IMEMC News | October 11, 2015 Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday at dawn, the offices of the Palestinian Centre for Rapprochement (PCR)/International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC) and searched them. The soldiers violently searched and ransacked our officers, after breaking the locks of the main door. Because the invasion took place around 4 AM, Sunday […]
Sputnik – 08.10.2015 In the US information war aimed against the Russian air campaign in Syria, perhaps no outlet has been more misleading than the New York Times. Writing for America’s newspaper of record, columnist Thomas Friedman wrote fairly candidly of his opinion on Russia’s Syria campaign. “Putin stupidly went into Syria looking for a […]
Al-Manar | October 6, 2015 Al-Manar TV cameraman, Salah al-Zayyat, was shot by the Zionist soldiers at the Qalandiya checkpoint on Tuesday in the West Bank while he was shooting the occupation attacks against the Palestinian people. According to Al-Manar TV correspondent, Zayyat was wounded by a bullet in the abdomen during the Zionist attacks, […]
Ma’an – September 30, 2015 Dozens of Israeli settlers raided a park and ancient pool in the Palestinian town of al-Karmil in the southern occupied West Bank on Wednesday, under the armed protection of Israeli forces, witnesses said. The park, part of the Yatta Municipality in the south Hebron hills, lies in Area A, under […]
IMEMC & Agencies | September 30, 2015 Israeli soldiers attacked, Tuesday, several Palestinian ambulances while transporting wounded Palestinians to hospitals, in Ramallah, kidnapped one Palestinian after dragging him out of the ambulance, and attempted to abduct another. Medical sources said at least two Palestinians were shot with rubber-coated steel bullets, and dozens suffered the effects […]
By Richard Hardigan | CounterPunch | September 30, 2015 “There is one scene I will always remember. There was one child. The mother died, but he was trying to take milk from his mother. He was still alive.” Jamili’s face betrays little emotion as she recalls the scene from thirty-three years ago. She has told […]
By Robert Fantina | CounterPunch | September 25, 2015 As Palestinians continue to endure unspeakable suffering at the hands of Israelis, there are some old bromides that are constantly being hurled at an unsuspecting public by elected U.S. officials, in order to justify U.S. financing of that suffering. Let us look at just a few: […]
MEMO | September 21, 2015 Israel yesterday approved giving Jewish names from the Torah to Palestinian streets in an attempt to give a Jewish appearance to the holy city, Arabs48 reported. The municipality changed the name of Jabal Al-Zaytoun, the highest mountain in Jerusalem which overlooks Al-Aqsa Mosque, giving it a name from the Torah […]
When Zionist Haganah militias carried out Operation Yiftach, on May 19 1948, the aim was to drive Palestinians in the northern Safad District which had declared its independence a mere five days earlier, outside the border of Israel.
The ethnic cleansing of Safad and its many villages was not unique to that area. In fact, it was the modus operandi of Zionist militias throughout Palestine. Soon after Israel’s independence, and the conquering of historic Palestine, the militias were joined together to form the Israeli armed forces.
