-
Life amid COVID-19 will get worse in Gaza
Apr 14, 2020 22:45COVID-19 cases are fast spreading in the Gaza Strip, where close to two million Palestinians live in crowded neighborhoods and refugee camps where social distancing is out of question. It doesn’t take a strategic mind to realize that a major outbreak of the illness would swiftly overwhelm Gaza’s health care system, which has been devastated by years of the Zionist regime's war and blockade.
-
Don’t let COVID-19 devastate Syria, Yemen and Gaza
Apr 10, 2020 23:14As many observers have emphasized, the COVID-19 crisis is not just one of health and the economy, but also has other dimensions. COVID-19 is already challenging our assumptions about humanity, about society, about greed and selfishness, about the need to cooperate. The pandemic has exposed fault lines in trust among humans, among groups, among countries, between citizens and governments, and faith in many of assumptions about life, not only beliefs and humanity, but also knowledge itself.
-
Coronavirus: What about Palestinian prisoners?
Apr 09, 2020 19:12The Palestinians behind bars in the occupied Palestine have nothing to defend themselves from the coronavirus, except perhaps a bar of soap, on top of which they still have to cope with the regime’s deliberate neglect and brutality of torture and occupation.
-
Israel prevents Palestinians from combating COVID-19
Apr 06, 2020 14:38Zionist regime has continued its brutal policies of mistreatment of Palestinian political prisoners, massive arrest campaigns, break-ins, killings, bombings and even crimes specific to the coronavirus pandemic, which we are currently living through, such as the destroying emergency clinics which have been set up to deal with the virus outbreak and also the dumping sick Palestinians outside of checkpoints.
-
Institutional racism lies at the heart of Israel’s internal political struggles
Mar 24, 2020 10:48It cannot be easy for Arab citizens of the Occupied Palestine to support any of the current Israeli political party leaders. Since the illegal establishment of the entity of Israel, not a day, or even a moment, has gone by in which Palestinian Arabs were not forcibly dispossessed, detained, faced discrimination, violence, and even outright killing, all carried out by regime's institutions.
-
Coronavirus outbreak is revealing the appalling conditions faced by Palestinians in Israeli prisons
Mar 20, 2020 16:02According to 2019 statistics from Palestinian non-governmental organization The Center for Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights “Hurryyat,” more than 5,000 Palestinians — including women and children ¬— are currently held in Israeli prisons with 700 suffering from poor health and nearly 300 in critical condition.
-
International complicity aids US-Israel efforts against the ICC
Mar 18, 2020 18:52There is enough international complicity when it comes to war crimes to influence governments into weakening the already compromised structure of the International Criminal Court. The Israeli regime speaks of having a common interest with the US when it comes to opposing the ICC.
-
There can be no Palestinian State without Jordan Valley
Mar 15, 2020 22:16The lands of Jordan Valley and Northern Dead Sea which Zionist regime seeks to annex will roughly constitute around half of the West Bank, the illegal apartheid wall already cuts into and has essentially annexed 10% of the West Bank, disconnecting over 150 Palestinian communities and eating into essential land needed for any two-State solution.
-
Maiming Palestinians for sport is a war crime
Mar 13, 2020 19:07The new report on Israeli regime's sniper violence against Palestinians is most profound in what lies in the shadows: the Israeli regime military’s crude but effective approach.
-
There will be no sustainability for the Palestinians without their legitimate right of return
Mar 11, 2020 20:25The Zionist regime's presence has disrupted Palestinian life for decades. It has transformed a self-sufficient population — life before the 1948 Nakba saw Palestine as one of the world’s top exporters of citrus fruits, for example — to a fragmented people dependent on handouts from the international community.