October 5, 2016 View photos Palestinians show their solidarity with a Gaza-bound flotilla of international activists attempting to break the Israeli blockade on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, on October 5, 2016 at the port in Gaza City (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed) More Jerusalem (AFP) – Israel’s navy on Wednesday intercepted an […]
OCT. 2, 2016 10: Palestinians walk through the Erez border crossing with Israel in the northern Gaza Strip as they cross into Gaza, on June 09, 2010. (Mahmud Hams-AFP-Getty Images) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities announced Saturday evening that a general closure would be imposed on all passage between the […]
AFP | Published — Sunday 2 October 2016 This file photo taken on September 7, 2016 shows Israeli children play outside their home in the wildcat Amona settlement, northeast of the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the Israeli occupied West Bank. (AFP) Jerusalem: Israel has approved the construction of […]
Oct 01,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Musa Keilani For Arabs, Peres, who passed away last week, did not leave a legacy as a man of peace. In the case of the Palestinians, he was the first Israeli official to endorse building settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Being guided by the […]
Protesters call for turning off lights to show rejection of agreement By Suzanna Goussous – Oct 01,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Protesters demonstrate against the gas deal with Israel in downtown Amman on Friday (Photo by Osama Aqarbeh) AMMAN — Activists across the Kingdom have organised protests and marches […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor American and Israeli Jews have much more than an ocean dividing them. Four out of five Jews in the world live […]
Source: Time By Kevin Freking/Associated Press JERUSALEM — President Barack Obama hailed Shimon Peres Friday as a man who showed the world that justice and hope are at the heart of the Zionist ideal and saw “all people as deserving of dignity and respect.” Wearing a Jewish skullcap as a sign […]
SEPT. 24, 2016 – maan news agency (File) RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — More than 1,000 Palestinian minors have been detained by Israeli forces since the beginning of the year, the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs said on Saturday, in a reported increase from 2015.The Committee said that at least 1,000 Palestinian […]
Peres said the massacre came as a ‘bitter surprise’. It was a lie: the UN had repeatedly told Israel the camp was packed with refugees Robert Fisk @indyvoices The Israeli politician has died at 93, two weeks after suffering a major stroke AP When the world heard that Shimon Peres […]
SEPT. 28, 2016 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Two Palestinian families in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina were forced to demolish their own homes for being built without licenses on Wednesday, in order to avoid the expensive demolition fines imposed by the Jerusalem municipality when its employees carry out […]
Source: Time By Karl Vick The lifetime of Shimon Peres, who died Tuesday at age 93 after suffering a stroke on Sept. 13, spans the lifetime of the state of Israel. […]
Shimon Peres stands alongside David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Rabin in the upper echelons of statesmen that dominated Israeli politics both before and after the establishment of Israel in 1948. Peres, the son of a Polish émigré who moved to Tel Aviv in 1932, was intimately involved in conflicts as far […]
SEPT. 26, 2016 GAZA (Ma’an) — Israeli forces have prevented a Palestinian woman from leaving the blockaded Gaza Strip through the Erez crossing for a medical exam at Israel’s Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Tel Aviv.According to statement from the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PHCR) released Monday, 52-year […]
SEPT. 27, 2016 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities carried out a large number of demolitions in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank on Tuesday, destroying two family apartment buildings, a classroom, a restaurant, four water cisterns, and parts of a home in the latest instances of a policy which […]
By Raed Omari – Sep 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The government-owned National Electric Power Company (NEPCO) on Monday signed an agreement with Noble Energy under which the latter will provide 40 per cent of the Kingdom’s electricity-generating needs. In remarks to The Jordan Times on Monday, NEPCO […]
Source: Times of Israel “Mr. Trump acknowledged that Jerusalem has been the eternal capital of the Jewish People for over 3,000 years, and that the United States, under a Trump administration, will finally accept the long-standing Congressional mandate to recognize Jerusalem as the undivided capital of the State of Israel,” […]
By Reuters – Sep 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinian Malek Al Qadi, 20, who recently ended a 69-day hunger strike to protest his administrative detention by Israel, flashes victory signs after his release from an Israeli prison as he arrived for treatment in a hospital in the city of […]
Source: The Guardian By Hannah Ellis-Peterson Eight religious leaders brought their congregations together for eight days in one room. It was a dangerous move In a small building in the […]
Source: JTA (JTA) — The Chief Rabbinate of Israel rejected four conversions approved by a prominent Orthodox American rabbi without providing explanations. The haredi Orthodox-dominated rabbinate rejected the conversions approved by Rabbi Gedalia […]
SEPT. 23, 2016 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 30, 2015 at the United Nations headquarters in New York. (AFP/Don Emmert, File) By: Chloe Benoist BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly became the scene […]