Palestine

The mayor of East Palestine, Ohio, endorsed former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election and slammed President Joe Biden for never having visited the town in the wake of the February 3 train derailment disaster. “I would first like to thank Joe Biden and Hunter Biden for visiting…

The spokesperson of the Palestinian presidency Nabil Abu Rudeineh said that Israeli authorities are dragging the region into a square of violence, escalation, tension and instability through its insistence on continuing the policy of collective punishment, killing, assaults on Al-Aqsa Mosque and settler terrorism. Abu Rudeineh added that the storming…

The environmental disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, has resulted in a rare display of bipartisanship from the state’s two senators, a hardline, Trump-endorsed, vocal critic of President Biden and a progressive populist facing the reelection fight of his life.   In the wake of the February train derailment that released toxic chemicals into…

It’s been a bit more than two months since a train derailment in rural Ohio spilled 38 cars’ worth of hazardous materials, including a highly toxic petrochemical called vinyl chloride, in East Palestine. In the weeks following the disaster, it seems to many residents the problems just keep piling up. …

Holy days in the Holy Land should be sacred refuges from escalating tensions and violence, but ironically, they are often just the opposite, producing some of the brutal hell that especially torments Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East. The rare, peaceful confluence of Ramadan, Passover and Easter this past…

40,000 pounds of contaminated soil being transported away from East Palestine, Ohio was spilled in the eastern Ohio county of Columbiana at 1 PM on Monday, according to several local news sources. The spill occurred as a truck driver, 74-year-old Phillip Falck of McDonald, Penn., was driving a vehicle full of…

Officials in southeastern Michigan were angry when a landfill and deep-injection wells near Detroit received contaminated soils and liquids from a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Resistance also was fierce in other states, including Indiana and Oklahoma. Federal officials say states can't stop hazardous waste shipments to facilities certified…

Nabil Abu Rudeineh, Spokesperson for President Mahmoud Abbas, said that the continuous Israeli provocations against the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem are rejected, and will turn its courtyards into a battlefield, which will lead to a serious deterioration of the situation. “The daily attacks against holy sites and worshipers during…

Demonstrators staged a brief sit-in on Oxford’s High Street, after Israeli riot police clashed with Palestinian worshippers inside the Al-Aqsa mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. Carrying a banner bearing the words ‘no silence until it’s over’ and ‘hands off Al-Aqsa’, the Oxford protesters marched down the High Street before coming…

Noam Chomsky, the world-famous academic and known public intellectual and philosopher, sat down with Al Jazeera to discuss the way things have been going lately in the region. He also shared his views on the sins of society, mementoes of his travels and the things he wishes he’d said. Al…