Israel/ Palestine

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Hamas movement announced its new charter Monday evening, presenting an acceptance of a Palestinian state along the 1967 “Green Line” border, while rejecting any legitimacy of “the Zionist entity,” in reference to the state of Israel. “Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and complete […]

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A general strike was held across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem on Thursday, as thousands of Palestinians shut down their shops and businesses in solidarity with some 1,500 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike as part of the “Freedom and Dignity” strike, organized by imprisoned […]

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Activists and commentators have denounced the dishonesty of Israeli criticism of The New York Times for publishing an op-ed in defense of a mass hunger strike underway in Israeli prisons, in light of rampant impunity for Israeli officials who commit crimes or incite violence against Palestinians. […]

TeleSur | – – “Salutes of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. Glory to the martyrs. Freedom for the prisoners of freedom,” stated the PFLP in support of the strikers. On Palestinian Prisoner’s Day Monday, hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli prisons staged a mass hunger strike, continuing the decades-long resistance of prisoners in the apartheid state. Ma’an News Agency reported […]

Ma’an News Agency | – – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities have detained approximately one million Palestinians since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 and the subsequent occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip in 1967, according to a joint statement released Saturday by the Palestinian Committee […]

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) marked on Sunday the 69th anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre, when at least 100 Palestinians were killed by Zionist militias in the Jerusalem-area village of Deir Yassin in 1948. PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi mourned the “heartbreaking tragedy” in […]

By Mike Merryman-Lotze | (Otherwords.org) | – – The White House is creating new problems in Israel-Palestine, but ordinary people can start setting things right. While news swirled around health care and climate rules last month, another potentially momentous development slipped through the cracks. It was the Senate’s quiet confirmation of David Friedman to serve […]

IMEMC | – – On Thursday, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that, if a peace agreement between Israeli and Palestinian people could be reached, Russia could acknowledge West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Russia does not officially acknowledge West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, according to the PNN, and, up until Thursday, has not made […]