The number of injured Palestinians continues to climb on Thursday as clashes with Israeli forces continue to escalate across the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip, in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Palestinian and world leaders warned Trump against making the announcement, for fear […]
Over 50 Injured, 9 with Live Ammunition, in Clashes Across Palestinian Territory…
Gazans Burn U.S. Flag in Protest…
Hundreds of Palestinians on the Brink of Expulsion: ‘We just want to live’…
They are about to be expelled from their homes but every person I met on our visit to the community of Ein al-Hilweh in the Jordan Valley asked us if there was news of rain. The farmers and shepherds in Ein al-Hilweh and in the neighboring village of Umm Jamal are worried. It is the […]
Lives in Ruins: The Human Tragedy Unfolding in Gaza…
During the 2014 conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Yosrah Kafarnah feared for her family’s life. Situated in Beit Hanoun, a town close to the Israeli border that was the site of fierce fighting throughout the seven-week war, they fled to a nearby school for protection. Run by UNRWA (United Nations Relief […]
Strategy to ‘Suffocate’ Gaza Strip Revealed in Israeli Government Documents from Six Day War…
Israel has released declassified documents from after the Six Day War which reveal the government’s plans to starve Gaza and its controversial plans to deal with the Palestinians. The declassified documents were released on the Israel State Archives on Thursday and include hundreds of pages of minutes from cabinet meetings between August and December 1967…
In a 1986 Letter Prince Charles Asked “Who will take on ‘Jewish Lobby’ in America”…
Prince Charles was fiercely criticised last night after it emerged he once urged the US to ‘take on the Jewish lobby’ – and blamed ‘the influx of foreign Jews’ for causing unrest in the Middle East. The Mail on Sunday can reveal the incendiary comments are contained in a letter in which the Prince lays […]
See Palestine Then and Now, 100 Years After the Balfour Declaration…
The Balfour Declaration of 1917, which backed the Zionist campaign for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, changed the history of the Middle East. But those 67 words also had fateful consequences for the environment in which Palestinians lived. Palestinian houses and cinemas, shops and mosques, train stations and markets were all lost…