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Publications
May 14, 2014
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Amelia Smith
,p>Prior to Operation Pillar of Defence, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's party Likud had been declining in popularity. Netanyahu was also threatened by an opposition alliance of the former...
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Publications
May 14, 2014
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Shazia Arshad
The EU-Israel Association Agreement is the legal framework upon which relations between Israel and the European Union are based. It was signed in 1995 and came into effect in...
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Publications
May 14, 2014
Dr Abdulrahman Muhammad Ali
Introduction The status of prisoners of war is a very complicated issue in international humanitarian law. Many people think – wrongly – that all of the Palestinian prisoners in...
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The Palestinian Authority (PA) has threatened to halt security cooperation with Israel should the latter not stop its settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories. This is the first...
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The heads of Jerusalem churches expressed on Tuesday their condemnation of Israeli attempts to discriminate against Palestinian Muslims and Christians, Arabs 48 news website reported. The church leaders also...
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Article
In recent years, Israel has stepped up its campaign to Judaise the holy city of Jerusalem, attempting to create new facts on the ground in an effort to deny...
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The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas considered the Israeli bill that seeks to bar the issuance of amnesty for Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences in Israeli jails, as an attempt...
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Publications
May 13, 2014
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Sawsan Ramahi
Zionist political thought continues to propose projects based on the eradication of the Palestinians as a people or, at the very least, their marginalisation inside the state of Israel....
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Publications
Israel's occupation of Jerusalem has for all intents and purposes strangled its Arab population. The restrictive policies enforced in; construction, planning, land appropriation, investment in infrastructure and services are...
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Publications
Introduction – Who, or what, is Shin Bet? Known at different times by various names (the General Security Service , the Israeli Security Agency , Shabak], Shin Bet is...
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Publications
A Caabu Briefing Paper 1. Introduction 1.1 The Oslo Accords which were intended to lead to peace between Israelis and Palestinians were signed as long ago as 1993. Yet...
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A group of international activists involved in the Freedom Flotilla Coalition held a press conference in London on Monday to debrief the media about the terrorist attack against Gaza's...
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Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) filed a suit at the Jerusalem District Court on Thursday against the Jerusalem District Electricity Company (JDECO) for 531 million shakels ($153 million) in unpaid...
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May 13, 2014
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Ramona Wadi
Further statements have emerged with regards to the two-state solution based upon the 1967 borders, advocated by Israel's allies and endorsed by Palestinian leaders. A news brief by Haaretz...
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The Israeli police requested a welcome poster for Pope Francis be removed from a building belonging to the church near Jaffa Gate to avoid "inflaming Jewish passions". The National...
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A member of Fatah's Central Committee, Azzam Al-Ahmad, has confirmed that consultations "are now quietly taking place to form a government of national consensus and will be completed before...
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met late on Monday with a delegation from the Islamic resistance movement Hamas in the West Bank to discuss the composition of the unity...
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Publications
May 13, 2014
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Sawsan Ramahi
There has been much talk over the past ten years about the "new Middle East" which America has called for. This US project is based around four main areas:...
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Publications
May 13, 2014
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Shazia Arshad
The Israeli government sets a state budget which is allocated to all sectors of society. Claims of economic discrimination are rife given the disparity in living conditions between Palestinian...
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Publications
May 13, 2014
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Shazia Arshad
Following the leak of some 1600 documents a selection known as the Palestine Papers were released by Al Jazeera and the Guardian newspaper; they highlight previously unknown details relating...
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The number of Palestinian children ill-treated and held in solitary confinement in Israeli jails has risen since 2012, a specialist report released earlier this month said. An international human...
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Senior member of Hamas's political bureau Mousa Abu-Marzouk said on Monday that the US had attempted to sabotage the internal Palestinian reconciliation. In a meeting with intellectuals and writers...
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Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said that peace in the Middle East is not achievable because Israel continues to occupy Palestinian lands. Speaking at the opening ceremony of...
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Disagreements between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres have increased against the backdrop of Netanyahu's intention to postpone the presidential elections and unconfirmed reports that the...
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The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza warned on Monday that vaccines necessary for children are running out, posing a "real disaster" to the Palestinian society. Spokesperson of the...
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There has been a rise of more than 200 per cent in the crimes of extremist Israeli Jewish groups such as Price Tag against Palestinian property in the past...
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Blog
May 12, 2014
Yousef Al Helou
Several organisations in Gaza offer rehabilitation and psycho-social services in different fields to integrate people with special needs into society by providing them the necessary training to earn a...
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The Council of Catholic Churches in the Holy Land has criticised the escalation of "price tag" attacks against Palestinian Christian and Muslim properties, as well as the Israeli police's...
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A group of extremist Israeli activists attempted to prevent a Palestinian politician from giving a lecture about the Nakba in Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheva yesterday. The activists affiliate...
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Some 156 infrastructure projects in the Gaza Strip have been halted because of the tightening of the Israeli siege, Palestinian Minister of Local Governing Mohammed Al-Farra said yesterday. The...
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Israel's Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved on Sunday a bill that would bar the release of Palestinian prisoners before the end of their sentences in an effort to prevent...
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Israel's Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved on Sunday a bill that would bar the release of Palestinian prisoners before the end of their sentences in an effort to prevent...