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French Colonel Slams US Tactics Against ISIS-Daesh in Syria, Accuses Washington of “Prolonging the Conflict”
A senior French officer faces punishment after publicly condemning the US-led coalition’s military tactics against Daesh in the east of Syria, accusing Washington of prolonging the conflict and disregarding a growing civilian death toll, the army said on Saturday.
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Israel Pharmaceutical Firms Test Medicines on Palestinian Prisoners
Israeli Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian revealed yesterday that the Israeli occupation authorities issues permits to large pharmaceutical firms to carry out tests on Palestinian and Arab prisoners, Felesteen.ps reported.
The Hebrew University lecturer also revealed that the Israeli military firms are …
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UN: 254 Palestinians Killed, 23,000 Injured in Gaza Protests
More than 250 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli army fire and over 23,000 injured since the start of the “Great March of Return” protests in the besieged Gaza Strip on 30 March until the end of last year, UN …
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US Israel-Palestine “Peace Deal”: $250bn Compensation by Arab States for “Jewish Property Left Behind”
The prospective American peace deal, dubbed as the “deal of the century”, is to include that $250 billion be paid by Arab states in compensation for Jewish property left behind after the creation of Israel, Al-Wattan Voice said yesterday.
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Pressured by Pro-Israel Lobby, France’s Minister of Justice Refuses to Present The French Republic’s “Official” Human Rights Award to Al-Haq, B’Tselem
The French justice minister has refused to present a prestigious human rights award to Palestinian and Israeli human rights organisations Al-Haq and B’Tselem after being pressured by a French-Jewish organisation.
Nicole Belloubet was supposed to present Al-Haq and B’Tselem with …
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Israel Expropriates Almost 70 Acres of Catholic Church Property
Israel’s occupation authorities expropriated almost 70 acres of Palestinian land in the Jordan Valley and West Bank on Tuesday, Shehab news agency has reported. The land is owned by the Roman Catholic Church — the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem — …
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US Intelligence Being Sued for Failing to Warn Khashoggi of Threat
US spy agencies are being sued for failing to warn slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi that he was facing threat and danger. The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, which “defends the freedoms of speech and the press in …
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Blair Refuses to Cancel Lucrative Deal with Saudi Despite Khashoggi Murder
Tony Blair has resisted calls to end his multi-million dollar deal with Saudi Arabia despite allegations that the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi may have been authorised by the Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman.
Accounts published last month by the …
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Israel Confiscates 2,036 Acres of Palestinian Land in West Bank
Israeli occupation authorities yesterday, issued a confiscation order against 8,242 dunums (2,036 acres) of Az-Zawiya village’s lands in the Salfit district of the West Bank for alleged military purposes, Alghad TV reported.
The land is located in the west …
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US Shutters Palestine Liberation Organisation’s Diplomatic Mission in Washington
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Featured image: Outside view of the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s office in Washington, US on 10 September …
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Tony Blair Confirms Receiving Millions in Donation From Saudi
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Tony Blair’s relationship with Saudi Arabia has come under scrutiny following the revelation that the non-government organisation set up under his name has received millions of pounds from Riyadh.
Accounts …
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Israel to Sell Freedom Flotilla Boats to Support Settlers
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Israel plans to sell four boats seized while sailing towards the besieged Gaza Strip and distribute the funds among two settlers families.
Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported yesterday that the move came …
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US Ambassador: Jerusalem Made Israel’s Capital ‘Under God’s Direction’ 3,000 Years Ago
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US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, has praised President Donald Trump’s administration for putting US-Israeli relations on “more solid [ground] than ever before”, reported the Jerusalem Post.
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Mayor of Jerusalem to Stop UNRWA’s Operations
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Featured image: Nir Barkat, the Israeli mayor of Jerusalem (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Israel’s Mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat has threatened to end the work of the UN Refuge Agency for Palestine …
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South Korea Refuses to Receive Israel President
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South Korea has recently refused an official request by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin to visit Seoul over the coming months, Israeli media reported.
