Archives: Israel/ Palestine

Israel to uproot 100k Palestinians by Annexing their Land

TeleSur | - - The move would hurt Palestine's aspirations of statehood. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has backed legislation that would lead to the annexation of nearly 19 Palestinian settlements and…

Israel to close off Palestinian West Bank, Gaza for 11-day Jewish holiday

Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli authorities will completely seal off the occupied West Bank and besieged Gaza Strip for 11 consecutive days over the Jewish holiday of…

Israel threatens Bedouin communities with Forced Relocation

Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces have notified residents of the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar that they are at risk of imminent forcible transfer from their…

Israeli Right Wing Faction Announces a Plan for Ethnic Cleansing

By Ian Berman. | (Informed Comment) | - - - Essentially an offer that says ‘Get Out or We Will Make Your Life a Living Hell, or Worse.’ The Platform Provides 3…

Hamas pledges to dissolve Gaza administration, hold elections

Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Hamas, the de facto ruling party of the Gaza Strip, has pledged to dissolve its administrative committee that runs the besieged coastal enclave…

UN to name Companies linked to W. Bank Settlements

Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- The United Nations Human Rights Council reportedly plans to go ahead with the publication of a list of companies operating in illegal Israeli…

Israel’s Sara Netanyahu Faces Possible Indictment for Fraud

TeleSur | - - The announcement comes as the legal heat is turning up for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself, for cases of bribery and fraud. Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Israeli…

Gaza: Over 1 million children in ‘unlivable’ circumstances

By Jonathan Fenton-Harvey | (Informed Comment) | - - Over a million children in Gaza are living in impoverished circumstances due to electricity shortages, causing problems for public health and education, warned…

Kushner tells Abbas Israeli Squatter Expansion can’t be stopped b/c Netanyahu Gov’t would Fall

IMEMC News | - - The U.S. delegation led by Kushner expressed openness to the two-state solution while refusing to commit to the 1967 borders, according to diplomatic sources who spoke to…

Israel argues confiscation of occupied land benefits Palestinians

Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- The Israeli government defended the legality of the outpost “Regularization law” at the Israeli Supreme Court on Monday, and said that the expropriation…

Racist Israeli Youth attack Israeli Soldiers, shouting “You are Arabs!”

Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) --Two Israeli soldiers were attacked on Friday night in a public park in the town of Pardes Hanna-Karkur, south of Haifa in northern Israel,…

Israel to Impose Fines for Commemoration of Nakba (Palestinian Defeat)

IMEMC | - - Israeli occupation authorities are prepared to impose massive fines on Palestinians who commemorate the Israeli occupation of Palestine, a report revealed on Tuesday. An Arab member of the…

Are Corruption Charges brewing against Israeli PM Netanyahu?

TeleSur | - - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under growing legal pressure as investigators appear to be focusing on his role in a series of high-profile cases, which a national…

Illegal Israeli Squatters’ Activities in Palestinian W Bank Tripled in 2017

TeleSur | - - Israeli occupation authorities have escalated the illegal plunder of land belonging to the Palestinian people, defying international opinion. Israeli illegal settlement activities in Occupied Palestine have skyrocketed in…

Extremist Israeli Squatters literally kick Palestinians out of Home, Move In

Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Almost one week after dozens of extremist Israeli settlers raided and occupied a Palestinian home in the southern occupied West Bank city of…

Is Electricity a Right, even for Palestinians of Gaza? Israel’s Obligations

By Julie Webb-Pullman. | (TeleSur) | - - The bowing of Israeli occupation authorities to the request of the Palestinian Authority to further reduce energy supplies does not exonerate them. Israel is…