Published by Al-Araby Israeli policies risk triggering an “explosion” in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday in a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Palestinian media reported. The Palestinian leader told Putin that Israeli settlements, land confiscation, home demolitions and “settler terrorism” were among factors leading to anger in the West Bank, the official Wafa news agency said. “The continuation of these Israeli measures will

Published by San Diego Jewish World By Bruce S. Ticker Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — A few Hamas leaders fully expect Israel’s downfall, yet Israel may not want to dislodge Hamas from its perch in Gaza. That is due to the equally firm expectation Hamas will be replaced by something worse. It has long been clear that Hamas tyrannizes the people of Gaza, and many Gazans are more interested

Published by Al-Araby Palestinian detainee Hisham Abu Hawash who has been on hunger strike for 136 days could die at any moment, his brother told The New Arab on Thursday. The 40-year-old, a father of five, has been refusing food since August, in protest of his detention without charge for more than a year. Israeli authorities transferred him to the Israeli Asaf Harofeh Hospital on Sunday after his health severely

Published by Al-Araby One Palestinian was critically wounded and two more arrested during a raid by Israeli forces in Kufr Aqab, north of Jerusalem, on Wednesday. Yousef Farhan, a 23-year-old from the Qalandia refugee camp near Kufr Aqab, was wounded in the stomach by an Israeli bullet and is being treated in hospital, according to the Palestinian health ministry. His father, Thaer Farhan, told The New Arab that Yousef was

Published by Al-Araby The Palestinian Post Service will stop delivering mail to Palestinian territory addresses marked as being in Israel from the start of 2022, service spokesman Imad Tomeizi told The New Arab on Wednesday. It comes after Chinese online retail outlet Ali Express said it would stop serving Palestinian customers due to the Palestinian postal service refusing to handle packages with Israel-marked addresses, Israeli media reported. Some Palestinians mark