Israel’s Ynet news site reported that Tel Aviv’s …
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US Envoy Haley: Palestinian Right of Return Should be ‘Off the Table’
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Featured image: US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, United States [Atılgan Özdil/Anadolu Agency]
US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has …
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Israel Forces Palestinian to Demolish His Home on His Wedding Day
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Featured image: A Palestinian man can be seen demolishing his home on his wedding day after he was forced to do so by Israeli forces [Quds TV/Twitter]
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Ahed Tamimi to be Honoured in South Africa by Mandela’s Grandson
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Featured image: Ahed Tamimi and her father with South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa [File photo]
Palestinian teen activist Ahed Tamimi – who was released on Sunday from an Israeli prison after …
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Gaza Patients Appeal to the World to Save Their Lives
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Patients in Gaza’s hospital’s organised a sit-in in central Gaza City to appeal to the international community, Quds Press reported, Tuesday.
The sit-in included those wounded by Israel as well as …
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Israeli Minister: Israeli Jets Should Drop Bombs Over the Heads of Gaza Children
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Featured image: Israeli Education Minister, Naftali Bennett [Solidarity with Palestine Walter Herrman/Facebook]
Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennet has insisted that Israeli warplanes should drop bombs over the heads of Palestinian children …
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Israel Lawyer Appointed Chair of UN Human Rights Committee
Featured image: Yuval Shany, deputy president of the Israel Democracy Institute and a member of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Faculty of Law [Twitter]
An Israeli lawyer was chosen yesterday to chair the UN Human Rights Committee, despite the country’s …
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Report: Israel Army Has a Plan to Dissect and Occupy Parts of the Gaza Strip
Featured image: Israeli occupation forces [Source: Salih Zeki Fazlıoğlu/Anadolu Agency]
The Israeli military has prepared plans for a full-scale invasion of the occupied Gaza Strip, in the event of a serious escalation in the south, according to a report by …
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Largest Military Aid in Israel’s History: $705 Million for Missile “Defence” Programmes
Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that the US Congress had approved the largest defence aid contribution for Israel since it was created in 1948, Quds Press reported yesterday.
On Twitter, he wrote:
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Timeline: Israel’s Anti-Palestinian Laws Since 1948
2006-Present
07 February 2018: Israel advances a plan to build a walkway though the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem to connect two settler residential compounds in the Palestinian At-Tur neighbourhood
07 February 2018: During a Knesset report on the …
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Over 200 Companies Have Israel Settlement Ties
Featured image: Bulldozers are seen during excavation near Ramat Shlomo, a Jewish settlement, in Eastern Part of Jerusalem on 13 September 2017 [Mahmoud Ibrahem/Anadolu Agency]
The United Nations human rights office said today it had identified 206 companies so far …
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Ireland to Discuss New Bill Criminalising Trade with Israeli Settlements
Featured image: Illegal construction work of settlements in the West Bank on 22 February 2017 (Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency)
Ireland is set to discuss a new bill that seeks to prohibit the import and sale of goods originating in illegal settlements …
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Swiss Newspaper Reveals: Secret Military Cooperation Between Saudi Arabia and Israel
The Swiss newspaper Basler Zeitung revealed the fact that there exists a “secret alliance” between Saudi Arabia and Israel, intended “to restrain Iran’s expansion in the region, despite the absence of any official relations between the two countries.”
