The following article is republished from Ma’an News: BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The approval rate in October for injured Palestinians during protests near the Gaza border fence with Israel to exit Gaza through Erez (Beit Hanoun) crossing to access medical care in Jerusalem, the West Bank or Israeli hospitals was significantly lower. The World Health Organization…
The following report is reprinted from Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network: Palestinian former prisoners continue to face harsh persecution, as former prisoner Mohammed Zayed, released in the 2011 Wafa al-Ahrar prisoner exchange agreement (the so-called “Shalit deal”), became the latest person to have his former sentence reimposed, seven years after his liberation. Zayed, 58, is a leader of…
The Free Palestine Movement is among over 100 organizations who have signed on to this call to support Belgian-Palestinian performer Mustapha Awad, imprisoned by Israel since July 19 when he was seized at the Israeli-controlled border with Jordan when he went to visit Palestine for the first time. The Free Mustapha Committee‘s statement is below,…
Reprinted from Media Lens Elite power cannot abide a serious challenge to its established position. And that is what Labour under Jeremy Corbyn represents to the Tory government, the corporate, financial and banking sectors, and the ‘mainstream’ media. The manufactured ‘antisemitism crisis’ is the last throw of the dice for those desperate to prevent a…
The Free Palestine Movement condemns the brutal force used by the security forces of the Palestinian Authority (PA) on June 13, 2018 to stop Palestinian citizens, from peacefully demonstrating against PA sanctions on Gaza. These are in violation of Palestinian constitutional rights (the Palestinian Basic Law) and international treaties to which Palestine is a signatory. Palestinian President…
By Cieran Tierney. Reprinted from the Electronic Intifada. Irish lawmakers are likely to approve a ban on goods from Israel’s settlements in the occupied West Bank. One of Ireland’s largest parties, Fianna Fáil, announced this week that it would support the ban in a vote scheduled for 11 July. The Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party has this evening…
By Stanley L. Cohen Reprinted from Counterpunch Honor, like integrity, is not a commodity, like a gilded condominium in New York City for sale to the highest bidder. Nor does it license a messenger to whisper through a backdoor that which cannot be said through the front because it’s been closed for want of fairness…
By Prof. Kamel Hawwash. Reprinted from Middle East Monitor As Britain’s Prince William arrives in Israel for a royal visit that will also see him visit the Occupied Palestinian Territories, does he really understand the country upon which he is bestowing an air of normality? The same question would apply to any world leader or…
Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for June 25, to the July 1, 2016. Four Palestinians including a pregnant woman were killed this week by Israeli gunfire, in the meantime the Quartet committee calls for halt of Israeli settlements. These stories, and more, coming up,…
According to an experienced reporter on Palestine, 50 percent of the water to a city of 40,000 people has been cut off during Ramadan, a time ‘when people need to have access to food and water more than any other time.’ JERUSALEM — Apartheid Israel is limiting access to water in Palestine, a long-standing practice…