Four children were killed when Israel resumed its heavy bombardment of the occupied Gaza Strip after the expiry on Thursday afternoon of a five-hour “humanitarian ceasefire” requested by the United Nations. Another child died of injuries sustained in earlier Israeli attacks. By Thursday evening in Gaza, at least fourteen Palestinians ...
Read More »President Obama voices support for Israel at White House iftar
An American Muslim organisation has criticised Barack Obama for using a White House iftar on Monday as an opportunity to voice his support for Israel. The Muslim Public Affairs Council, which attended the event along with many other US Muslim leaders, said it was appalled at the president’s actions. At ...
Read More »Sectors of Israeli economy paralysed because of Palestinian rockets
Several sectors of the Israeli economy are suffering as a result of the on-going Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, as Palestinians respond to Israeli lethal strikes by launching homemade rockets, targeting numerous Israeli settlements and cities. According to Jordan’s Addustour newspaper, tourism is the most impacted sector, including flights, because major ...
Read More »Zionist entity accepts truce proposal, resistance rejects, vows no surrender
As the Zionist entity accepted an Egyptian ceasefire proposal, the Palestinian resistance rejected it, vowing to intensify the battle with the enemy. Israeli security cabinet on Tuesday accepted the Egyption proposal proposal, a government spokesman said. “The cabinet has decided to accept the Egyptian initiative for a ceasefire starting 9am ...
Read More »‘Israel under renewed Hamas attack’, says the BBC. More balance is needed
The macabre truth is that Israeli life is deemed by the western media to be worth more than a Palestinian life – this is the hierarchy of death at work “Israel under renewed Hamas attack”: this was last night’s BBC headlineon the escalating bloodshed in Gaza. It is as perverse as ...
Read More »The role of oil and gas in the Syrian conflict
With the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and al-Nusra Front in control of several oil fields in Syria, the two radical Islamist groups entered the “oil exporters’ club,” with Western enablement. This, in addition to the closely anticipated hydrocarbon discoveries in Syria’s territorial waters and other pertinent developments, ...
Read More »Israeli court orders house arrest for brutally beaten US-Palestinian teen
A Jerusalem court ordered Sunday that a Palestinian-American teenager, who was severely beaten in police custody, be released to house arrest for nine days pending an investigation into stone-throwing allegations. Tareq Abu Khudair, 15, who holds US citizenship and lives in Florida, is a cousin of Mohammed Abu Khudair, a ...
Read More »The searing hypocrisy of the West
The bodies of three Israeli settlers who went missing on June 12th were found in a hastily dug shallow grave in Halhul, north of Hebron. Since the teens went missing from Gush Etzion, a Jewish-only colony in the West Bank, Israel has besieged the 4 million Palestinians who already live ...
Read More »Israel threatens to “eradicate” Hamas after missing settlers found dead
Israel on Monday confirmed finding the bodies of three settlers who disappeared in the occupied southern West Bank on June 12, blaming Hamas for their kidnapping and murder despite showing any evidence that the Islamist movement was behind it. “During the search for Eyal Ifrach, Gilad Shaer and Naftali Frankel, ...
Read More »One Palestinian child has been killed by Israel every 3 days for the past 13 years
Official statistics from the Ministry of Information in Ramallah have revealed that 1,518 Palestinian children were killed by Israel’s occupation forces from the outbreak of the second Intifada in September 2000 up to April 2013. That’s the equivalent of one Palestinian child killed by Israel every 3 days for almost ...
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