Opinion: Israel-Palestine: Offering ‘concern’ solves nothing. It’s time for a new approach
By Crispin Blunt for the Middle East Monitor 19 June 2021 The situation for Palestinians seems more dire than ever.…
Analysis: A New Mental Health Crisis Is Raging in Gaza
By Yasser Abu Jamei for Scientific American “Have you ever seen a six-month old baby with exaggerated startle response?” One…
Analysis: Has the Palestinian Resistance Won?
By Robert Inlakesh for Quds News Network When this Friday’s ceasefire was announced between Palestinian resistance groups and ‘Israel’, there…
Analysis: Israel’s Celebration of Destruction, Dispossession and Desecration
By Jeremy Salt for Palestine Chronicle On May 10 this year the state of Israel … but wait a moment…
Analysis: Jerusalemites really are the salt of the earth
By Adnan Hmidan for Middle East Monitor Jerusalemites really are the salt of the earth. Their resilience resembles the robust…
Analysis: “If Israel has committed no war crimes, then why does it refuse the ICC probe?”
By Professor Kamel Hawwash for Middle East Monitor: On 5 February, Palestinians saw a long tunnel open and a light…
The Washington Post Redacted Facts About Israel’s Destruction of COVID-19 Clinics
IsraelPalestineNews.org: The Washington Post claimed, in spite of clear evidence to the contrary, that Israel had never destroyed Palestinian Covid…
Analysis: “Palestinians to pay the price of normalization in the Gulf”
By Hamdullah Baycar for Anadolu Agency As the relationship between the Persian Gulf riparian Arab countries and Israel grew closer…
Opinion: Gaza is still under siege, in case we’ve forgotten
By Maher Al-Tabba for Middle East Monitor The Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continue to suffer from the Israeli-led blockade…
OPINION: “The only sure-fire way not to be accused of war crimes is simply not to commit them”
With every settlement and military operation, ‘Israel’ has been paving its own road to The Hague, Avner Gvaryahu, the executive…
OPINION: Could Israel invade the Hague?
By Asa Winstanley for the Middle East Monitor It has been a long time coming. Earlier this month, a panel…
Analysis: Israel’s Crimes, Legitimacy and Free Speech
By Ron Forthofer for the Palestine Chronicle Israel is waging an intense campaign against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement,…
Analysis: Why Israel is a Settler-Colony
By Asa Winstanley for Middle East Monitor When I first began my journey into the Palestine solidarity movement two decades…
The bizarre case of Mohammad El-Halabi displays Israeli “justice”
Mohammad El-Halabi’s experience as a Palestinian prisoner in Israel is unique only in its magnitude of injustice – its essence…
Analysis: The US Money Tree – The Untold Story of American Aid to Israel
By Dr. Ramzy Baroud for Middle East Monitor On December 21, the United States Congress passed the COVID-19 Relief Package,…
OPINION: A resounding message from Bethlehem: End the occupation
by: Sami Abu Shehadeh Palestinians have the right to enjoy a future of peace based upon justice, tolerance and respect.…
Opinion: Is it Necessary for Israel to Investigate the Shootings of Palestinian Children?
By Motasem A Dalloul for Middle East Monitor Last Friday, Israeli occupation forces shot dead 13-year-old Palestinian boy Ali Abu…
Analysis: From Balfour to the Nakba: The Settler-Colonial Experience of Palestine
By Ilan Pappe for the Middle East Eye The late prominent scholar of settler-colonialism, Patrick Wolfe, reminded us repeatedly that…
Opinion: Refusing to Eat: How Maher al-Akhras is Resisting Israel’s Administrative Detention
By Neve Gordon for Middle East Eye Facing imminent death, 49-year-old Maher al-Akhras has been refusing to eat in prison…
Analysis: Israel is Subjecting Palestinian Children to Physical and Psychological Abuse
By Anjuman Rahman for Middle East Monitor: They destroyed the front door, entered my room, covered my face with a bag,…
Analysis: Prisoner Exchange of 2011, One Thousand Palestinian Prisoners Freed
By Muhammad Hussein for Middle East Monitor The Deal: Israel and Hamas conduct a prisoner exchange following the Gilad Shalit…
Opinion: Palestinians are Not Numbers: On the Future of the Palestinian Discourse
Ramzy Baroud for Middle East Monitor Palestine can never be truly understood through numbers, because numbers are dehumanising, impersonal, and,…
Opinion: Thousands of Palestinian homes face demolition as Israel refuses building permits
Dr. Belal Yasin – Middle East Monitor: In the early 1990s, Wael Al-Tahan submitted an application to the Israeli authorities…
Opinion: Why Besieged Gaza is a Ticking Time Bomb
By Yousef Alhelou for Middle East Monitor Gaza’s two million residents have become accustomed for the past 20 years to…
OPINION: How Far Can Israel Go in Trying to Erase Palestinians?
