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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu vowed on Tuesday that Turkey’s policy on Palestine will not change, despite the country’s attempts to normalise ties with Israel. Turkey will continue to support the creation of an independent Palestinian state, the Turkish FM said during a press conference with Palestinian counterpart Riyad al-Maliki in the occupied West Bank. “Our support for the Palestinian cause is completely independent of our ties with Israel, but I would like to say that our Palestine policy cannot be changed,” Cavusoglu said. In a video recapping his one-day visit to Palestine,… Continue reading “Turkey FM: Israel normalisation won’t harm Palestine policy”

The Palestinian education ministry announced on Tuesday that the academic year for Palestinian public schools, originally to end in the first week of June, will be extended one week, in order to compensate for the loss in class time due to the month-long general strike by public school teachers. The decision came after news circulated last Thursday about an agreement being reached between representatives of the Independent Teachers’ Movement, a non-official assembly of teachers running the strike, and the Palestinian government, at a meeting in Hebron on Wednesday. According to Palestinian med… Continue reading “Palestinian public school teachers to end two-month strike”

The Palestinian foreign ministry has said it has handed over the case of the killing of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to the International Criminal Court. The ministry submitted a letter to the ICC of various crimes committed by Israel, particularly the “crime of execution” of Abu Akleh. “As is the case with previous periodic reports, the ministry called on the ICC to adopt this report in order to expedite its investigations and bring criminals and murderers to international justice,” said the ministry in a statement carried by Palestinian Authority’s official news agency Wafa. Fift… Continue reading “Palestine refers Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing to ICC”

One recent Friday afternoon in Berlin, a handful of far-right activists gathered near Brandenburg Gate. The group of men stood around with bicycles and flags, including some from the so-called Reichsbürger scene, a collection of far-right extremists who pledge allegiance to the German Reich that existed up until 1945. The red, white, and black German Imperial Flag used by Reichsbürger groups is a well-known hate symbol throughout the country, a kind of unofficial substitute for the banned Swastika. Numerous so-called Reichsbürgers, who are free to wave the flag virtually whenever they please, … Continue reading “Germany’s crackdown on pro-Palestine solidarity”

Israeli forces arrested 1,228 Palestinians in April, including 156 minors and 11 women, Palestinian prisoners’ support organizations said in a joint statement on Monday. The month of April witnessed the highest rate of arrests by Israeli forces since the beginning of the year, the statement released by the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, Addameer Association for Prisoners’ Support, the Palestinian Higher Commission for Prisoners Affairs and the Wadi Hilweh Information Centre in Jerusalem said. The statement specified that during the same period, Israeli forces issued 68 new administrative detenti… Continue reading “Israel arrested 1,228 Palestinians in April: report”

A Palestinian baby was left hospitalised and in serious condition when Israeli settlers attacked her parents’ car and pepper-sprayed them in the occupied West Bank. Settlers on Monday evening attacked Palestinians commuting on a road linking the cities of Jenin and Nablus. One of the vehicle passengers was an infant who suffocated after being sprayed by the settlers. “Look at his swollen eyes, he’s a baby and these settlers still won’t give him mercy”, an eyewitness said whilst filming his father cradling him with an oxygen mask. The baby’s father said the attack took place in front of occupyi… Continue reading “Palestinian baby hospitalised after settler attack”

“When I arrived in Jenin, I did not expect to relive this overwhelming feeling” Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Aklehwrote last October. “Jenin is still the same inextinguishable flame that is home to fearless young men who are not intimidated by any potential Israeli invasion” she said. “In Jenin, we met people who have never given up hope; they have not allowed fear to infiltrate their hearts and have not been broken by the Israeli occupation forces.” Tragically, it was under a similar Israeli invasion in the same occupied Jenin that she spoke about, that Shireen Abu Aklehfell to an Israe… Continue reading “Shireen Abu Akleh: Beware of passive mourners”

Israeli soldiers used a 16-year-old Palestinian girl as a human shield last week in the West Bank city of Jenin, a Palestinian human rights organisation has said. The troops forced Ahed Mohammed Rida Mereb to stand in front of their military vehicle in the Al-Hadaf area of Jenin while Palestinian militants fired on them, Defence for Children International Palestine (DCIP) said in a statement sent to The New Arab. She spent two hours outside the vehicle while the troops took cover inside. DCIP reported that she was so traumatised that she had to be hospitalised for intense mental stress and a s… Continue reading “Israeli soldiers ‘used Palestinian girl as human shield’”