TEL AVIV -- Attempts by media to interview some of the hundreds of Free Gaza (FG) members, who were being deported from Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport, Wednesday, were thwarted by Israeli authorities. "No you will not be able to talk to them or...
RAMALLAH - The Israeli government's spin machine has launched into full-throttle as the country faces yet another diplomatic crisis and harsh international criticism for Monday's raid on the Free Gaza (FG) humanitarian aid flotilla that left 19 people dead and about...
RAMALLAH - On Sunday approximately 150 Palestinians from 20 families were driven out of their homes in Rafah, in the southern Gaza strip, by heavily armed police and soldiers who menaced them with clubs. The difference this time was that it was not the Israeli Defense...
RAMALLAH - The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is helping Israel to construct an apartheid road infrastructure in the occupied Palestinian West Bank by financing nearly a quarter of the segregated road system primarily for the benefit of...
RAMALLAH - When internationally renowned linguist, philosopher, and political analyst Noam Chomsky was barred from entering the West Bank, he joined a chorus of Jewish intellectuals savaged by the Israeli government for outspoken criticism. Chomsky, a strong proponent...
RAMALLAH -- Israeli nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu has been sentenced to another three months imprisonment for allegedly refusing to perform community service in West Jerusalem. Vanunu, a former employee at Israel's secret Dimona nuclear facility in the Negev...
LUBBAN ASH SHARQIYA, West Bank - "There is immense anger as well as a feeling of vulnerability and fear when a place of sanctuary and holiness is subject to indiscriminate violence," says Issa Hussein. "Despite living under a brutal military occupation and being...
RAMALLAH -- Several Palestinians have set up a protest tent in no-man's land in the northern Gaza Strip, near the Erez border crossing into Israel, as they protest their deportation from the Israeli occupied West Bank into Gaza where Hamas authorities have refused...
RAMALLAH - Proximity peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians, due to begin shortly after months of delay due to Israel's continued settlement building on occupied Palestinian land, appear to have little chance of making a breakthrough. However, there appear to...
RAMALLAH -- A convoy of boats laden with humanitarian goods and accompanied by hundreds of journalists, human rights activists and European parliamentarians, is due to challenge Israel's naval blockade of Gaza at the end of May. The Free Gaza movement's "Freedom...
