OCT. 23, 2016 5:35 P.M. (UPDATED: OCT. 24, 2016 A bulldozer is seen next to a new housing construction site in the Israeli settlement of Har Homa in East Jerusalem on March 19, 2014. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli, File) TUBAS (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities ordered settlers to stop construction on a new […]
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 […]
Mar 21,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL The minister of awqaf and Islamic affairs stressed on Sunday that 55 surveillance cameras will be installed in and around Al Haram Al Sharif compound, which houses Al Aqsa Mosque, in East Jerusalem, to record Israeli violations and excesses against the Islamic holy sites. […]
By Reuters – Mar 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel has appropriated large tracts of land in the occupied West Bank near the Dead Sea and the Palestinian city of Jericho, Israeli Army Radio said on Tuesday. Israel’s Peace Now movement, which tracks and opposes Israeli settlement […]
swissinfo.ch and agencies December 4, 2013 – 18:23 Israel’s policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territory have come under unusually hard-hitting attack by the President of the International Committee of the […]
Israel’s government needs to decide if it is ready to continue to endanger the country’s future for the sake of continuing the occupation. Haaretz Editorial | Jul. 17, 2013 | The European Union recently issued a directive stipulating that agreements between Israel and EU member countries will not apply beyond […]
AFP | Jul 17, 2013 | 00:24 Updated: Jul 17, 2013 | OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israeli officials on Tuesday lashed out at the EU over guidelines barring its 28 member […]
By Christoph Sydow SPIEGEL.DE Officially, the European Union views Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories as illegal. But that hasn’t stopped the EU from doing booming trade with the outposts. […]
BY: JOSEF FEDERMAN | AP Monday 24 September 2012 JERUSALEM: Israel’s defense minister called for a unilateral pullout from much of the West Bank in published comments Monday, saying Israel must take “practical steps” if peace efforts with the Palestinians remain stalled. The comments by Defense Minister Ehud Barak appeared […]
According to a recently published report by an Israeli judge, Israel is not occupying the Palestinian territories. Does international law have any bearing on this report? Is the government simply preparing the legal ground to annex Area C of the West Bank? And how do these occupation-deniers explain their findings? […]
Israel’s timing was predicable. With the world’s gaze focused on the horrors in Syria and the Obama administration increasingly diverted by November’s presidential election, it chose this week to declare “legal” three fortified West Bank settlements which had been originally been erected by fanatical Zionists in contravention of their country’s […]
Record Number of Palestinians Displaced by Unlawful Demolitions Amnesty International, one member of a 20 member strong coalition of major international humanitarian and human rights organizations that work in Israel […]