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Israel prevents official German delegation from entering Gaza

Palestinian sources reported that Israeli authorities prevented an official delegation from Germany headed by German minister of development Dirk Niebel along with seven German MPs from entering the Gaza Strip

Erdogan ‘is no Gamal Abdel Nasser’

A recent poll has revealed that 43 per cent of Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip view Turkey as the regional country that is most supportive of

Israeli police jeep runs over Palestinian child

Israeli police jeep ran over a Palestinian child, under 10 years, in south of Hebron, in the West Bank.

Israel?s ?friends? still shamelessly swinging from chandeliers at Westminster

We must not forget what Hamas, which controls Gaza, stands for: it is intent on violence, smuggles arms, colludes with other rogue states and thumbs its nose at the international

The real threat aboard freedom flotilla

Israel’s violent attack on the Freedom Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza shocked the world. Hijacking boats in international waters and killing passengers is, of course, a serious crime.

Jewish extremists violate Ibtin mosque and deface it with racial slurs

Zionist extremists attacked the Omar bin Khattab mosque in the village of Ibtin in Haifa, and wrote racial slurs in Hebrew on the front of the mosque calling for its

Opening Rafah border helps ease tension in Middle East

Egypt’s decision to open the border with Gaza at the Rafah border crossing serves to ease tension in the Middle East after a crisis in which Israel attacked a flotilla,

43 years on: the 1967 war-revisited

Under the Jordanian rule, the most important concern for the Jordanian authorities was loyalty to the King and his Hashemite family. The King was nearly ‘God on earth’ and the

“Mad dog” diplomacy: a cornered Israel is baring its teeth

Jonathan Cook argues that Israel is responding to growing domestic scrutiny of its human rights abuses and increasing international isolation, and to the erosion of its deterrence, by introducing new

IOA banishes Palestinian citizen from Beersheba to Gaza

The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) banished a Palestinian citizen from Beersheba in the Negev, occupied since 1948, to the Gaza Strip, the Wa'ed society for prisoners said in a statement