The Israeli Knesset approved, on Monday night, the âBreaking The Silenceâ bill, granting the Minister of Education the power to prevent peace activists from the organization âBreaking the Silenceâ from entering schools, or to talking to students about their organization. The approved bill passed with 43 Knesset members voting in […]
Last night, in Jerusalem, thousands of Israeli and Palestinian citizens came together in solidarity, to protest the enduring state of chaos and civil strife perpetuated by decades of violent military oppression imposed on the region. Yuli Novak, executive director of “Breaking the Silence,” a group of former Israeli soldiers who […]
BTSÂ official, 02/07/17: “Dear Friends, Last week we published a new report addressing the relations between settler and the IDF: âThe High Command â Settler influence on IDF conduct in the West Bank.â The report was written following a comprehensive research and in the context of the contentious public debate surrounding […]
Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran combatants who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada, and have taken it upon themselves to expose the Israeli public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories. They endeavor to stimulate public debate about the […]
A former soldier relates his experience with regard to the destruction of Palestinian olive trees while on patrol with the Israeli army. testimony catalog number: 314970 rank: Sergeant First Class unit: Reserves 455 Armored Corps area: Hebron area period: 2013 ‘Thereâs this term called âprice tag.â (A settler strategy of committing violent […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said rights group Breaking the Silence had âcrossed a red line’, following allegations that the group collected classified information from members of the Israeli military.The PM launched the allegation shortly after Israelâs Channel 2 aired an investigative report based on video footage obtained by undercover […]
Attendees of an Israeli Knesset Education Committee meeting, on Tuesday, called for the dismissal of former Foreign Ministry director Alon Liel, after the official criticized the Israeli right and supported efforts to end Israelâs ongoing military occupation.Liel, also a former Israeli ambassador to South Africa, initially came under fire in […]
Yisrael Beiteinu party leader, Avigdor Lieberman, on Friday, called Israeli human rights organizations BâTselem and Breaking the Silence ‘traitors’, stating that the groups were funded by the same people who finance Hamas.According to the PNN, the right-wing party leader said, in an Israeli Channel interview, on Friday, January 15, that: […]
The former head of Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence agency has publicly backed a group of former soldiers under fire for whistle blowing on alleged abuses by the Israeli army. Former Shin Bet head Major General Ami Ayalon and retired senior police official Elik Ron published an advert, in Haaretz, supporting […]
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said, on Tuesday, that he had banned Israeli veteran group Breaking the Silence from participating in any official activities with Israeli forces, Israeli media reported.Ya’alon’s statement was made on social media, where he called the left-wing veteran group hypocrites spreading ‘false propaganda’ against Israeli forces […]
Breaking the Silence, an organization of veteran Israeli soldiers, harshly slammed the Israeli army for its operational policy during last summerâs aggression on Gaza, saying it led to âimmense and unprecedented harm to the civilian population and infrastructures in the Gaza Strip,â Monday reported the Israeli daily Haaretz.According to WAFA, […]
Marking the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the Second Intifada, Breaking the Silence is due to publish a new text, ‘Occupation of the Territories – Israeli Soldier Testimonies 2000-2010’, which contains 180 testimonies from more than 100 male and female military personnel.The book, which will be launched on December […]
Israeli human rights group, Breaking the Silence, best known for publishing testimonials by current and former Israeli soldiers has been nominated by two European Green parties for the European Union’s Andrei Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.The Sakharov Award is given out annually to groups or individuals that exemplify a […]
The tour of Hebron and its settlements, organized by the organization ‘Breaking the Silence’ was once again disrupted by a group of settlers on Friday, 27 of June. ‘Breaking the Silence’ is an organization made of discharged Israeli soldiers who work to expose the reality of the occupation in the […]
Standing at 6'1, with strong build, a full beard, and long dark hair, Yehuda Shaul seems like an unassuming young man. Wearing dark cargo pants, and a long-sleeved blue shirt, he paces back and forth taking in the whole room. It's hard to notice at first but his blue velvet […]
Israel has intensified its crippling blockade of the Gaza Strip by closing the only crossing for commercial goods. Former Gaza health minister Dr. Basem Naim discusses the impact on a devastated health system and says that Palestinians will continue their weekly protests for freedom. TRNN video & transcript: AARON MATE:Â Itâs […]
