Naftali Bennett is at best a continuation of Netanyahu’s policies and at worst an ideologue whose positions are to the right of Netanyahu’s. After 12 years, Israel finally inaugurated a new prime minister. While being hailed ...
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 ...
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’s violence has a clear purpose: ethnically cleanse Jerusalem of Palestinians to allow Israeli settlers to take over Palestinian homes.” (By: Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams) More than 200 Palestinians were wounded and at least one ...
After neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, and then President Donald Trump responded by saying there were “good people on both sides,” people who abhor white supremacism stood up, took notice, and condemned the marchers. Anti-racists ...
As Americans become increasingly critical of the Israeli government, foreign assistance is put under a new microscope. (Jessica Buxbaum, Mintpress News) JERUSALEM — Last year, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian teenager with an American gun. Now ...
“The real joke here is how this extremely obvious reality is taboo and calling any attention to it is subject to a massive pressure campaign when the real pressure campaign should be against Apartheid, not ...
(David Swanson) It took a variety of approaches to market the 2003 war on Iraq. For some it was to be a defense against an imagined threat. For others it was false revenge. But for ...
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 ...
Israeli leaders have characterized the latest bombardment as retaliatory, citing “incendiary balloons” and “riots” as justification. (By: Kathryn Shihadah, Mintpress News) Last Monday night Israeli fighter jets executed airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip for ...
Since we are able to accept the suffering of others when we dehumanize them, we must start with the simple recognition that Palestinians are fully human. (Common Dreams) For decades, Israel has used talk of ...
Israeli-Palestinian talks are still on hold. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has delivered a dramatic condemnation of the U.S.-drafted Middle East peace plan. No country, except Israel, has approved of the proposals at any public forum. ...
“This censorship of my talk based on forced compliance to anti-BDS laws in Georgia is just one level of a nationwide campaign to protect Israel from grassroots pressure.” — Abby Martin (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress ...
Despite heightened militarization and oppressive tactics by states, people across the world refused to give in and fought back for their rights to life and dignity. (By Anish R, Umer Beigh and Abhijan Choudhury, Peoples Dispatch) Under ...
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 ...
“In brief, I am satisfied that war crimes have been or are being committed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.” In an unprecedented statement, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced ...
In a reversal of the Trump administration’s approach to Palestine, the U.S. Congress is endorsing a 2020 budget with $150 million earmarked for Palestinian aid. The United States Congress agreed on Monday to grant a ...
![Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel [lleewu/Flickr]](https://citizentruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2009_2_2-israeli-airport-288x180.jpg "Israel Wants $150 Billion Compensation for Jews Who Left Arab Countries 18")
“Israel could seek to claim these funds by going to US courts. The whole thing would be laughable if it were not for this fact.” (MEMO) Israel is preparing to claim a total of $150 ...
“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 ...
“From the Gaza Strip, under Israel’s occupation and siege, we salute the students with Brown Divest and all those involved in this victory. It represents an important US university precedent.” A Brown University committee voted ...
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 ...
“Israel is building illegal settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which are still considered occupied territories. This kills any alleged ‘peace process.’ There is no more 2 state solution.” U.S. Secretary of State ...
“Today’s vote indicates that the U.N.R.W.A. plays a major role in serving millions of Palestinian refugees and that the latest U.S.’ stance against such a vital U.N. organ is being rejected by majority of world ...
Tuesday morning Palestinians were awoken with the news that Israel launched two airstrikes on leaders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, killing one and killing family members of both. Angry Palestinian crowds in Gaza, including ...
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 ...
Despite international condemnation of Israeli housing settlements in occupied Palestinian territories, Israel has ramped up building construction in 2019. Israel has approved the construction of over 2,000 Israeli housing units in the occupied Palestinian West ...
With the US “locked and loaded” on Iran, the Amazon on fire and India and Pakistan feuding over Kashmir, the upcoming UN General Assembly will be a check-in for where countries stand on several important ...
At the time, Israel’s disengagement from Gaza 14 years ago seemed hopeful and significant, but little has improved for Palestinians and now Israel threatens annexation. September 12, 2005, is an especially a significant day for ...
A week before Israel heads to the polls to determine the country’s and Netanyahu’s future, Netanyahu made a bold vow to annex West Bank territory. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday his intention ...
#WeAreAllIsraa trended on social media as activists mourned and expressed outrage over the murder and alleged honor killing of a 21-year-old Palestinian woman. Israa Ghrayeb, a 21-year-old Palestinian woman from the West Bank town of ...
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” ...
The statement revealed that the Israeli government endorsed construction of 2,400 housing units in existing Israeli settlements in C areas this week. It also highlighted that the expansion of existing settlements has been going unabated ...
President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is off on a Middle East tour possibly ahead of an Arab states conference at Camp David. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi reiterated his country’s support for a Palestinian-Israeli peace ...
“The demolition is a flagrant violation of those agreements and is null and void.” The Palestinian Authority (P.A.) president, Mahmoud Abbas, told P.A. officials and other Palestinian leaders during a meeting last Thursday, that the ...
Last month, the Israeli Supreme court ruled that houses built in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sur Baher violated a construction ban. Palestinians contend the majority of the houses are in an area that belongs ...
“Going along with such dubious invitations is acting against the freedom and independence of our people and an attempt to split the Palestinian people.” Several Palestinian journalist institutions turned down a U.S. invitation this week ...
“Japan can help in easing the ongoing tension between Iran and America…. As a goodwill gesture, America should either lift the unjust oil sanctions or extend the waivers or suspend them.” Japan is willing to ...
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 ...
While 20 percent of Israelis are Arab, sixty percent of murder victims in Israel are Arab citizens. It’s a cool night early in Ramadan. Around a small altar of flowers, photos and candles, the street ...
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 ...
At a time of increased uncertainty about the future of the Israel-Palestine peace process, UNRWA is one of the few stabilizing elements in a very complex environment. “Sixty-five Gazans were injured Wednesday as Israeli security ...
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 ...
“I do believe that the bold step needed, is that the Palestinian Authority reaches a compromise with the rival Hamas party in Gaza. Palestinian unity is likely to happen.” Several Palestinian bodies and representatives declared ...
“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 ...
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