Israel-Palestine war

Israeli forces seen raiding the Palestinian neighbourhood of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem in June [File: Ammar Awad/Reuters] Dozens wounded and arrested in Israeli raids on Palestinians at Damascus Gate and in surrounding areas. Occupied East Jerusalem – Israeli forces violently raided Damascus Gate and surrounding streets in occupied East Jerusalem for the second day in a row during a Palestinian …

Camp 5 at the US Military’s Prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. © AFP / Thomas WATKINS; (nset) Abu Zubaydah. © Wikipedia At long last, thanks to the testimony of a Palestinian held at Guantanamo Bay, someone might finally be held accountable for the gross human rights violations the agency inflicted on so many with such impunity for years. In a …

Flares from Israeli forces in night sky over Gaza City, July 28, 2014. (UN Photo/Shareef Sarhan) It’s hard to be a moral person and a Zionist at the same time, writes Lawrence Davidson. Anyone who pays attention to the struggle for Palestinian rights, and the corresponding fight for a just and egalitarian Israel, is familiar with the phenomenon PEP: Progressive Except …

Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority president, speaks in a prerecorded video during the United Nations General Assembly via live stream in New York, US., on Friday, Sept. 24, 2021 [Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images] Every year, Mahmoud Abbas presents us with a speech addressed to the UN, and it is often prefaced by statements from the leaders of the Fatah movement …

Speaking to MEE, Meshaal calls on all Palestinians to join a ‘comprehensive uprising’ against Israeli occupation

An activist waves a Palestinian flag at the entrance to Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, on 25 June 2021 (AFP)   Palestine’s landed class could have organised to fight Zionist land grabs. Its negligence and collaboration with the occupation has left ordinary Palestinians to resist alone.   The main trigger to the uprising and resistance that engulfed Palestine last May was no different …