Hundreds attend funeral of 17 Palestinians from Hebron National News Related Articles IOF break into Bethlehem, violent clashes break out PNN/Hebron This Saturday afternoon hundreds of people are gathering together in Hebron for the funeral of 17 Palestinians whose bodies were returned to their families yesterday by the Israeli occupation forces. […]
Source: AFP and Yahoo News January 2, 2016 The Vatican signed the accord in June, just over two years after the Roman Catholic Church recognised the Palestinian territories as a sovereign state […]
Ban against praying JewIsh activist overturned by court, police reprimanded Published: 16:03 December 29, 2015 Nasouh Nazzal, Correspondent Ramallah: An Israeli court has granted permission for Jews to pray and perform Jewish rituals during their incursions into Al Haram Al Sharif in occupied East Jerusalem. The occupation forces’ Jerusalem District […]
By AFP – Dec 28,2015 – JORDAN TIMES A Palestinian female protester covers her face as she walks past burning tyres during confrontations with Israeli forces near the Ofer Israeli military prison, located near the West Bank town of Betunia, on Friday following a march by young Palestinians (AFP photo) […]
PNN/Jerusalem On Saturday morning, the Israeli occupation forces shot dead a Palestinian man near the Israeli Municipality building in Jerusalem for allegedly trying to stab an Israeli policeman, the Israeli media said. Israeli sources claimed that the young man took out a knife in his possession and tried to stab […]
© AP Photo/ Adel Hana POLITIC28.12.2015 The Palestinian authorities are set to meet in the coming days to discuss the state of its relations with Tel Aviv amid the recent escalation of the long-standing conflict, Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) chief Saeb Erekat said. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The PLO chief ruled out the […]
DEC. 23, 2015 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution demanding Palestinian sovereignty over natural resources under Israeli occupation.The draft solution, “Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian […]
DEC. 18, 2015 maannews.com Clashes in Bethlehem, October 2015. (MaanImages/Frederik Kaare-Andersen,File) NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Friday shot and injured at least 78 Palestinians, two critically, when clashes broke out across the occupied Palestinian territory for the second day in a row.Medical sources told Ma’an that a Palestinian […]
Dec 24,2015 -JORDAN TIMES – DAOUD KUTTAB The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) puts out a monthly report about the life condition in the occupied Palestinian territories. In its latest report, OCHA stated that a record number of Palestinians from Gaza seek Israeli exit permits for […]
Source: RT.com The Greek parliament has unanimously voted to recognize Palestine as an independent state. It comes amid an official visit to Greece by the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. The […]
Source: Sputnik International 21.05.2015; it is an old news Athens plans to hold parliament voting on recognition of the State of Palestine because the new Greek government does not want […]
Dec 20,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL According to a recent survey conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research, two-thirds of Palestinians surveyed support the wave of knife stabbings of Israelis and view an armed Intifada as “serving the Palestinian national interests in ways that negotiations would […]
Palestinian families hope for justice at ICC A group of cases related to Israel’s 2014 war on Gaza were recently submitted to the International Criminal Court. Creede Newton | 18 […]
Four year-old Ahmed Dawabsha receives a visit from his maternal grandmother, Fakira, at the Tel Hashomer hospital on December 5, 2015, in Ramat Gan near the coastal Israeli city of Tel Aviv, where he is being treated for burns after his family house was firebombed by Jewish extremists on July […]
Source: The Washington Post JERUSALEM — Lynne Hybels is revered for her work helping the impoverished around the world, but some people view her as dangerous. Hybels, cofounder with her […]
By JT – Dec 12,2015 – JORDAN TIMES University of Jordan President Ekhleif Tarawneh speaks at a meeting organised by the Jerusalem Endowment Fund in Amman on Friday (Petra photo) AMMAN — Attendees of the Jerusalem Endowment Fund’s meeting held in Amman on Friday called for unifying efforts and […]
Dec 10,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – George S. Hishmeh The Arab world, especially the Palestinians, ought to start thinking about a new interlocutor if they want a peace treaty with Israel. US administrations, whether run by Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, the likely winner of next year’s presidential election, are disappointingly […]
Dec 08,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMZI BAROUD When Egypt decided to open the Rafah border crossing that separates it from Gaza for two days, December 3 and 4, a sense of guarded relief was felt in the impoverished strip. True, 48 hours were hardly enough for the tens of thousands of […]
Source: MSN.com By John Perry and Joseph Federman for Associated Press JERUSALEM — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry set off an uproar in Israel on Sunday after warning that […]
By AFP – Dec 06,2015 – JORDAN TIMES A Palestinian protester holds a national flag during confrontations with Israeli forces along the border with Israel in the eastern suburbs of […]