Palestine

President Cyril Ramaphosa receiving letters of Credence from from the Ambassador of the State of Israel. (Twitter, @PresidencyZA) The Department of International Relations and Cooperation says that South Africa and Israel have maintained formal diplomatic ties, despite the government's support for Palestinians.This week, President Cyril Ramaphosa received letters of credence…

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RAMALLAH: Dozens of Palestinian protestors were injured on Friday during clashes with Israeli soldiers near two cities in northern West Bank, medics and eyewitnesses said. Palestinian medics said that at least 15 demonstrators were injured by rubber-coated metal gunshots and dozens suffered suffocation after they inhaled the teargas fired by…

BEIRUT: Lebanese President Michel Aoun sent a cable of congratulations Friday to King Salman on the occasion of Saud Arabia’s Founding Day. “This occasion holds many bright milestones in the Kingdom’s history, which, with its vision and efforts, has managed to reserve an advanced position among the modern countries striving…

DUBAI: Tehran’s proxies have been ramping up their activities on the battlefields of the Middle East in recent weeks. In Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, forces loyal to the Iranian regime have been busy, escalating attacks against US and Saudi targets. One spark for this intensification may be the second anniversary…

Actress Emma Watson was called out by a high-ranking Israeli official on Monday after posting a pro-Palestinian message on her Instagram account. Gilad Erdan, the Israeli Representative to the United Nations, wrote on Twitter that "fiction may work in Harry Potter but it does not work in reality. If it…

A man who wore T-shirts supporting banned Palestinian groups among Jewish communities in north London has been handed a suspended jail sentence. Feras Al Jayoosi, 34, pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates’ Court to four counts of wearing an article supporting a proscribed organisation, and was handed a total sentence of…

Fact Resident Theresa Baumgartner translates the disruptive approach to sampling of Palestinian producer Muqata’a into evocative digital image manipulation. Theresa Baumgartner met Palestinian underground hip-hop pioneer Muqata’a back in 2018, when she was filming on location in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank, Palestine. The DJ and producer…

Senate Republicans on Monday introduced legislation aimed at cracking down on foreign banks that knowingly facilitate “martyr payments” by the Palestinian Authority to families of terrorists. The proposal comes as the GOP solidifies its pro-Israel stance amid a growing divide among Democrats over America’s posture in the region. “We should…

Mohammed El-Kurd describes himself in his Twitter bio as a “writer and journalist from occupied Jerusalem” and The Nation’s Palestinian correspondent. He did it with much hesitation, but he shared a video of a young Palestinian man who’d been shot by Israeli occupation forces. Breaking: Israeli occupation forces shoot a…