US Aims to Increase Military Aid to Israel, One of Top Ten Arms Exporters
The United States has offered to increase its military aid to Israel on the condition that Tel Aviv spends more of the aid on the purchase of American equipment and fuel rather than on its domestic products. Israel and the US have been engaged in negotiations over a memorandum of understanding for an aid package […]
Palestine, An Unfinished History – A Poem
They came from Europe, these people, single and in families, eager to settle. They said they were returning home, though we had never seen them, were here for generations stretching back for a thousand years or more. Then, along about 1917 – a British Lord named Balfour said our land was theirs without asking if we […]
Israeli MPs try to assault Haneen Zoabi
This 9-minute video, showing Israeli Jewish MPs’ reaction to a speech by Haneen Zoabi today, offers a very revealing insight into how Israel’s tribal democracy works. And it isn’t pretty. Even in the British parliament, which is imploding at the moment, it is impossible to imagine scenes like these. Zoabi made the speech after Israel agreed this week very belatedly to pay compensation […]
Israel can’t avoid the fallout from a disunited Europe
There were no tears shed in the Israeli government over Britain’s vote last month to leave the European Union. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli right blame Europe for many of Israel’s woes. Internal wrangles about how to manage Brexit, they hope, will shift member states’ focus away from criticising Israel. The longer-term fallout […]
Israeli Army Injures A Child, Kidnap Two Persons In Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, Beit Fajjar town, and Aida refugee camp, in the West Bank district of Bethlehem, shot and injured a Palestinian child, and kidnapped two young men. Several military vehicles invaded Aida refugee camp, north of Bethlehem, violently searched many homes, interrogated many Palestinians and kidnapped two. The Bethlehem office […]
Army Kidnaps Two Palestinians In Nablus And Tubas
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday at dawn, two Palestinians in the West Bank district of Nablus and Tubas. The PPS said the soldiers invaded a home in the al-Makhfeyya neighborhood, in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and kidnapped Sharhabeel Ahmad Awwad, 31, after searching his […]
Army Kidnaps Six Palestinians In Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Tuesday at dawn, at least six Palestinians in different parts of occupied East Jerusalem, and took them to a number of interrogation facilities, the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) has reported. Silwanic said that the soldiers kidnapped Odai Gheith, 16, and Eyad Gheith, 16, after invading and searching […]
Jail terms extended for seven Palestinian teens held without charge or trial
Ramallah, July 2, 2016—Abdul-Rahman Kmail was hit with a four-month extension to his administrative detention order on June 11. He was only 15 years old when he was incarcerated without charge or trial five months ago. During Kmail’s 15-minutes of questioning at Salem military base, near the West Bank city of Jenin, he admitted to […]
‘I hope that peace will be here’: 10yo girl reports from West Bank to highlight her people’s plight
Janna is not your average Palestinian child. While other kids are happily playing, the 10-year-old prefers to take her camera and report from the front lines of demonstrations in the West Bank as she tries to bring Palestine’s plight to a wider audience. Janna Jihad, as she is known, is something of a veteran. She […]
Turkish aid ship reaches Gaza following reconciliation deal with Israel
The first Turkish ship with humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip arrived in Israel a week after Turkey and Israel reached an agreement normalizing their diplomatic relations that were suspended in 2010 after a deadly IDF raid against the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. The Lady Leyla container vessel, carrying more than 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid […]