Fatah and Hamas delegations will meet for mediation before indirect negotiations with Israel commence. Egypt will host talks between rival Palestinian factions within days, followed by indirect negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis on the ceasefire…
A new United Nations assessment published this week lays out the massive scope of the needs facing the nearly 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza following the “unprecedented” destruction wreaked by 51 days of Israeli bombing…
Yehuda Shaul writes of how he and his friends learned to glorify power, and lost their ability to see Palestinians as people whose lives are no less valuable. Now, he and hundreds of others are…
Israeli settlements and a cycle of violence mean time is running out to resolve the issue The recent announcement by the Israeli government that it is expropriating another 1,000 acres of the West Bank has…
President Mahmoud Abbas will ask his French counterpart Francois Hollande for official recognition of Palestine in an upcoming meeting this week, the Palestinian foreign minister said Sunday. Riyad al-Maliki told Ma’an that Abbas is due…
As hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children returned to school in Gaza on Sunday, Azhar recited a poem eulogizing her father, killed by Israeli shelling in the enclave’s recent conflict. “Daddy, what can I tell…
Human-rights advocate gives `a voice to victims’ and demands accountability, award’s sponsors say. B’Tselem, the prominent Israeli human-rights advocate, was awarded the 2014 Stockholm Human Rights Award, the International Legal Assistance Consortium and two major…
Israel should embrace Palestinian unity for its own security. A further land grab will only inflame tensions Israel has a habit of justifying its actions in the occupied Palestinian territories, however illegal and indecent, in…
Elbit Systems is Israel’s largest publicly listed arms company, and one of the world’s leading exporters of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) – drones. Elbit’s leading product is the Hermes 450 drone, “a mature and combat…
FRINGE MEETING AT THE AUTUMN CONFERENCE SUNDAY 5 OCTOBER, 2014 AT 6.15PM CAMPANILE, PICASSO 2 Racism is a continuing problem in many countries. It is a feature of the Palestine/Israel conflict. Palestinians are being demonised…
Israel says it will expropriate 4 sq km (1.5 sq miles) of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. The decision to appropriate land south of Bethlehem is believed to be the largest seizure by…
As Jewish survivors and descendants of survivors and victims of the Nazi genocide we unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and the ongoing occupation and colonization of historic Palestine. We further condemn the…
Demilitarizing Gaza is being touted as part of a solution to the fighting that has, over the past month, torn apart the small area of blighted territory. Disarmament of the Gaza Strip is too simplistic…
The truce between Israel and Hamas may turn out to be no more than a pause. Let us hope it will not, but at least that pause gives us the opportunity to reflect on the…
The children who survive Operation Protective Edge will emerge to find their previous lives almost unrecognizable, as the families, schools, hospitals and mosques that framed their world are systematically destroyed Israel’s ground invasion of the…