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…
Protests and Celebrations Mark Balfour Centenary as Letter Still Stirs Controversy…
Israel Set to Block Palestinian Unity…
The Balfour Declaration Set in Motion the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine…
Israel Evicts Palestinian Family from Home of 53 Years to Make Way for Jewish Settlers…
A Palestinian family spanning three generations has been evicted from their East Jerusalem home of 53 years to allow Israeli settlers to move in. The Shamasne family of eight, including wheelchair-bound 84-year-old Ayyub and 75-year-old Fahamiya, were removed from their Sheikh Jarrah home early Tuesday morning after…
Israel Celebrates 50 Years as Occupier by Jonathan Cook…
Nazareth. Israel is to hold lavish celebrations over the coming weeks to mark the 50th anniversary of what it calls the “liberation of Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights” – or what the rest of us describe as the birth of the occupation. The centrepiece event will take place in Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem. […]