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Items by Dr Belal Yasin
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Israel denies electricity to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip
For fifteen years, the Israeli occupation authorities have denied a regular electricity supply to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The suffocating siege imposed by Israel has left the residents unable to find a simple solution to the electricity problem, which affects all civil society sectors serving Palestinians and their…
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Effects of the Israeli blockade on the economic and humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip
Fifteen years ago, the Israeli authorities imposed a severe blockade on the Gaza Strip’s population of more than 2, 200,000 people in a geographical area of just 360 km. Despite the demands of the international community and legal institutions for Israel to lift its comprehensive siege on the Gaza Strip,…
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Racism is at the very heart of Israel
Many international organisations and human rights groups have confirmed that Israel imposes a racist — “apartheid” — regime which oppresses the Palestinians. This regime denies them basic rights and exposes them to repeated attacks by illegal Jewish settlers, which increases the tension in the occupied Palestinian territories and within Israeli…
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Israel’s use of solitary confinement is inhumane and breaches international conventions
On 8 April, the Israeli occupation authorities released 35-year-old Palestinian Mansour Al-Shahatit after 17 years in prison. During his imprisonment, Al-Shahatit was held in solitary confinement for long periods. He now suffers from memory loss, leaving him unable to recognise his mother and many of his family members. It is…
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Dozens of Palestinian families are threatened by forced displacement
In February and March, courts in Israel approved the eviction of seven Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem. Illegal settlers will benefit from this. Meanwhile, the Israeli-controlled Jerusalem municipality recommended the Israeli courts to confiscate forty per cent of the land in the…
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The massacre of Ibrahimi Mosque
Twenty-seven years ago, on 25 February, 1994, an Israeli settler named Baruch Goldstein shot at hundreds of Palestinians gathering for Al-Fajr prayer at the Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied city of Hebron. Goldstein took advantage of the gathering of the worshippers in the prostration position and the closure of the mosque’s…
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The ICC and the decision to investigate Israel’s crimes
On 5 February the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a ruling in which it agreed to investigate possible war crimes by the Israeli occupation in the Palestinian territories and decided that its jurisdiction extends to the territories controlled by the Israeli occupation since the June 1967 war. The decision was…
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In memoriam: UN Resolution 194
On 15 May 1948, terrorist gangs acting for the nascent state of Israel attacked Palestinian cities and towns. Almost 70 massacres were perpetrated, in which more than 15,000 Palestinians were killed and 800,000 others were displaced. This carnage prompted the UN General Assembly to issue Resolution 194 on 11 December…
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Thousands of Palestinian homes face demolition as Israel refuses building permits
In the early 1990s, Wael Al-Tahan submitted an application to the Israeli authorities for a permit to build a house on his land at Jabal Mukaber in occupied Jerusalem. The application was refused with no reason given. After many such attempts, Al-Tahan had no option but to build his house…
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The universality of international cooperation after coronavirus
Since December 2019 until this day, the world has been witnessing historical milestones. More than 100 countries are busy treating thousands of patients infected with the coronavirus, undertaking whatever preventative measures possible and meanwhile seeking to stop the haemorrhaging caused by the economic decline as a result of the imposed…
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Politicians and specialists in the time of the coronavirus
For decades, political regimes around the world have been keen to achieve the elements of strength for their countries, arming themselves as much as possible with military equipment and intelligence agencies, and spending huge amounts of money on achieving internal security, so that politicians have become the muftis of all…
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Trump and international decisions
The USA has witnessed a great controversy since Donald Trump assumed its presidency in 2016, for the man, as described by the American media, lacks political diplomacy, violates his constitutional powers, attacks the media according to his personal interests and commits some actions of snobbery with world leaders. He also…