15 October 2011
Palestinian lawmakers in Jerusalem — kidnapped, arrested and threatened with deportation by the Israeli government — denounce the International Committee of the Red Cross for not adequately protecting them. Read more about Red Cross slammed for silence over arrest of Palestinian lawmaker
Gaza City 13 October 2011
Amidst the ongoing Israeli blockade and an increasingly conservative socio-political atmosphere, musicians in the Gaza Strip face a myriad of performance obstacles. Read more about Gaza musicians find themselves confined to stag parties
Jerusalem 12 October 2011
Palestinian and Israeli security forces urged to allow journalists do their work. Read more about Israel increases use of bullets, tear gas against journalists
11 October 2011
The US Congress has voted to freeze aid to the Palestinian Authority worth $200 million. The common theme of the freeze is the disruption of activities that might reinforce the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) drive for statehood. Read more about US aid freeze designed to further punish Palestinians
Gaza City 5 October 2011
As reports come in that the US may be preparing to cut a substantial portion of the aid it gives to the Palestinian Authority because of its bid for statehood, people in the occupied West Bank and Gaza are bracing for possible consequences. Read more about Palestinians brace for US aid cut following PA statehood bid
4 October 2011
Thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip rallied in recent days in support of political prisoners who are protesting worsening conditions in Israeli detention. Thousands of prisoners are said to be taking part in the civil disobedience protests which began on 27 September. Read more about Action urged as Israel punishes dozens of hunger-striking political prisoners
22 September 2011
Ayed Dudeen is back behind bars again; he has already spent four years in Israeli custody. Read more about Israeli "administrative detention" punishes entire family
Gaza Strip 20 September 2011
National Palestinian consensus on the Palestinian Authority’s UN statehood bid, as The Electronic Intifada’s interviews with various factions and broader debates indicate, is decidedly lacking. Read more about PA goes to UN without Palestinian consensus behind it
1 September 2011
Why Palestinians are increasingly dissatisfied with their political leadership and why this leadership is considered an obstacle on the road toward liberation. Read more about Telling off Palestinian leadership for being "idiots"
26 August 2011
How Western press tries to divert attention from the real suffering that should be addressed in Gaza resulting from Israel’s inhuman policy toward the Palestinians. Issues like “abuse of Gaza women’s rights” and “the rising middle class” are quite ridiculous to deal with at a time when the people of the Gaza Strip, both wealthy and poor, are woken from their sleep by Israeli warplanes bombing their neighborhoods. Read more about Western press and addressing grievances in Gaza