Photo: Lara Khalidi On World Press Freedom Day 2018, the Journalist Support Committee held a conference in London on the âChallenges of Palestinian Journalistsâ living and working under occupation. Prominent journalists, media analysts and activists demanded British media institutions and agencies to break the silence and stand in solidarity with […]
06/22/16 | International Solidarity Movement | al-Khalil Team On July 21st 2016, Youth Against Settlements (YAS) organized an Iftar dinner and Jen Cox memorial in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron) with the attendance of several core solidarity organizations with the Palestinian people. Organizations such as Breaking the Silence, Christian Peacemaker Teams Palestine […]
by Yvonne Ridley It was the result that nobody predicted: the winner of Eurovision 2019 is⊠Palestine! Despite the organisers describing the Eurovision Song Contest as a non-political event, the issue of Palestine took back, front and centre stage in Tel Aviv over the weekend, which may make Israel come to regret its weaponisation of culture […]
On Sunday afternoon, a group of Israeli settlers from Kiryat Arba settlement near Hebron threw rocks at Palestinians driving on Road 60. Israeli soldiers and police watched the rock-throwing, but did not intervene. Israeli settlers from Kiryat Arba are known to be among the most extreme and violent of Israeli […]
[[Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran combatants who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada, and have taken it upon themselves to expose the Israeli public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories. They endeavor to stimulate public debate […]
Via BTS official: Dear friends and supporters, This year marked a jubilee since the founding of the settlement in Hebron. Throughout the past 50 years, thousands of soldiers were deployed in the city, us included. Being sent by Israeli governments to enforce the occupation in Hebron, we have become far […]
As Israel mows down protesters in Gaza with brutal military technology, Palestinians respond creatively, with kites and balloons. Shir Hever discusses the hidden rift within the Israeli military. Shir Hever is an economic researcher in the Alternative Information Center, a Palestinian-Israeli organization active in Jerusalem and Beit-Sahour. Researching the economic […]
Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran combatants who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada, and have taken it upon themselves to expose the Israeli public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories. They endeavor to stimulate public debate about the price […]
Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran combatants who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada, and have taken it upon themselves to expose the Israeli public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories. They endeavor to stimulate public debate about the price […]
Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran combatants who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada, and have taken it upon themselves to expose the Israeli public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories. They endeavor to stimulate public debate about the price […]
This is a long-standing policy used by Israeli occupation forces against Palestinians, says Max Blumenthal. Mabruk Jarrar, a 39-year-old schoolteacher, was savagely mauled by Israeli military dog during a raid on his home in the occupied West Bank. Here, he recounts his horrific experience. While Israeli occupation authorities insist that this […]
We must make our voices heard sharply and clearly, so that every person who served in the occupied territories will know that speaking out is not merely an option â it is a moral duty. By Avner Gvaryahu Like many who served alongside me, I preferred to remain silent. I […]
In his new book “Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom,” Norman Finkelstein argues that Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the UN Human Rights Council, and other defenders of international law have succumbed to Israel’s pressure and whitewashed its crimes in the Gaza Strip. Norman G. Finkelstein received his doctorate in 1988 […]
Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran combatants who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada, and have taken it upon themselves to expose the Israeli public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories. They endeavor to stimulate public debate about the price […]
by Nadia Hijab Protests around the world are planned against US president Donald Trumpâs decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israelâs capital. In so doing, Trump dispensed with such details as boundaries and borders – indeed with international law itself – and repeated the long hollowed-out US commitment to facilitate âa lasting peace agreement.â Given […]
Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran combatants who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada, and have taken it upon themselves to expose the Israeli public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories. They endeavor to stimulate public debate about the price […]
Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran combatants who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada, and have taken it upon themselves to expose the Israeli public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories. They endeavor to stimulate public debate about the price […]
In a statement issued over the weekend, UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre KrahenbĂŒhl marked 50 years of occupation of the Palestinian territory â the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza â and called on the international community to take action. The statement said that the 2014 conflict had a devastating psychosocial […]
“Breaking the Silence” is an organization of veteran combatants who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada and have taken it upon themselves to expose the Israeli public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories. Founded in March 2004 by a […]
Published by Telsur on Apr 11, 2017 Israelâs occupation of the West Bank is an internationally-recognized human rights crime — but those being impacted are harshly punished for not only acts of resistance, but even mere advocacy for their rights. Getting detailed facts about Israelâs imposition of Military Law in […]
Published by Telesur on October 6, 2016. In her first on-the-ground report from Palestine, Abby Martin gives a first-hand look into two of the most attacked refugee camps in the West Bank, the Balata and Aida camps. With millions of displaced Palestinians around the world, hundreds of thousands are refugees […]
American actor and humanitarian activist Richard Gere has described illegal Israeli settlements âan absurd provocation,â Haaretz reported on Sunday. In an interview with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Gere said: âObviously, this occupation is destroying everyone. There is no defense of this occupation.â About the illegal Israeli Jewish settlement in the […]
www.breakingthesilence.org.il testimony catalog number: 852350 unit: Judea Regional Brigade area: Hebron area period: 2012 “We went to Umm al-Khair, which is right up next to [the settlement of] Carmel. We went there for a demolition. We demolished a shed or two in there. You get an order about what to […]
The foreign ministry of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Sunday, demanded the arrest of a Jewish Rabbi, who called on Israeli settlers to poison water used by Palestinians in hundreds of towns and villages across the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian national office for the defense of land and resistance of […]
Agricultural lands located behind the apartheid wall in Qalqilia, were set on fire late Sunday night due to the firing of flares by Israeli forces, according to WAFA security sources. Dozens of olive trees were reportedly engulfed in flames after Israeli forces fired light flares over agricultural lands in Qaliqilia. […]
An Israeli settler attacked a Palestinian child with a vehicle on Thursday, causing moderate injuries. The child, Alaa Ghaleb al-Rajabi, 16, was transported to a local hospital (al-Ahli hospital) and is in stable condition, according to medical sources. The attack took place near the Ibrahimi mosque in central Hebron, an […]
US President Barack Obama reportedly has intentions to sign a trade agreement which includes provisions that fail to differentiate between Israel and illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, as well as discourage the boycott of Israeli goods.The US government opposes the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, […]
Israeli ministers have voted in favour of a bill that will crack down on human rights groups receiving funds from abroad, a move EU officials have said is reminiscent of totalitarian regimes.Opponents say the bill unfairly targets leftwing organizations critical of government policy, leaving rightwing pro-settlement groups immune from the […]
Amnesty International: ‘Strong evidence’ that Israel committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity. ‘Nobody can claim that they don’t know what happened on Friday the 1st of August. We are closer now to justice than we were before.’Israeli troops committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity during and […]
âWe prepare the suhoor. We all sit around five dishes: white cheese, hummus, orange jam, yellow cheese, and olives. Darkness eats with us. Fear and anxiety eat with us. The unknown eats with us. The F16 eats with us. The drone, and its operator somewhere out in Israel, eat with […]
Shocking words from Israeli officials’ and soldier testimonies of criminality reinforce immediate need for arms embargo and other sanctions, says the IPSC.According to the PNN, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign has distributed a new briefing paper to members of the Irish Parliament, members of the European Parliament and members of local […]
15 Palestinian family in the Gaza Strip reported the disappearance of their sons in the summer-long Israeli offensive on the region which took place in 2014, the International Red Cross spokeswoman said on Wednesday.According to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, Sohair Zaqout said, in a press statement, that the Red […]