By Mariam Barghouti for Quds News Network Despite the raging pandemic and Israel’s ever-increasing restrictions on the movements of Palestinians,…
Opinion: Abdul Fattah Al-Sharif’s Execution by an Israeli Soldier
By Ramzy Baroud for Palestine Chronicle: As illegal settlers increase their attacks on Palestinian civilians in the occupied city of Al-Khalil…
Opinion: List of Israeli Targets Leaked: Tel Aviv Fears the Worst in ICC Investigation of War Crimes
By Ramzy Baroud – Palestine Chronicle: When International Court of Justice (ICC) Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, confirmed last December that the…
The ِAnnexation After Seventy-Two Years Of Continuous Nakba
By: Marwan E. Toubassi, Ambassador of the State of Palestine in Greece: Some memories permeate our very existence and penetrate…
Analysis: Annexation of Occupied Territory is a Crime
By Asa Winstanley for Middle East Monitor Israel is about to annex large swathes of the occupied West Bank, making…
Israel may ask for double its usual $3.8 billion from the U.S this year
Breaking Defense magazine reports that Israel may ask to get its yearly aid ahead of time, and possibly twice as…
B’Tselem: Israeli Settlers Exploit Coronavirus to Take Over West Bank Land with Military Backing: Violent Attacks Spike in April
B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories Since the start of the corona crisis,…
Opinion: A Palestinian Guide to Surviving a Quarantine: On Faith, Humor and ‘Dutch Candy’
By Ramzy Baroud for Middle East Monitor Call it a ‘quarantine’, a ‘shelter-in-place’, a ‘lockdown’ or a ‘curfew’, we Palestinians…
Euro-Med Monitor: Israeli Forces’ Incursions and Soldiers’ Behavior Jeopardize Measures to Prevent Outbreak of COVID-19
The Euro-Med Monitor followed with a great concern reports of suspicious behaviors of Israeli soldiers and settlers, during the storming…
Analysis: Palestine Is Occupied, Segregated, And About To Face COVID-19
Israel’s military control of Gaza and the West Bank has only grown more brutal during the pandemic. Workers are held…
ANALYSIS: Technology of Death: The Not-so-Shocking Report on Israeli Weapons Exports
By Ramzy Baroud for Palestine Chronicle The Middle East region, battered by wars and adjoining humanitarian crises that have left…
B’Tselem: Abuse of Palestinians Overrides Fear of COVID-19
Israel Police continue to abuse Palestinians in al-’Isawiya, including false arrests of minors, in operations ongoing since April 2019. -…
Analysis: A Terrifying Scenario; Coronavirus in ‘Quarantined’ Gaza
By Ramzy Baroud for the Palestine Chronicle What if the Coronavirus reaches the besieged Gaza Strip? While the question carries…
B’Tselem: Israeli AG’s Objection to ICC Jurisdiction in Palestine Divorced from Reality
B’Tselem’s analysis finds Attorney General’s claims, that the ICC has no jurisdiction in Palestine, rely on intentional misquotation, disregard for…
Opinion: Maiming Palestinians for Sport is a War Crime
By Marion Kawas for Palestine Chronicle The new Haaretz report entitled “42 Knees in One Day” is a difficult and…
Opinion: The Israeli Army Doesn’t Have Snipers on the Gaza Border, it has Hunters
By Gideon Levy for Haaretz They’re the best of our boys. One is a “musician from a good high school,”…
VIDEO – Gaza: The Undrinkable Water of a Land Under Siege
Rakan Abed El Rahman for Middle East Eye Experts say Israeli policies and wars are to blame for a deepening…
Analysis: “42 Knees In One Day”- Israeli Snipers Open Up About Shooting Gaza Protesters
By Hilo Glazer for Haaretz I know exactly how many knees I’ve hit, says Eden, who completed his service in…
What is the Big Deal? Why Palestinians reject “the Deal of the Century”
By Rev. Dr. Jack Sara As a Palestinian Christian living and serving on both sides of the Separation Wall, I…
Analysis: On Hanging from the Blades of a Bulldozer: Al-Naem is Every Palestinian
By Ramzy Baroud for Palestine Chronicle How is one to apply rational political analysis to what is inherently irrational? What…
Israeli prof: Israel tests weapons on Palestinian kids, tests drugs on prisoners
Israeli occupation authorities have permitted large pharmaceutical firms to experiment on Palestinian prisoners, and have been testing weapons on Palestinian children,…
Opinion: Trump’s Plan for Palestine Looks a Lot Like Apartheid
By Alon Liel for Foreign Policy In the heyday of South Africa’s apartheid regime, the country’s white minority government planned…
Opinion: Listing Companies to Boycott Over Israeli War Crimes is a Start…
By Asa Winstanley for Middle East Monitor The UN finally published its database this month listing companies which profit from…
Opinion: The Dawn Prayer Protests Provide an Example of Palestinian Steadfastness
By Sari Orabi for Middle East Monitor Palestinian Muslims in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem are engaged in an…
Washington Post’s ‘Relative Quiet’ Ignores Israeli Violence Against Palestinians
