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March 30, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
At the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council, the Palestinian human rights organisations, Al Haq and Addameer drew attention to the systematic torture of Palestinians prisoners in...
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March 28, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
Last month, Israel's National Security Minister, the far-right extremist Itamar Ben-Gvir, sought to facilitate the process for Israeli civilians to obtain firearms, citing a rise in applications since 2022...
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March 23, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
US President Joe Biden placed much emphasis on rhetorically opposing Israel's settlement expansion. Hence the reaction from Washington over the Israeli Knesset passing the second and third readings of the Disengagement Law that...
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March 21, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
Israeli Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, did not take long to issue another treacherous statement after explicitly calling for the Palestinian village of Huwara to be wiped out. During a...
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March 17, 2023
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Anadolu Agency
Moatasem Jibril, a young man from Sudan, is realising his dream of conducting technological experiments to manufacture robots by using recycled electronic waste. Despite modest capabilities and living in...
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When US-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, Adel Amer celebrated what he thought marked the end of two decades of war and isolation under sanctions that had brought...
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Eastern Libyan forces said, on Thursday, that 10 drums of uranium declared missing by the UN nuclear watchdog had been found near the warehouse they were taken from in southern...
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The United States promised its 2003 invasion would herald a new era of democracy for Iraq but, 20 years on, Iraqis across the country's sectarian, ethnic and political divides...
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A year after President George W. Bush launched the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, four US civilian security contractors in SUVs took an ill-fated turn into the Iraqi city...
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March 16, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
Last week, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin acknowledged the current Israeli settler violence against the Palestinian people following a meeting with his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant. "The United States...
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March 15, 2023
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Amelia Smith
Over a decade on, the Syrian regime has tortured thousands of people and many families still do not know the fate of their loved ones.
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March 14, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
When the Palestinian Authority speaks about Israel's settler-colonialism, it dilutes any possible impact immediately by mentioning the two-state compromise. During a joint press conference with his Italian counterpart Antonio...
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March 9, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
While the emerging Palestinian resistance has declared its opposition to Israel, the Palestinian Authority has unleashed its security services on the Palestinian people. On Wednesday, the PA security services...
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March 9, 2023
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Ibrahim Hewitt
Israelis continue rallies against gov't judicial overhaul plan
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More than 1,500 students, mostly girls, have been poisoned in 230 schools since November 2022
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February 28, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
Last week, Palestinian Envoy to the UN Riyad Mansour said that he was "happy" about the international response to the UN Security Council Presidential Statement which replaced the draft...
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February 25, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
When 2022 was claimed to be the deadliest year for Palestinians since 2005, international human rights organisations as well as those in Israel, corroborated with statistical data. So did...
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February 21, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
UN resolutions on Palestine are futile. Yet, the Palestinian Authority's backtracking on the draft resolution which was to be presented to the UN Security Council regarding a condemnation of...
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February 14, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
If the two-state compromise provided Israel with the veneer necessary for gradually moving towards annexation through settlement expansion, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas might as well ask the UN...
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February 9, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
In January 2021, the Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem declared that Israel imposes apartheid on the people of occupied Palestine, prompting other organisations to be more vocal about the...
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February 7, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
The Palestinian Authority continues to drown in its own political contradictions. Last month, PA leader Mahmoud Abbas stated that he was halting security coordination with Israel, purportedly to protect...
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February 7, 2023
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Reuters
Rich countries should stop throwing up roadblocks to poorer ones trying to secure energy supplies and do more to help them make the green transition, officials from Global South...
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February 5, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
Israel is up against renewed collective action in terms of Palestinian anti-colonial resistance. The Palestinian Authority has once again halted security coordination, although Mahmoud Abbas has reneged several times...
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January 27, 2023
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Over the course of four hours, the Israeli Army carried out a large-scale military operation in the Jenin refugee camp, northern West Bank, which left nine fatalities, dozens of...
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January 26, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
US senators from the Democratic Party are claiming there is no contradiction between the Abraham Accords and the two-state compromise over Palestine-Israel. If we consider the two-state diplomacy to...
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January 24, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
The former Israeli ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, has told a Likud faction meeting that "illegal Palestinian construction" in the occupied West Bank is "rampant". He wasn't being...
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January 20, 2023
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Reuters
A different type of energy transition has taken place at this year's World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting. Unlike 2021's COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, where oil and gas executives...
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January 20, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
Tying in to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statement that "the Jewish people have an exclusive and unquestionable right to all areas of the land of Israel" is the...
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January 19, 2023
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Reuters
In better times, Om Mohamed's family used to take holidays at resorts on Egypt's Red Sea coast. Now there is no money for vacations. Om Mohamed, 61, and her...
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January 17, 2023
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Reuters
European investigators are in Beirut quizzing witnesses as they probe suspected money laundering and embezzlement by Lebanese Central Bank Governor, Riad Salameh, who denies any wrongdoing and still enjoys support...
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January 17, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
The brother of murdered Palestinian activist Nizar Banat explained the family's approach to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in December. "For those of us who live in corrupt countries...
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January 14, 2023
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Ramona Wadi
The Israeli government's new sanctions against Palestinians include punitive measures for Palestinian Authority officials related to their freedom of movement. In response to the UN General Assembly resolution titled...