When the police or army shoot a child anywhere in the world, it can usually be argued, at least in theory, that the killing was an unfortunate and tragic mistake. But when thousands of children are killed and wounded in a systematic, “routine” and comparable method within a relatively short period of time, there has to be something very deliberate ...
This has angered soldiers and settlers, who are easy targets on the roads they take through Palestinian towns. The Israeli security establishment is trying to solve this dilemma by blocking access to these roads for members of the resistance groups, but there is no way that a soldier can be stationed every 100 meters or so on every highway, Adnan ...
The establishment of a Jewish state on land with a predominantly non-Jewish population has been carried out by forcibly displacing the majority indigenous people. Today, nearly 70 per cent of the Palestinians worldwide have been forcibly displaced by the Israeli regime, or are their direct descendants,
Amjad Alqasi wrote in an article in Middle East ...
Israeli incursions at the Noble Sanctuary of Al-Aqsa are not only about imposing the apartheid state’s debatable sovereignty over the mosque; they are also about setting the scene for the destruction of Al-Aqsa as it stands today — the Qibli Mosque, the Dome of the Rock Mosque and all of the other Islamic buildings and facilities — and replace it with ...
Last week, Israel demolished an elementary school for Palestinian children living in Ein Samiyah. The school was built in 2022 with funds from the EU, providing Palestinian children in the community with access to education closer to their homes, Ramona Wadi wrote in an article in the Middle East Manitor.
The desecration of the Holy Quran in Sweden is a bitter, conspiratorial and dangerous incident. The severest punishment for the perpetrator of this crime is agreed upon by all Islamic scholars, and the Swedish government must also know that by supporting the criminal, it has taken a warlike stance against the Islamic world and has attracted hatred ...
The ‘Global South’ is starting to question whether Western countries, and primarily the US, should be allowed to continue dictating the international agenda
Military correspondent for Israeli Hayom, Lilach Shoval, referred the lack of strong action against Gaza to the loss of regional support, as the Middle East leaders, who used to seek Israel's consent in order to have it open the gate of the White House, are no longer interested in the United States at all.
The war in Yemen started in 2015, following the ousting of President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi on 22 January 2015 by the Houthis. President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi fled to Saudi Arabia where he started lobbying for support from Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf States.
The Israeli government gave attention to the statement issued by the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs, which also condemned an Israeli court's decision to allow extremists to perform rituals in the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The international movement for Palestinian rights and justice laid the ground for recent declarations by Amnesty International and other human rights organizations. Now we have to follow up.
Moreover, the public discourse changed in almost every way, with more and more people prepared to call out Israel’s continued abuse of the Palestinians, including major media figures such as John Oliver.