PFLP

Israeli police say singing event was organized to ‘sympathize with terrorists’

(Photo credit: Ahmad Jalajil) Ma’an – December 8, 2016 JERUSALEM – Israeli forces raided the Palestinian National Theatre in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah Thursday evening, preventing organizers from holding an event titled “Sing with Us” for allegedly being organized by the left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in […]

Israel renews detention of two PFLP leaders, held for 1 year without charge

Ma’an – June 4, 2016 RAMALLAH – Israeli authorities decided to renew the administrative detention of two PFLP leaders for six additional months, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Center for Studies said on Saturday, a day after leading member of the PFLP Khalida Jarrar was released from Israeli custody. The center said in a statement that Jamal […]

Palestine after Abbas

Although intended to inspire his Fatah Party followers, a televised speech by Mahmoud Abbas on the 51st Anniversary of the group’s launch highlighted, instead, the unprecedented crisis that continues to wreak havoc on the Palestinian people. Not only did Abbas sound defensive and lacking in any serious or new initiatives, but his ultimate intention appeared as if it was about his political survival, and nothing else.

Israeli court sentences Palestinian MP Jarrar to 15 months in jail

Palestine Information Center – December 7, 2015 RAMALLAH – An Israeli military court on Sunday evening sentenced member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Khalida Jarrar to 15 months in prison. Ofer military court gave Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar a 15-month prison sentence for purely political reasons, according to her husband, Ghassan Jarrar. Jarrar was […]

Israeli court brings 12 charges against MP Khalida Jerrar

Ma’an – 18/04/2015 BETHLEHEM – An Israeli military court has brought 12 charges against Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jerrar in connection to her membership of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, an international rights group said. Having been detained and interrogated since Apr. 2, Jerrar was charged by the Israeli military prosecution on Wednesday, […]