Netanyahu says UN peacekeepers are serving as ‘human shields’ for Hezbollah

AP  /  October 13, 2024 TEL AVIV, Israel — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon of serving as “human shields” for Hezbollah after Israeli strikes wounded five of them in recent days. The Israeli military has warned UNIFIL to evacuate southern Lebanon as it carries out...

Gaza: Palestinian officials say 22 killed in Israeli airstrikes – Lebanon,...

AP  /  October 13, 2024 The Israeli military on Saturday renewed its orders for Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip to leave their homes and shelters as troops continue a weeklong offensive against militants. Most of the fighting has centered in and around Jabaliya, which has been pounded by Israeli war...

‘I’m betting on Gaza – it is unbreakable’

Randa Abdel-Fattah Mondoweiss  /  October 12, 2024 October 7 showed that Palestinians and Arabs remain the rightful heirs of our story. We remain the primary witnesses to testify to our past, present and future. This is not the first time first I have written an anniversary essay. I had something to say...

Gaza: on the run and return uncertain

Dema Afif The Electronic Intifada  /  October 12, 2024 Over a year ago, before 7 October 2023 and before this nightmare, my family in Gaza and I had a simple life full of ambitions and goals. I was a student in high school, and the school year had just begun. I planned...

Israel is committing the crime of extermination – UN inquiry

Maureen Clare Murphy The Electronic Intifada  /  October 12, 2024 Israel is tightening its vise on civilians in both Gaza and in Lebanon, issuing new evacuation orders in both places on Saturday. “The conflict in Lebanon, coupled with intensified strikes in Syria and the raging violence in Gaza and the occupied West...

Beita’s resurgent civil resistance after a year of Jewish settler attacks

Qassam Muaddi Mondoweiss  /  October 11, 2024 Following a year of rising Jewish settler attacks on the people of Beita and the death of Turkish-American activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, the West Bank village is keeping civil resistance alive in the face of the threat of Israeli colonial land grabs. The village of...

A ‘dark period’ of repression: Jordanian authorities arrest thousands in year...

Synne Furnes Bjerkestrand & Bayan Abu Ta'ema Mondoweiss  /  October 11, 2024 Jordan has witnessed increasing popular protests expressing solidarity with Gaza and demanding an end to normalization with Israel. The Jordanian government has responded with an unprecedented crackdown on protests and free expression. Jordanian authorities have arrested thousands of citizens since...

Israel’s airstrike warnings terrify and confuse Lebanese civilians

Kareem Chehayeb AP  /  October 11, 2024 BEIRUT – As the war between Israel and Hezbollah intensifies, Lebanese civilians are increasingly paying the price – and this dangerous reality often becomes clear in the middle of the night: That’s when the Israeli military typically warns people to evacuate buildings or neighbourhoods...

Israeli strike on Beirut kills 22 in deadliest attack on city...

The Guardian  /  October 11, 2024 UN says its peacekeepers in southern Lebanon are ‘increasingly in jeopardy’ with Israeli forces having deliberately fired on their positions. Israeli strikes killed 22 people in Beirut in the deadliest attack on the city centre since recent hostilities broke out, as the UN said its...

‘A direct death sentence’ – Israel seeks to expel 400K Palestinians...

Juan Cole Informed Comment  /  October 10, 2024 Ann Arbor – In a further crime against humanity, Israeli authorities are now attempting to complete the ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza, where 400,000 Palestinians are still residing, despite earlier Israeli efforts to force them out. The Norwegian Refugee Council said that Israeli occupation...



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Een aantal dossiers van het Palestina-komitee over o.a. de Nakba en de Israëlische politiek.

nieuws

Settlers attack disabled Palestinian in Nablus. (Middle East Monitor, 15 februari 2022) Over 150 Palestinians wounded in Isael's West Bank agression. (Middle East Monitor, 12 februari 2022) The health care crisis in Gaza demands immediate acting to alleviate unnecessary suffering. (Middle East Monitor, 9 februari 2022) Israel killed...

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Internationale en nationale vakbondsactiviteiten en achtergrondinformatie ten behoeve van Palestina-solidariteit. Gaza: two months after war Palestinian enclave remains paralysed. ( Middle East Eye, 31 juli 2021) Israel's violations of Palestinian workers rights: Covid 19 and systemic abuse. ( Al Shabaka.org. 15 juli 2021) Women entrepeneurs in Palestine. (Brighton-Palestine Connect- video) Palestine's forgotten oil...

diplomatie

Op 22 november 1967, enkele maanden na beëindiging van de Juni-Oorlog, nam de Veiligheidsraad van de VN Resolutie 242 aan, die sindsdien op het diplomatieke niveau uitgangspunt vormt voor de opstelling van Europese staten in de Kwestie Palestina. De resolutie is in de ogen van Palestijnen en veel andere...