By David Cronin Itamar Ben-Gvir was not alone during his latest invasion of Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque compound. The national security minister was flanked by Israeli police officers, including the chief of their force Kobi Shabtai. Maybe it is wrong to derive any pleasure from the antics of the extreme right. But I confess that a wry smile appeared on…
By: Najla M. Shahwan For years the Israeli government has been closely monitoring the communications and movements of millions of Palestinians living in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, and inside Israel, making Palestinians the most surveilled people in the world. A new report published by Amnesty International last Tuesday revealed that the Israeli Defense Forces…
By: Ramzy Baroud All Israeli wars on the Palestinians throughout the years have been promoted and justified by Tel Aviv in the name of ‘security’ and ‘fighting terrorism’. Israel’s biggest challenge throughout many of these wars was hardly the Palestinian Resistance, however steadfast and resilient. The challenge has always been Tel Aviv’s ability to kill many Palestinians,…
By: Motasem A Dalloul For the third day in a row, the Israeli Occupation Forces have been bombing the besieged Gaza Strip. They killed, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, 25 Palestinians and wounded 76 others, mostly children. More than 150 apartments were either completely or partially damaged and two multi-storey homes were…
By: Issam A Adwan As Muslims around the world usher in the holy month of Ramadan and all its trappings, Palestinians brace themselves for what has become Israel’s favourite holiday tradition: a potential new round of attacks on Gaza following a surge of settler violence and military raids in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Palestinian anxieties have only increased since the new…
By: Kathy Sheridan A few weeks ago, Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and his security cabinet did what autocrats do. They simply declared nine illegal settler outposts in the occupied West Bank as legal under Israeli law. The most revealing element was the timing. Netanyahu made his announcement when Israeli-Palestinian tensions were already disastrously elevated….