The Post says there had been “weeks of relative quiet,” even though Israeli soldiers had shot over 100 Palestinian civilians,…
Trump-Kushner “Peace” Plan ignores elephants in the room: Israel created this mess
The Trump-Kushner “Peace” Plan is slick and businesslike, with an aura of objectivity and balance – but it is exactly…
‘This Will Affect Everyone’: Israel And Palestine Ramp Up Escalating Trade War
Palestinian farmers fearful for their future, as Israeli ban on agricultural imports leaves piles of fruit and vegetables unsold. by…
REPORT: Lands to be Annexed following Knesset Elections
(photo: Oranit settlement near Qalqilya, northern occupied West Bank) The National Bureau for defending land and resisting settlements stated, in…
Analysis: Here’s Everything You Need to Know About Trump’s “Apartheid” Deal
Palestine News Network On 28 January 2020, the US released its permanent “apartheid” plan for Palestine, which was mainly authored…
Analysis: Crisis and Opportunity: The ‘Deal of the Century’ Challenge for Palestinians
By Ramzy Baroud for the Palestine Chronicle After several postponements, US President, Donald Trump, has finally revealed the details of…
Opinion: The Future of the Palestinian People is Being Decided Without Their Input
By Robert Fantina for Palestine News Network (PNN) Under the shadow of his trial in the senate, and accompanied by…
Criminalizing Palestinian Resistance: The EU’s New Conditions on Aid to Palestine
by Tariq Dana for Al-Shabaka Palestinian Policy Network The EU recently notified the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations (PNGO) network of new conditions on…
Trump’s Peace Plan Is a ‘Galvanizing Shock’ for Palestinians
Donald Trump says his “Deal of the Century” is a new basis for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. But, ironically,…
Opinion: Peace Plans Have No Function Except to Serve Israel’s Colonial Takeover of Palestine
By Nasim Ahmed for Middle East Monitor It will prove to be Israel’s misfortune that the Zionist project to take…
Euromed: Peace Plan Strips Palestinians of Their Rights and Protects Israel From Accountability
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor followed the US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a plan to solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict…
UN Expert Says US Deal “a One and a Half State Solution”
UN Special Rapporteur on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, Michael Lynk said, on Friday, that the US plan…
Analysis: Palestinians Have Indeed ‘Missed an Opportunity’ – to Surrender to Zionism
By Joseph Massad for Middle East Eye Western and Israeli propaganda never tire of telling the world of the age-old…
Adalah: Trump Plan Normalizes Israel’s Apartheid Regime in West Bank
Adalah: Plan is no more than joint U.S.-Israel effort to impose Israeli government’s vision for territory in flagrant violation of…
Trump’s Deal Reminiscent of Apartheid South Africa
By Niall Ó Brolcháin – IMEMC – 30 January 2020: Donald Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ got the endorsement of British…
B’Tselem – President Trump’s “Peace” Plan: Not Peace, Apartheid
By B’Tselem The American administration’s plan branded as the “Deal of the Century” is more like Swiss cheese, with the…
Samidoun: Colonial “Deal of the Century” sure to fail; time to fight back and defend Palestine
Protest against so-called “Deal of the Century” Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network joins our voice with that of Palestinians and…
How Israel Exploits the Holocaust to Justify War Crimes Against Palestinians
On the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu asked world leaders to condemn the International…
Opinion: Prince Charles’ Words on Palestine Must Not Go Unnoticed
By Ramona Wadi for Middle East Monitor Prince Charles’ visit to the occupied Palestinian territories has garnered media attention. Words…
Report: Israel Begins Selling Gas Destined for Gaza
The severity of Gaza’s humanitarian crisis is currently growing in magnitude, as a result of Israel tightening its 15-year long,…
Analysis – In the Name of ‘Israel’s Security’: Retreating US Gives Israel Billions More in Military Aid
By Ramzy Baroud for Palestine Chronicle Billions of US taxpayers’ dollars will continue to be funnelled into Israel in the…
Severe Torture in Israeli Prisons Targets Palestinian Steadfastness: Walid Hanatsheh, Samer Arbeed, Mays Abu Ghosh and More
Photo: Walid Hanatsheh after his interrogation. In the last months of 2019 and early 2020, a growing number of cases…
Video: Soldiers Harass Family for Hanging Palestinian Flag
On 27 November 2019, three soldiers came three times to the home of the a-Tabib family in the village of…
Maps, Technology, and Decolonial Spatial Practices in Palestine
by Zena Agha for Al-Shabaka Palestinian Policy Network Overview The practice of mapping in Palestine-Israel has long been an exercise in…
