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February 21, 2018

Israel demolishes EU-funded house in East Jerusalem

Israeli bulldozers demolished yesterday a Palestinian house funded by the EU in the Jabal Al-Baba neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem, Quds Press has reported. Representative of the Bedouin Gathering...

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February 21, 2018

Israel’s anti-athan bill allows police to storm mosques

Israeli MKs and minister have been working to introduce a new copy of what is known as the “Muezzin Bill” to give power to police to break into mosques...

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February 21, 2018

Egypt opens Rafah crossing ‘exceptionally’ in both directions

Egyptian authorities today opened the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip “exceptionally” in both directions, to allow humanitarian cases to leave the Strip and the return of stranded...

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February 21, 2018

Dahlan denies plan to head new Palestinian government

Palestinian MP Mohamed Dahlan denied yesterday reports claiming he plans to form and head a new Palestinian government, calling these reports the “production of security cooperation” between the Palestinian...

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February 21, 2018

5 year jail term for Bahrain activist Nabeel Rajab

Prominent Bahraini rights activist Nabeel Rajab was sentenced to five years in prison today after he was convicted of criticising the country’s political system on Twitter, his lawyer and...

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February 21, 2018

Palestinian PM meets with Israeli financial minister

Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Rami Hamadallah met on Monday with Israeli Financial Minister Moshe Kahlon and the Israeli Government Coordinator in the Occupied Territories Yoav Mordechai in Ramallah,...

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February 21, 2018

Report: No food, blankets for Palestinian prisoners in Israel prison

Palestinian prisoners held in Israel’s Etzion Prison have been given only one very small meal and one blanket each during the cold winter months, a report by the PLO’s...

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February 21, 2018

Palestinian shot by Israel soldiers in Gaza last week dies of his wounds

A Palestinian protester shot by Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip last Friday died of his wounds today, various sources reported. Ahmad Mohammad Abed-Rabbo Abu Hilo, aged 19,...

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February 21, 2018

UN, Sudan to tackle sexual violence

The United Nations yesterday announced its plan to sign a joint statement with the Sudanese government about fighting sexual violence, the Anadolu Agency reported. According to the Sudanese news...

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February 21, 2018

As Iraqis fear another cholera outbreak the government is absent

An unquantifiable number of Iraqi towns, villages and encampments are flooded with wastewater following three days of fierce rain storms on Valentine’s Day last week. Heavy rainfall paralysed segments...

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