'Jewish state' bill approved for Knesset vote
Text Israel's cabinet approved the controversial "Jewish State" bill, which would revoke Arabic's status as an official language, clearing the way for a vote on the measure in the...
View ArticleIsraeli forces demolish Bedouin village —again
Text Israeli forces demolished the "unrecognized" Bedouin village of al-Araqib in the Negev for the 113th time since 2010 and for the fifth time this year—as residents persist in...
View ArticlePalestinians burn effigies of Trump in Gaza
Text Palestinians erupted in anger over President Trump naming the Hamas movement—Gaza's de facto ruling party—in a list of terrorist organizations during his speech in...
View ArticleJerusalem: sweeps in wake of attack
Text Israeli authorities revoked permits for Palestinians to enter Jerusalem and Israel in response to a deadly attack in East Jerusalem's Old City, rounding up hundreds in mass...
View ArticleIsrael stripping Negev Bedouin of citizenship
Text Israeli authorities have revoked the citizenship of hundreds of Bedouin Palestinians in the Negev desert in recent years, leaving many stateless and without recourse to appeal the decision. Since...
View ArticleIsrael advances toward genocidal threshold
Image At least 55 Palestinians were killed and more than 2,700 injured along the eastern borders of the Gaza Strip as Israeli army snipers opened fire on "March of Return" protesters. Six of the slain...
View ArticleUN rights council to investigate Gaza repression
Text The UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution to send an independent commission of inquiry to investigate "all violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law in...
View ArticleUN General Assembly denounces Gaza repression
Text The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for greater protection for the Palestinian people following weeks of the "Great March of Return" protests on the eastern borders of the Gaza...
View ArticleArabs, Druze protest Israel nation-state law
Text Tens of thousands of marched in Tel Aviv to protest Israel's new "nation-state law," which officially establishes Israel as "the national home of the Jewish people" and downgrades the Arabic...
View ArticleUS to reject Palestinian right of return
Text The Trump administration is to announce a suspension of funding to the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) and rejection of the right of return for Palestinian...
View ArticlePalestine challenges US embassy move at Hague
Text The State of Palestine filed a complaint with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) challenging the relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as a breach of international...
View Article500-plus West Bank demolitions in 2018: report
Text Israel demolished 538 Palestinian homes and facilities across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem in 2018, leaving 1,300 Palestinians and 225 children homeless, according to a year-end report by...
View ArticlePalestinians reject Warsaw Conference
Text The secretary general of the Palestinian Liberation Organization executive committee, Saeb Erekat, issued a statement rejecting the US-led conference in Warsaw, ostensibly aimed at brokering...
View ArticleUN sees possible crimes against humanity in Gaza
Text The UN Human Rights Council released the Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, finding potential crimes against...
View ArticleEscalation in Gaza; Orwell in Golan
Text Amid a new round of Israeli air-strikes on Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Donald Trump in Washington for the signing of a presidential proclamation officially recognizing the...
View ArticleNetanyahu pledges to annex West Bank territory
Text Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to annex areas of the occupied West Bank ahead of the coming week's Israeli Knesset elections. In an interview on Israeli Channel 12 TV, he was asked...
View ArticleGaza invasion averted; West Bank land-grabs escalate
Text An Egyptian-mediated ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip took effect with no formal announcement, after two days of hostilities that saw the most extensive Israeli...
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