Our nation marking 69 years of the Nakba, our national catastrophe, is symbolized in our exile and the systematic denial of our rights. The Nakba means an ongoing journey of pain, loss, and injustice. Today we mark Deir Yassin and Abu Shusha, among other massacres that led our people to exile. As with almost every […]
Having spent the last 15 years in an Israeli prison, I have been both a witness to and a victim of Israel’s illegal system of mass arbitrary arrests and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners. After exhausting all other options, I decided there was no choice but to resist these abuses by going on a hunger strike. […]
Dr. Saeb Erekat, the Secretary-General of the PLO Executive Committee, today saluted the Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli jails for their acts of heroism and steadfastness in resisting Israel’s oppressive practices. Dr. Erekat said: “We call upon Palestinians everywhere to support the national movement of the Palestinian prisoners in their hunger strike against the Israeli illegal […]
The army is investigating the incident in Hebron, which was caught on film by human rights group B’Tselem. The mother says the soldiers refused to let him ago until he names stones throwers. The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem has released a video purportedly showing Israel Defense Force soldiers taking a Palestinian boy of about […]
Leaders from various Palestinian political factions have written a letter to the United Nations in protest against the removal of a report criticizing Israel for imposing an “apartheid regime” of racial discrimination on the Palestinian people. The senior Palestinian political figures handed in the letter, addressed to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, to the world body’s […]
