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 …
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Khaled Meshaal interview: Senior official says Hamas now leads Palestinian struggle By David Hearst
Speaking to MEE, Meshaal calls on all Palestinians to join a ‘comprehensive uprising’ against Israeli occupation
Read More »Occupation: The Palestinian elite and its failure to prevent Israel’s land theft Joseph Massad
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 …
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Remembering 39th anniversary of Israeli Massacre At Sabra –Shatila Palestinian refugee camps. By Latheef Farook
In September 1982 Israel invaded Lebanon and bombed by air, sea and land to finish off the Palestine Liberation Organization there. In the process slaughtered thousands of Palestinian civilians in refugee camps. The anniversary of the genocide does not attract any attention in the Western media, which remains integral part of Western war machines. According to the Red Cross Israeli …
Read More »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. …
Read More »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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