An Israeli soldier has said that he and his colleagues bombed civilian in Gaza Strip during last year’s Israeli offensive âfor entertainmentâ.In an interview conducted on Tuesday with a 20-year-old Israeli soldier named Arieh, he said: âI was called to service early on July 2014 and was deployed to the […]
Israeli forces may have committed ‘grave violations’ of the international laws of warfare during last summer’s bloody Gaza conflict, according to the accounts of soldiers who fought in it.A collection of harrowing testimonies published on Monday by Breaking the Silence, an NGO run by former Israeli soldiers, describes lax rules […]
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) on Tuesday denied a false allegation made against it by former head of the Israeli army over an alleged incident which occurred during the 2014 summer Israeli aggression on Gaza.According to WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency, the organization stressed that the […]
An Israeli soldier has published accounts of Israeli soldiers being authorized by their commanders to carry out revenge attacks against civilians in the Gaza Strip âto enable the soldiers to take out their frustrations and pain at losing their fellow soldiersâ.Eran Efrati reports, âSoldiers in two different units inside Gaza […]
It has been one more day without water or electricity in Gaza as Israeli soldiers continue their attacks. Since the attacks began more than two weeks ago, Israel has killed 865 Palestinians. Many have been slaughtered inside their homes or schools run by the United Nations. Nowhere is safe. âRami, […]
A number of human rights organization have called, in an official letter, upon the Israeli security and military commanders in the West Bank to refrain from collectively punishing the civilian Palestinian population in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as part of the âOperation Brotherâs Keeper,â BâTselem said in […]
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon gave his approval to the establishment of a new Jewish-only settlement in the heart of the Palestinian city of Hebron, and several families moved in, on Sunday, with the assistance of a military phalanx which paraded the settlers through the city and established them in […]
On Saturday, masked Israeli settlers were caught on camera shaking hands with Israeli border guards stationed in the village of Umm al-Amad, south of Hebron, then proceeded to harass a group of Palestinian cattle herders while the border guards stood by and watched without intervening.A spokesperson for the border guard […]
In response to Monday’s attack by a group of Israelis on a Palestinian woman in Jerusalem, Israeli police officer Ariel Shapiro posted on his Facebook page, âGood! It’s a shame the Arab whore didn’t die [in the attack]â.The attack took place as the Palestinian woman waited at a light rail […]
Rifat Kassis is the director of Defence for Children International-Palestine Section. In 2010, I interviewed Kassis about about his organizationâs work and the special situation of Palestinian children growing up under occupation. I interviewed him again this week on the Israeli soldiersâ confessions about the mistreatment of Palestinian children, published […]
In 2007, Israeli soldiers arrested 13-year-old Majid Jaradat for throwing stones during a demonstration in Sair village, near Hebron. Majed spoke about the violence of his arrest and detention in a video produced by Israeli rights organization Bâtselem.But this was no isolated case. Many more such incidents are reported in […]
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file || 3 m 42s || 3.39 MB || Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday February 1st, 2012. Israel is named as the second most educated country in the world, and the […]
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file|| 5 m 0s ||4.60 MB || Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, December 14th 2010. The Jerusalem Post said on Monday that the US Congress warned the Palestinian Authority to resume […]
About 10,000 people marched in Tel Aviv, on Friday, on the International Human Rights Day, reports have stated. Marchers gathered in Tel Aviv, at Habima Theater, on Friday morning to protest against the growing racist sentiment in Israel which, they warned, is posing a dangerous threat to Israeli democracy. The […]
NGO Monitor has launched a campaign targeting a Dutch foundation’s financial support to The Electronic Intifada, accusing the publication among other things of ‘anti-Semitism.’ NGO Monitor is an extreme right-wing group with close ties to the Israeli government, military, West Bank settlers, a man convicted of misleading the US Congress, […]
Click on Link to download or play MP3 file|| 6 m 05s || 5.57 MB || Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org for Tuesday, October 12, 2010. Settlement construction continues in the West Bank; New Israeli citizenship law requiring non-Jews to pledge […]
Ethan Bronner is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. As such, he is the editor responsible for all the news coming out of Israel-Palestine. It is his job to decide what gets reported and what doesnât; what goes in a story and what gets cut. To a considerable degree, […]
…Somehow, a female combatant has to prove herself more, on the ground too. Again, a female combatant who can lash out is a serious fighter. Capable. A ball-breaker. There was one with me when I got there, sheâd been there long before, she was â wow, everyone talked about what […]
