TeleSur | – – The Great March of Return began on March 30th and will continue until May 15. A Palestinian journalist covering the Great March of Return in Gaza died Saturday after being wounded by live Israeli ammunition Friday. Yaser Murtaja, a 30-year-old cameraman with Ain Media, became the 29th Palestinian killed in protests […]
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Israel/ Palestine
Peaceful Protest: More Palestinians Killed, Injured on Day of the Burning Tires
Ma’an News Agency | – – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A second Palestinian protester was shot and killed by Israeli forces along the Gaza border, the Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed around 4:30 p.m. The slain Palestinian was identified as Majdi Ramadan Shabat. He was killed in demonstrations taking place east of Gaza City, in […]
Israeli occupation denying Palestinians ‘right to development’ says new UN study
Middle East Monitor | – – Decades of Israeli occupation and appropriation of land and resources has denied the Palestinian people the right to development, a new study by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has found. The report, ‘The Economic Costs of the Israeli Occupation for the Palestinian People and Their […]
Israeli peace group urges soldiers to refuse orders to shoot Gaza protesters
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem launched a campaign entitled “Sorry Commander, I cannot shoot,” on Thursday urging Israeli soldiers to refuse orders to shoot unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza.The organization is taking the unusual step of calling directly on Israeli soldiers to refuse orders in the wake of last Friday’s deadly protests […]
#MeToo? Ahed Tamimi’s lawyer accuses Israeli interrogators of sexual harassment
Middle East Monitor | – – Israeli lawyer Gaby Lasky who is defending Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi has accused investigators of sexual harassment, Arab48.com reported yesterday. Lasky has filed several complaints against interrogators for verbal and physical sexual harassment but said that no investigations were opened into any of her complaints. She has described this […]
Is Saudi Crown Prince’s ‘Recognition’ of Israel anything New or Positive?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Former Israeli prison guard at the notorious Ktzi’ot Prison camp for Palestinians and now editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, Cpl. Jeffrey Goldberg, breathlessly reported that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman told him that both the Jews and the Palestinians have a right to their own state. […]
Israel: Massacre of Palestinian Protesters in Gaza was a Calculated War Crime (HRW)
Officials Green-Light Shooting of Unarmed Demonstrators
Shooting Protesters in Cold Blood: How Israel became a Typical Middle Eastern Dictatorship
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Israeli army snipers who were ordered to shoot unarmed Palestinian protesters last Friday at the Gaza border, killing 17 outright and wounding hundreds of others, were acting according to the contemporary script of Middle Eastern dictators. The Israeli army initially admitted in a tweet that […]
Pope, after Gaza violence, says ‘defenceless’ being killed in Holy Land
Middle East Monitor | – – Pope Francis, in his Easter address on Sunday, called for peace in the Holy Land two days after 15 Palestinians were killed on the Israeli-Gaza border, saying the conflict there “does not spare the defenceless”, Reuters reports. The pope made his appeal in his “Urbi et Orbi” (to the […]