Muslim Issues

Hamas: 6 escapees a priority in any prisoner swap

Israeli security forces take a Palestinian inmate into custody, one of the 6 escapees from Gilboa prison, after being arrested in Umm al-Ghanam town on September 11, 2021 [Israeli Police / Anadolu Agency]   Member of Hamas Political Bureau Khalil Al-Hayya announced on Friday that the six Palestinians who escaped from Gilboa Prison would be the priority in any potential prisoner swap. …

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Effects of the Israeli blockade on the economic and humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip

A Palestinian child is seen near a car wreck as Palestinians living in makeshift homes in El-Zohor neighbourhood in the city of Khan Yunis on the Gaza Strip are facing difficult conditions under the cold weather on December 14, 2016 [Mustafa Hassona / Anadolu Agency] Fifteen years ago, the Israeli authorities imposed a severe blockade on the Gaza Strip’s population …

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The Palestinian mind beats Israel’s machines of war by Mahmoud Merdawe

Palestinian youths carry a poster by militant group Islamic Jihad reading in Arabic: “the second great escape from the prisons of the Zionist enemy [JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images] An escape from Gilboa Prison in Bisan, northern Palestine, yesterday is reminiscent of the great escape in 1968 and an attempt to escape 20 years ago from the same prison. The escape operation …

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,The meeting between Abbas and Gantz was shameful by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh

Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz (L) and Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority (R) Why was anyone astonished when Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the “sacred” security collaboration Palestinian Authority, met with Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz? After all, the bottom line is that Abbas’s loyalty lies with Israel, not the people of Palestine. Didn’t he announce proudly that …

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‘Bad idea’: Israel’s foreign minister slams US plan to reopen Palestinian consulate

A picture taken on 18 October 2018 shows the US Consulate in Jerusalem before its operations were merged with Israel’s US embassy (AFP)   Yair Lapid warned that reopening the consulate for Palestinian outreach could ‘destabilise’ Israel’s coalition government Israel’s foreign minister has slammed the Biden administration’s plan to reopen the US consulate in Jerusalem to provide diplomatic outreach to Palestinians, warning it could destabilise …

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‘Blood for Blood’: Resistance in Jenin By Ramzy Baroud

Jenin refugee camp, 2011. (Mujaddara/Wikimedia Commons) It is obvious that what is currently taking place in Jenin is indicative of something much larger. Israel knows this, thus the exaggerated violence against the refugee camp, writes Ramzy Baroud. The killing of four young Palestinians by Israeli occupation soldiers in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, on August 16, is a …

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