Palestine

By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – Last week Israel … raided the offices of Addameer, a prisoners rights association, stealing some of its computers and hard drives.* This is all part of Israels long-running war against the Palestinian civilian populati…

JERUSALEM (AP) Israeli officials say they have caught the Palestinian militants responsible for a bombing in the West Bank that killed a teenage girl last month. The Shin Bet internal security agency said Saturday the suspects were three members of the Popul…

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday issued further threats against Israel, saying the Lebanese terror organization’s “unprecedented levels of intelligence” would soon lead to its fighters “entering occupied Palestine.” In an interview series publis…

In a speech at the United Nations, Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said Malaysia cannot accept the blatant seizure of Palestine land by Israel for their settlements as well as the occupation of Jerusalem by Israel. He highlighted the dire situation of the…

Hisham Ahmed was born in Deheisheh refugee camp on the outskirts of Bethlehem, Palestine in 1963.  Blind from birth, Hisham somehow surmounted all odds and ultimately earned a PhD from the University of California at Santa Barbara.  He taught for many years a…

JERUSALEM: A short handwritten letter by Mahatma Gandhi 80-years-ago on the same day the World War II broke out, wishing the "afflicted (Jewish) people" an "era of peace", has been unveiled for the first time by the National Library of Israel. Gandhi wrote t…

The Palestinian soccer team celebrates during a FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Malaysia in June of 2015. (AP Photo / Vincent Thian) Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Thank you for signing up. For more f…

To prepare himself, Ben-Gurion traveled to Turkey to study law along with his friend Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, who later became Israels second president. After their studies were cut short by World War I, they eventually headed to New York City, where Ben-Gurion met a…

The Palestinian national football club championship has been called off after Israel denies travel permits to Gaza players who had hoped to face-off with their opponents in the occupied West Bank. Israel on Wednesday refused to let players from Gaza's Khadam…

Israeli police said they have arrested Jerusalem Affairs Minister Fadi al-Hadami of the Palestinian Authority (PA) - a move Palestinians said was "routine" and part of a "harassment campaign". The Jerusalem Affairs Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday t…