Palestine

By Jasmin Rasheed* — For over a decade now, Gaza has been under siege. Taking into account the financial policy adopted by the Hamas government and the fact that salaries to government employees are delayed by the Palestinian Authority and the Rafah crossing is closed for long periods every now …

The National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements said in his weekly report that according to data published by the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics showed that the Netanyahu’s Government has established during the last decade 7 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, including 6 “settlement towns” and …

Palestinian officials have been invited to a U.S. conference on the Middle East hosted by Poland next week, a senior U.S. official said on Friday, but top Palestinian officials said they would not attend. The senior administration official told reporters White House senior adviser Jared Kushner would discuss plans for …

Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinian teenagers including a 14-year-old boy during Gaza border protests on Friday, Palestinian health officials said. Israel’s military said it had opened fire in response to explosives and rocks hurled at the border fence. Palestinians have been staging weekly protests since last March at the …

Palestinian officials have been invited to a U.S. conference on the Middle East hosted by Poland next week where White House senior adviser Jared Kushner will discuss plans for peace between the Palestinians and Israelis, a senior U.S. official said on Friday. The senior administration official told reporters the event …

The is a translation of an interview conducted by Mohamed Nazreen Shahul Hamid and published in the November 2018 edition of “Dewan Sastera“, a Malaysian literary magazine edited by Zaharahanum Kamarudin. The interviewee, Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD, is currently a member of the Egyptian Society for Science Fiction (ESSF) and a …

The United States blocked a draft United Nations Security Council statement on Wednesday that would have expressed regret at Israel’s decision to eject a foreign observer force from the flashpoint Palestinian city of Hebron, diplomats said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last week he would not renew the mandate …

Palestinians warmed on Wednesday to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s toughest election rival, a former top general who said Israel should not maintain its dominion over them. With both a general election and the unveiling of a U.S. peace initiative on the horizon, the centrist candidate, Benny Gantz, has been signaling …

Yasmin Khan’s new cookbook, “Zaitoun,” documents her travels in the West Bank and Gaza, and the beauty of the food she encountered there… taken from The New York Times. “Zaitoun: Recipes From the Palestinian Kitchen,” which is being published in the United States this week by W.W. Norton & Company, …

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian and wounded another in the occupied West Bank on Monday, medical officials said. The army said the two had been carrying out a bomb attack. There were no military casualties in the incident near the Palestinian city of Jenin. A Jenin hospital where the …

Egypt will hold talks with leaders of two major Palestinian factions to try to salvage faltering unity efforts and to restore calm with Israel, officials said on Sunday. The head of the Islamist militant group Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, led a delegation to meet with Egyptian security officials …

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has ceased all assistance to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, a U.S. official said on Friday. The halt was requested by the Palestinian Authority but is certain to bring further hardship to people in the already deprived territories. The deadline …

Tayseer Khaled, member of the Palestinian Executive Committee of the ( PLO ) ,  member of the Political Bureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ) , said that the Israeli government’s expulsion today of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron constitutes an additional Israeli …

As Tel Aviv gears up to host the Eurovision Song Contest, pro-Palestinian activists are urging performers to pull out of this year’s competition – while the 2018 Israeli winner said she didn’t believe in boycotts. The call by the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement is part of a broader campaign …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he would eject a foreign force set up to help safeguard Palestinians in a flashpoint city in the occupied West Bank, accusing the observers of anti-Israel activity. “We will not allow the continued presence of an international force that acts against us,” …

A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander on Monday threatened Israel with destruction if it attacks Iran, state media reported. The comments by Brigadier General Hossein Salami, deputy head of the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, followed an Israeli attack on Iranian targets in Syria last week – the latest in a …

The National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements said in his weekly report that the investigations into the killing of Palestinian woman Aisha Moh’d Rabi from Bedia village, who died after throwing stones at her husband’s car in Oct. 018 showed that the terrorist attacks were carried out by …

Tayseer Khaled, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) , member of the Political Bureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), warned of the dangers of the settlers’ incursions and their unceasing attacks under the protection of the occupation army …

Qatar on Friday said it will pay $20 million in humanitarian aid to boost the ailing economy of Gaza, a day after the coastal strip’s Palestinian rulers stopped the oil-rich Gulf state from paying money directly to impoverished government workers there. The move was widely seen as a compromise between …

Gaza’s dominant Hamas group refused to let Qatar send in $15 million of aid on Thursday, part of a tortuous standoff involving Israel and rival Palestinian factions that has left thousands of civil servants there short of pay. In November Qatar began a six-month, $150 million program to fund the …

By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD     Resistance literature, in the Arabic tradition, has been defined as: The literature of any group or people that are aware of their identity and fighting for their freedom against an aggressive other, and for their collective deliverance. The key words are freedom, collective …

Tayseer Khaled, member of the Executive Committee of the PLO , member of the political bureau of the Democratic Front ( DFLP ) called on terminating all forms of relations and stopping security coordination and cooperation with the CIA not by only informing the US administration that starting from the …

The National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements said , that Israel is planning to implement a new settlement bloc project in the center of the West Bank  toward Palestinian Valleys. The national bureau added that as the Israeli elections are taking place next April, Israeli parties began issuing …

