(By Rebecca Stead) Living under a 50-year-long Israeli military occupation, Palestinian women in the West Bank and Gaza face more challenges than most. Their husbands, brothers and sons frequently imprisoned, their homes demolished, their residency permits revoked and daily restrictions imposed upon their movement, you could be forgiven for thinking …
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(By Yaniv Kubovich) Judge orders state to hold up transfer of body until petition by family who son’s body is held in Gaza is heard The High Court of Justice issued an order Thursday that the state not return the body of an 18-year-old Palestinian who was killed by Israeli …
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Israeli soldiers resorted, Wednesday, to the excessive use of force against dozens of women, and several men, who nonviolently marched near Qalandia terminal, north of occupied East Jerusalem, marking International Women’s Day. Palestinian medical sources said at least eight women suffered the severe effects of teargas inhalation and received the …
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A group of Israeli operatives, disguised as Palestinian college students, abducted the head of the Student Council from Birzeit University’s campus on March 7, 2018. The kidnappers, carrying firearms in their backpacks, entered the campus during working hours and attacked the student in front of the Student Council Building, located …
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Arab League Secretary-General, Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, urged on Thursday Guatemala to cancel its decision to relocate its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Spokesman for the Secretary-General, Mahmoud Afifi, said in a statement that Aboul-Gheit sent an urgent letter to Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales expressing dissatisfaction with Morales’ intention …
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An Israeli court Thursday ordered release with condition of a Palestinian prisoner after he was re-arrested before walking out of prison on Wednesday, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). The Israeli security service arrested Mamoun Farhat, from East Jerusalem, on the day he was going to be released from …
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Foreign and Expatriates Minister Riyad Malki stressed on Thursday that the Arabs’ failure to carry out their decisions over the past decades has encouraged the United States to continue with its unfortunate approach and to make its decision on Jerusalem. “Our failure has also encouraged a small country like Guatemala …
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Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi strongly condemned on Thursday the Israeli army’s violent raid on Birzeit University campus on Wednesday and forced abduction of the president of the university’s Student Council Omar Kiswani, describing this act as a grave violation and a dangerous escalation. “The storming …
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The Israeli human rights group, B’Tselem, document in a report published on Thursday several cases of Palestinian women who came to Gaza to visit family and found themselves stuck there for months away from their loved ones. In the report titled: “No way out: Women trapped in Gaza away from …
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The Israeli security service re-arrested on Wednesday Mamoun Farhat on the day he was going to be released after a completing a five-year prison sentence for throwing a Molotov cocktail as Israeli forces in Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). PPS attorney Mufeed al-Hajj said Farhat, an East …
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