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A bomb explodes during clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli security forces east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip near the Israel-Gaza border fence on September 23, 2023. (AFP) Israel has imposed an air, land and sea blockade on the impoverished Palestinian enclave ever since the Islamist group Hamas seized control in 2007 GAZA… Continue reading Israel strikes Gaza again amid new violence at border

Posted 7h ago7 hours ago (ABC Australia, 25/9/2023) ( https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-24/israeli-forces-kill-two-palestinians-in-west-bank-raid-hamas-eme/102895468 ) Israeli forces have killed two Palestinians, including a fighter of the Hamas group, during a raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, emergency workers and Hamas said. Key points: The Nur Shams camp near Tulkarm was raided in the early hours of Sunday morning Israeli… Continue reading Two Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in ‘counter-terrorism activity’ in West Bank

In our last blog we commented on Archbishop Welby’ September 6th lecture about “Reconciliation” in the Middle East. Archbishop Welby meeting Benjamin Netanyahu The event was organised by Embrace the Middle East and hosted by St. Martins in the Fields, London, as part of a series that takes as its theme the words of Martin… Continue reading Archbishop, “you stand on unfirm ground”

One night in 2005, Israeli soldiers came for Huda Dahbour’s teenage son. He was gone for a year and a half. The damage done to their family – and so many others like them – was incalculable The Guardian | Nathan Thrall | 21 Sep 2023 This is an edited extract from A Day in… Continue reading ‘A hidden universe of suffering’: the Palestinian children sent to jail

AAP | Shepparton News | Sep 22, 2023 Foreign Minister Penny Wong has held a “very positive, constructive meeting” with her Israeli counterpart after Australia’s position returned to referencing “occupied Palestinian territories”. The government is strengthening its opposition to settlements, affirming them as illegal under international law. Speaking from New York on Friday, Senator Wong… Continue reading Positive, constructive meeting’ with Israeli FM: Wong

A United Nations conference has voted to list ruins of the ancient West Bank city of Jericho as a World Heritage Site in Palestine, a decision likely to anger Israel, which controls the territory and does not recognise a Palestinian state. Jericho is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities on Earth and is in… Continue reading Palestine’s Ruins of Jericho to be listed as World Heritage Site

Dozens of Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque on last day of Rosh Hashanah under the protection of occupation forces, the latter assaulting Palestinian worshippers. Israeli forces have attacked Palestinian worshippers at Bab as-Silsila, one of the main entrances to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, according to local sources. Israeli forces imposed tight… Continue reading Israeli forces attack Palestinian worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man along the Gaza-Israel border on Tuesday and three Palestinian men in clashes in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, Palestinian officials said. Key points: -A Palestinian Presidency official says the “ongoing aggression” will bring “violence and escalation to the entire region” -The Israeli military says  “hundreds… Continue reading Palestinian officials say one killed at Gaza border by Israeli fire, three in West Bank

September 16, 2023 Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)  Palestine, Lebanon On this day in 1982, under the oversight and control of the Israeli occupation forces, a fanatic, Israeli-backed Lebanese militia began a planned 3-day brutal massacre of several thousand Palestinian refugees, along with Lebanese civilians, in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in occupied Beirut.  The majority of residents in the camps… Continue reading 41 years on, we honour the victims of the Israeli-sponsored massacre at Sabra and Shatila

The Canberra Times / AAP | 17.9.23 A United Nations conference has voted to list ruins of the ancient West Bank city of Jericho as a World Heritage Site in Palestine, a decision likely to anger Israel, which controls the territory and does not recognise a Palestinian state. Jericho is one of the oldest continually… Continue reading Ruins of Jericho to be listed as World Heritage Site