Amnesty International accused Greek police of using the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to impose blanket bans on protests and apply excessive force to crush peaceful demonstrations. Street protests are common in Greece, and several have taken place in recent months on issues ranging from new labor law to Israeli …
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Quarter of Jewish voters regard Israel as apartheid regime committing genocide: Poll
A survey of US Jewish voters conducted after the recent Israeli war on the besieged Gaza Strip has found that a quarter of respondents believe the occupying entity is an apartheid regime committing genocide against Palestinians. The study, based on interviews with 800 Jewish voters, was commissioned by the Jewish Electorate …
Read More »Indonesian security forces kill two militants with suspected links to ISIS
Indonesian security forces on Sunday killed two suspected militants with ties to ISIS who were believed to be connected to the killing of Christian farmers on Sulawesi island, the country’s military said. The two men, identified as Rukli and Ahmad Gazali, were fatally shot during a pre-dawn raid by a …
Read More »Ex-Israeli army chief warns of Hezbollah’s ‘unmatched rocket threat’
Former Israeli army chief of staff has warned of the threat posed by Hezbollah to the occupying regime, saying the Lebanese resistance movement is in possession of thousands of long-range rockets and dozens or more precision-guided missiles. Speaking to The Jerusalem Post newspaper, Gadi Eisenkot discussed “the unmatched more than …
Read More »150 Palestinians injured in Israeli attack on West Bank protests
Fierce clashes have broken out between Israeli forces and Palestinians protesting against an illegal settlement outpost near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, leaving dozens of the Palestinians injured. The violence erupted after Friday prayers when Israeli occupation forces attacked Palestinian protesters calling for the removal of the Eviatar …
Read More »Palestine denounces UN for whitewashing Israeli crimes against Palestinian children
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has criticized the United Nations for leaving Israel off the annual blacklist of parties responsible for grave violations against children, saying ignoring the regime’s crimes would guarantee impunity for the child-killing entity.
Read More »Opinion | Apartheid by stealth
Israeli apartheid continues its brutal abuse of Palestinians even after the bombing of Gaza stops and Palestine disappears from Western TV screens.
Read More »Palestinians reject 90K doses of Israel’s ‘about-to-expire’ Pfizer vaccines
The Palestinian Authority (PA) says it has scrapped an agreement with Israel on the transfer of one million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines from the regime to Palestinians in exchange for a similar number of doses from Palestinians later this year, saying Israel’s first batch of vaccines are unusable …
Read More »Israeli forces attack Al-Aqsa protesters during Prophet rally
At least 47 Palestinians also hurt by tear gas, rubber bullets near the town of Beita in the occupied West Bank, says Palestine Red Crescent. At least three Palestinians were hurt after Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem on Friday. Following Friday prayers, Palestinian worshippers …
Read More »Israeli troops kill Palestinian teen in West Bank
Israeli forces have brutally suppressed anti-settlement protests in the occupied West Bank, leaving a Palestinian teenager killed. The Palestinian Red Crescent said Mohammad Said Hamayel, 15, succumbed to wounds he sustained when Israeli troops shot him on Sobeih Mountain in Beita town, south of the occupied West Bank city of …
Read More »Wildfires rage near the occupied Alquds, prompting evacuations (Videos)
Scores of Israeli firefighters have been deployed to tackle two major forest fires that broke out in the hills near Alquds (Jerusalem) on Wednesday. Hundreds of people were evacuated. Almost 800 people, were ordered to leave their homes as the flames approached. The fires also prompted the closure of some …
Read More »Hezbollah official warns Israel of ‘fire of hell’ after Gantz’s threat
A senior official of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has warned the Israeli regime against another military adventurism, saying the aggressors would see “fire of hell” in the event of another war. Hassan Baghdadi, a member of the central council of Hezbollah resistance movement, on Sunday said the Israeli regime officials …
Read More »Israel’s anti-Netanyahu coalition leaders pledge there will be no settlement freeze
Opponents of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the prospective new administration have announced that there will not be a freeze in construction of illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian territories, despite international outcry over the Tel Aviv regime’s land expropriation policies. David Elhayani, who heads the Jordan Valley Regional Council …
Read More »Still asking for more: Israel wants $1bn in additional US aid
Being already the largest recipient of assistance from Washington, with an annual $3.8bn in US military aid, does not stop Israel from asking for more. Now a US senator has unveiled that the Tel Aviv regime is preparing a request for an additional $1 billion to the Pentagon to replenish …
Read More »Israel: End of the Benjamin Netanyahu era may be near
Media reports say opposition leader Yair Lapid close to establishing a coalition that would end Netanyahu’s 12-year reign as prime minister. Israel was gripped by the political drama on Sunday over the possible imminent end of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s record run as the country’s leader. After four inconclusive parliamentary …
Read More »Israeli troops kill Palestinian during West Bank clash, Palestinians say
Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian during clashes in the occupied West Bank on Friday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. A few hundred Palestinians had gathered near Nablus in the northern West Bank to protest Israeli settlements. Israeli soldiers opened fire, killing one man, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. …
Read More »‘Terrorising a generation’: Israel arresting Palestinian children
Palestinians, legal experts, and activists note a worrying shift in the number of children being arrested as police announce ‘Operation Law and Order’. Thirteen-year-old Mohammed Saadi was kidnapped, blindfolded, beaten, and threatened with a gun to his head by five men in his hometown of Umm al-Fahem. It was May …
Read More »US to ‘Carefully Review’ Iran Sanctions: Treasury secretary
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says her country will be careful in how it decides to lift sanctions from Iran if current talks in Austria on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, better known as JCPOA, bear fruit. Yellen made the remarks on Thursday while answering questions about Iran and …
Read More »Amnesty International says Silwan evictions example of Israel’s forced displacement policy
Amnesty International has sharply criticized the planned eviction of several dozen Palestinian families from their homes in the occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds neighborhood of Silwan as “another illustration of Israel’s criminal policy of forced displacement of Palestinians.” Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa in the London-based organization, Saleh …
Read More »In first, French foreign minister uses ‘apartheid’ to refer to Israel
France’s foreign minister has expressed rare concern over the recent Israeli violence against Palestinians in al-Quds and elsewhere, warning of the risk of “long-lasting apartheid”. “It’s the first time and it clearly shows that if in the future we had a solution other than the two-state solution, we would have …
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