INTERNATIONAL

Smoke and flames rise after Israeli air forces targeting a shopping center in Gaza Strip, Gaza on October 07, 2023. [Mustafa Hassona – Anadolu Agency] Israeli occupation forces raid Palestinian cities, villages and refugee camps in the occupied West Bank almost every day. They storm Palestinian homes, detain whoever they want and most times kill Palestinians, including women, children and …

Ziad al-Nakhala, Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, at the Palestinian embassy in Lebanon’s capital Beirut on September 3, 2020 [ANWAR AMRO/AFP via Getty Images] The head of Islamic Jihad denounced Arab attempts to normalise relations with Israel on Friday, as the group staged demonstrations in the Palestinian Territories and neighbouring states amid Israeli efforts to make peace …

A view of Al-Urme Hill in Beita town, considered the second highest point around the city of Nablus, West Bank on June 6, 2021 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency] The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) published a report yesterday expressing deep concern about the Israeli illegal settlers’ forceful seizure of Palestinian Territories, which has resulted in the displacement of 500 Palestinians from seven different communities. …

This year marks 74 years of Al-Nakba, or the Palestinian experience of dispossession and loss of their homeland. Every year on May 15, Palestinians around the world mark the Nakba, or catastrophe, referring to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948. Having secured the support of the British government for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, on May …

ASHRAF A SAMAD COLOMBO: The world should be ashamed of it failure to resolve the Palestinian issue for the past 75 years which was a crime against humanity,Sri Lanka’s Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa said here in Colombo on Monday May 22. Premadasa was speaking at the Nakba Commemoration Day observed in Colombo by the embassy of the state of Palestine …