Petra | Nov 25, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — HRH Prince Hassan, president of the Arab Thought Forum (ATF), on Monday called for launching an initiative to safeguard Jerusalem. At the opening of a conference on Islamic and Christian waqfs in Jerusalem, Prince Hassan urged Arabs to support Palestinian […]
JEDDAH: IRFAN MOHAMMED ARABNEWS Published — Monday 25 November 2013 Saudi Arabia has exempted Palestinian and Burmese nationals who are found to be in violation of the new labor laws […]
wissinfo.ch and agencies November 21, 2013 – 11:03 Swiss diplomat Pierre Krähenbühl has been appointed commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near […]
by Robert Fisk, The Independent I never much cared for Yasser Arafat. It wasn’t the scrubby beard or the protruding eyes or the fact that he’d done away with a few of his chums or even the way he once forbad a photographer friend from taking a picture of his […]
In an age in which reading or watching the news is enough to turn any normal human being into a raging lunatic or a hardened cynic, the smallest piece of […]
Once again, the fate of Gaza is gaining importance as the failure of Palestinian reconciliation, coupled with the deep rift between Hamas and the new Egyptian rulers, is being felt […]
GAZA, — Children waded through sewage submerging the streets of a central Gaza neighbourhood on Thursday, a day after one of the blockaded Palestinian enclave’s largest waste water treatment plants […]
JERUSALEM: A Palestinian teenager stabbed an Israeli soldier to death at a bus station in northern Israel on Wednesday, police said, in a rare nationalistic attack far from the usual […]
Israel braces for reaction to proposed law that would allow Jews to pray in the grounds of Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque. by Khalid Amayreh Al Jazeera Occupied East Jerusalem – […]
By Crispian Balmer and Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) – Hours after Israeli special forces killed Mohammed Assi in a shootout last month in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad both tried to cloak themselves in his legacy. Underscoring their shared Islamist credentials, the two […]
The Palestinian Minister of Health in Gaza, Dr Mufid Al-Mukhalalati, has warned that frequent power outages could result in a humanitarian catastrophe claiming the lives of Palestinian patients in Gaza. […]
The IMEU, Nov 6, 2013 On November 6, several news outlets reported that the widow of former Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat announced that the results of a Swiss investigation into her late husband’s death concluded he was poisoned with polonium, a radioactive substance. In November 2012, Arafat’s […]
Source: BBC The late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may have been poisoned with radioactive polonium, says a Swiss forensic report obtained by al-Jazeera. Arafat’s official medical records say he died in 2004 from a stroke resulting from a blood disorder. But his body was exhumed last year amid continuing claims […]
Paris, France – Swiss scientists who conducted tests on samples taken from Yasser Arafat’s body have found at least 18 times the normal levels of radioactive polonium in his remains. The scientists said that they were confident up to an 83 percent level that the late Palestinian leader was poisoned […]
Move to demolish hundreds of Arab apartments ‘destroying every chance of peace’, says Fatah Ben Lynfield Jerusalem Israel is planning to destroy hundreds of Palestinian apartments in occupied East Jerusalem […]
A Swiss laboratory investigating the death of Yasser Arafat, the late leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, has submitted the results to the Palestinian Authority (PA). On Tuesday, the Swiss […]
Columns, Chris Hedges TRUTHDIG Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war. It has been morally bankrupted by the sanctification of victimhood, which it uses to justify an occupation that rivals the brutality and racism of apartheid South Africa. Its democracy—which was always exclusively for Jews—has been hijacked […]
Associated Press The UN’s expert on human rights in the Palestinian territories said that if renewed peace talks fail, the General Assembly should seek an opinion from the International Court […]
Al Qassam website – The Islamic-Christian Commission for the support of Jerusalem and holy sites warned on Tuesday of the occupation authority’s intention to organize a large Jewish festival in […]