Havana, Cuba — AFP Thousands of miles from Gaza, medical student Samar Alghoul is supposed to be living her dream in Cuba, where she and hundreds of other Palestinians have been given the opportunity to study for free. But, like the Palestinian diaspora all around the world, she is ridden with anxiety watching the decimation […]
Occupied Palestinian Territories- AFP Eight Israeli soldiers were killed in a blast in southern Gaza Saturday, the military said, in one of its heaviest losses of the war, as witnesses reported street battles between occupying troops and the Palestinian resistance. The military said the IDF soldiers were killed when the Namer armoured vehicle ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Fourteen Palestinians, including at least one baby, were killed and many others injured on Saturday in an Israeli army airstrike targeting homes in eastern Gaza City, Wafa news agency reported. Israeli warplanes targeted three homes in the Al-Tuffah and Al-Shujaiya neighborhoods in Gaza City, resulting in the ...
Makkah, Saudi Arabia — AFP Months after losing her husband and children in the horrors of the Gaza war, Douaa al-Massarii is doing her best to find peace in the annual Islamic pilgrimage- the Hajj. The 33-year-old Palestinian, who has been living as a refugee in Egypt since February, is happy to now find herself […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US Department of State has imposed sanctions on a radical Israeli group for disrupting humanitarian aid to the civilians in the Gaza Strip. “The Department of State is today designating Tzav 9, a violent extremist Israeli group that has been blocking, harassing, and damaging convoys carrying lifesaving humanit...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The language and narrative used in the Western media’s coverage of Palestine over the years has been an effort to legitimize Israel’s crimes, says Ali Abunimah, a renowned Palestinian-American journalist. The founder of the Electronic Intifada website, Abunimah said that the mainstream media’s use of passive language conceals I...
The Columbia Law Review (CLR) has been reinstated online following a controversy over the censorship of an article discussing Palestine. CLR’s board had taken the journal offline in response to the publication of the article titled “Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept.” The board expressed concerns about the publication process. But student editor...
JENIN, Palestine (AA) – With raw emotion and tears, Palestinian child Rafif Abed expressed a heartfelt desire to keep the keys to her family’s home destroyed by Israeli forces in the West Bank town of Kafr Dan as a cherished memento. This tradition mirrors the actions of her ancestors, who were forcibly displaced in 1948 […]
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – The South African government will provide 50 million Rand (approximately $2.7 million) in humanitarian aid to Gaza, Justice Minister Ronald Lamola announced at a conference in Jordan. “In addition to our International Court of Justice (ICJ) case, our government has approved a contribution of 50 million Rand for ...
ANKARA (AA) – Hundreds of illegal Israeli settlers forced their way into the sacred Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem to mark a Jewish holiday. The settlers performed Talmudic rituals at the complex to mark Shavuot, also known as the Feast of Weeks. Local sources estimated that hundreds of settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mos...
