OCT. 4, 2016 Israeli security forces tend to an injured soldier next to the body of a slain Palestinian in the southern occupied West Bank on Oct. 16, 2015. (AFP/Hazem Bader, File) By: Chloe Benoist BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — In October 2015 began what has been in turn called a wave […]
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 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 […]
Rising infant mortality rate in Gaza ‘shocking indicator of grim situation’ By AFP – Sep 06,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinian boy sits in the living room of his family house following Israeli artillery shelling in town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday (AP photo) GENEVA […]
RAMALLAH, July 5, 2016 (WAFA) – PLO Executive Member Hanan Ashrawi Tuesday strongly denounced Israel’s plan to expand three illegal Israeli settlements around the Jerusalem area, by building hundreds of residential units to accommodate more Israeli settlers. She said in a press release, “We strongly denounce plans by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […]
Jul 02,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MUSA KEILANI The Jerusalem Day was celebrated this weekend in many Arab and Muslim capitals by street demonstrations and public events reminding heads of states of their duty towards the Holy City. For the last 36 years, the last Friday of the fasting month […]
Resistance against occupation continues Agencies | Published — Saturday 2 July 2016 In this file photo, Palestinian schoolgirls walk with a donkey as the West Bank Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim, near Jerusalem, is seen in the background. (Reuters) RAMALLAH: The Israeli military says an Israeli was killed and three […]
Israel deliberately denies Palestinians control over their water sources and sets the ground for water domination. Camilla Corradin Since Israel took over the West Bank in 1967, Israel has remained in near full control over Palestinian water resources in the West Bank [Ibrahim Khatib/Getty Images] Occupied West Bank – As […]
Jun 09,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – George S. Hishmeh The French-sponsored conference that was attended by senior representatives of 26 countries, including senior French and American officials, has failed to outline the next step towards reaching the two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict now approaching 50 years. This disappointing outcome underlines the […]
Source: Times Of Israel BY RAPHAEL AHREN MOSCOW – Israeli minister Uri Ariel proposed removing “a few thousand Arabs” from Area C of the West Bank –– the 60% of […]
AFP | Published — Tuesday 24 May 2016 Israeli soldiers and police gather around the body of a Palestinian (front) who was allegedly shot in head by an Israeli soldier in West Bank town of Hebron, in this March 24, 2016 photo. (AFP) JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]
By AFP – May 15,2016 – An Israeli soldier asks a protester with a Palestinian flag to go further during confrontations following a rally to commemorate the ‘Nakbeh’ or ‘catastrophe’ in Arabic in reference to the creation of Israel in 1948 on Palestinian land on Sunday in the […]
Source: BBC Israel says the suspects tried to copy an arson attack that killed three Palestinians last year Israel’s security agency says it has arrested six West Bank settlers who […]
By Reuters – Apr 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinian children gather in a playground during a celebration for Palestinian Child Day, in the West Bank town of Salfit on Tuesday (AP photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — A far-right Israeli politician has been admonished by his party and roundly condemned by […]
PNN/ Jerusalem/ The chief of the Yisrael Beytenu right-wing party, Avigdor Liberman, has requested to visit the Israeli soldier who executed a wounded Palestinian in Hebron on Thursday. According to […]
Mar 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMZI BAROUD Condemnations of the boycott of Israel seem to have fallen on deaf ears. Calls from Western governments, originating from the UK, the US, Canada and others, to criminalise the boycott of Israel have hardly slowed down the momentum of the pro-Palestinian boycott, […]
DR RAMZY BAROUD says that the present struggle against apartheid in Palestine is not merely similar to that of South Africa. Both struggles are extensions of the same movement, the same fight for freedom, and, in fact, against the same enemy. After concluding a talk in Durban, South Africa a […]
Feb 25,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – George S. Hishmeh As expected, the current front runners in the American presidential elections, much as the leaders in the Middle East, are missing the boat as they voice their mediocre views on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that started in 1948 when the British mandate ended. […]
By AFP – Feb 11,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinians check the rubble of their house after it was demolished by Israeli authorities on Wednesday in the West Bank village of Jeftlek, in the Jordan Valley near Jericho. Israel often demolishes buildings constructed without the required Israeli permits in Area […]
By AP – Jan 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Israeli soldiers stand around near the scene where a Palestinian was shot dead in the West Bank village of Aseera Ashamaliya near Nablus, on Thursday (Reuters photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israelis troops on Thursday killed two Palestinians who attacked soldiers with knives […]