7 June 2011
More information is emerging about events in Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus, Syria. Read more about Update on protests, killings in Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria
7 June 2011
Former professors of Dirar Abu Sisi, the engineer from Gaza who went missing during a train trip in Ukraine last February, refute allegations in Israel’s indictment that the man was taught weapons systems at university. The indictment also claims that one of Abu Sisi’s professors studied at a military engineering school in east Ukraine, though no such school exists, the Associated Press has found. Read more about Former professors refute Israel's indictment of kidnapped Gaza engineer
7 June 2011
The Government of Israel, which has occupied the Syrian Golan Heights since 1967, has stated its intention to complain to the United Nations over the march from Syria on the occupied Golan Heights yesterday. At least twenty persons are reported to have been killed by Israeli fire during a protest marking Naksa Day or the 1967 occupation of Arab lands. Read more about Israeli bullets killed protesters, yet Syria is responsible say Israel, US
6 June 2011
Disturbing reports have emerged that a large number of Palestinians have been killed in a shooting in Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus, Syria. Read more about Mass shooting reported in Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria - video
Beit Hanoun 6 June 2011
While Lebanon’s Naksa Day demonstrations were prevented by Lebanese security, demonstrations went on throughout the occupied West Bank as well as by Palestine supporters worldwide. Read more about On Naksa Day, Palestinians carry on popular struggle
6 June 2011
As The Electronic Intifada mentioned last week, a new song entitled “Freedom for Palestine” has been gaining international notoriety since it made its recent debut on the internet. Read more about "Freedom for Palestine" song gains popularity
6 June 2011
Hundreds of Palestinian and Syrian refugees marched yesterday from Syrian-controlled territory to the occupied Golan Heights to mark Naksa Day. Jillian Kestler-D’Amours interviews Salman Fakhreddin, a rights activist in the Golan Heights, on the significance of yesterday’s march. Read more about Eyewitness interview: Israel's "blood harvest" in occupied Golan
6 June 2011
Those marching to Israeli-controlled frontiers of Palestine should be seen in the same light as Germans who tore down the Berlin Wall. Read more about If Arabs were Germans and Israel's frontiers were the Berlin Wall
5 June 2011
In an interview with The Electronic Intifada contributor Max Blumenthal, agronomist and Palestinian rights activist Rami Zurayk described how 150 representatives of Palestinian factions and refugee groups gathered to wrangle over the nascent May 15 movement’s language and long-term strategy. Read more about Interview: Planning the Nakba Day movement in Lebanon
5 June 2011
A video posted on YouTube by the website Baladee.net shows marchers trying to evacuate injured and possibly dead people in the Golan Heights today after Israeli forces opened fired on marchers commemorating the 44th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of area which is part of Syria. Read more about Video: Marchers rescue injured people, bodies in occupied Golan Heights