Thousands of Israelis have protested across the country for the 15th week in a row, flouting a new law meant to curb anti-government demonstrations during a coronavirus lockdown. The street protests on Saturday and into [ 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 … ]
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 … ]
Scores of Sudanese people yesterday protested outside the government’s headquarters in the capital, Khartoum, after revelations that a secret meeting was held between Chairman of the Sovereignty Council of Sudan, General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, and [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will speak in the United Nations Security Council in the next two weeks about the U.S. Middle East peace plan, Palestinian U.N. envoy Riyad Mansour said on Wednesday. Mansour told reporters [ More … ]
A new poll shows that Israelis are increasingly blaming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the ongoing political paralysis likely to thrust the country into a third election. According to a report in The Times of [ More … ]
Netanyahu says charges of breach of trust, fraud, and bribery are ‘attempted coup’ and decries them all. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday became the first Israeli prime minister to be indicted while in [ More … ]
No clear winner has emerged from Israel’s election, leaving a question mark over who will be the coming prime minister. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s grip on power was hanging in the balance Wednesday after [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reaffirmed Wednesday the Palestinian position on the cessation of all agreements signed with Israeli if the later decides to impose sovereignty on any part of the occupied Palestinian territory. Abbas said [ More … ]
The two biggest warnings came in January when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that unless Israel reduces cooperation with China, the U.S. might reduce “intelligence sharing and co-location of security facilities.” Opinion Column By [ More … ]
Move slammed as ‘affront to the American people’ and’ assault on Palestinians’ right ‘to reach out to decision-makers’. Israel has decided to bar United Statescongresswomen Congress Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from entering the country ahead of [ More … ]
Touted by its architects as the ‘deal of the century’, US president Donald Trump’s plan for Palestine and Israel has had to again be kept hidden as Israel heads back to elections after a failure [ More … ]
In an article published on Israeli INN website, TZahi Levi, an Israeli writer and political researcher, wondered why Israel ignores Egypt’s quest to strengthen itself militarily, especially regarding its naval force. Citing Der Spiegel German [ More … ]
Palestinian officials announced a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip this morning after 24 Palestinians and four Israelis were killed in the worst fighting for five years. The Israeli army on Monday lifted protective restrictions on [ More … ]
Nineteen Palestinians and four Israelis killed as Israeli forces mass on Gaza border, stoking fears of the ground invasion. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered “massive strikes” on the Gaza Strip after a two-day escalation that [ More … ]
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