Ahmad KabaritiPalestinians walk through rubble after Israeli forces struck the al-Yazji building in the Gaza Strip overnight Monday, November 13, 2018. (Photo: Mohammed Asad)
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Israeli Defense Minister’s resignation should be treated as Gaza’s political victory. This is what Hamas spokesman Abu Zuhri said as quoted by Palestinian SAFA news agency. Earlier, Avigdor Lieberman resigned from his post after the cabinet...
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The upcoming National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) conference at UCLA has come under extraordinary pressure. Last week the UCLA administration issued a “cease and desist” letter, falsely claiming that its use of the bear image in the...
Lieberman stepped down as Israel's defence minister on Wednesday in an act of protest against Netanyahu's Gaza ceasefire, which he called a "capitulation to terror." This comes as yet another controversial statement in his more than two-decade-long...
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“THE RUNDOWN | Noam Chomsky has long been outspoken on political topics like American politics and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Our Jotam Confino sat down with the famous linguist and professor to discuss the hot political...
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Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced his resignation on Wednesday after a sharp disagreement over a Gaza ceasefire deal, throwing the government into turmoil. “What happened yesterday — the truce combined with the process...
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After they won their primaries, some young progressives curbed their pro-Palestine rhetoric. Now they are in Washington getting oriented. Next up: early test votes in the new year sponsored by the pro-Israel lobby, writes As`ad AbuKhalil....
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Once again, the New York Times puts a pro-Israel slant on the latest violence in the beleaguered open air prison of Gaza. The paper’s correspondents, who are veterans at distortion, deployed some of the usual time-honored techniques in an article...
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Israeli Defence Minister Lieberman's resignation is seen as Gaza’s political victory, according to Hamas spokesman Abu Zukhri. Speaking to Radio Sputnik, Professor Abraham Diskin, an Israeli political scientist at the Hebrew University of...
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This morning the billboard outside Boston celebrating Palestinian medic Razan al-Najjar was taken down after three weeks over the highway, Richard Colbath-Hass reports. “We just found out today the billboard was taken down under pressure. The...
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Over the last 24 hours of escalated tensions between Gaza and Israel, Israeli forces targeted 160 sites in Gaza and Palestinian militants fired 460 rockets into Israel. In Gaza, six high-rise buildings were leveled, including the Hamas-run...
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The move rocked Israel's political scene and seems likely to hasten elections.
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Israel bombs Gaza after botched mission; Peace dividends in the Horn of Africa; The truth about North Korean defectors.
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UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) - The UN Security Council has failed to carry out its responsibility to address the escalating situation in Gaza, Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour said in a press briefing after an emergency meeting.
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Violence unfolding in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank is part of the Israeli army's "collective punishment" on Palestinian inhabitants, Samer Makhlouf, a Palestine-based activist, told Sputnik.
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In the worst violence since the 2014 hostilities between Palestinians and Israelis, Israel on Sunday and Monday launched ferocious air attacks on Gaza, which responded with rocket fire.
As of Tuesday afternoon, Riyad Mansour, who represents the...
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States has imposed sanctions on five individuals over their alleged links to Lebanon's Hezbollah, along with militant faction based in Gaza, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said in...
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Despite the escalation and Hamas responding with rocket attacks in wake of the weekend operation, Gaza militant groups announced an Egypt-brokered ceasefire with Israel on Tuesday.
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Countries condemn the spike of violence on the Israel-Gaza border, while the United Nations is working closely with Egypt and all concerned to end the hostilities.
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ASHKELON (Israel) (Sputnik) - A Palestinian man has become the only victim in Israel, who was killed as a result of shelling from the Gaza Strip, spokesman for Israeli Police Micky Rosenfeld told Sputnik.
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