By Yakov M Rabkin | (Informed Comment) | – – The recent appointment of the Soviet-born Avigdor Lieberman has aggrieved many liberal supporters of Israel. The man is on record as a proponent of ethnic cleansing, bombing the Aswan Dam in Egypt and stripping Arabs of Israeli citizenship. These critics bemoan an alleged betrayal of […]
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Israel/ Palestine
Israel shuts down Palestinian radio station amid escalation in press violations
Ma’an News Agency | – – HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces raided and ransacked a Palestinian radio station early Wednesday morning in the town of Dura in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron, detained five of the station’s employees, and ordered it to be closed for three months, amid a documented escalation of […]
EU condemns Israel’s approval of 463 squatter housing units across Palestinian West Bank
Ma’an News Agency | – – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — The European Union released a statement on Friday condemning an Israeli decision on Wednesday to approve plans for 463 new housing units in several Israeli settlements, 179 units of which have already been constructed in the occupied West Bank and were retroactively approved by Israeli authorities. […]
Israel planning new Squatter settlement near Bethlehem to ‘cut Palestine’s West Bank in two’
Ma’an News Agency | – – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities have been conducting a land survey in the southern occupied West Bank near Bethlehem in order to declare state lands to build a new settlement, a move which Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah called “another step towards cutting the West Bank in two” on […]
Gaza power plant runs out of fuel amid longstanding electricity crisis
Ma’an News Agency | – – GAZA (Ma’an)– The besieged Gaza Strip’s only power plant announced on Thursday that it was unable to operate on more than one generator after exhausting its fuel reserves. In a statement, the electricity supplier noted that efforts were being made to obtain fuel in the coming week. Even at […]
Israelis raze homes near Hebron, Bethlehem, Palestine, leaving 70 Palestinians homeless
Ma’an News Agency | – – HEBRON (Ma’an) — More than 50 Palestinians of the same extended family, including several children, were left homeless Tuesday morning after Israeli forces demolished eight homes in the outskirts of Sair village in the eastern Hebron district of the southern occupied West Bank, while another 20 lost their home […]
Evangelical Lutheran Church Votes to Divest from Israeli Occupation
by Anna Baltzer, US Campaign to End the Occupation | IMEMC | – – On Friday, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) voted overwhelmingly — by an estimated 90% — to create an investment screen that would identify and remove the Church’s investments in corporations profiting from Israel’s violations of Palestinian rights, and other […]
2 out of 5 Palestinian youth in Israeli-occupied Palestine unemployed
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Two out of five Palestinian youth were unemployed during the first quarter of 2016, according to data recently released by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) on the occasion of International Youth Day on Friday. The highest unemployment rate was among youth between 20 and […]
Gaza Strip: Blockade Causing an End to Fresh Water Resources
By IMEMC News | – – International Solidarity Movement | Gaza Team | – – As every year, during the summer, the water shortage in the Gaza Strip is accentuated. At the same time, the energy shortage caused by the blockade prevents engines and water pumps from pushing it from wells and tanks to houses […]