TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
Israeli prison authorities launched a brutal assault on 32 Palestinian female political prisoners. The incidents over the past weekend, featured Israeli guards beating female prisoners, pepper spraying them, removing their hijabs and pulling their hair — even knocking one woman unconscious. According to The Prisoner Club, a representative organisation for Palestinian political prisoners, three female Read More…
On Tuesday, November 30, the United Nations Security Council convened to discuss events in the Middle East, condemning Israeli settler violence in the West Bank and the trend of the Israeli military allowing them to be carried out. Yet despite this being condemned by the international community, Western media finds it of no interest to Read More…
Last month, a Palestinian sheikh and member of the Hamas movement launched an armed attack against Israeli settlers and soldiers in Jerusalem’s old city. The attack, hailed by local Palestinians as a heroic act of resistance, has encouraged an escalation in anti-occupation activities, such as protests, at a time when Israel is ethnically cleansing thousands Read More…
Israeli settler organisations, in collaboration with the Jerusalem municipality, continue to force Palestinian families into the streets, either replacing them with illegal Jewish settlers or demolishing their homes. The latest in the saga of destruction of Palestinian neighborhoods is taking place in Silwan. This Thursday, Israel’s Jerusalem Municipality rejected an appeal from Palestinian families, residing Read More…
The Israeli government has designated 6 well-established Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist organisations, in attempt to crush dissent over growing abuses by Israeli occupation forces. Yet, despite the move making it more difficult to document the crimes of Israeli forces, it doubles as a gift to the ever-weakening Palestinian Authority. Last month, Israeli Minister Read More…
The rule of the Palestinian Authority, headed by its President Mahmoud Abbas, has for months been on weak legs and there are two political prisoners that could potentially now deliver a knock out blow. Since the 11-day war between Gaza’s armed groups and the Israeli military in May of this year, resulting in the murder Read More…