World-renowned pianist says he is ‘ashamed to be an Israeli’ following passing of legislation Daniel Barenboim, the world-renowned pianist and conductor, has labelled Israel’s “Nation State” law as “a very clear form of apartheid”. Writing [ More … ]
France’s Intelligence Online website and Israel’s Channel 10 reported that a secret meeting took place on June 17, 2018, in the Jordanian city of Aqaba at the request of the American envoys, Greenblatt and Trump’s advisor [ More … ]
Jared Kushner, United States President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor, and Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, concluded their visit to Cairo. The US delegation’s brief time in the Egyptian capital [ More … ]
This insight traces the different styles, eras, mechanisms, and transitions of Palestinian leadership across the past century and draws lessons for the future, arguing that there is hope for the Palestinian struggle in the current [ More … ]
At least 124 Palestinians, including journalists and medics, have been shot dead by Israelis in Gaza since late March Israeli troops killed four Palestinians and wounded hundreds of others on Friday with live fire and [ More … ]
Thousands of Palestinians have attended the funeral in Gaza of a volunteer medic who was killed by Israeli fire during protests on the border. Razan al-Najar, 21, was shot dead as she ran towards the [ More … ]
Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes on positions of Palestinian resistance factions in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. The raids targeted three positions of Islamic Jihad group and a position of Hamas in central and southern Gaza [ More … ]
Israeli naval forces have intercepted a boat that set out from the Port of Gaza on Tuesday in hopes of breaking Israel’s decade-long siege of the Gaza Strip. Adham Abu Silmiyya, a spokesman for Gaza’s [ More … ]
Turkish Presidential Spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Saturday there will be no peace in Palestine unless Israel ends its occupation. Writing for the Istanbul-based Daily Sabah, Kalin said: “The problem is the occupation and without [ More … ]
Israel has blamed Hamas for ‘riots’ on Gaza frontier, and says the killing of 60 protesters was measured. How do the facts stack up? The killing of scores of Palestinian protesters in Gaza has put [ More … ]
Palestinian protests on the Gaza-Israel border have dropped off over the past two days, amid reports that Egyptian officials intervened to restore calm after dozens of Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire. Gaza’s dominant Islamist [ More … ]
Turkey on Tuesday asked the Israeli ambassador to leave the country following indiscriminate violence and killings by Israeli soldiers along the Gaza border, diplomatic sources said. The Foreign Ministry summoned Ambassador Eitan Naeh and told [ More … ]
The Israeli army has killed at least 28 Palestinians and injured at least 1,600 others alongside the eastern borders of the Gaza Strip on Monday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza. After [ More … ]
Al-Qaeda chief says embassy move is evidence negotiations and ‘appeasement’ have failed Palestinians Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri on Sunday said America’s decision to shift its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem was evidence that negotiations and “appeasement” [ More … ]
Hamas blames Israel for the incident which killed six members of Hamas’ military branch, Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades Six people were killed in an unexplained explosion in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday, health officials said, with [ More … ]
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