Archives: Israel/ Palestine

Israel argues confiscation of occupied land benefits Palestinians

Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- The Israeli government defended the legality of the outpost “Regularization law” at the Israeli Supreme Court on Monday, and said that the expropriation…

Racist Israeli Youth attack Israeli Soldiers, shouting “You are Arabs!”

Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) --Two Israeli soldiers were attacked on Friday night in a public park in the town of Pardes Hanna-Karkur, south of Haifa in northern Israel,…

Israel to Impose Fines for Commemoration of Nakba (Palestinian Defeat)

IMEMC | - - Israeli occupation authorities are prepared to impose massive fines on Palestinians who commemorate the Israeli occupation of Palestine, a report revealed on Tuesday. An Arab member of the…

Are Corruption Charges brewing against Israeli PM Netanyahu?

TeleSur | - - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under growing legal pressure as investigators appear to be focusing on his role in a series of high-profile cases, which a national…

Illegal Israeli Squatters’ Activities in Palestinian W Bank Tripled in 2017

TeleSur | - - Israeli occupation authorities have escalated the illegal plunder of land belonging to the Palestinian people, defying international opinion. Israeli illegal settlement activities in Occupied Palestine have skyrocketed in…

Extremist Israeli Squatters literally kick Palestinians out of Home, Move In

Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Almost one week after dozens of extremist Israeli settlers raided and occupied a Palestinian home in the southern occupied West Bank city of…

Is Electricity a Right, even for Palestinians of Gaza? Israel’s Obligations

By Julie Webb-Pullman. | (TeleSur) | - - The bowing of Israeli occupation authorities to the request of the Palestinian Authority to further reduce energy supplies does not exonerate them. Israel is…

Israel to penalize Amnesty Int’l financially over support for Boycott

Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Israel’s Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon has reportedly taken steps to strip Amnesty International of its tax benefits in Israel, barring Israeli donors from…

Huge Palestinian Demos over Sacred al-Aqsa lead Israel to lift all Restrictions

Ma'an News Agency | - - JERUSALEM (Ma’an) – Following deadly clashes that erupted across the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and besieged Gaza Strip on Friday in protest of continued…

The challenges and strengths of Palestine’s ‘orchestra’ of civil resistance

By Molly Wallace | ( Waging Nonviolence / Peace Science Digest) | - - Contrary to widespread stereotypes regarding the nature of Palestinian resistance, there has long been a tradition of unarmed…

Who’s a ‘Bad Jew’?

By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - Progressive Jewish groups are rising to criticize the Israeli occupation and fight fundamentalism in both Israel and the West. In…

Protest: Religious leaders call on Jerusalem Palestinians to pray at Al-Aqsa on Friday

Ma`an News Agency | - - JERUSALEM (Ma’an) -- Members of the Waqf, or Islamic trust, in charge with running Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, called on Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem to close…

New UN Report Documents Legacy of 10-year Siege in Gaza

By IMEMC News | - - Most of the projections for 2020, on the situation in the Gaza Strip, have deteriorated further and faster than anticipated in 2012, the United Nations said…

Dutch Furious as Israel seizes Solar Panels donated to Palestinians

Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- The Netherlands has reacted with outrage after Israeli authorities seized dozens of solar panels in a remote occupied West Bank village that were…