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Items by Motasem A Dalloul
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Is the overthrow of Assad good for the Palestinians?
Yesterday morning thousands of Syrians took to the streets of Damascus and across Syria to celebrate living in a country free of the authoritarian regime of Bashar Al-Assad as the rebels had announced the overthrow of his regime of 24 years. Opposition fighters entered the capital Damascus around 5am local...
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‘All the destruction Israel has created in Gaza is nothing, if we remain firm on our land’, says Nakba survivor
Sitting in the corner of the tent trembling in the cold winter weather with cracks on her skin reflecting her suffering, 86-year-old Aisha Mohammad Abu Sultan continues to keep her spirits high. When I approached her and asked her to send a message to the world as an eyewitness to...
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Has Hezbollah failed Gaza?
After 53 days of intensified brutal Israeli strikes on Lebanon to destroy the military abilities of the Lebanese Hezbollah, a ceasefire brokered by the US and other countries came into effect at 4am local time (02:00 GMT) yesterday. Hezbollah has been involved in resistance action along with the Palestinian resistance...
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‘I used to like winter, but I don’t like it now’
After her husband was killed by the Israeli occupation forces in Beit Lahiya and the destruction of her house, Amal Abu Halima, 39, fled with her children to Gaza City. Passing through two Israeli military checkpoints inside Beit Lahiya where they were obliged to throw away what few clothes...
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Are the ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant a victory for Palestinians?
Rejecting the Israeli challenge against the lack of jurisdiction, the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his former Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, over allegations of “crimes against humanity and war crimes”. This measure means that 124 states, which are members of the...
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Palestinians displaced from northern Gaza fear this new Nakba
The most well-known football stadium in the Gaza Strip is chaotic, with masses of people flooding the pitch and seating. Everyone is carrying a bag on their back and some clothes. Some are helping sick people or carrying wounded relatives, while others are walking alone, struggling along on bare...
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A Palestinian girl wounded in an Israeli air strike faced a painful journey to get treatment
The Israeli occupation forces are ethnically cleansing northern Gaza using lethal force. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, and many have been wounded. That much is clear to all but the fanatical Zionists. The statistics across Gaza are appalling: 43,340 killed; 102,100 wounded; 11,000 missing, presumed dead. Palestinians are not...
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Israel is playing even more dirty to force people out of Jabalia
For the 13th consecutive day, the Israeli occupation forces are carrying out a ground incursion and air strikes in northern Gaza. Jabalia, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya are all being targeted, although the occupation forces are concentrating their attacks in Jabalia refugee camp, where they are cutting-off all humanitarian...
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The untold terms of the new American ceasefire proposal
On Monday, US Secretary of State Tony Blinken visited the occupation state of Israel and met with senior officials there, including President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Following his meeting with Netanyahu, he said they discussed a potential ceasefire that would see the end of the Israeli...
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The US is not a credible ceasefire mediator, but a genocide partner
Senior US, Egyptian and Qatari officials, along with others from the region and other parts of the world, have been exerting massive mediation efforts to reach a ceasefire between the Israeli occupation and the Palestinian resistance. As the brutal Israeli onslaught against the Palestinians in Gaza has entered its eleventh...
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Israel is a state built on lies and will continue promoting lies
At dawn on 10 August, the Israeli occupation fighters, using highly advanced American munition, attacked a three-storey mosque located in Al-Tabi’in School in Gaza City, killing more than 115 displaced people and wounding more than 150 others, including women and children. Over the last two weeks, Israeli occupation forces have...
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Support Israel’s crimes in Gaza has become an Americanism
After nearly ten months of the livestreamed genocide in the occupied and blockaded Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was honoured by US Congress as a hero and was given the chance to address the world through its platform. Despite the mass opposition to his invitation, he was given...
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Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza has backfired on Israelis
As a result of Israel’s longest war since it was established on the land of Palestine in 1948, some 46,000 companies have closed in Israel, local media has revealed. Israeli economists believe this will rise to 100,000 by the end of this year. The brutal Israeli war against Palestinians in Gaza...
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Palestinians have nothing to lose on their way to achieving their freedom
Nine months into the continuous genocidal Israeli war on Gaza, Palestinians in the Strip continue to be resilient and steadfast despite the relentless bombing and tightening siege. The immoral Israeli occupation state, backed by most of the Arab regimes, India and Western countries, has been using its filthy power and...
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At last, the Israeli occupation and Daesh are on the same UN blacklist
In 2014, when the Israeli occupation launched its large-scale war on the occupied Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu likened the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas to the Western-backed terrorist group Daesh. Not only myself, but also tens of writers and intellectuals responded to him. They refuted his claim,...
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The ICC's arrest warrant for Netanyahu is nothing more than hot air
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, announced yesterday that he is seeking to arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. He announced the same measure for Head of Hamas Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh, top Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Al Sinwar...
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America’s logic for supporting Zionists
After numerous failed attempts to reach a ceasefire deal that ends the brutal Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip, a truce proposal was put on the table by Egypt. The proposal stipulates the gradual Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, the return of a certain number of displaced Palestinians from the south...
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Will Netanyahu win the battle of Rafah?
The Israeli military has repeatedly said that all preparations for the ground invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah were complete, Israel Hayom reported on Tuesday. According to the Israeli newspaper, the Israeli army is waiting for the kick-off order from the political leadership, pointing out that the invasion...
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Mr Cameron, do the Palestinians have the right to defend themselves?
Speaking to Sky News, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron described Iran’s response to the Israeli attack on its consulate in Damascus as “a reckless and dangerous thing”. When the presenter asked him: “What would Britain do if a hostile state flattened one of our consulates?” Cameron replied: “We will take...
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Iran saves Netanyahu, allows world to sympathise with Israel again
For about five hours on Saturday night, Iran launched a very large and unprecedented attack on Israel saying it came in retaliation for the Israeli attack on Tehran’s diplomatic mission in Syria in which a senior Iranian official was killed. The attack consisted of more than 350 projectiles – including...
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6 months on, where do Israel and the Palestinian resistance stand?
Six months have now passed since the start of Israel’s war on the Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip. From day one, Israel has been killing innocent civilians under the pretext of fighting the Palestinian resistance, which it says carried out a brutal massacre against Israeli troops and settlers living...
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MEMO inspects extensive destruction of Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital as Israeli forces withdraw
MEMO's correspondent Motasem Dalloul inspects the wide-scale damage and destruction of Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital after an intensive Israeli raid of the complex and its vicinity which lasted just over two weeks. The complex, the largest and most sophisticated medical and health structure in the besieged Gaza Strip, has been...
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Israel has lost the world, as not even its lies can save it
The occupation state of Israel has a propaganda machine that reproduces lie after lie in order to generate sympathy around the globe. For more than 75 years, it has generally succeeded in gaining the sympathy of the Western world and the full support of its leaders, as well as...
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Netanyahu knows that in the US, what Israel wants, Israel gets
The Israeli cabinet approved on Sunday a proposal that blocks any acceptance of international pressure to create an independent Palestinian state. The most far-right cabinet in Israel’s history, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and extremist ministers including Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, has been taking decisions so outrageous...
