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Where was Hamas during Israel’s latest bombardment of Gaza?
Israel launched a wide-scale offensive against the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip on Friday afternoon. Its stated target was senior Islamic Jihad commander Tayseer Al-Jaabari in his apartment in a high-rise residential building in Al-Remal area of Gaza City. He was killed along with several civilians, including five-year-old Alaa…
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Is Palestine really on top of the Arab agenda?
At a meeting with delegates at the Headquarters of the Arab League held in Cairo on Sunday, Assistant Secretary-General, Saeed Abu-Ali, called for the strengthening of the Arab boycott of Israel as an effective tool to confront the Israeli occupation. “This meeting comes as the Israeli occupation authorities are still…
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Kafr Qasim was not just a massacre, but part of an ethnic cleansing plan
On Friday, archives of the Israeli occupation forces released court documents related to the trial of Israeli soldiers who brutally massacred 49 Palestinians on 29 October, 1956. The massacre took place in the Palestinian town of Kafr Qasem. It was the first day of the Israeli, British and French invasion…
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Pakistan’s by-elections give Imran Khan hope of returning to power
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf Party won a landslide victory in the local by-elections in Punjab – the largest and most populous province in the country gaining 15 of the 20 seats available. The result was a blow to the ruling coalition of current Prime Minister, Shahbaz Sharif,…
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Biden ended his Middle East tour without a single major achievement
With great enthusiasm and confidence, US President Joe Biden headed to the Middle East last week hoping to achieve major goals to help the Democratic Party in the midterm elections for the Senate and House of Representatives slated to be held in November. He visited Israel and made “important” security…
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Biden proved that Israel is a US proxy in the Middle East
American President Joe Biden landed in Israel on Wednesday and started his four-day tour of the Middle East, the first since he took office. Moments after landing in Tel Aviv, he delivered a speech which outlined his intentions during this controversial tour. Biden has visited Israel several times before becoming…
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Israel’s burning alive of Egyptian soldiers proves its immorality
Prominent Israeli journalist Yossi Melman revealed on Friday details of an Israeli army war crime committed during the Six-Day War in 1967, when Israel occupied the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza Strip, the Syrian Golan Heights and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. In a thread on Twitter, Melman, a security correspondent, said that at the…
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Justice for Shireen Abu Akleh will only come with the end of Israel’s occupation
Following repeated requests, the Palestinian Authority agreed eventually to hand over the bullet that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to the United States to carry out forensic tests and find out who fired the fatal shot. PA Public Prosecutor Akram Al-Khatib told Voice of Palestine Radio that the…
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Restoring ties with the Syrian regime puts Hamas between a rock and a hard place
Ten years after leaving Syria in the wake of the violent regime crackdown on the popular revolution against President Bashar al-Assad, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has apparently decided to restore ties with the regime in Damascus. Although no official statement has been made by the movement in this…
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If the detention of an Israeli soldier is a war crime, what about the thousands of Palestinian civilians?
Early this week, the Izzedine Al-Qassam Brigades released a short video footage showing an Israeli soldier it is holding as a prisoner of war, Hisham Al-Sayed, lying on bed and strapped to a ventilator. The Brigades said that it released the video footage after it announced the sudden deterioration in…
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When will the UN Security Council stop being unfair?
Most Palestinian, regional and international bodies have marked the 15th anniversary of the stifling Israeli blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip – assuming that the blockade started in the middle of June 2007 -, when the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, started ruling the coastal enclave. However, the Israeli blockade…
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When will Egypt’s brain drain end?
A report issued by the Egyptian Medical Syndicate has revealed that 11,586 Egyptian doctors resigned from their positions in government hospitals during the past three years in what it described as an “unprecedented brain drain.” The London-based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper also reported recently a comment by Egyptian MP Hazem El-Gendy…
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Why do national dialogues in Arab countries rule out the participation of major parties?
Tunisia’s President Kais Saied announced at the beginning of May the launch of a “national dialogue” to help resolve the political deadlock in the North African country which followed his controversial power grab, when he sacked the government and dissolved the elected parliament. Saied, a former law professor, carried out…
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Why does the US distrust everyone for the sake of serving Israel?
In its first report released on 7 June, 2022, the United Nations (UN) Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory found that the Israeli occupation is the reason behind the suffering of Palestinians and the perpetuation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “The continued occupation by Israel of Palestinian territory…
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Biden is putting his personal interests ahead of human rights
A number of officials revealed to NBC News that US President Joe Biden had postponed his planned trip to a number of countries in the Middle East. Biden had previously planned to arrive in the region this month but on Friday officials said the trip had been pushed back to…
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Who is the actual representative of the Palestinians?
During the past week, regional and international mediators have been carrying out shuttle diplomacy with the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, in order to keep the situation in the occupied holy city of Jerusalem quiet during the Israeli Flag March –an annual event organised by extremist Jews to celebrate the…
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Who were the winners and losers of Israel’s Flag March?
The Israeli occupation government, opposition groups and extreme far-right Jewish settlers were all betting on the provocative Flag March to cause a major upheaval when it passed through the Muslim Quarter in occupied Jerusalem’s Old City at the weekend. Settlers have been using such a march since 1967 to celebrate…
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The return of an Arab MK to Israel’s government coalition will not prevent its collapse
Arab Israeli parliamentarian Ghaida Rinawie-Zoabi, of Meretz, announced her resignation from the coalition government in Israel without prior notice. Her departure put the life of the teetering coalition at stake. When asked why she had resigned, Rinawie-Zoabi said that promises made to the Arab population in Israel failed to be…
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PA, Israel maintain security cooperation even in prisons
Undercover Israeli forces raided a popular park in the village of Dura Al-Qara, northeast of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, on Tuesday and arrested seven Palestinian students who are enrolled at Birzeit University. All the students are members of the Islamic Bloc – the student wing of the…
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Israel is unable to use lies to hide its latest crime against Palestinians
Israel’s killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American citizen, has hit the headlines of most international media outlets. Shireen was killed while covering the Israeli invasion of the occupied Palestinian city of Jenin, uncovering the brutality of the Israeli occupation and causing a major international crisis for Israel. From the start, the…
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Will the world seek justice for Shireen Abu Akleh and stop Israel killing more Palestinians?
The world woke this morning to the news that yet another Palestinian journalist had been killed by Israeli gunfire. Veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed while covering Israel’s assault on the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed that Abu…
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Did Turkey bow down to Saudi Arabia?
Turkish President Recep Erdogan visited Jeddah in July 2017 and met Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Bin Abdul Aziz and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman to mediate for an end to the blockade imposed on Qatar by the Saudis, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt. “No one has any interest in prolonging…
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Israel’s leaders are causing destructive disunity among Israelis
Before forming the current dilapidating government coalition last year, the Israeli occupation state went through four elections in two years. Even after the fourth elections, neither of the Israeli parties has succeeded in winning enough seats in parliament to form a stable one-party government or a strong coalition government. There…
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Hamas sent a number of messages with the killing of an illegal Israeli settler
Two Palestinians killed a guard at the Israeli settlement of Ariel last Friday. Ariel is built on Palestinian land occupied by Israel since 1967 and, like all Israeli settlements, is illegal under international law. According to Israeli media, the dead man was Vyacheslav Golev, 23, a Russian immigrant who chose…