Palestine

The barrage of rocket fire came as hundreds of Palestinians clashed with Israeli police in east Jerusalem. Photo / AP Rocket fire from the Gaza Strip toward Israel resumed Saturday evening (local time) after a day-long pause despite calls for calm from the United Nations and threats by Israeli leaders…

JEDDAH: Iraqi authorities announced that a 10-day lockdown will be imposed in attempt to curb the spread of COVID-19 amid a faltering vaccine roll-out. Iraq’s cabinet on Tuesday decided in favour of the lockdown, which will take effect on May 12, following the recommendation of the Supreme Committee for Health…

Republican Senator Ted Cruz quickly prepared to mobilize other lawmakers in his party against U.S. aid to Palestine on Wednesday, following a State Department announcement confirming its plans to resume a humanitarian assistance program. The State Department is coordinating the program with Congress, the U.S. Agency for International Development and…

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The Equality Court has directed Cape Town's Labia Theatre to screen the film "Roadmap to Apartheid".Western Cape Judge Andre Le Grange said the conduct of the Labia amounted to discrimination.The theatre had refused to screen the film about Israeli occupation of Palestine and termed it a "highly controversial, pure propaganda,…

Human rights organisation Africa4Palestine reacted bitterly after Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng “turned down” an invitation to meet to discuss his breach of the Judicial Conduct Committee (JCC) code of conduct for his pro-Israeli comments. Earlier this month, the JCC found Mogoeng guilty and ordered him to apologise unconditionally for becoming…

: Mahdi Ali will try, for one last time, to get the old band together. There’s him, front man Omar Abdulrahman, Ahmed Khalil, Majed Hassan, Hamadan Al-Kamali, Walid Abbas, Majed Naser, Abdelaziz Sanqour and Abdelaziz Haikal. On Friday, a penalty shootout win over Al-Nasr saw the 2020-21 League Cup added…

When a lawyer tried to force UCLA’s Students for Justice in Palestine to publicize the names of their speakers at a 2018 conference, the students fought back. And won. March 16, 2021 For students of the University of California–Los Angeles, this campus event was unlike most others. For one, security…

Pfizer, the producer of the majority of Israel's coronavirus vaccines, marked one of its medical information centers in Israel as being located in "Palestine." A refrigerated truck leaves the Pfizer plant in Puurs, Belgium December 3, 2020. (photo credit: YVES HERMAN/REUTERS) Israelis were outraged on Twitter on Tuesday evening when…

Dr. Areej Khatib grew up in Nablus in the northern West Bank, and earned her medical degree from the Jordan University of Science and Technology. She also earned a specialty certificate in pathology from the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. Khatib worked as the head of the department of pathology…