News Item Two For a week now, Palestinians have had to deal with a new political reality. Their territories are now split between control by Fatah in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. About one and one-half million people live in Gaza; more than two million live in the West...
The union deleted the message within an hour, but not before it sent Starbucks executives into a lather—and lured them into what became a political trap. The company issued astatementdenouncing Workers United, falsely claiming that the union tweet showed “support for violence perpe...
Sinwar has stuck to demands for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and a lasting cease-fire — even as nearly 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in theIsrael-Hamaswar, according toGaza’sHealth M...
An investigation by The New York Times found that Israeli soldiers and intelligence agents, throughout the Israel-Hamas war, have regularly forced captured Palestinians like Shubeir to conduct life-threatening reconnaissance missions to avoid putting Israeli soldiers at risk on the battlefield. ...
The Hamas-controlled health ministry in Gaza says that more than 6,500 Palestinians have been killed since the conflict began. That figure includes those said to have died in an explosion at a hospital last week, but that toll is disputed. ...
After Hamas's brutal attack on Israel on Oct. 7, Israel struck back and ordered over a million Palestinians in northern Gaza to head south as it prepared for a ground invasion. Margaret Brennan: Why didn't you leave? Zahra Skaik: There's no place to go there. We're gonna just liv...
In Iran and Lebanon, where support for Palestinian resistance movements likeHamasis strong, Sinwar is in many quarters celebrated as a hero. Read more: Who was Yahya Sinwar? Charities launch Middle East appeal US launches new airstrikes in Yemen ...
How the Hamas Victory in Gaza Can Bring Civil Rights to Palestinians in LebanonFranklin Lamb
The LGBT community in much of the Middle East, Africa and large swathes of Asia suffers from heavy persecution. The death penalty for homosexual behaviour still exists in some states – and in the PA and Hamas controlled areas- this persecution is so rife, that gay Palestinians often end up...
Here is the Democrats-versus-Republicans breakdown of the Gallup Dec. 1-20, 2023,“Americans Divided Over U.S. Support for Israel and the Palestinians”: https://archive.is/FtW5m#selection-2965.487-3623.1 Do you think the United States supports [Israel/the Palestinians] too much, about the ...