Opinion: ‘We Will Only be Moved as Bodies’: Israel and Bedouins Face Off in the Negev
By: Jack Dodson for Middle East Eye Mohammad Danfiri stands at the edge of his Bedouin family’s sheep enclosure in…
Sealed Off and Forgotten: What You Should Know About Israel’s ‘Firing Zones’ in the West Bank
By Ramzy Baroud for the Palestine Chronicle A seemingly ordinary news story, published in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, on January…
Report: Palestinian Child Prisoners Face Further Repression and Transfer
Palestinian child seized in Jerusalem. Older photo, illustrative. Israeli occupation officials announced that child prisoners would be transferred away from…
After original bill stalled in 2019, Rubio & Coons introduce new bill expected to give Israel at least $38 billion over the next 10 years – over $7,000 per minute
News analysis by Alison Weir – Republican Marco Rubio and Democrat Chris Coons have introduced legislation expected to give Israel a…
International Criminal Court Prepares to Try Israelis over War Crimes
Shawan Jabarin of the Al-Haq human rights organization discusses the International Criminal Court decision to prepare a lawsuit against the…
David Friedman: “The Most Complicated of the Issues is the Large Indigenous Palestinian Population”
by Quds News Network US Ambassador to the occupation state of Israel, David Friedman, on Wednesday, spoke at a conference…
Why Did Hamas Mourn Qassem Soleimani?
by Motasem Ahmed Dalloul, Days of Palestine As soon as the assassination of Iran’s General Qassem Soleimani was confirmed by…
The Growing Gap between Jordan and Israel, After 25 Years of “Peace”
by Oraib Rantawi for Al-Shabaka Palestinian Policy Network Several recent incidents underscore the cooling in Jordanian-Israeli relations 25 years after the…
Opinion: Israel’s Plans to Replace UNRWA Schools are a New War on the Agency
By Imad Freij for WAFA Six UNRWA-run schools in Jerusalem are now facing the threat of closure, after the Israeli…
Opinion: Embracing Palestine: How to Combat Israel’s Misuse of ‘Antisemitism’
By Ramzy Baroud for Middle East Monitor At a talk I delivered in Northern England in March 2018, I proposed…
TRNN: The Year in Palestine and Israel
The Real News Network’s Marc Steiner and Shir Hever discuss the upcoming election, corruption charges against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…
Analysis: Will the ICC’s Investigation into Israeli War Crimes Finally Bring Justice to Palestine?
By Miko Peled for Mint Press News Fatou Bensouda, the International Criminal Court’s Chief Prosecutor, said in a statement regarding…
Gaza Still Unresolved Approaching 2020
It was a very happy moment when the Palestinians knew that they would cast their votes in order to choose…
REPORT: Over 13 Million Palestinians Worldwide by 2020
Dr. Ola Awad, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) President presents a brief on the status of Palestinian people at…
Analysis: Who is Archbishop Atallah Hanna, and Why Does Israel Hate Him?
By Ramzy Baroud for Middle East Monitor “They will run and not grow weary,” is a quote from the Bible…
Netanyahu Announces Six-Point Plan to Annex Palestinian Land, Defeat Iran
By: The Palestine Chronicle Staff Following his triumph in the Likud party’s primary elections, on December 26, Israeli Prime Minister,…
Not A Merry Christmas For Christian Detainees In Israeli Prisons
At the house of Palestinian political prisoner, Samer al-Arabid, in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, you can find…
A Year In Review: Will 2020 Be A Game Changer In Palestine?
by Ramzy Baroud This has been a defining year for Palestine and Israel. Despite the usual political stagnation of the…
Trump Demonstrates Again Why Zionism Is Anti-Semitism
by Asa Winstanley You have to hand it to Donald Trump, he knows which side his bread is buttered. Spewing out…
Bansky’s ‘Walled Off Hotel’ in Bethlehem Displays “Scar of Bethlehem”
British street artist Banksy has brought a sombre Christmas spirit to the hotel he founded, in the West Bank town…
Opinion: Palestine and the Stifling Status Quo; Extending UNRWA’s Mission is a Pyrrhic Victory
"UNRWA’s temporary task became permanent."
Report: UN Body Criticizes Israel’s Racial Segregation Policies
A United Nations human rights committee has called on Israel to “ensure equal treatment for all persons on the territories…
Report: Hebron is More Than Ever Targeted by Settlement and Judaization Projects
By: Madeeha Araj (National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements) for PNN The National Bureau for Defending Land and…
Anti-Semitism Envoy Elan Carr Puts Israel (Not Jews) Front And Center
Trump’s anti-Semitism envoy inaccurately equates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, and considers Israel “a central tenet” of Judaism – despite vocal opposition…