When holidays bring hate: Sarah’s Day in Occupied Hebron
November 27 | International Solidarity Movement | Hebron, occupied Palestine The Jewish holiday of Shabbat Chayei Sarah (Sarah’s day’) took place in Al Khalil (also known as Hebron) over the weekend of 22-23 November. Over the two days around 50,000 Israeli settlers flocked to the city, to celebrate the festival in the place that Zionists […]
Report on Land Confiscations by the Israeli Army in Salfeet and Qalqilya Area
Israeli plan for the renewed confiscation of lands around Alei Zahav illegal settlement. The Israeli Occupation Forces has recently announced a new sequence of land seizures in eleven villages in Salfeet (Salfit) District and three in the Qalqilya area of Occupied Palestine. The total amount of land being confiscated, for “military/security” reasons, is the equivalent […]
Mosques, churches, protests: Gaza on the Balfour Declaration’s 102nd anniversary
3rd November | Wafa Aludaini | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Gazans march in protest on the 102nd anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. On the 102nd anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, churches rang bells and mosques called for prayer at the same time, while tens of thousands of Palestinians entered the buffer zone this Friday between the […]
20 arrested as activists raise Palestinian flag in settlement
Over a hundred Palestinian and international activists entered an illegal Israeli settlement and raised the Palestinian flag on Saturday, October 26. Settlers and Israeli Occupation Forces responded violently to the peaceful protest, firing tear gas and flash grenades and arresting at least 20 people, including nine internationals and seven journalists. One activist from the International Solidarity […]
US Aims to Increase Military Aid to Israel, One of Top Ten Arms Exporters
The United States has offered to increase its military aid to Israel on the condition that Tel Aviv spends more of the aid on the purchase of American equipment and fuel rather than on its domestic products. Israel and the US have been engaged in negotiations over a memorandum of understanding for an aid package […]
Israel can’t avoid the fallout from a disunited Europe
There were no tears shed in the Israeli government over Britain’s vote last month to leave the European Union. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli right blame Europe for many of Israel’s woes. Internal wrangles about how to manage Brexit, they hope, will shift member states’ focus away from criticising Israel. The longer-term fallout […]
Israeli Army Injures A Child, Kidnap Two Persons In Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, Beit Fajjar town, and Aida refugee camp, in the West Bank district of Bethlehem, shot and injured a Palestinian child, and kidnapped two young men. Several military vehicles invaded Aida refugee camp, north of Bethlehem, violently searched many homes, interrogated many Palestinians and kidnapped two. The Bethlehem office […]
Turkish aid ship reaches Gaza following reconciliation deal with Israel
The first Turkish ship with humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip arrived in Israel a week after Turkey and Israel reached an agreement normalizing their diplomatic relations that were suspended in 2010 after a deadly IDF raid against the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. The Lady Leyla container vessel, carrying more than 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid […]
PFLP warns of dangerous Turkish-Israeli agreement built on looting the natural gas of the Palestinian people
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine notes that the Turkish-Israeli agreement for “normalization of relations” between the two countries is a suspicious and threatening agreement, indicating a development in relations and strategic cooperation that rests on a history of long-standing relations since the declaration of the occupation state. The Front noted that the […]
Israel continues to besiege Palestinian towns, breach international law in occupied West Bank
In the last three days Israeli military forces have implemented several blockades isolating the cities of Yatta and Bani Na’im south of Hebron. It is reported that cement roadblocks, earth mounds, gates and checkpoints have been installed across the region, with no timeline for when they may be removed. The blockades are only implemented to […]