Palestine

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Emma Graham-Harrison

Sat 14 Sep 2024 12.30 EDT

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Sept. 16, 2024

Opinion - Guest Essay By Hagai El-Ad

Mr. El-Ad was the executive director of the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem from 2014 to 2023. He wrote from Jerusalem.

"But there is only one regime in Israel-Palestine. The Palestinian Authority controls limited aspects of life in fragmented areas of the West Bank; Israel rules over all the major aspects of life in the territory.

Annexation is not a future prospect; it is a fact of life. Israelis and Palestinians live in a one-state reality."

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By Ayah El-Khaldi

Published date: 13 September 2024 16:05 BST

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By Katherine Hearst

Published date: 9 September 2024 15:41 BST

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Nikhil Singh

Fri 17 May 2024 07.00 EDT

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By Ahmed Alsammak

Published date: 15 September 2024 11:17 BST

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Prem Thakker

Sep 13, 2024

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As Israeli demolitions and settler attacks escalate, Palestinians in the village of Umm al-Khair stare down the possibility of expulsion.

Maya Rosen

July 11, 2024

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By Dania Akkad

Published date: 13 September 2024 19:12 BST

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Patrick Wintour

Diplomatic editor

Fri 13 Sep 2024 11.38 EDT

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Melissa Hellmann, Gloria Oladipo and Adria R Walker

Fri 13 Sep 2024 07.00 EDT

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UCLA students arguing that Zionism is a First Amendment-protected religious belief have joined a powerful right-wing legal project.

Raphael Magarik

September 13, 2024

On 9/11, Matt Nelson self-immolated in front of the Israeli consulate in Boston. He published a video describing what caused him to engage in such an extreme act of protest, citing the genocide in Palestine and other injustices in the world. He also stated that we are all “slaves to capitalism.”

Nelson is the third person to self-immolate to call attention to Palestine. Aaron Bushnell, a member of the US air force, self-immolated in February 2024 and a woman whose identity is unknown also did so in December 2023.

In the immediate aftermath of his self-immolation, local media in Boston covered the event as having occurred in front of the Four Seasons hotel. The hotel is on the same block as the Israeli consulate. Many have highlighted the media’s continuous failure to report on these acts of protest accurately.

#Palestine🇵🇸 #AaronBushnell #Protest

After several days of fierce combat and intense battles with the occupation forces, in a brutal aggression initiated by the enemy on several cities in the West Bank, during a new round of fighting we have named “The Horror of the Camps” as part of the Al-Aqsa Flood battle that our people are waging against the occupier, we inform our people of the most recent developments in the battle:

1. Tubas Brigade: Our fighters in the Brigade succeeded in carrying out five explosive device operations targeting enemy soldiers and their vehicles.
2. Tulkarem Brigade: Our fighters in the Brigade succeeded in carrying out six explosive device operations, resulting in severe casualties among the enemy soldiers and their vehicles, including [the] dead and wounded. Additionally, they trapped a group of enemy forces in an ambush, and our fighters took down a Zionist soldier in a sniper operation during the clashes.
3. Jenin Brigade: Our fighters in the Brigade succeeded in carrying out more than 15 explosive device operations, causing severe casualties among the enemy’s vehicles and soldiers, of dead and wounded. Our fighters also trapped enemy soldiers in three well-prepared ambushes, one of which was complex and previously prepared to counter enemy incursions.
4. We bring good news to our Palestinian people that Saraya Al-Quds in the West Bank has entered a new phase of manufacturing and producing explosive devices, the impact of which the enemy will see on the battlefield.
5. One of the main factors for resilience during the Horror of the Camps battle, after faith in Allah, is that our people there have become highly aware of the importance of having weapons and military formations — and their rôle in defending the land and holy sites, without which this tyrannical enemy would have violated our land and honor.
6. During this honorable battle so far, a number of heroes from Saraya Al-Quds and the Palestinian Resistance factions have been martyred, led by the martyr commander Mohammed Jaber Abu Shujaa. Saraya Al-Quds affirms that it is fighting this battle alongside the heroes of the Palestinian Resistance factions, united and steadfast until the clear victory. Indeed, it is a jihad of victory or martyrdom: Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood.

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Sunjeev Bery

September 11 2024, 2:02 p.m.

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Prem Thakker

Sep 13, 2024

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Was Hamas really created by "Isr*el"?

That's the argument which is often made in good faith by re-visiting the "Isr*eli" dealings with the precursor to Hamas, known as the Mujamma al-Islammiyah, yet is an oversimplification of history .

However, this assumption is rooted in some key misunderstandings about the Hamas origin story and is also why this argument is not often accepted by Palestinians who carry a greater understanding of the history.

While some elements of the corporate media have attempted to paint "Isreli" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as being the "bad apple" in "Isrel", the narrative that Hamas was created by "Isrel" and sustained by the "Isreli" PM helps fuel this notion.

MintPress staff writer Robert Inlakesh debunks the myth that Hamas was a creation of "Isr*el"

While sweeping statements regarding the origins of Hamas miss nuance, a greater understanding of the national liberation movement of the Palestinians fills in the gaps.

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Andrew Roth in Washington

Thu 12 Sep 2024 14.30 EDT

The main UN aid agency operating in Gaza has said that members of its polio vaccination convoy in Gaza were held at gunpoint by Israeli forces at a military checkpoint and shots were fired.

UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric told reporters at a news briefing on Tuesday that the Israeli military had detained a convoy of international and local staff members from various UN bodies at gunpoint as they traveled to northern Gaza to help roll out the polio vaccination campaign.