April 14, 2016
Palestinian prisoner Shukri Khawaja, who has been held in solitary confinement for the past sixteen months, continued his hunger strike against isolation. 55 Palestinian prisoners have also continued hunger strikes in solidarity with Khawaja, demanding an end to long-term solitary confinement, (more…)
Friends decline my invitations and I have taken to sleeping outside under the trees, to avoid becoming a magnet of death for my family
Malik Jalal on Tuesday 12 April 2016
There have been 255 drone strikes on Pakistan since 2004
I am in the strange position of knowing that I am on the ‘Kill List’. I know this because I have been told, and I know because I have been targeted for death over and over again. Four times missiles have been fired at me. I am extraordinarily fortunate to be alive. (more…)
By Felicity Arbuthnot on April 8, 2016
It is hard to imagine that anything worse could befall Fallujah after the war crimes and criminal assaults by the US military in 2004. At the time, one correspondent wrote: “There has been nothing like the attack on Fallujah since the Nazi invasion and occupation of much of the European continent – (more…)
April 9, 2016
Ruins of homes left empty from the Deir Yassin Massacre, 1986. (Photo: deiryassinremembered.org)
Palestinians on Saturday marked the 68th anniversary of the massacre of more than 100 Palestinians civilians carried out by Zionist paramilitary groups in the village of Deir Yassin in 1948 prior to the establishment of Israel. (more…)
Hisham al-Omari, the head of the Jerusalem District Electricity Company (JDECO), told Ma’an that the cut had originally been intended to take place in the city of Ramallah and al-Bireh, where most PA institutions are located. (more…)
By Jonathan Cook on April 3rd, 2016
It might have been a moment that jolted Israelis to their senses. Instead the video of an Israeli soldier shooting dead a young Palestinian man as he lay wounded and barely able to move has only intensified the tribal war dance of the Israeli public. (more…)
War Has Lasted Far Longer Than Saudi Arabia Expected
By Jason Ditz, March 27, 2016
Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of the Yemeni capital city of Sana’a this weekend to mark the first anniversary of the Saudi attack on the country. A number of top Shi’ite figures attended the rally and talked up next month’s planned peace talks. (more…)
March 28, 2016
Today Pakistan woke up shocked by a suicide attack in a public park last night. The attack which took place in the city of Lahore, killed at least 72 people and left around 330 wounded, most of them women and children. Zaeem Qadri, spokesman for the government of the Punjab province, told the press that 29 of the 72 dead were children. (more…)