The British Consulate in Israel reported on Thursday that a group of Israeli settlers attacked a delegation of British diplomats who were visiting the southern West Bank city of Hebron. No injuries were reported as the diplomats toured the city in an armored vehicle. During the attack, one of the […]
"Everyone there feels like they are doing something wrong. At least my friends felt they were doing something wrong." This was the opening sentence in a pamphlet over 100 pages long, which tells the stories of dozens of soldiers who have served in Hebron over the last few years. The […]
On Sunday, there were no US flags and lots of Israeli flags in a "street fair" dubbed "Ben Yehuda, Jerusalem Street fair" in Teaneck, NJ. I came a bit early and strolled through the few booths selling Israeli products and Zionist ideas (no mention that Jerusalem is illegally occupied per […]
An Israeli source reported that an extremist settlers group attacked Israeli peace activists, members of Merez Israeli leftist group while touring Hebron. In Qalqilia settlers raided Palestinian olive orchards and stole, picked and stole the olives. Several settlers verbally and physically attacked the group as it arrived at an illegal […]
Israeli soldiers arrested an Israeli paramedic after he distributed fruits and sweets on several detainees in an Israeli prison; the medic was punished by seven days imprisonment and will be transferred to another prison. The Israeli online daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported that the Israeli security rejected a request by the […]
Ă¹ùâÂŹĂ âMilitary doctors gave medics lessons in anatomy using the bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces.Ă¹ùâÂŹĂ A Soldier testified to Ă¹ùâÂŹĂ âBreaking the SilenceĂ¹ùâÂŹĂ organization.ĂâĂ ĂâĂ The Breaking the Silence organization has collected new testimony from Israel army soldiers on harsh actions carried out during the course of the fighting in the […]
Organizers of ‘Breaking the Silence’ exhibition distributed to the press this week a new collection of soldiers’ testimonies, reporting incidents in which officers and soldiers knowingly broke army open-fire regulations. A group of released soldiers started breaking the Silence in June with a public exhibition. The group aims at placing […]
The Palestinian Prisonersâ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers killed, on Tuesday at dawn, a young Palestinian man after abducting him from his home, and repeatedly assaulting him. The PPS said undercover Israeli soldiers abducted Mohammad Zaghloul al-Khatib, 24, from his home in Beit Rima town, northwest of Ramallah, […]
by Zena Agha Overview In recent months, Israel has made a series of relentless attempts to annex settlements bordering Jerusalem. The most ambitious: The Greater Jerusalem bill, which sought to annex Maâale Adumim, Givat Zeev, Beitar Illit, and the Etzion bloc â a settlement cluster between Jerusalem and Hebron âand which was […]
More than 6,000 Palestinian children gathered at Central Square in Gaza City, on Sunday, to call on the world to urgently end the 11-year-old Israeli siege on the coastal enclave. These children, who have now fallen under three massive Israeli military offensives during the siege, called for the world to […]
by Loubna Qutami, for the Al Shabaka Palestinian Policy Network. Overview The past decade has seen major shifts in Palestinian and Palestine solidarity activism in the US. Many of these changes both inform and are caused by the explosion of awareness of the Palestinian struggle, which has long languished at the periphery […]
As the Al-Aqsa protests continue despite a deadly Israeli crackdown, writer Mariam Barghouti says Palestinians across the Occupied Territories “are reiterating their right to exist”. TRNN transctipt: AARON MATE: It’s The Real News. I’m Aaron Mate. Palestinians continue to protest Israeli restrictions in Jerusalem amid a deadly crackdown. Israeli forces […]
âWe, in Jerusalem, feel like we are completely on our own, facing ongoing Israeli violations, while some Arab governments are competing with each other on who is better in normalizing with Israel, while its soldiers are invading surgery rooms, attacking staff and patients, and are attempting to abduct wounded Palestinians, […]
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry issued a statement, Tuesday, strongly denouncing the Israeli armyâs execution of a former political prisoner, in front of his family in his home, and described the attack as a âstate-sponsored terrorism.â The Ministry said dozens of soldiers invaded the al-Farâa refugee camp, in Tubas, and terrorized […]
Updated: According to investigations by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), and the mother’s testimony, Fawziyah Mahmoud Khamis Salhi (67) said to PCHR’s fieldworker that at approximately 02:00 on the abovementioned day, Israeli forces moved into al-Far’ah refugee camp, south of Tubas. They surrounded the family house of Mohammed […]
40 UK towns and cities saw actions across the week, from Brighton to Bristol, Liverpool to Lewisham, Edinburgh to East London, Cardiff to Chester, and many places in between. During the International Week of Action on Hewlitt-Packard, it was revealed that the world’s largest security firm, G4S, had agreed to relinquish most […]