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Trump Retaliates: Punitive Measures against Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority
Debkafile, an Israeli website close to the military intelligence, has reported that the Trump administration has decided to take a series of punitive measures against the Palestinian Authority (PA) after its successful campaign on Jerusalem in the UN General Assembly.…
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Secret Documents Reveal Mubarak’s Plan to Resettle Palestinians in Egypt
Featured image: Ousted Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak (Source: TG Post/Facebook)
Secret British documents have revealed that deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had agreed to resettle Palestinians in Egypt over three decades ago. According to the documents, obtained exclusively by the …
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Israel Plans to Block Arabs from Living in 1,000 Neighbourhoods
Israel is planning to block its Arab citizens from living in almost 1,000 neighbourhoods and villages under the pretext that they were built for Jews only, Quds Press reported on Tuesday. According to a report in Haaretz, the Knesset (Israeli …
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Israel’s Military Detention of Palestinian Children. Motion against Israel in Britain’s Parliament
Half a dozen British parliamentarians have launched a parliamentary Early Day Motion (EDM) condemning the military detention of Palestinian children at the hands of Israeli authorities.
The primary sponsor of the EDM, officially tabled on Monday, is Labour MP Richard …
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Saudi Prisoners to be Freed in Exchange for 70% of Their Wealth. Reports
Featured image: Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal [Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud/Facebook]
Saudi officials are seeking to appropriate billions of dollars from captured princes and businessman in exchange for their release.
According to the Financial Times (FT) the …
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UN Official Slammed for Urging Sanctions against Israel
Featured image: Michael Lynk, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied Michael Lynk [Alhadath24/Facebook]
Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories Michael Lynk has been slammed by Israeli ambassador to the UN after he urged …
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Israel to Remove Palestinian Village’s Sole Water Pipe
Palestinians living near the village of Duma in the occupied West Bank district of Nablus have been told that the sole water pipeline servicing the area will be removed by Israeli occupation forces as it was deemed “illegal”.
Palestinian news …
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Israel Campaigns Against Palestine Joining UN Tourism Body
Featured image: Palestinians shop at the market in preparation for Eid. Sellers and vendors have seen a decrease in customers due to the austerity Palestinians are facing due to PA’s policies. [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]
Israel is attempting to thwart …
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Israeli-syllabus School Set Up in Syrian Area Controlled by Terrorist Armed Groups
Featured image: A makeshift school in Jordan’s Za’atari refugee camp which is home to 80,000 Syrian refugees (Source: Save the Children)
An Israeli-US organisation has set up a school in the northern Syria governorate of Idlib, which is under the …
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Mossad Agent Who Infiltrated ISIS-Daesh Arrested in Libya: Israeli Website
Featured image: Ephraim Benjamin, a Mossad agent [masralarabia]
Libyan security forces have arrested a Mossad agent who held a leading position in Daesh in the north-eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, the Israeli website Inian Merkazi reported.
The Hebrew website whose …
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Israel Confiscates EU Aid From Palestinian Bedouin Community
The Israeli occupation’s forces have recently seized electricity-producing solar panels at the Bedouin community camp of Abu Al-Nawar, according to local sources.
Abu Al-Nawar’s representative and local community leader, Abu Emad al-Jahalin, told Quds Press yesterday that the occupation …
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Dramatic Increase in Israel’s Arrest of Palestinian Children, Abused, Deprived of Food, Beatings, Denied Legal Council
Some 331 Palestinian minors were arrested by Israel between January and May this year, a 62 per cent increase on figures from 2012 to 2015, NGO Defence for Children International – Palestine (DCIP) revealed yesterday.
According to a report released …
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Saudi Prince Reveals ‘US Conditions’ for Mohamed Bin Salman to be King
Saudi Prince Khalid Bin Farhan al-Saud, who lives in Germany, has revealed what he claims are the US conditions for helping Mohamed Bin Salman to become King of Saudi Arabia before his father’s death, thenewkhalij.org reported on Friday.
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Closing Bank Accounts: Israel’s New Policy to Displace Palestinians Out of Jerusalem
Israel is closing the bank accounts of Arab institutions in Jerusalem in an effort to displace Jerusalemites and force them out of the city, the Department of Jerusalem Affairs has said.
In a press release, the organisation said the Israeli …
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Israel Displaced 67% of Palestinians in 1948
Israel has displaced almost 66 per cent, nearly 957,000, of the Palestinian people who lived in historic Palestine during the 1948 Nakba, a new report has revealed.
