PLO’s Hanan Ashrawi: ‘Deliberate Massacre’ in Gaza
On “This Week,” PLO Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi on the impact of the Israeli ground offensive and airstrikes on Gaza. Published on 21 Jul 2014 http://youtu.be/aqzCWJEqjjI
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An open letter for the people in Gaza
Paola Manduca, Iain Chalmers, Derek Summerfield, Mads Gilbert, Swee Ang, on behalf of 24 signatories We are doctors and scientists, who spend our lives developing means to care and protect health and lives. We are…
Expel Palestinians, populate Gaza with Jews, says Knesset deputy speaker
A relative carries the body of four-year-old Qassim Elwan during his funeral in Gaza City on 19 July. Qassim was killed along with his brother by Israeli shelling the previous day. (Ezz al-Zanoun / APA…
Deprivation in Gaza Strip
In almost three decades of research and writing on Gaza, I have often asked myself, “Is there a language to really express the torment of Gaza and the way in which the world’s unflinching indifference…
What does Hamas really want?
Read the list of conditions published in the name of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and judge honestly whether there is one unjust demand among them. After we’ve said everything there is to say about Hamas:…
Report: Hamas offers Israel 10 conditions for a 10 year truce
Hamas is offering Israel a 10-year truce if it accepts 10 conditions. The Jerusalem Post reports, based on an Israeli Channel 2 newscast, that Azmi Bishara announced the proposal on Al Jazeera television today. Bishara,…
British Deputy PM: Israel’s Gaza response ‘collective punishment’
Israel’s retaliatory air strikes on Gaza have been “deliberately disproportionate” and amount to “collective punishment”, Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said on Thursday, in unusually robust criticism of a close British ally Clegg made…
We Single Israel Out Because We in the West Are Shamefully Complicit in Its Crimes
The assault on Gaza has been a humanitarian disaster, yet the west’s staunch support for Israel continues. Seventeen members of a single family wiped out in a missile strike. A centre for disabled people bombed.…
Israel/Palestine: Unlawful Israeli Airstrikes Kill Civilians
Bombings of Civilian Structures Suggest Illegal Policy (Gaza) – Israeli air attacks in Gaza investigated by Human Rights Watch have been targeting apparent civilian structures and killing civilians in violation of the laws of war.…
Institutionalised Disregard for Palestinian Life
One either rejects the killing of non-combatants on principle or takes a more tribal approach to such matters. In the case of Israel and the Palestinians, the global outpouring of grief and condemnation over the…
Israeli forces stole USD 3 million in cash, property from Palestinians during West Bank raids
Ramallah- During the course of Israel’s three-week campaign of mass arrests in the West Bank, ostensibly to search for the killers of three settlers, the Israeli military and police conducted an average of 18 raids…
Israeli occupation forces escalate attack against the Gaza Strip
fter a three-hour meeting of the Israeli Security Cabinet late on Monday, Israeli occupation forces launched what it is calling “Operation Protective Edge” against the besieged Gaza Strip. Overnight, Israeli warplanes carried out dozens of…
Palestinian boy Mohammed Abu Khdeir was burned alive, says official
Mohammed al-A’wewy, attorney general for Palestine, makes claims as violence continues in West Bank and East Jeruslaem Mohamed Abu Khdeir, the Palestinian teenager who was kidnapped and murdered on Wednesday in a suspected revenge killing…
US Blocks UN Vote Criticizing Israel for West Bank Killings
US Envoy Said Mentioning Israel Was a ‘Red Line’ A statement by the UN Security Council deploring the deaths of innocent Palestinians during Israeli military operations in the West Bank ended up blocked by the…
Invasion in Abu Dis
Invasion in Abu Dis which is now joining the terror happening all over the West Bank. “We haven’t seen anything like this since 1967”, we are told. On Saturday night Al Quds University was invaded…