Israel/ Palestine

By Jen Marlowe | – (Tomdispatch.com) – I never intended to run a marathon, but when I realized that I would be on hand for the 2019 Palestine Marathon, I registered. I did so in solidarity with the goals of the aptly named Right to Movement, the global running community founded in 2013 to organize […]

(Ma’an) – As the 300-foot spire of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris tragically came tumbling down on live television, my thoughts ventured to Nuseirat Refugee Camp, my childhood home in the Gaza Strip.Then, also on television, I watched as a small bulldozer hopelessly clawed through the rubble of my neighborhood mosque. I grew up […]

More than 130 Gazans have lost their limbs during border protests in the past year. Qatar is inaugurating the Gaza Strip’s first prosthetic hospital and disability rehab centre after many delays. Officials from the oil-rich Arab nation attended the opening Monday in Gaza City. Qatar built the hospital after its then-emir visited Gaza in 2012. […]

US Congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has proposed the US cut military and economic aid worth $3 billion a year from Israel in response to the re-election of Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister. “I think these are part of conversations we are having in our caucus, but I think what we are really seeing is an ascent […]

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The World Bank said, on Wednesday, the Palestinian economy is now facing a “severe fiscal shock” due to the tax revenues issue with Israel, calling for a speedy resolution.The published report, prepared by the World Bank, is due to be presented to the The Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) at its next […]

Human Rights Watch) – Court Ruling Centers on Reporting Business Ties to Settlements (Jerusalem) – An Israeli court on April 16, 2019 upheld the Israeli government’s order to deport Omar Shakir, the Human Rights Watch Israel and Palestine director, Human Rights Watch said today. The ruling by the Jerusalem District Court comes in response to […]

The Israeli army covered up the killing of a Palestinian father by illegal Israeli settlers, Israeli NGO B’Tselem has claimed. Twenty-three-year-old Mohammed Abd Al-Fatah was killed near Huwara, a village located off route 60 south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on 3 April. Though media reports at the time stated that a “would-be […]

By Phyllis Bennis | – (Foreign Policy in Focus) – The flurry of favors the president did for Bibi could constrain U.S. policy — and hurt people in the region — for years to come. For Israelis, the questions had been hovering for months. Would the right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claim victory and a […]

Free access to clean water is a basic human right. This is not just a common-sense assertion, but also a binding legal commitment enshrined in international law. In November 2002, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights adopted “General Comment No. 15” regarding the right to water: “The human right to water is […]