Tag: israel

Israeli warships bombarded Palestinian boats off the Sudaniyya shore north of Gaza City Monday morning, Nizar Ayyash, head of the Fishermen’s Union...

‘Lebanon cannot be a soft spot for harming Syria and the latter cannot be a conduit for harming Lebanon,’ said Hezbollah’s Sheikh Na’im...

PALESTINIANS are once again being threatened with a dirty deal after the Netanyahu-Brown meeting in London. After a Brown declaration that Britain is Israel’s ‘true...

POLICE yesterday arrested several protestors who were laying siege to Downing Street, demonstrating against the visit of ‘war criminal’ Binyamin Netanyahu. They were also demanding...

Israel knew about ‘80,000 missiles’ in the possession of Hezbollah,’ President Shimon Peres said in comments published Saturday. In an interview with the Kuwaiti al-Rai...

No national elections will be held without a unity agreement between Hamas and Fatah and the release of political prisoners from West Bank jails,...

The ongoing Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, now in its third year, has triggered a ‘protracted human dignity crisis’ with devastating humanitarian consequences,...

HASSAN Nasrallah, secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, has spoken at a ceremony marking the third anniversary of the July 2006 war with Israel. Speaking in...

During Israel’s recent Gaza offensive, Israeli soldiers unlawfully shot and killed eleven Palestinian civilians, including five women and four children, who were in groups...

Marwan Barghouthi, who is serving five life sentences in Israel, has been elected to the governing body of Fatah which dominates the Palestinian Authority,...

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday never to repeat the 2005 removal of settlers from the Gaza Strip. ‘We will not repeat this...

ON 4th August, Al-Hayat al-Jadidah daily carried a report saying that ‘Marwan al-Barghouthi, Fatah secretary and Legislative Council member, has sent a letter to...

AL JAZEERA TV has been closed down in the West Bank by the Palestine Authority (PA). The action took place after PLO leader Farouk Kaddoumi...

‘Three years have passed since the Israeli enemy launched its devastating war against Lebanon,’ said Hezbollah’s Al Manar TV on Sunday. It continued that this...

Young Palestinian chldren are still severely traumatised six months after the Israeli war on the impoverished Gaza Strip, charities warn. Fourteen-year-old Ghasan Matar won’t talk...

PRESIDENT Obama has urged a ‘reset’ in relations between the US and Russia. This comes after the defeat that the US and NATO suffered in...

ISRAEL’S military just after midnight on Friday admitted their responsibility for the death of a teenage girl in Gaza. The announcement came following its insistence...

Six months after Israel launched its three-week military operation in Gaza on December 27 2008, Gazans still cannot rebuild their lives, a new...

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya on Saturday said he would accept joint control of the Rafah crossing. In a news conference, Haniya said his government...

Israeli occupation forces at dawn on Monday rounded up twelve Palestinians from the West bank districts of Al-Khalil, Bethlehem and Qalqilia, the Israeli military...

TENS of thousands of supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi staged a ‘silent’ protest rally in Tehran on Wednesday against the...

ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday endorsed for the first time the creation of a Palestinian state, provided it had none of the...

Palestinian civil society has called on democratic South Africa to end complicity with Israeli apartheid. The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) has released...

Israel’s security cabinet warned on Wednesday that it will hold Hamas responsible for any attacks from Gaza, and it will also keep the crippling...

The Israeli cabinet is to ban Palestinians from marking the Nakba, (the Catastrophe) of the 1948 creation of Israel. A draft law is up for...

THE News Line salutes the heroic self-sacrifice of the Tamil Tigers and the Tamil people as a whole. They have fought and are fighting not...

HEZBOLLAH Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah last Monday, speaking in a live address broadcast on Al-Manar TV, discussed the implications of the current Israeli...

THE crisis in Palestine and the crisis in the Middle East is deepening rapidly to the point where its contradictions are sharpening to the...

YESTERDAY the imperialist-backed Rajapakse regime was claiming to have killed the LTTE leadership, including Velupillai Prabakaran, and that the struggle is now over. Its...

AROUND 5,000 people marched from the University of London Union (ULU) to Trafalgar Square in central London on Saturday, to mark the 61st anniversary...

US President Barack Obama has warned Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu against surprising the US with a military attack on Iran. A senior US official...

THE Sri Lanka Army yesterday stepped up its murderous shelling of its so-called ‘safety zone’ in the Mu’l’li-vaaykkaal and Vadduvaakal areas of north-east...

Titled ‘The Milan Declaration’, the final communiqué of the Seventh Palestinians in Europe Conference, convened under the theme ‘Return is a right, no Consent...

Spain’s National Court plans to proceed with an investigation of Israeli officials for possible war crimes against humanity over the 2002 killing of a...

v‘We are meeting under the greatest ever crisis of the capitalist system,’ Chair of Chingford ASLEF Bill Rogers told 150 workers and youth at...

UNEXPLODED bombs and the uncontrolled dumping of rubbish pose the greatest environmental and public health risks to residents of the Gaza Strip, according to...

TENS of thousands of Gazans are still homeless and without basic services such as piped drinking water three months after the 18 January ceasefire,...

DOZENS of delegates walked out of a United Nations conference on racism after Mahmud Ahmadinezhad, Iran's president, correctly described the Israeli cabinet as a...

the repercussions of the Second Lebanon War – in which the Israeli occupation army suffered a severe blow by the Lebanese resistance fighters and...

‘Thousands of our people have been murdered with chemical weapons just an hour ago’, Tamil protester Shiva said on Monday evening. He was speaking from...

THE corruption investigation into Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is likely to produce charges of money laundering, fraud and breach of trust, Israeli police...

PRESIDENT Obama, now in eastern Europe, has announced his vision of a world free of nuclear weapons, but has added that he does not...

SPEAKING before the NATO summit President Obama made clear that his business in Europe was to raise a war party for Afghanistan, when...

SEVEN thousand mainly young people from London and across the country marched to demand the withdrawal of British and American troops from Iraq and...

TENS of thousands of people demonstrated from mid-day yesterday outside the Bank of England against bankers,capitalism and the G20 summit. They...