Middle East Eye, 15 December 2017 A few lucky children will receive the wonderful new book, P is for Palestine: A Palestine Alphabet Book, this holiday season. Those whose parents have snoozed on placing their order will need to wait till spring of 2018, as the initial print run of 2,000 copies sold out within…
Middle East Eye 15 December 2017 JERUSALEM – Four Palestinians were killed with dozens reported injured during clashes between protesters and Israeli soldiers in the second Friday of protests against Trump’s move to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The Palestinian health ministry confirmed in a statement that Yasser Sokhar, 31 and Ibrahim Abu Thuraya,…
Al-Jazeera, December 11 Amid ongoing controversy over the US decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem, a delegation claimed to represent Bahrain interfaith group has arrived in Israel to “send a message of peace”, according to media reports. A report in the Times of Israel on Sunday said the visit indicated a warming of…
Al-Monitor, December 2017 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday described Israel as a “terrorist state” and vowed to use “all means to fight” against the US recognition of Jerusalem as the country’s capital. “Palestine is an innocent victim… As for Israel, it is a terrorist state, yes, terrorist!” Erdogan said in a…
Al Jazeera December 10 The leader of Egypt’s Coptic Church has cancelled an upcoming meeting with US Vice President Mike Pence, protesting against Washington’s move to declare Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The move by Pope Tawadros II on Saturday came a day after Palestinian leaders also said that Pence, who is scheduled to visit the…
An open letter signed by 47 Malaysian NGO’s recently was addressed at Donald Trumps, pertinently on his decision in recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The letter describes the move as is in violation of international law and numerous United Nations Security Council and General Assembly Resolutions. The Palestinian territory occupied by Israel in the 1967…
Al Jazeera English Jaclynn Ashly · Dec 8, 2017 Occupied East Jerusalem – The Zahwat al-Quds kindergarten and primary school’s walls are decorated with colourful cartoons, while its students are dressed in grey-and-red striped uniforms. The children’s wide smiles and laughter echo through the hallways, belying their lingering anxiety after a recent Israeli raid…
Middle East Eye Azzam Tamimi Wednesday 6 December 2017 If you asked my mother and most of her generation what difference Donald Trump’s decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem would make, the answer would be: “None whatsoever.” Whether in Tel Aviv or in Jerusalem, the US embassy would still be sitting on Palestinian land.…
Al-Jazeera 8 December 2017 New Delhi, India – A Muslim man was hacked and burned to death in India’s western state of Rajasthan in a suspected hate crime. The half-burned body of the victim was found by the police on Thursday morning on a street in Rajsamand, over 300km away from the state capital…
Palestinian factions in the West Bank announced on Tuesday that they would carry out three days of protest across the West Bank over U.S. President Donald Trump’s expected decision regarding American policy on Jerusalem. Trump on Tuesday told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan’s King Abdullah II he intends to move the American Embassy in Israel from Tel…