RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Environment Quality Authority on Saturday said that any individual found responsible for exporting hazardous waste from Israel to Palestinian lands will be sentenced to lifetime imprisonment and hard labor. A file photo shows waste from an Israeli landfill site in the West Bank as it flows into the nearby Palestinian […]
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Palestine
Report: 151 Palestinian children being held in Israeli prisons
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — At least 151 Palestinian children are currently being held as “security prisoners” in Israeli jails, Palestinian legal monitor Military Court Watch said in a statement on Tuesday. The group said that 47 percent of those are being held inside Israel in violation of the Geneva Conventions, which prevents the transfer of detainees […]
Palestinian Family must visit graves via tunnel under Apartheid Wall near Bethlehem
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinians have suffered in many ways as a result of the Israeli separation wall, and in the case of one family in al-Walajah west of Bethlehem, the wall separates them from the graves of their relatives. Ahmad Barghouth, 66, told Ma’an he buried his parents and grandparents years ago in his field […]
Israel destroys water lines feeding Palestinian areas in Jordan Valley
TUBAS (Ma’an) – Israeli forces on Thursday destroyed a water network which feeds Palestinian villages and Bedouin dwellings in the northern Jordan Valley, the head of the village council of al-Maleh and its surrounding Bedouin dwellings said. Arif Daraghmah told Ma’an that Israeli troops escorted excavators which destroyed a 2,000-meter-long water pipeline near the village […]
Why the Israeli-Hizbullah Tit for Tat Probably won’t turn to War
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Last week an Israeli helicopter gunship targeted Hizbullah outposts in Syria southwest of Damascus, near the front with the rebel Support Front (Syria al-Qaeda), which controls the Golan Heights on the Syrian side. These outposts were not in fact bordering Israel or likely aimed at Israel, but rather […]
As Gaza Refugee Babies die of Cold, Underfunded UN Agency Halts Rebuilding Aid to 400,000
By Charlie Hoyle | – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A massive shortfall in the $5.4 billion pledged for Gaza’s reconstruction by the international community last October is exacerbating an already dire humanitarian crisis for Palestinians displaced by Israel’s summer offensive. On Tuesday, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, the largest service provider in the Gaza Strip, […]
Israel ‘systematically mistreats’ Palestinian children in custody
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an News Agency) — Some 700 Palestinian children per year are arrested and face “ill-treatment” by Israeli forces, according to a new report by a children’s rights group. (MaanImages/file) In the report, Child Rights International Network said that “during 2014, an average of 197 children were held in military detention every month, 13 per […]
Extremist Lieberman: Unified Palestinian-Israeli Party a threat to Israel as ‘Jewish State’
By IMEMC & Agencies Arab parties in Israel announced they would be running in the upcoming Israeli Knesset election, scheduled for March 17, in a unified list that could increase their representation from 11 to a minimum of 12-15 seats. The lists represents all parties, including Islamist and communist movements. The agreement came following negotiation […]
The Latest Blow to Israeli-Palestinian Peace
By Stephen Zunes | (Foreign Policy in Focus) — The United States blocked the latest UN resolution to achieve peace between Israel and Palestine for the most disingenuous of reasons. Though not technically using its veto power, the Obama administration is responsible for the defeat of a draft UN Security Council resolution passed at the […]
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