Breaking the Silence will be conducting an English-language tour in the Palestinian city of Hebron, next Thursday, September 27. Hebron is the second largest city in the West Bank and the only Palestinian city with an Israeli settlement in the heart of it. The tour is led by former soldiers who broke their silence on…
The Communist Party of Israel (CPI) mourns the death of the renowned plastic artist and communist militant, Gershon Knispel, one of the great local practitioners of Socialist Realism in the plastic arts, who died at dawn on September 7 in Haifa after 86 years of life and struggle. Knispel was a member of the CPI…
A 24-year-old Palestinian, Muhammad Zaghlul Rimawi, died of his injuries on Tuesday morning, September 18, after he had been brutally assaulted by Israeli forces in a predawn raid on his home in the village of Beit Rima in the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah . Muhammad’s brother, Bashir Rimawi, told the Palestinian news…
Unidentified persons throwing firebombs targeted a musical performance by a mixed-gender band in the Arab city of Umm al-Fahm in northern Israel on Saturday night, September 15. There were no injuries or damage from the attack and the show went on as planned, according to Al-Ittihad, the Communist daily newspaper. Prior to the show, the…
Sky-high unemployment, declining per capita income, contracting agricultural productivity and worsening socioeconomic conditions characterize a bleak assessment of the economy of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), according to the new annual report by UNCTAD (the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) on its assistance to the Palestinian people. The report warns that evaporating donor…
Three Palestinians were killed and dozens others sustained injuries during Friday’s 25th consecutive Great March of Return protests in the eastern sector of the besieged Gaza Strip. Thousands of Palestinians gathered on Friday, September 14, along the eastern border of the Gaza Strip with Israel to take part in protests under the slogan “Resistance is…
An Israeli High Court injunction preventing the forced displacement and demolition of the Arab-Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar expired at midnight on Tuesday this week. Israeli army bulldozers may now show up at any time to destroy the West Bank Palestinian village, strategically situated between Jerusalem and the Israeli settlement of Ma’ale Adumim. Around 100…
Israeli occupation forces detained on Sunday, September 9, Ayman Nasser, a senior staff member of Palestinian prisoners’ rights group Addameer, the human rights organization has reported. Nasser, 48, the coordinator of Addameer’s legal unit, was seized by soldiers at his home in the occupied West Bank and is currently being held without charge or trial…
About 140 artists, including musicians, writers, actors, directors, novelists, and poets from around the world have signed a letter calling for the boycott of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest, which is scheduled to be held in Israel next spring. The group of artists , including six Israelis , are demanding the song contest should be…
The Palestinian Authority was defiant on Monday, September 10, despite the continuing spate of US imperialistic threats and measures, the latest being the closing of the offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Washington DC. In his first major public address since becoming National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump, John Bolton officially announced…
Two weeks ago, Amir Dahan, the judge of the Jerusalem Magistrate Court, ruled in favor of the Jerusalem Municipality’s request to evict Barbur Gallery from the locale it has been operating from for the past 13 years. Judge Dahan admitted that there are political forces that have been trying to interfere with the exhibitions displayed…
Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi and her family are not allowed to travel abroad; a Palestinian Authority liaison committee informed the family recently after an inquiry was made with Israeli authorities. An Israeli security source confirmed the family’s claim and told Haaretz that Israel’s internal security service, the “Shin Bet” made the decision. Ahed Tamimi and…
Two Palestinians were died and some 400 others were injured by Israeli forces in the besieged Gaza Strip on Friday, September 7. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed that Bilal Mustafa Khufaja, 19, was killed by an Israeli live bullet to the chest near the return camps of eastern Gaza City during the 24th…
Final stocks of emergency fuel will be delivered this weekend to critical facilities in the Gaza Strip, through the United Nations-assisted Emergency Fuel Program. The UN Humanitarian Coordinator, Jamie McGoldrick, has written to the donor community requesting immediate support for the program, which provides life-saving emergency fuel to operate standby emergency power generators at critical…
Israel’s High Court of Justice, the Supreme Court when ruling as a court of first instance, denied a petition on Wednesday, September 5, that had been filed by the residents of the occupied West Bank Arab-Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar. In doing so, the top court gave the state the green light to evacuate the…
