Occupied Palestine (The Inside Palestine)- The recent vote by the United Nations General Assembly to merely “ask” the International Court of Justice for an “opinion” on the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories changes nothing in the ongoing Zionist settler-colonisation of Palestine. It also changes nothing in the World […]
UN is accused of wasting Palestinian lives and time
Occupied Palestine (The Inside Palestine)- Israel’s colonial expansion has taken almost all of Palestine, and yet the UN is still wasting time on telling everyone what should be, and really is, blindingly obvious. Israel’s occupation of Palestine, says a recent report by the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry established in […]
Evidence shows Israeli occupation using Palestinians as human shields
Occupied Palestine (The Inside Palestine)-On 13 May, a 16-year-old Palestinian girl named Ahed Mohammad Rida Mereb was left traumatised after being used by Israeli soldiers as a human shield, according to a report from Defence for Children International Palestine (DCIP). Mereb said that during the incident – which took place during an […]
‘Israel’ angers Palestinians religiously before Ramadan
Occupied Palestine (The Inside Palestine)-In light of the escalation of attacks on Palestinians and the Israeli acts of aggression in occupied Jerusalem, the Israeli intelligence forums predict that this will lead to a wave of security tensions before Ramadan. Israeli intelligence forums monitored what they believe to be a series […]
Algeria thwarts Israel’s attempts to join African Union as observer state
Algeria (The Inside Palestine)-The plans of the Zio-nists to sneak quietly into the African Union as an observer state have been, spectacularly, backfired as Algeria, one of Palestine’s strongest supporters in Africa, garnered huge support to oppose the Zionists’ affiliation. The tireless efforts exerted by Algeria, alongside its friends to […]
Identifying as an apartheid state, ‘Israel’ has lost the propaganda battle
Palestine (The Inside Palestine) Who wrote the following quote? “Whereas the Afrikaner apostles of apartheid in South Africa, for example, brazenly proclaimed their sin, the [Israeli] practitioners of apartheid in Palestine beguilingly protest their innocence.” Amnesty International? Human Rights Watch (HRW)? Perhaps even the Israeli human rights group, B’Tselem? Since […]
104 Years on, Balfour Declaration Still Shapes Palestinians’ Everyday Lives
Occupied Palestine (The Inside Palestine)- The date of 2 November marks an event directly linked to the root of the conflict in Palestine and the suffering, deterritorialisation and apartheid experienced by its people. On this date in 1917, British Foreign Secretary James Balfour wrote a letter, known as the Balfour […]
Even in death, Palestinians have no respite from Israeli occupation
Occupied Jerusalem (The Inside Palestine)- Even in death, Palestinians, it seems, have no respite from Israeli officials intent on stripping them of their dignity and humanity. The latest desecration is taking place at al-Yusufiyah cemetery, a centuries-old Muslim graveyard in occupied Jerusalem. Last week, Israeli machinery began razing the ground […]
Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd distils lessons from Israeli injustice
Occupied Jerusalem (The Inside Palestine)- Born in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem, Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd rose to international fame amid this year’s Israeli assault on Gaza and East Jerusalem. Although his credentials as a writer and activist have long been known to followers of Palestinian politics, […]
Residents recount memories of family stories, revolution in West Bank
West Bank (The Inside Palestine)-Long before six Palestinian prisoners dug their way out of an Israeli maximum security prison with spoons earlier this month, their hometown of Jenin was at the forefront of Palestinian resistance. From the invasion of Napoleon Bonaparte’s army up to the recent gun battles between local […]