Author: Abdullah Khan

35 year old Najlaa Zaitoun was assaulted and chased by PA security forces while covering the Ramallah protests. The security forces “violently attacked her with a truncheon” and further went on to “threaten her with rape”: Palestinian Women Journalists Speak Out Against ‘Deliberate’ Attacks by PA Forces (Middle East Eye) Taliban now controls a third…

When questioned the editors did not explain why, after political pressure, they retroactively decided that “a summary of the health crisis taking place in the Gaza Strip as a result of the war” “fell outside the scope of the magazine: Scientific American Retracted Pro-Palestine Article Without Any Factual Errors (The Intercept) The NEA will debate…

On Tuesday, Israeli forces accompanied by bulldozers entered the Palestinian neighborhood and destroyed a butcher’s shop in Silwan. Soldiers used “tear gas and batons” against residents and activists as they carried out the demolition: Police, Palestinians Clash as Israel Begins Demolition in Jerusalem’s Silwan (Reuters) Following the Palestinian Authority’s violent and deliberate crackdown against “journalists,…

With the unsuccessful ending of the American intervention in Afghanistan, the Quincy Institute, Responsible Statecraft, and the American Conservative all warn against the ineffective,  immoral, and counterproductive  policies that brought us to this point: Nothing Much to Do: Why America Can Bring All Troops Home From the Middle East (Quincy Institute) Symposium: Time to Bring…

Banat’s death at the hands of “PA officers broke into his home and started beating him in the early hours of Thursday morning” has angry Palestinians “calling for the downfall of the regime, and are saying they are under a double occupation. They accuse the PA of being hand in hand with Israel” … Palestinians…

Israeli security forces continue their brutal assault of protestors asking for nothing more than their ancestral homes and basic human rights, injuring twenty in Jerusalem and hospitalizing forty protestors in the village of Beita: Israel Forces Target Palestinian Demonstrators in East Jerusalem (Al-Jazeera) Israeli Forces Launch Violent Crackdown on Protesters in Beita (Middle East Eye)…

On Thursday, the Israeli army launched a second wave of airstrikes over the Gaza Strip through the night, the second flare up since “a ceasefire on 21 May ended Israel’s 11-day assault on the territory, which killed 248 Palestinians, including 66 children”: Israel Bombards Gaza For Second Night Following Incendiary Balloon Launches (Middle East Eye)…

The case is postponed again despite time now, despite previously stating the case was, “too weak and that his legal opinion would be unable to prevent them from being expropriated”: Sheikh Jarrah: Israel’s Supreme Court Postpones Hearing on Expulsion of Palestinians (Middle East Eye) Recent reports indicate that Indian troops have “martyred 55 innocent Kashmiris”…

As Israeli forces ramp up their use of live ammunition, they, along with Israeli settlers, are deliberately targeting “Palestinian protestors – and the medics trying to rescue them” … Palestinian Medics on the Front Line Fighting to Save Lives (Al-Jazeera) … meanwhile, Israel’s Internal Security Minister hypocritically declares, “The right to demonstrate is a right…

“What if all the Palestinians in the West Bank entered and protested in Sheikh Jarrah? Can the [Israeli] occupation arrest thousands? Our numbers will be larger than theirs”–a Palestinian journalist: Israel’s Biggest Fear Is the Palestinian Masses Gathering (Middle East Eye) 15 year old Mohammad Said Hamayel was killed and six others wounded by Israeli…