Israel-Palestine war

Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian protester in Hebron on 29 September 2022 (AFP)   Recent steps by Israeli authorities on both sides of the Green Line point to a coordinated divide-and-conquer strategy The Green Line exists outside of the Israeli political mindset. National security policies do not end at this border, which Israel erases each day through its practices. Several recent steps by Israeli …

Abeer lost her fiance Ismael during the latest Israeli onslaught on Gaza in August 2022 (MEE)   Israeli offensive left behind a trail of death and destruction, destroying the joy of many just beginning their married lives   By Ahmed Al-Sammak  in  Gaza City, Occupied Palestine Before ending their last call at 9.05pm on 6 August, Abeer Harb told her …

A Palestinian woman lays a wreath during a memorial ceremony in Kafr Qasim on 29 October 2006, for 50 Palestinian citizens of Israel massacred in 1956 (Reuters)   The recent mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza comes two weeks after new revelations emerged on the 1956 Kafr Qasim massacre, a 70-year tradition that is enabled and supported by the West …

A man stands amid the rubble of his house in Gaza. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle) By Ramzy Baroud For years, Palestinians, as well as Israelis, have labored to redraw the battle lines. The three-day Israeli war on Gaza, starting on August 5, clearly manifested this reality. Throughout its military operation, Israel has repeatedly underscored the point that the war was targeting the Islamic Jihad …

Israel’s hatred of the Palestinians is shaped and driven by three basic sentiments. The Palestinians have every reason to hate Israel; it is a settler-colonial apartheid state erected on the ruins of their homeland. But why does Israel hate the Palestinians so much? It has sadistically and systematically terrorised, blockaded and imprisoned them after taking control of their lives and …

Between August 5 to 7, Israel attacked residential areas in Palestine’s Gaza Strip. According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, a wave of Israeli air raids on the coastal enclave, left civillians including children and a 23-year-old woman dead. A commander of a Palestinian armed group was also killed during the raids.  The ‘Guardian’ reported that Palestinian retaliatory rocket …