Lectures

A young Palestinian man has been killed as clashes broke out between Israeli forces and Palestinian youths in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah. The Israeli forces stormed the Qaddura Refugee Camp in central Ramallah in the early hours of Monday and fired tear gas and live ammunition at youths …

A Palestinian rights group has warned against the imminent death of two hunger-striking prisoners, who have been refusing food for nearly three months in protest at their detention by Israel. Anas Ibrahim Shadid, 20, and Ahmad Abu Farah, 29, face imminent death in the wake of severe deterioration of their health condition, …

With the decline of armed struggle under the PLO and the Left, the Palestinian Resistance, in the early 1980s, was able to start a new phase that moved on from small closed groups to become an institutionalized phenomenon following to some extent a model that combined guerrilla warfare and the …

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has praised Palestinian resistance movements for firmly standing up to the Israeli military during its recent 50-day aggression on Gaza. Ayatollah Khamenei said in a meeting with members of Iran’s Assembly of Experts on Thursday that the military achievements of Palestinians …

Israel announced plans on Sunday to expropriate 400 hectares (988 acres) of Palestinian land in the Bethlehem area in the south of the occupied West Bank, the military said. “On the instructions of the political echelon… 4,000 dunams at (the settlement of) Gevaot is declared as state land,” the army …

The Palestinian government has called on the United Nations and foreign states with citizens serving in the Israeli army to investigate and try them for war crimes committed during Israel’s latest onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban …

Gazans celebrate victory after seven weeks of resistance against the Israeli offensive against the Palestinians of the coastal enclave. On Tuesday, Palestinian groups and Egyptian mediators confirmed that the Cairo-based talks ended in truce. Palestinians poured into the streets of the war-torn sliver to celebrate as the Egyptian-brokered truce took …

Most of today’s Salafist jihadist movements have no interest in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, for the time being regarding it as irrelevant. Instead, their call is to engage in intense, bloody confrontations involving bombings, executions, and suicide attacks against governments headed by Muslims and against Muslim civilians. Al-Qaeda has followed this …

Since beginning its assault on the Gaza Strip on July 8th, Israeli officials have prevented human rights observers and experts employed by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch from entering Gaza to conduct independent investigations. Both groups are known worldwide for their work in exposing human rights abuses, and both …

Israeli occupation forces killed a Palestinian youth in the West Bank on Monday during a raid on his house near the city of Nablus, local medical officials said. Local witnesses said Zakaria al-Aqra, 23, was “wanted” by Israel and had been shot dead. Six other people were wounded in the …