An Israeli soldier fatally shot a Palestinian man who tried to stab a fellow soldier in the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Israeli military said. The Palestinian health ministry confirmed the man was killed. There was no further comment from Palestinian officials. “The assailant arrived by vehicle from the …

Tayseer Khaled , member of the The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), member of the politbureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine has stated , that the Executive Committee of (PLO) cannot be part to a political settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that does …

An Israeli museum plans to withdraw a sculpture depicting the McDonald’s mascot as the crucified Jesus following protests which briefly united the country’s Christian minority, its populist culture minister and the pro-Palestinian artist. The life-sized sculpture showing the Ronald McDonald clown on a cross has been at the center of …

GAZA (AFP) – The Hamas-run Ministry of Prisoners and Liberties in the Gaza Strip announced that it had distributed housing units built with Iranian funding in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip to Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails. In a statement, Baha al-Madhoun, the ministry’s undersecretary, said in …

In his weekly report about  Israeli settlements activities in the occupied West Bank including Jerusalem  the National Bureau for the Defense of  Land  stated , that another chapter in the Israeli  apartheid policy against the Palestinian people in the occupied West Bank, has been taken as a special road named …

Tayseer Khaled, member of the Executive Committee of the PLO, member of the Political Bureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, warned during an interview with the media of the danger of use of early Israeli elections by Benjamin Netanyahu’s as a launching pad for a massive …

In his weekly report about  Israeli settlements activities in the occupied West Bank including Jerusalem  the National Bureau for the Defense of  Land  stated , that the Israeli occupation government continues imposing facts on the ground through building, expanding settlements and approving additional settlement plans to strengthen control on the …

Gaza authorities arrested five Palestinians on Saturday on suspicion of ransacking the offices of President Mahmoud Abbas’s official Palestine Television station, Hamas’s interior ministry said. On Friday, assailants destroyed cameras, editing and broadcasting equipment in the Gaza office of the station, part of the Palestinian Broadcast Corporation (PBC), which broadcasts …

The Gaza offices of President Mahmoud Abbas’s official Palestine Television station were attacked and ransacked on Friday, adding to tensions between his Palestinian Authority and the Islamist Hamas movement which rules the territory. Rafat Al-Qidra, the office director, said five men broke into the premises early on Friday and destroyed …

Israeli paramilitary police dragged dozens of Jewish settlers out of an illegal outpost in the occupied West Bank on Thursday and said more than 20 officers were hurt during violent resistance to the evacuation. Settlers had set up two caravans at the Amona outpost last month, in what they described …

In his weekly report about  Israeli settlements activities in the occupied West Bank including Jerusalem  the National Bureau for the Defense of  Land  stated , that following the Israeli resolution to end the Knesset term, and move to early elections on coming April 9th, Netanyahu began his campaign meeting with …

In his weekly report about  Israeli settlements activities in the occupied West Bank including Jerusalem  the National Bureau for the Defense of  Land  stated , that following the Israeli resolution to end the Knesset term, and move to early elections on coming April 9th, Netanyahu began his campaign meeting with …

A Palestinian court sentenced an American-Palestinian on Monday to life imprisonment for violating a ban on selling land to Israelis, judiciary officials said. The U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, called in November for dual national Issam Akel to be released, saying his suspected crime was “selling land to a …

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man during the latest of weekly protests along the border with Israel on Friday, Palestinian health officials said. They said Karam Fayyad, 26, was killed and six other people were wounded with live Israeli fire during Friday’s protests that went ahead despite stormy …

Brazil’s far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday and while both pledged to deepen ties, there was no announcement as some anticipated of Brazil moving its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Netanyahu, the first Israeli prime minister to visit Brazil, flew in to Rio …

Paz Oil said on Thursday it extended its contract with the Palestinian Authority to sell petroleum products in the West Bank and Gaza Strip for two more years. Paz, Israel’s largest distributor of refined oil products, said it will also provide maintenance and equipment under the agreement, which lasts until …

The leader of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas is likely to visit Moscow at the start of next year, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said on Friday, according to the RIA news agency. Bogdanov said Moscow was also ready to organize a meeting between Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, …

In his latest  weekly report about  Israeli settlements activities in the occupied West Bank including Jerusalem  the National Bureau for the Defense of  Land  stated , that the Israeli government’s colluded with the settlers and cares for the Jewish terrorist organizations, such as, Pay  The Price, Derekh Haim and others …

Tayseer Khaled, PLO Executive Committee member , member of the Political Bureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) called on the Arab States, particularly the Gulf one to withdraw their financial investments with Australia and to revise their extensive trade relations with it following its recognition …

Israel signalled displeasure on Sunday with Australia’s recognition of West Jerusalem as its capital, with a confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying it was a mistake to gainsay Israeli control over the whole city. The premier, for his part, stayed silent on Canberra’s move at a weekly Israeli cabinet …

Australia formally recognizes West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, reversing decades of Middle East policy, but will not move its embassy there immediately, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Saturday. “Australia now recognizes West Jerusalem, being the seat of the Knesset and many of the institutions of government, is the capital …