for them to observe the occasion smoothly or normally. Eid al-Adha or the “Festival of Sacrifice” ...
Because of multiple petitions from humanitarian groups, last May Israel’s High Court of Justice ordered the release of fishing boats seized in 2014 for allegedly violating Israeli waters. Last week, Israeli authorities released dozens of ...
A paramedic dies after being wounded in May at the Great March of Return in the never-ending conflict between Gazans and Israelis. At the home of the al-Judeili family in the central Gaza Strip refugee ...
“Those who conspire against our inalienable legitimate Palestinian rights will definitely fail. We will one day return back to our homeland, whether they agree or disagree,” Abu Qinas, a Palestinian protester, told Citizen Truth. Palestinians ...
An exchange of fire on Thursday between Israel and Hamas was the first serious cross-border incident since an escalation in fighting last month. According to Palestinian sources in Gaza, on Thursday the Israeli army struck ...
“Our will and determination will remain strong and from this place in Gaza, every morning we look forward to returning back to Palestine.” After making several threats, Washington finally decided to completely withhold all funds ...
![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses reporters on June 27, 2016, at Villa Taverna - the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Rome, Italy - between a pair of bilateral meetings between him and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]](https://citizentruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/27830918172_69fcb7146a_k-288x180.jpg "Netanyahu's Future at Risk as Israel Heads to New Election 23")
A month after seemingly winning his re-election, Netanyahu’s fate lays in peril as Isreal moves to hold a new election in September and fraud charges still loom. Shortly after midnight on Wednesday, the Isreali Parliament, ...
More shots are fired as Palestinians continue their protests in the Great March of Return. On Friday, the Israeli army shot and wounded sixteen Palestinian protesters on the 59th week of border protests during Palestinian’s ...
Gazan farmers till the soil again with the help of the International Committee of the Red Cross. In April 2018 Palestinian farmers resumed cultivating lands the 2007 Israeli-blockage formerly prohibited, thanks to a Red Cross ...
Both Israel and Hamas are denying a report from Israeli TV on Monday that a six-month truce had been reached between the two factions. Israeli TV channel 12 reported on Monday that both Hamas and ...
“This is an unbelievable situation, where people are being plagued by wars and poverty, while the concerned authorities appear apathetic to those people.” Showing off a mass of papers on a table at his neighbor’s ...
“We want our people to realize a real change of their daily lives. We still have a lot to do vis-a-vis this Zionist occupation.” A new fresh round of violence in the region has so ...
The weekend violence was the worst between Gaza and Israel since a 50 days war in July – August 2014. A ceasefire seems to have been agreed to between Israel and Palestinian militants after a ...
“More than 1,000 facilities have been badly affected, due to many reasons – including the Israeli siege, the prolonged power outages, as well as the internal Palestinian division.” Since 2007, Palestinian industry in the Gaza ...
Water problems in Gaza have reached a crisis point in the past few years, with almost 90 percent of Gaza’s water undrinkable. Mohammad Mahdi and his family, along with thousands other residents of the Maghazi ...
During a special session on Friday, the United Nations Human Rights Council enacted a resolution that allows the international body to send a commission to the Gaza Strip to investigate human rights violations. Only the ...
In contrast to White House refusal to condemn Israel, the U.N. Human Rights Council denounced the massacre and slammed Israel for repeatedly violating international law. (Common Dreams, by Jake Johnson) After making the widely condemned ...
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