Israeli forces, on Tuesday, ransacked the Bethlehem headquarters of the districtâs Palestinian Authority-run committee for charitable work as well as a prisonersâ rights group office in Nablus, destroying and confiscating property.The treasurer of the Bethlehem charity, Mahmoud Khalifa, told Maâan News Agency that ‘occupation forces broke into the headquarters at […]
Sunday morning at dawn, Israeli soldiers raided the office of the International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC) and the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement (PCR). IMEMC is playing a pivotal role in conveying Palestinian news to an English-reading readership. At dawn on Sunday October 11, the office of the independent news […]
In a massive protest march, thousands of Palestinians marched Wednesday, to late Palestinian President Yasser Arafatâs square in Ramallah, to commemorate the 67th anniversary of the Nakba which befell the Palestinian people in 1948.The Nakba, an Arabic word for âcatastropheâ, is the term given to the forced displacement or expulsion […]
The farmers are rarely talked about. They blend into the background of the lands beyond the destroyed buildings of the towns. The reality is though, they are facing a battle themselves.9th November | International Solidarity Movement | Rina Andolini, Khuzaâa Many farmers have had their homes, and farmland attacked. Farm […]
When the Palestinian leadership won their upgrade to non-member observer status at the United Nations in November, plenty of sceptics on both sides of the divide questioned what practical benefits would accrue to the Palestinians. The doubters have not been silenced yet.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has done little to […]
A genuine will to have an understanding on what is going on with popular committees in Palestine naturally arose from observing the many challenges posed by the Occupation, and witnessing a not infrequent discontinuation of activities organized in the Bethlehem governorate, notably in Beit Jala and Al-Walajah. The need to […]
The Israeli Army reported Wednesday that the soldier who repeatedly shot a 65-year-old Palestinian man, while he slept in his bed on January 7th, has been exonerated, while the soldier who repeatedly shot the dead man was discharged without facing any charges. The attack took place in the southern West […]
Open letter, various undersigned, 27 December 2010 We the Palestinians of the besieged Gaza Strip, on this day, two years on from Israel’s genocidal attack on our families, our houses, our roads, our factories and our schools, are saying enough inaction, enough discussion, enough waiting — the time is now […]
(Hearklin, Crete, Tuesday, May 25, 2010) As Israel continues to insist it will stop the seven-ship international Freedom Flotilla, two more ships departed from Greece to Gaza today.FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A 2000 ton cargo ship and fifty-person passenger ship owned by the European Campaign Against the Siege of Gaza, and […]
Israeli Ynet news reported Thursday that Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, is planning to investigate a video tape showing the Palestinian Authorityâs head of bureau trying to solicit sexual relations, the report includes corruption and financial scandals. Yet, the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank still believes that the whole issue […]
As I walked into one of the largest food processing plants in the central Gaza Strip, the first thing I noticed were two workers lying idle in the ice-cream production area of the plant. I arrived during working hours, but all the machines were completely stopped. The factory was silent, […]
Some months ago I was invited to reflect on my journey as a child of Holocaust survivors. This journey continues and shall continue until the day I die. Though I cannot possibly say everything, it seems especially poignant that I should be addressing this topic at a time when the […]
In light of the escalating conflict between Israeli forces and the Lebanese resistance party Hezbollah, on top of the already heightened Israeli military aggression in the Gaza Strip, many prominent Palestinians are voicing their opinions about the situation. Palestine News Network is pleased to publish their statements. Dr. Ghassan Hamdan, […]
1.Not since Foreign Affairs magazine published Samuel Huntington’s "The Clash of Civilizations?" in 1993 has an academic essay detonated with such force as "The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy," by professors John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of […]
Palestinian prisoners’ affairs minister, Wasfi Qabaha, paid a visit Wednesday to several prominent Palestinians who are in their second week of a hunger strike protesting the unjust western blockade on the Palestinian people. The minister appreciated the nationalist sense of the strikers and their effort in breaking the siege. Palestinian […]
Israeli troops stormed the West Bank city of Nablus and the nearby refugee camp of Al-Ein at dawn Monday and arrested four young men after breaking into several homes. Local sources said that three of those were arrested in the city while the fourth was captured at the Hawara roadblock. […]