By Khalid Amayreh
Despite a slight improvement in the general humanitarian situation, the Gaza Strip remains a disaster area. In fact, in terms of the sheer destruction of homes and infrastructure, the coastal enclave can be compared to quake-stricken Haiti, with the main difference lying in the fact that while the Caribbean island’s calamity was a [...]

Israel’s rightwing government is not pursuing peace but rather sabotaging it, writes Khaled Amayreh in the West Bank

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This Palestinian child throws a stone at Israeli soldiers in Hebron in what might become the third Intifada after [...]

In a typical move, Israel is building a “museum of tolerance” right on top of an ancient Muslim cemetery, writes Khaled Amayreh
As if all the persecution and brutalisation meted out to the Palestinians were not enough, Israeli authorities are finalising preparations for the construction of a museum on top of an ancient [...]

By Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD
Some 100 people gathered at Ush Ghrab in Beit Sahour to pray for peace and
protest the planned military presence there.   As we were gathering in
peaceful contemplation and prayer, Israeli army jeeps quickly rolled in
between us and one officer barked orders in Hebrew. We explained to them in
Arabic and English [...]

By Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD
NOTE to people near Bethlehem-Beit Sahour area: We need you here tomorrow (Thursday) and Friday mornings at 9 AM at Ush Ghrab.  Thursday up the hill and Friday below the hill for planting (see below).
At around 3 PM today (Wednesday), a friend who lives near the area of the
threatened land of Ush [...]

URGENT: Protest against Daniel Ayalon in London
MONDAY 8 FEBRUARY, 10.30 am, outside the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Temple Place, WC2 (opposite Temple tube)
Daniel Ayalon, the Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, is coming to Britain. Yisrael Beitenu, a far-right party, is well-known for its racist policies, including its proposals to jail Palestinians [...]

Something odd, almost bizarre, is going on in Egypt these days.
About 1400 activists from all over the world gathered there on their way to the Gaza Strip. On the anniversary of the “Cast Lead” War, they intended to participate in a non-violent demonstration against the ongoing blockade, which makes the life of 1.5 million inhabitants [...]

Cairo – Some of us reached Gaza and participated in the Gaza Freedom March as planned. All of us significantly raised the profile of dissent – particularly, American dissent – against the blockade of the people of Gaza imposed by Israel and Egypt, with the backing of the United States and the acquiescence of Europe. [...]

By Khaled Amayreh | In Palestine
Despite US demands to the contrary, Israel continues to expand Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank, especially in Arab East Jerusalem
Last week, the Obama administration informed Israel that the demanded freeze on settlement building applied to East Jerusalem as well as to the rest of the West Bank. Israeli [...]

By Eva Barlett
RAFAH, Palestine – Jihad el-Shaar is pleased with his mud-brick house in the Moraj district of Gaza. The 80-square meter home is a basic one-story, two-bedroom design, with a small kitchen, bathroom and sitting room, made mostly with mud and straw.
“My wife and our four daughters and I were living with family, but [...]