Palestine

Updated Sep 23rd 2022, 7:00 AM Christina Finn reports from New York:  TAOISEACH MICHEÁL MARTIN has used Ireland’s statement to the UN General Assembly to voice his deep frustration in the UN Security Council’s “failure to act” on a number of issues, such as climate change and Palestine. Ireland was…

TAYFUN COSKUN / ANADOLU AGENCY / GETTY IMAGES Twenty years ago, Tallie Ben Daniel was a college student wandering the campus of the University of California, Santa Cruz, when she came across a bumper sticker that read “Free Palestine.” Born to an Israeli family in Los Angeles, Ben Daniel had…

Canada is silent on Israeli aggression in Palestine yet it’s quick to condemn Russia’s attack on Ukraine, activists say The post Palestinians accuse Canada of having a double standard on Israel appeared first on New Canadian Media . Alberta resident Suleiman Baraka has a tragic yet familiar story for many…

The move follows months of intense backlash that McGill’s Solidarity for Palestinian Human group have faced over their proposed Palestine Solidarity Policy. The Arts Building at McGill University. Credit: DXR / Wikimedia Commons Last month, Jewish service organization B’nai Brith announced that they’ll be funding McGill student Jonah Fried’s lawsuit…

Nineteen Palestinian children have been killed in the occupied territories in the recent unrest, taking the total number this year to 37, the UN says. — AFP/ Said Khatib GENEVA: The UN rights chief voiced alarm Thursday at the number of Palestinian children killed and wounded this month and demanded…

For 55 years, the Green Line has shut down our political imagination. Its disappearance gives us a chance to do things differently. August 10, 2022 EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was produced in collaboration with +972 Magazine and Local Call, two media outlets run by Palestinian and Israeli journalists. It is one…

At 4pm last Friday, residents of the Palestine apartment building on Al-Shohada Street in Gaza were eating, sleeping or relaxing on their day off. Then, the Israelis struck the complex from above. Their target was a man called Tayseer al Jabari who was visiting relatives on the sixth floor. He…

A rocket is launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, in Gaza City. Photo / AP Close to one-third of the Palestinians who died in the latest outbreak of violence between Israel and Gaza militants may have been killed by errant rockets fired by the Palestinian side, according to an…

The flare-up was the worst fighting between Israel and Gaza militant groups since Israel and Hamas fought an 11-day war last year The flare-up was the worst fighting between Israel and Gaza militant groups since Israel and Hamas fought an 11-day war last year A ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian…

Smoke rises after Israeli airstrikes on a residential building in Gaza. Photo / Adel Hana, AP Israeli aircraft pummeled targets in the Gaza Strip, raising the Palestinian death toll, and militants fired repeated rounds of rockets that reached deep into Israel, even as reports emerged that the sides were seeking…