The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor (ICC) has announced she would launch a full investigation into alleged war crimes in the Palestinian territories including East Jerusalem, the West Bank and…
Year: 2019
Death of Palestinian prisoner sparks outrage over medical negligence in Israeli jails
On November 26 Sami Abu Diak, a Palestinian prisoner, died in the solace of an empty Israeli hospital room after a battle with cancer. Following the announcement of Diak’s death…
Gaza achieves self-sufficiency in olive production
The Palestine Ministry of Agriculture announced Sunday that the occupied Gaza strip has become self-sufficient in olive production for the first time in 25 years. The ministry’s undersecretary, Ibrahim Al-Qudra,…
Issawiya; the East Jerusalem neighbourhood at the brunt of Israeli Police brutality
The eight-seater van driven by Issawiya community leader Mohammad Abu Hummus lurches and screeches up the recently slicked pavement, stirring clouds of exhaust in its wake. Activists from Free Jerusalem,…
Barghouthi: "Ghettostans"
During the 1930s, when the white minority ruled South Africa, the government at the time established a structure of racial segregation, termed Apartheid, by which black South Africans were forced…
Israel green-lights contentious new settlement in Hebron
Israeli Defence Minister Naftali Bennett approved the construction of a new Jewish settlement in the flashpoint city of Hebron in the southern West Bank on Sunday 1 December. The defence…
Israel cements policy of withholding Palestinian bodies
Israel’s newly appointed defence minister, Naftali Bennett, announced last week that all bodies of Palestinians, who attacked or allegedly attacked Israelis, will not be returned to their families. A statement…
Art from trash; Solving Palestine’s waste problem through design
Walk a few meters down any Ramallah street and you are likely to stumble upon a pile of trash. Plastic bags and bottles are woven into bushes. Mounds of cardboard,…
A wave of protests against IDF sweeps Western universities
November saw a string of protests against Israel Defense Forces (IDF) across Western university campuses, signalling that the Palestinian solidarity movement is gaining momentum in the mainstream. In the last…
Israel becomes the first democracy to deport a Human Rights Watch worker
Omar Shakir, Human Rights Watch’s Israel and Palestine director, was expelled from Israel on Monday for allegedly promoting boycotts of Israel. Shakir is the first human rights representative to be…