Muslim Issues

A woman waits to receive funding to rebuild her home, one of around 18,000 damaged or destroyed during the fighting in Gaza in May 2021 (SOPA Images/ Nidal Alwaheidi via Reuters)   Israeli restrictions on imports have impeded reconstruction efforts and driven up unemployment in Gaza, but will this lead to another outbreak of hostilities? Two months after Israel and Hamas reached …

Demonstrators lift up a banner reading “leave, Abbas” as they chant slogans and hold up images of late Palestinian activist Nizar Banat during a protest in Hebron on 13 July 2021 (AFP)   The decision comes as Palestinians continue to protest against the PA and voice anger over the killing of political activist and Abbas critic Nizar Banat   The …

Israeli forces take Palestinians into custody during a demonstration near Qubbat al-Sakhra (the Dome of the Rock) against far-right Israelis’ slogans insulting Prophet Muhammad during “flag march” in Jerusalem on June 18, 2021. [Mostafa Alkharouf – Anadolu Agency] Recent statements by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett about the freedom of Jews to pray inside Al-Aqsa Mosque have once again highlighted …

Photos of children, who lost their lives in Israel’s attacks on Gaza, are exhibited at debris of Es-Sekka family’s house in Khan Yunis, Gaza on June 19, 2021 [Ashraf Amra / Anadolu Agency]   In recent years, the Gaza Strip has known only three periodic orders: destroy, rebuild, repeat. Yet the enclave once had a thriving export-oriented economy with assets …

Israel’s bombing of the Gaza Strip in May killed 248 Palestinians, including 66 children (Reuters/File photo)   Navi Pillay will investigate possible violations committed by both Israel and Hamas in the occupied West Bank, Gaza and Israel   The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has chosen former rights chief Navi Pillay to head an international inquiry into alleged war crimes committed during Israel’s May …

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier meets Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in Jerusalem on 1 July 2021 (AFP)   Germany’s contribution to the colonisation of Palestine over the years has been ideological, financial, physical and military German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited Israel two weeks ago and met Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, whose American parents came from San Francisco to colonise Palestine in July 1967. Bennett has boasted: …