By Gary Corseri (Note: American peace activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death on March 16, 2003, while trying to stop an Israeli Defense Force (IDF) armored bulldozer from demolishing Palestinian homes in the occupied Gaza Strip.) Barely a woman, twenty three years old– Soft, vulnerable…. Surely, the Monster Will stop in its tracks! She […]...
Ramzy Baroud is an internationally-syndicated columnist, a media consultant, an author and the editor of PalestineChronicle.com. He is a PhD scholar at University of Exeter, UK. His latest book is “My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story” (Pluto Press, London). In December 2013, he toured France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland with the French editions […]...
A Palestinian man on hunger strike in Israeli custody is at risk of dying, a lawyer said Sunday. Palestinian Authority Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs lawyer Hiba Masalha said she visited hunger striker Waheed Abu Maria in Wolfson Hospital on Saturday, and that he is in critical condition. Abu Maria, who has been on hunger strike […]...
By Fares Akram - Gaza City Hundreds of Palestinians have demonstrated against cuts to a United Nations food programme, as protest leaders said they would boost their efforts to restore food assistance to local families. Protesters gathered outside the metal gate of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) offices in Gaza City on Sunday, […]...
By Iqbal Jassat – Johannesburg As South Africa looks back at an exciting and stimulating week of solidarity for the Palestinian cause during “Israeli Apartheid Week”, it’s people can be grateful that unlike the United States, the local Zionist lobby does not possess a stranglehold on government policies. The type of paralysis evident in American […]...
Israel has reported fresh rocket attacks from Gaza and confirmed it has attacked sites within the occupied strip, as a claim by a Palestinian armed group of a deal to end the clashes apparently crumbled. At least four rockets were reported by the Israeli military late on Thursday, hours after Israel said it carried out […]...
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has accused one of his main Fatah rivals, Mohammed Dahlan, of involvement in six murders, and questioned his role in the death of former leader Yasser Arafat. Abbas made the accusations against Dahlan, who is regularly cited as a possible future president, during a meeting of the Fatah Revolutionary Council […]...
Egypt communicated with Islamic Jihad directly to broker the most recent truce with Israel and intentionally ignored Hamas, a leader for the movement as well as an Egyptian security official said on Thursday. The decision to coordinate directly with Islamic Jihad, the group that launched the vast majority of Wednesday’s rocket barrage on Israel, and […]...
Israeli jets have attacked targets in Gaza as a Palestinian armed group responsible for firing rockets into Israel said it was calling a ceasefire. The Islamic Jihad movement told Al Jazeera on Thursday that it was abiding by the terms of a ceasefire brokered by Egypt in 2012 from 12:00 GMT. Israeli airstrikes were reported […]...
A senior Islamic Jihad official said Thursday that Egypt had managed to reactivate a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip. Khalid al-Batsh highlighted that his movement would adhere with the ceasefire “on condition that the occupation adheres.” “After prompt Egyptian efforts, the terms of the 2012 ceasefire were reactivated Thursday.” A […]...
By Ramzy Baroud Something sinister is brewing around and below al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, and it has the hallmark of a familiar Israeli campaign to strip the Mosque of its Muslim Arab identity. This time around, however, the stakes are much higher. The status of al-Aqsa mosque is unparalleled within the context of […]...
Israel’s parliament has passed a law that drafts ultra-Orthodox Jewish men into the army, ending their 65-year exemption from national service. The Knesset vote on Wednesday, which was boycotted by opposition parties, followed a cabinet decision last year to end a practice that excluded ultra-Orthodox Jews, or Haredim, from national service if they were studying […]...
A homemade bomb has exploded in front of the Israeli embassy in Cairo, security sources and the website of the state-run Al-Ahram newspaper has said. Security sources said the explosion on Tuesday targeted a police car, rather than the embassy itself, and did not cause any injuries. The office has not been used by Israeli […]...
A barrage of at least 50 rockets from the occupied Gaza Strip struck southern Israel, Israeli police have said, a day after Israeli forces killed three Palestinian fighters in the enclave. There were no immediate reports of casualties after the rockets hit on Wednesday, mainly around Sderot. “It’s a barrage such as we haven’t seen […]...
By Tamar Fleishman “Women shall be especially protected against any attack on their honor…or any form of indecent assault” – (Article 27 of the Geneva Convention) Nadia didn’t have a permit and she wasn’t about to request one. Nadia, a Palestinian resident, knew that being married to Imad, who as his father, his grandfather and […]...
Israel has voiced fears armed groups in Lebanon and Gaza would deploy exploding drones, in addition to their main rocket arsenals, against Tel Aviv in a future war, the chief of Israeli air defence said. “We will have to cope with dozens of pilotless aerial vehicles, in both the northern and southern fronts,” Major-General Shachar […]...
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has lashed out at “hypocrisy” over Iran as he unveiled a shipment of arms allegedly dispatched by Tehran to Gaza. Netanyahu on Monday toured a display of rockets intercepted by navy commandos on the Red Sea last week, and accused the international community of ignoring Iranian support for armed groups […]...
Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian-Jordanian man at the Allenby Bridge crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan, the Israeli army said. Israeli officials said the man, identified as 38-year-old Judge Raed Ala’eddin Nafe’ Zeiter, who allegedly tried to snatch a soldier’s weapon, died from his injuries shortly after he was shot. “A short […]...
Israel has passed a controversial electoral law that raises the threshold of votes political parties need in elections to gain representation in parliament, making it harder for small parties to enter the Knesset including groups representing minority Arabs. Under the revised law, a party would need to take at least 3.25 percent of the vote, […]...
By Firoz Osman H.F.Verwoed, former SA Prime Minister, observed in 1961 that the Jews “took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. In that I agree with them. Israel, like South Africa is an apartheid state.” From its origins in the 19th century, Zionism, the official ideology of […]...