“I feel really excited that I am here today, taking part in the Great Return March with my own way, which is poetry.” A group of Palestinian Dabka folk dancers performed on stage on Thursday ...
Recently, Iraqi national leader Iyad Allawi claimed that Israeli intelligence apparatuses provided the U.S. with images showing launching pads in Gaza for ballistic missiles aimed at Arab Gulf states. All Gaza-based resistance factions strongly condemned ...
On May 15 of every year, Palestinians commemorate the day roughly half of all pre-war Palestinian Arabs were expelled from their homes during the 1948 Arab-Israel War. In the Gaza Strip, elderly Palestinians who were ...
“Let’s stop pretending that settlements are what is keeping the sides from a negotiated peaceful solution. This farce and obsessive focus on one aspect of this complicated conflict helps no one.” Last Thursday, Indonesia’s Foreign ...
“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 ...
“Palestinian children, like all children, should be protected and treasured.” Veteran Congress member Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, Promoting Human Rights by Ending Israeli Military Detention of Palestinian ...
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 ...
Bahia Amawi, a speech pathologist who lost her job due to the law, celebrated the ruling as “a huge win not just for me, but for everybody here in Texas.” (By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) ...
Egypt’s decision to lift the travel ban for Umrah comes as Cairo attempts to mediate the ongoing dispute between the Islamist Hamas party and the Fatah party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. For over four ...
“We hope that the occupation is brought to justice and punished. We do hope that the occupation’s soldiers are being punished by means of international courts.” The United Nations released a report in March concerning ...
“The rightist government of Netanyahu has two main choices: either to relieve the Gaza blockade in return for complete calm by the resistance factions in Gaza or to go for war.” Palestinians in the Gaza ...
“If Netanyahu wants to declare Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank, then you know he has to face a real problem. We will stay there. The international community has to deal with us.” Last Saturday ...
White House Advisor Jared Kushner’s Middle East peace proposal allegedly included a land swap plan where Jordan would receive Saudi Arabian land if Jordan turned over land to the Palestinians. Jared Kushner’s proposal to make ...
A new law passed by Congress again cuts United States’ funding for Palestine. Thanks to a bill passed last year in Congress, the U.S. just ended its roughly $60 million annual financial support of Palestine, ...
Five hospitals could close within a few hours due to lack of electricity. (Peoples Dispatch) An imminent fuel shortage in Gaza could lead to a humanitarian catastrophe for almost two million Palestinians in the besieged ...
While largely a procedural move, the U.S. and Israel’s withdrawal from UNESCO is another blow to multilateralism. The U.S. and Israel officially withdrew from UNESCO, the U.N. body that oversees education, science, and culture, starting ...
Australia is following in the U.S.’ footsteps by announcing a plan to move their embassy to Jerusalem. The Australian government has officially recognized the disputed city of West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a ...
The United Nations and the European Union among others are asking Israel to halt plans to demolish a Palestinian Bedouin community in the West Bank. For nearly a decade, Israeli courts had prevented the government ...
On Friday the U.S. State Department announced that Washington would cut more than $200 million in aid to Palestine. A senior official in the State Department said that the funds which were initially planned for ...
Former Columbian president declared recognition of Palestine as a sovereign state, but will the declaration hold under the new administration? Last Wednesday, Colombia’s outgoing President Juan Manuel Santos announced that the Columbian government would recognize ...
On Thursday, the Israeli parliament or Knesset passed a controversial bill that declares Israel as “the national home of the Jewish people” and that the right to national self-determination is “unique to the Jewish people.” ...
As many as 154 organizations from 16 countries have urged The European Union (E.U.) to exclude Israel from bloc-funded research and development funding which the organizations claim is used to fund Israeli military initiatives, as ...
Israel recently proposed a law to make it a criminal offense to record videos of Israeli soldiers. Last Sunday the bill was approved by Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation, but they demanded significant changes before ...
The Argentina soccer team has canceled an international friendly soccer game which they were set to play with Israel this coming Saturday in Jerusalem following pressure from Palestinian rights activists. The two sides were set ...
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 ...
Mike Pence’s Middle East Visit: U.S. Vice President Mike Pence concluded his four-day Middle East visit to Egypt, Jordan, and Israel amid tension in the region and a government shutdown that occurred during his trip. ...
Critics: “Trump regime exposes contempt for democracy through its threats against those who dare resist its thuggish demands at the UN.” (Common Dreams, Julia Conley) U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley told U.N. member states that she would be ...
Israeli Police Fire Stun Grenades at Peaceful Protesters (AntiWar, Jason Ditz) Protests continue to rage throughout the weekend in both the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with Palestinians out in force demonstrating against President Trump’s ...