Hamas insists on rebuilding PLO and liberating Palestine
Middle East Monitor / March 31, 2021
Head of Hamas' political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, said on Tuesday that his movement insists on rebuilding the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).
During a speech he delivered to the Second International Student Conference, Haniyeh said: "We believe that internal division is abnormal in...
Student group urges London University council to reject ‘not fit for purpose’ IHRA anti-Semitism...
Middle East Monitor / March 30, 2021
UCL's Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has welcomed the London university's Academic Board's rejection of the highly controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism. In February, the board concluded that the IHRA working definition was not fit for...
Poll: Marwan Barghouti to win Palestine presidential elections
Middle East Monitor / March 30, 2021
Imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti is expected to get the largest number of votes if he runs for president, Director of the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research, Khalil Shikaki, said yesterday.
Speaking about the latest survey conducted by his centre,...
Hamas registers its electoral list for parliamentary election
Mohammed Asad
Middle East Monitor / March 30, 2021
The list was named “Jerusalem is Our Goal” said Abdel-Latif al-Qanou, Hamas' spokesman.
Hamas yesterday registered its electoral list for parliamentary election at the Central Elections Commission's office in Gaza.
Speaking to the media, the movement's spokesman Abdel-Latif al-Qanou announced the list...
Palestinians get Chinese-donated COVID-19 vaccines
Middle East Monitor / March 29, 2021
Palestinians on Monday received 100,000 doses of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine donated by China to help broaden an initial campaign to vaccinate medical staff, the elderly and the chronically ill, Reuters reported.
Palestinian health authorities have been mounting a limited vaccination drive among the...
Land Day: Israel’s programme of Palestinian land theft goes on undisturbed
Ghada Karmi
Middle East Eye / March 30, 2021
For Palestinians, Land Day continues to be an inspiration and a tribute to the just struggle of an unbowed people for their land.
The centrality of the struggle for land has always been fundamental to understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
It is at...
Land Day: Palestinians mark the 45th anniversary
Maha Hussaini
Middle East Eye / March 30, 2021
Palestinian farmers say they face constant threats while working on family lands due to Israel's annexation policies.
On 30 March 1976, six Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces as hundreds of Arab citizens in the occupied territory took to the streets to...
Land Day anniversary: Thousands demonstrate across Israel, Gaza, West Bank
Lubna Masarwa & Mustafa Abu Sneineh
Middle East Eye / March 30, 2021
Thousands laid wreaths on the graves of those killed in 1976, as Israeli forces arrest dozens across the West Bank.
Thousands of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, the occupied West Bank and inside Israel demonstrated on...
Palestine elections: Marwan Barghouti announces independent election list
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / March 30, 2021
Jailed Palestinian leader's list is 'essentially Fatah in nature' but also includes national figures and independents.
Palestinian political prisoner and veteran Fatah party leader Marwan Barghouti has put together his own independent list of candidates to run in the Palestinian legislative...
US judge dismisses lawsuit linking Palestine solidarity group to ‘terrorism’
Ali Harb
Middle East Eye / March 30, 2021
Judge dismissed argument that US Campaign for Palestinian Rights was liable for militant attacks because of its support for BDS as 'not convincing'.
A US judge has dismissed a lawsuit that aimed to link a Washington-based Palestinian rights advocacy group to...
