Israel/ Palestine

Human Rights Watch | – – Ramp Up Pressure for Accountability on all Sides (Jerusalem) – Fifty years after Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip, it controls these areas through repression, institutionalized discrimination, and systematic abuses of the Palestinian population’s rights, Human Rights Watch said today. At least five categories of major violations […]

Written by Maya Schkolne | Written by Joey Ayoub | (Globalvoices.org) | – – For many Palestinians, the Israeli national holiday of Jerusalem Day, or Yom Yerushalayim (יום ירושלים) in Hebrew, is a bitter reminder of Israel’s systemic impunity. Following the capture of East Jerusalem by the Israeli Defence Forces during the 1967 Six Day […]

Ma’an News Agency | – – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinian factions in the central occupied West Bank city of Ramallah have called upon the Palestinian people to partake in a “Day of Rage” on Tuesday, during the planned visit by US President Donald Trump to the occupied Palestinian territory. Trump left the US for his […]

By Ali R. Abootalebi | (Informed Comment) | – – President Trump recently told the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), Mahmoud Abbas, that “I’ve always heard that perhaps the toughest deal to make is the deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians,”…Let’s see if we can prove them wrong,” insisting that “We will get it done.” […]

Daoud Kuttab. | (Project Syndicate) | – – RAMALLAH – On his recent visit to Washington, DC, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas surprised many by heaping praise on US President Donald Trump. Speaking through a translator, Abbas called Trump, who had promised to “get done” a peace agreement between Israel and Palestine, “courageous” and wise, and […]

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — An Israeli cabinet committee approved a contested bill on Sunday seeking to enshrine Israel’s status as a Jewish state into the country’s central legislation, sparking concern the heightened discrimination Palestinians would face should it become law. The Ministerial Committee for Legislation voted unanimously to move the […]

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. […]