Dissident Voice / by Ramzy Baroud / July 30th, 2014 To some, US secretary of state John Kerry may have appeared to be a genuine peacemaker as he floated around ideas during a Cairo visit on 25 July about a ceasefire between Israel and resisting Palestinian fighters in Gaza. But behind his measured diplomatic language, […]
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Foreign activists among casualties in Israeli forces’ quelling of WB peaceful marches
[ PIC 26/10/2013 – 08:39 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Citizens and foreign activists were treated for breathing difficulty after Israeli occupation forces (IOF) used teargas to disperse peaceful marches in support of prisoners and Jerusalem in various West Bank areas on Friday. Local sources said that IOF soldiers fired rubber-coated bullets, sound bombs, and teargas […]
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On-going resistance in Bil’in: six protesters including one child injured, foreign journo arrested
31st August 2013 | Friends of Freedom and Justice – Bilin | ISM Palestine | Bi’lin, Occupied Palestine On Friday 30th August 2013, six citizens were injured in the demonstration. Four were shot with plastic coated steel bullets in the foot, thigh, groin and abdomen respectively. Two were shot with teargas canisters, one of whom […]
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PA minister: Israel to allow foreign press to visit Ofer prison
Maan News Agency | April 13, 2013 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israel will allow foreign journalists to visit Ofer detention center near Ramallah on Sunday, a Palestinian Authority official said. Issa Qaraqe, PA minister of detainee affairs, said during a press conference Saturday that the unprecedented visit is an attempt to alter the truth about conditions […]
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Israeli soldiers detain foreign solidarity activists
[ PIC 28/01/2013 – 10:57 AM ] JORDAN VALLEY, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained a group of foreign solidarity activists while en route to ferry supplies to inhabitants of the plagued northern Jordan Valley. Local sources said that the soldiers blocked passage of those activists, claiming that the area was a closed military zone. […]
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Pathetic! Israeli soldiers block tour of FOREIGN DIPLOMATS in Beit Iksa village
“Settling” constitutes a warcime according to international law and ICC statute. Even under US’ own military legislations’ Law resources below this article [ PIC 24/01/2013 – 10:42 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) blocked on Wednesday a tour by a number of foreign ambassadors and diplomats in Beit Iksa village in occupied […]
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#PHOTOS | Demo in London against the visit of Israel’s Lieberman | #LiebermanLondon
May 22, 2012 As Reported by BDSLondon One of the most dramatic demonstrations we’ve had in London in a long time. Pro-Palestinian supporters protested in Hendon (which should be renamed Little Israel) outside the hotel where Israel’s Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, was having a meeting with the racist Jewish National Fund (JNF). Supporters of Israel […]
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Foreign female activists assaulted by Jewish settlers in Al-Khalil
[ PIC 10/03/2012 – 02:42 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– A gang of Jewish settlers from Tel Armida and Beit Hadassah on Friday attacked three foreign female activists working for human rights groups and stole some of their belongings as they were on Al-Shuhada street in Al-Khalil city. The activists were documenting and monitoring the violations […]
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Israel calls French Foreign Legion to Gaza
Gaza Under Attack – in pictures | Attacks on Gaza – Timeline PressTV – Tue Nov 15, 2011 3:29AM GMT French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, left, shakes hands with Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman during their meeting in occupied al-Quds (Jerusalem), June 1, 2011. The Israeli foreign minister says Tel Aviv will lift its siege […]
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PA foreign minister rejects Quartet statement
Full Text of President Mahmoud Abbas’ Speech at the UNGA Maan News Agency | Sept 24, 2011 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki on Saturday rejected a statement by world powers calling for negotiations to resume within one month. The Quartet of the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United […]
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Yasmine’s Home: Putting Foreign Funding in Palestine on Trial
Taghrid Atallah | Friday, September 16, 2011 | Al Akhbar English Inspired by theTheater of the Oppressed movement, artistic director of Ramallah’s Ashtar Theater Iman Aoun places the question of foreign funding in Palestine center stage in her new play Yasmine’s Home. Gaza – Iman Aoun’s new play, Yasmine’s Home. weighs the advantages and disadvantages of […]
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UK foreign minister: Israel settlement build ‘deeply disappointing’
Maan News Agency – Aug 15, 2011 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — UK Foreign Secretary William Hague condemned Israel’s approval of a new batch of settlement homes in East Jerusalem, in a statement released late Friday. The decision was “deeply disappointing,” Hague said. “I am concerned that Israel has ignored the international community’s calls for an end […]
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Israeli soldiers arrest five foreign solidarity activists
[ 27/07/2011 – 09:57 AM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested seven participants in a peaceful protest march in Walaja village, west of Bethlehem, on Wednesday, local sources said. Member of the popular committee to resist the wall and settlement in the village Ala’a Al-Daras said that a massive march started from the […]
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Americans: facing the world and facing ourselves
By Lawrence Davidson * | Sabbah Report | http://www.sabbah.biz | July 19, 2011 Facing the world It was the Scottish poet Robert Burns who, in a poem in 1786, wrote: “O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us, it would from many a blunder free us.” That […]
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Settlers ‘attack’ foreign observers near Hebron
Published today (updated) 19/07/2011 18:01 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Three settlers from the illegal Havat Maon settlement south of Hebron attacked a group of internationals on Monday in the Meshakna valley, a Christian peace group said. “Around 6.35 p.m. three settlers attacked two members of Operation Dove and one member of the Christian Peacemaker Teams with […]
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