Defence for Children Palestine – August 12, 2019 Students attending Ibziq Mixed Primary school in the northern Jordan Valley, near the West Bank city of Tubas, face danger and instability due to Israel’s military trainings and activities in the area.
By Zaha Hassan | Al Shabaka | August 13, 2019 A bipartisan US bill currently being considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee puts at stake the ability of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to engage diplomatic and legal channels to support Palestinian national aspirations and to seek accountability through international mechanisms, as well as the […]
By Jeremy Salt | American Herald Tribune | August 11, 2019 Last week a car drew up alongside Dvir Sorek outside the West Bank settlement of Migdal Oz. Dvir was on his back from Jerusalem where he had bought a book, a novel by David Grossman, as a gift for his teacher. He was almost […]
By Sara Abed | August 11, 2019 After three days of intense negotiations in Ankara, US and Turkish officials reached an agreement on Wednesday to create a joint operations center and set up a safe zone east of the Euphrates in north eastern Syria. Deal details have not yet been disclosed. This last minute deal […]
By Ali Salam | IMEMC | August 10, 2019 Four Palestinians were shot and killed by Israeli forces for allegedly coming too close to the border fence between Gaza and Israel, east of Dir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, according to Israeli media sources. Israeli forces stationed along Gaza borders to the east of […]
650 Fifth Avenue, a New York City skyscraper that houses the headquarters of the Alavi Foundation. Press TV – August 9, 2019 A US federal appeals court has overturned a 2017 verdict that allowed the seizure of an Iran-linked skyscraper in New York City. In June, 2017, a US court verdict allowed the government to […]
MEMO | August 9, 2019 The month of June saw Israeli settler attacks against at least ten Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank, with significant damage done to property and crops. According to Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem, June was yet “another month of routine settler violence fully backed by the military”. Settlers vandalised […]
Photograph Source: diario fotográfico ‘desde Palestina – CC BY-SA 3.0 By Daniel Warner | CounterPunch | August 8, 2019 A damaging internal report has cast a dark shadow over the ethical behavior of top officials of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). As disclosed by Al Jazeera and AFP, the […]
By Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle | August 7, 2019 On July 29, 4-year-old Muhammad Rabi’ Elayyan was reportedly summoned for interrogation by the Israeli police in occupied Jerusalem. The news, originally reported by the official Palestinian news agency, WAFA, was later denied by the Israeli police, more than likely in an attempt to lessen the impact of […]
By Andrew Korybko | Eurasia Future | 2019-08-07 Modi’s unprecedented revocation of Kashmir’s relative “autonomy” is meant to send a message to all of India’s minorities that they too might see what little rights they have left rescinded as well if they dare to resist the central government like the aforementioned region’s Muslims have. India’s […]
