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Islamic Jihad blasts United States over Hamas ‘terror’ designation

Islamic Jihad blasts United States over Hamas ‘terror’ designation

Palestinian resistance movement Islamic Jihad yesterday criticised the US for adding three senior Hamas leaders to its list of “global terrorists”. “Adding [Hamas] resistance leaders on the so-called ‘terrorism list’, gives Israel the green light to pursue and assassinate them,” the movement said in a statement. It went on to describe the move as “political […]

Denmark No Longer Welcoming Refugees: Rejected Asylum Seekers To Leave Denmark

Denmark No Longer Welcoming Refugees: Rejected Asylum Seekers To Leave Denmark

Denmark has placed adverts in several Lebanese newspapers warning would-be migrants about new and tighter restrictions on those seeking asylum in the country. The adverts appeared in at least three Arabic-language newspapers and one English-language daily in Lebanon on Monday. “Denmark has decided to tighten the regulations concerning refugees in a number of areas,” the […]

Turkish Prime Minister Says Europe Wants To Load The Refugee Problem On Turkey

Turkish Prime Minister Says Europe Wants To Load The Refugee Problem On Turkey

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu criticised the “ridiculously small” share of refugees the EU is accepting, labelling the continent the “Christian fortress Europe.” Turkey had taken more than two million people alone from war-torn Syria and Iraq, creating “a buffer zone between the chaos and Europe,” Davutoglu wrote for Monday’s edition of Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine […]

Israel plans to demolish 17,000 structures, most of them on privately owned Palestinian land

Israel plans to demolish 17,000 structures, most of them on privately owned Palestinian land

Israel plans to demolish up to 17,000 structures, most of them on privately owned Palestinian land in the part of the illegally occupied West Bank under full Israeli military and civil rule, a UN report has found. Between 1988 and 2014, Israel’s Civil Administration, the governing body that operates in the West Bank, issued 14,000 […]

An Open Letter To The Egyptian Billionaire Who Offered To Buy An Island To Rehouse Syrian Refugees

An Open Letter To The Egyptian Billionaire Who Offered To Buy An Island To Rehouse Syrian Refugees

An Egyptian billionaire has offered to buy an island off Italy or Greece in order to rehouse hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing Syria and other conflicts. He says If Greece or Italy sell him an island, Naguib Sawiris, the 10th richest man in Africa, says he will host the migrants and offer them jobs […]

The Gaza Strip “could be uninhabitable by 2020,” news agencies reported the UN warning

The Gaza Strip “could be uninhabitable by 2020,” news agencies reported the UN warning

The Gaza Strip “could be uninhabitable by 2020,” news agencies reported the UN warning yesterday. In a report published for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) the nearly decade long Israeli siege on the Strip along with last summer’s Israeli military assault which demolished most of the enclave’s vital infrastructure were given […]

Rafah crossing opened to allow Palestinians to travel in both directions for the first time in two months

Rafah crossing opened to allow Palestinians to travel in both directions for the first time in two months

Egyptian authorities have opened the Rafah crossing with the besieged Gaza Strip, allowing Palestinians to travel in both directions for the first time in two months. The border crossing, Gaza’s only gateway to the outside world with no Israeli control, opened on Monday for four days. Palestinian border official Khaled al-Shaer said about 20,000 people […]

Islamic Jihad to end ceasefire if hunger-striker Palestinian lawyer Muhammad Allan dies

Islamic Jihad to end ceasefire if hunger-striker Palestinian lawyer Muhammad Allan dies

Palestinian resistance faction Islamic Jihad warned on Friday that it would end the ceasefire between Palestinian factions and Israel if its member Mohammed Allan dies, Quds Press reported. Allan has been on hunger strike in Israeli jails for 58 consecutive days. He is protesting against his administrative detention. A spokesman for Quds Brigades, the military […]

Israeli police shoot dead 21-year-old Palestinian after he wounds border policeman

Israeli police shoot dead 21-year-old Palestinian after he wounds border policeman

A Palestinian man has been shot dead by Israeli forces after stabbing a border policeman at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, the army and Palestinian medics have said. Israeli police on Saturday said the man stabbed a border police officer at the Beita junction near Nablus, and an officer nearby opened fire and […]

Leaked documents raise anger over Palestinian corruption

Leaked documents raise anger over Palestinian corruption

Documents leaked online detailing two attempts by Palestinian officials to misuse public funds have triggered outrage, highlighting the corruption and mismanagement critics say remains rampant in the Palestinian government. The furor over the documents comes as the Palestinian economy is stagnating and Palestinians grow increasingly displeased with government services. Palestinian Authority officials have defended their […]

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