Published on World Refugee Day, the study by the Palestinian Central Bureau of …
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Extrajudicial Executions and Torture of Palestinians: Israel Attempts to Block Yet Another UN Report
Having succeeded in blocking a recent UN report that accused Israel of maintaining a system of apartheid, Israeli officials are now attempting to remove another UN report, which has charged along with a list of other human rights violations.
The …
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Israeli PM Calls for Dismantling of UN Palestinian Refugee Agency
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Sunday for the dismantling of the UN agency that aids millions of Palestinian refugees, accusing it of anti-Israeli incitement and saying he had conveyed his message to the US ambassador to the United …
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Former ICC Official Says Israel Will Be Convicted of War Crimes
The former prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno Ocampo has said that the investigation being carried out by the ICC concerning the issue of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, will most likely result …
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New French President ‘Will Not Recognise Palestine’
Newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron has reiterated that he will not recognise Palestine as a state as it would hinder good relations between Israel and France.
Prior to his election win, Macron said he backs a two-state solution to …
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Israel’s Illegal Occupation Most Malignant in the World, Says UN Rapporteur
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Michael Lynk, has described the Israeli occupation as “the most malignant” in the world. The Canadian official added that perpetuating an alien …
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Israel Denies EU Parliamentary Delegation Entry into Gaza
A European parliament delegation that attempted to enter the besieged Gaza Strip to assess the residual damage of Israel’s 2014 military offensive was denied entry by Israeli authorities today.
According to a statement released by the European Parliament’s Delegation for …
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Israeli President Slams Land Grab Law. Slap in the Face for Netanyahu?
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has slammed the Regularisation Law which enables the state to expropriate private Palestinian land where settlements not even legal under Israeli law have been built. According to Haaretz on Sunday, Rivlin said that the law …
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Legal Blow to Donald Trump, US Judges Reject Travel Ban Targeted at Muslims
President Donald Trump suffered a legal blow on Thursday when a federal appeals court refused to reinstate a temporary travel ban he had ordered on people from seven Muslim-majority countries.
A three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of …
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Crimes against Humanity? Israel Bans Delivery of Anaesthesia Gas to Gaza Hospitals
Israel has banned anaesthetic gas from entering the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Ministry of Health revealed yesterday.
This is the third time that the occupation has prevented Nitrous Oxide (nitrox) gas, which is used for patients during surgery, from entering …
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US Soldiers Shoot and Kill 8-Year-Old Girl in Yemen
While the media attention has been focused on the death of one US serviceman who was killed during a raid in Yemen, one of the most tragic casualties of the assault ordered by President Donald Trump was an eight-year-old girl.…
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Belgium to Arrest Former Israeli Foreign Minister for “War Crimes”
A Belgian court has ordered the arrest of the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel, Tzipi Livni, when she steps off the plane on her arrival in the Belgian capital Brussels on 23 January, official EU sources revealed on …
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Israeli Settlers Invited to Attend Trump Inauguration
US President-elect Donald Trump invited the leaders of the Israeli Jewish settlers illegally living on occupied Palestinian territories to attend his inauguration on 20 January, a body linked to the settlers said yesterday.
Turkish state-owned Anadolu news agency reported Israeli …
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UN Prepares Blacklist of Israeli Companies Working in Illegal Settlements
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is preparing a blacklist of Israeli companies working in the illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, an Israeli newspaper reported on Tuesday. According to Israel Hayom, the list is an …
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Israel to Spray Pesticides Along Gaza Border
The Palestinian ministry of agriculture has warned local people that the Israeli occupation authorities are going to spray pesticides along the Gaza border between 25 December and 5 January. The ministry’s statement was reported by a number of media outlets.…
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US to Establish A Military Base in Israel
The US army intends to use the Israeli coast as a military base against troops in nearby areas, including Russian forces in Syria, Al-Masdar News (AMN) reported the US National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA) stipulating.
The Israel-based news website said …
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