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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] Palestinian Authority leader, Mahmoud Abbas’s UN General Assembly speech will remain a reference for a while longer. As Israel plans further settlement expansion, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, the spokesman for …

Aviv Kochavi, Israel’s army chief of general staff, walks past a fence along the boundary with the Gaza Strip on 7 December during an event marking the end of construction of a barrier fully enclosing the Palestinian enclave (AFP)   Stretching along the entire boundary between Israel and the Gaza Strip, Israel’s new $1.1bn iron wall and fence was hailed …

Sahar Francis, director of Palestinian prisoner rights group Addameer, speaks, as Shawan Jabarin, director of the al-Haq human rights group, right, and Ammar Hijazi, representative Palestinian Minister of Foreign Minister, left, listens during a news conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday [Majdi Mohammed/AP Photo] Rights advocates say Israel’s move is a dangerous escalation in its campaign to …

November 2 marks the 104th anniversary of Balfour Declaration of 2 November 1917 when Britain imperial power gave Palestine illegally and immorally to Jews who have not even seen Palestine to set up a Jewish racist state of Israel. During the second half of 19th century the British Empire wanted to ensure the Middle East remains destabilized. At the same …

Palestinian, Israeli, and foreign activists lift banners and placards during a demonstration against Israeli occupation and settlement activity in the Palestinian Territories and east Jerusalem, in Jerusalem’s Palestinian Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, on March 19, 2021 [AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images]   Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said recently that his government opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state He went …