According to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, Israeli warplanes fired a series of missiles on Saturday in the eastern, northwestern and central parts of the Gaza Strip, including open farmland, wounding a six-year-old girl [ More … ]
The European Union (EU) on Thursday called on Israel to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes in the occupied territories EU Spokesperson Peter Santo announced in a statement: “This week, Israeli forces demolished more than 70 [ More … ]
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has asked his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to support the internal Palestinian reconciliation efforts and the plans for Palestinian elections. The Palestinian news agency (WAFA) reported that Abbas spoke [ More … ]
US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, said that America is considering replacing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with Fatah’s dismissed leader, Mohammed Dahlan. Friedman made the comments yesterday in an interview with ‘Israel Today’ newspaper, which [ More … ]
Israeli prime minister’s deal has been met with Palestinian anger, and mistrust across Israel’s political spectrum for its lack of transparency. Meanwhile, the Palestinian prime minister said on Monday that the signing of normalization accords [ More … ]
Chief of Hamas political bureau Ismail Haniyeh announced on Friday his movement’s opposition to Egyptian support for the UAE-Israel normalization deal. Speaking to TRT World, Haniyeh criticized the UAE-Israel deal and reiterated that it came about [ More … ]
Today is the day that Israel declared it will launch the final step of its plan – which it has been implementing for years as it clashes with the rest of humanity – to “annex” [ More … ]
A rare joint conference with Fatah’s Jibril al-Rajoub and Hamas’s Saleh al-Arouri was the first major joint media appearance for the two Palestinian parties since 2017. A joint video conference between the two biggest Palestinian [ More … ]
Hundreds of Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank gathered on a hilltop to voice rejection of Israel’s annexation plan About 1,000 Jewish settlers took to a hilltop on the outskirts of the illegal Gush [ More … ]
Over a hundred jurists and law scholars from around the world, including scores from Israel, have said Israel’s plans to annex the occupied West Bank would “constitute a flagrant violation of bedrock rules of international [ More … ]
Israel’s grave violations of international law and apartheid policies have persisted in large part thanks to a lack of international accountability As Israel’s parliament swore in a new government this week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [ More … ]
Iran’s Supreme Leader on Friday denounced Israel as a “tumor” to be eliminated and hailed Tehran’s supply of arms to Palestinians, drawing swift condemnation from the United States and the European Union, reported Reuters. Opposition [ More … ]
While the Zionist project fulfilled its dream of a homeland in Palestine, Palestinian displacement has never stopped. Column By: Ali YOUNES at Aljazeera News May 15, 1948, is a date inked in infamy for generations [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that Palestine will reconsider the deals and understandings reached with both Israel and the US, should Israel annex parts of the occupied West Bank. “We will hold the US [ More … ]
Eleven European ambassadors, led by the UK, have issued a formal protest to Israel over its planned annexation of Palestinian land. The ambassadors of the UK, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, [ More … ]
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