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Daily Free Press (blog)
April 23, 2018
Members of Boston's Palestine Solidarity Network held a rally Saturday on the Boston Common to petition for Palestinian students' right to education. ... The letter, which will soon be sent to Massachusetts government officials and the Cambridge City Council, is a show of support with Palestinian studentsÃâà...
Minnesota Daily
April 23, 2018
The final solution for the ethnic cleansing of all Christians and Muslims in Palestine was composed of “The Village Files,” begun by 1938, and “Plan Dalet,” finalized in 1947. The Village Files were a vast collection of every minute detail of every village, town and city in Palestine. Half of Palestine's ChristiansÃâà...
Kansas City Star
April 23, 2018
Malaysian police on Monday released composite images of two suspects who gunned down a Palestinian engineer and said they appeared to be European or Middle Eastern, fueling suspicion that the slaying was an Israeli assassination. Gaza's ruling Hamas militant group has accused Israel of beingÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
April 23, 2018
A group of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian families and attempted to take over two homes on Saturday in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron. Local activist Aref Jaber told Ma'an that a group of Israeli settlers “attacked” two homes in the Old City and attempted to take them over, demandingÃâà...
Haaretz
April 23, 2018
On April 13 unknown people tried to set a mosque on fire in the town of Aqraba in the northern West Bank, on April 17, tires were slashed and graffiti was spray painted in the towns of Luban al-Sharqiya and al-Sawiya. The next day, trees were vandalized and graffiti was spray painted in the town of Urif.
AMN Al-Masdar News
April 22, 2018
BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:20 P.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and their Palestinian allies were able to score a new advance against the so-called “Islamic State” (ISIS), today, seizing several buildings in the process. Led by their 105th Brigade of the Republican Guard, the Syrian Arab Army and theirÃâà...
Daily Sabah
April 22, 2018
Two Palestinian refugees, a father and a son, were killed during the fighting at the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus, according to the United ... after opposition evacuated the eastern Ghouta suburbs following a fierce government offensive and an alleged poison gas attack in the town of Douma.
PBS NewsHour
April 16, 2018
Staiti came from the city of Jenin in the West Bank, where she witnessed the first major Palestinian uprising from 1987 to 1993 against Israel's occupation. ... “Pakistan isn't exactly a tourist destination, so most of the nationalities I met at Seeds of Peace camp – people from India, Palestine, AfghanistanÃâà...
Amnesty International
March 12, 2018
The Israeli authorities must immediately release Palestinian prisoner of conscience Munther Amira, whose arrest, continued detention and sentencing to six ... Munther Amira was arrested by Israeli soldiers on 27 December 2017 while peacefully participating in a protest in the city of Bethlehem in theÃâà...
gulfnews.com
March 12, 2018
Between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah, Qalandia airport was opened in 1920. On the outskirts of the town of Lydda (known today as Lod), a second airport was built in 1936. It was built for military purposes, according to reports, during the British Mandate of Palestine. The airport's nameÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 12, 2018
Nikki Haley bet the rest of the world would cover the costs of American aid cuts to Palestinian refugees. That hasn't ... Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and Jared Kushner, a White House Senior Advisor, attend a U.N. Security Council meeting on February 20, 2018 in New York City.
Haaretz
March 12, 2018
According to the charge sheet filed in Rishon Letzion Magistrate's Court in January, in November 2016 Mohammed Shakir of Salfit, a Palestinian town adjacent to the settlement of Ariel, was arrested on suspicion of throwing rocks. The investigation file indicates that Shakir and a cousin decided to throwÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 12, 2018
Israel's new 'breach of loyalty' bill is yet another sinister attempt to erase the Palestinian identity from Palestine. ... take over Jerusalem after Trump recognised the city as the undivided capital of Israel, is not only an attack on the Palestinians of Jerusalem but implicitly acts to further attack Palestinian identity.
Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
March 12, 2018
--The Statement says that “Jerusalem [is] to be the capital of Israel and Palestine, in the west and the east of the city respectively, an open city for the faithful of the three monotheistic religions.” The Bush administration also left the borders of Jerusalem to be determined by the parties, and never insisted onÃâà...
Haaretz
March 10, 2018
A Palestinian teen was killed during clashes with Israeli army forces near the West Bank city of Nablus Saturday, according to a Palestinian Red Crescent spokesperson. Amir Omar Shahada, 19, was shot in the chest in the village of Urif, said Ghassan Douglas, the Palestinian Authority official in charge ofÃâà...
The Electronic Intifada
March 9, 2018
Abu Nader, 73, owns an ice cream shop in Baddawi, a Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli in northern Lebanon. His is a family ... Abu Nader's grandfather opened the family's first ice cream shop in the coastal Palestinian city in 1929. “Back then .... His family came to Haifa from the Galilee town of Lubya.
Middle East Monitor
March 5, 2018
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip is to cancel the “temporary employment” contracts of 97 Palestinian engineers due to financial difficulties. Dozens of Palestinian engineers gathered in front of UNRWA's headquarters in Gaza City to protestÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 5, 2018
Dozens of Palestinian journalists have staged a demonstration outside the UN office in Gaza City to protest Facebook's practice of blocking Palestinian Facebook accounts. Demonstrators held banners saying "Facebook is complicit in [Israel's] crimes" and "Facebook favours the [Israeli] occupation.".
Palestine Herald Press
March 5, 2018
City officials on Monday named Gayle Cooper the new executive director of the Palestine Economic Development Corporation. The former director of the Economic Development Corporation in Winnsboro assumes the position in Palestine on March 19. The PEDC director's position has been vacant sinceÃâà...
Haaretz
March 5, 2018
The battle between these two organizations is taking place under heavy siege by the Syrian army, which isn't managing to take over the camp. A Palestinian militia is active alongside the army but it is mainly occupied with defending residents. Food and medications are scarce, there is no fuel for heatingÃâà...
PRESSTV
March 4, 2018
Israeli media outlets alleged that a 51-year-old Arab man from the town of Shfaram, whose identity was not immediately available, began his rampage in the northern coastal city of Acre on Sunday morning, after receiving a parking ticket of 1,000 Israeli shekels ($290.60). In the video footage that capturedÃâà...
The Daily Star
December 31, 1999
Clashes broke out Wednesday afternoon between opposing Palestinian factions inside a Beirut-area refugee camp, a security source said. you've reached a subscriber-only article. Sign up now and access the full breadth of The Daily Star content in minutes. subscribe now unrestricted access 1 month.
Middle East Monitor
December 31, 1999
Scores of settlers stormed the Arab town of Kifl Haris, in the occupied West Bank city of Salfit, to perform religious rituals at a Muslim holy site this morning. According to eyewitnesses, Israeli occupation forces were deployed in the town before the arrival of the settlers; they closed access points to the areaÃâà...
WAFA
December 31, 1999
JENIN, March 5, 2018 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Monday detained 12 Palestinians during multiple predawn raids across the West Bank, said Palestine Prisoner's Society (PPS). Israeli forces detained two ... PPS said forces also raided Kufr Ra'i town, southwest of Jenin, where they detained a Palestinian.
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
Even after Donald Trump's Jerusalem decision, there is no feasible alternative to the two-state solution in Palestine. ... But even before Trump's controversial announcement, some western politicians were arguing that a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is no longer feasible due to Israel'sÃâà...
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