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  • May 15, 2017

    US official to Israel: Western Wall is part of the West Bank

    A US official who is making preparations for President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East next week rejected a request that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accompany Trump...

    News

  • May 15, 2017

    Israel postpones vote on ‘Jewish state bill’

    Members of Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party will oppose the controversial “Jewish nation-state” bill, Israel’s Haaretz reported today. The bill passed its first reading on 10 May, however...

    News

  • May 15, 2017

    Trump’s moment of truth on Palestine has arrived

    For all his bluster during the election campaign, US President Trump has offered no clear indication which way his Middle East policy will go. The president has prevaricated on...

    Article

  • May 15, 2017

    Israel to build 209 housing units near Ramallah

    Israel intends to build dozens of new housing units in a settlement built on occupied Palestinian land near the city of Ramallah in the centre of the West Bank....

    News

  • May 15, 2017

    Looking for a presidential extra

    There is one more year left until Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s presidential term is over and new presidential elections are held. Since Al-Sisi has hinted on more than one occasion...

    Blog

  • May 15, 2017

    Barghouthi calls for civil disobedience in support of the prisoners’ strike

    Palestinian prisoner Marwan Barghouthi called Nakba Day commemorations to be united with support for the hunger striking prisoners until total civil and national disobedience sparks. In his message from...

    News

  • May 15, 2017

    What prisoners mean to the Palestinian Authority

    Nearly a month ago, Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons started a hunger strike, but since the beginning of the strike, we haven’t seen or heard a clear position from the...

    Article

  • May 15, 2017

    The Freedom and Dignity hunger strike completes its first month

    While the Palestinian Nakba enters its 70th year tomorrow, the Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike will finish its first month, after all the Israeli attempts to break the national prisoner...

    Article

  • May 15, 2017

    Gazan fisherman shot to death by Israel

    A Palestinian fisherman has died in an Israeli hospital after being shot by Israeli forces earlier today, a local NGO reported. According to the Al-Mezan Centre for Human Rights,...

    News

  • May 15, 2017

    Gazans mark Nakba Day

    Dozens of Palestinians in Gaza participated in a march today to mark the 69th anniversary of the Nakba, the catastrophe which resulted in the mass expulsion of one million...

    News