Hamas, the Islamist militia that controls Gaza, will likely emerge a victor regardless of how the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian fighting ends.Hamas’ unprecedented attack on Israel, described by some analysts as the Jewish state’s 9/11, changes the dynamics of...
A recent wave of violence on both sides of Israel and Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip resulted in more than 17000 deaths of Palestinians and 1200 Israelis. The world witnessed a pleasant moment when a seven-day truce released hostages and prisoners...
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BEIRUT (ILO News) – At least 66 per cent of employment has been lost in Gaza since hostilities erupted on 7 October, equivalent to 192,000 jobs, revised estimates by the ILO and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics...
IN 1948, the Lebanese historian Constantin Zurayak used the Arabic word Nakba (catastrophe) to refer to the forced removal of Palestinians from their lands and homes by the newly formed Israeli state (in his August 1948 book, Ma’na al-Nakba...
Israel has outlined plans for the post-Hamas Gaza Strip Administration. It wants total security to be ensured. Israel in this plan has proposed the Palestinian Authority to take charge of the territory with a multinational force to rebuild the...
by Joshua Frank
Image by Nat and Upslpash+.
As Amal Nassar lay in pain on a bed at the Al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp in northern Gaza, the echoes of explosions and artillery fire could be heard all around...
by Ramzy Baroud
Image by Tristan Sosteric.
Inadvertently, Israel has pressed the reset button on its war with the Palestinian people, taking back the so-called conflict to square one.
Save for a few self-serving Palestinian officials affiliated with the Palestinian Authority (PA),...
by Michael Hudson
Photograph Source: Irisoptical – CC BY-SA 4.0
The recent Congressional hearings leading to a bloodbath of university presidents brings back memories from my teen-age years in the 1950s when everyone’s eyes were glued to the TV broadcast of...
What sets Israel’s war on Gaza apart is not only its violent military operations, marked by the indiscriminate killing of women and children, but also its relentless assault on dissent, criticism, and even the mildest opposition to its internationally...
BY Ramzy Baroud
Image by Mohammed al Bardawil.
The official Israeli army version of why it has targeted civilian areas during the intense and deadly bombardment of September 20 in south Lebanon is that the Lebanese are hiding long-range missile launchers...
