Palestine, An Unfinished History – A Poem
They came from Europe, these people, single and in families, eager to settle. They said they were returning home, though we had never seen them, were here for generations stretching back for a thousand years or more. Then, along about 1917 – a British Lord named Balfour said our land was theirs without asking if we […]
Army Kidnaps Two Palestinians In Nablus And Tubas
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday at dawn, two Palestinians in the West Bank district of Nablus and Tubas. The PPS said the soldiers invaded a home in the al-Makhfeyya neighborhood, in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and kidnapped Sharhabeel Ahmad Awwad, 31, after searching his […]
Jail terms extended for seven Palestinian teens held without charge or trial
Ramallah, July 2, 2016—Abdul-Rahman Kmail was hit with a four-month extension to his administrative detention order on June 11. He was only 15 years old when he was incarcerated without charge or trial five months ago. During Kmail’s 15-minutes of questioning at Salem military base, near the West Bank city of Jenin, he admitted to […]
‘I hope that peace will be here’: 10yo girl reports from West Bank to highlight her people’s plight
Janna is not your average Palestinian child. While other kids are happily playing, the 10-year-old prefers to take her camera and report from the front lines of demonstrations in the West Bank as she tries to bring Palestine’s plight to a wider audience. Janna Jihad, as she is known, is something of a veteran. She […]
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 […]
Curfew on Hebron neighborhoods imposed by Israeli forces
Israeli forces, on 30th June 2016 enforced a complete curfew on several neighborhoods in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron). Deliberately, this curfew was designed to be imposed only on the Palestinian population, with the expressive goal of allowing settlers to move around these neighborhoods without even so much as seeing Palestinians on the street. After a 13-year […]
Mass demonstration in Gaza marks annual Quds Day
Palestinians took to the streets of Gaza yesterday in a massive demonstration to mark the now annual Quds Day and renew their support for occupied Jerusalem and the rest of occupied Palestine. Posters were displayed calling for the Arab and Muslim nations to unite in order to support the occupied holy city and tackle Israel’s […]
PCHR Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (23 – 29 June 2016)
A Palestinian woman was killed in the West Bank under the pretext of carrying out a run-over attack. 3 civilians were wounded during incursions. 40 civilians, including a woman, sustained bullet and shrapnel wounds while 19 others sustained bruises in al-Aqsa Mosque. Israeli forces conducted 40 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank […]
Israeli Occupation Forces Execute 27 Year Old Pregnant Palestinian Woman
Via: Younes Arar “She was first held in this room by the terrorist fascist Zionist occupation soldiers, not too far from the Ibrahimi Mosque where she wanted to reach for prayer, then she was executed she and her unborn baby. The Palestinian 27 years old Sarah Etarayrah, pregnant, executed today by Zionist occupation forces while […]
Israeli police detain 15-year-old girl in Hebron for allegedly possessing knife
Israeli forces Friday detained a 15-year-old Palestinian girl from a military checkpoint near the Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied West Bank district of Hebron for allegedly having a knife in her possession, according to the Israeli border police. An official of the Israeli border police told Ma’an the knife was found after authorities conducted a […]