An occupation soldier stands guard over Israeli settlers after they invaded a playground in the Palestinian hamlet of Susya in the West Bank's South Hebron Hills, chasing off the village's children, Saturday, November 6, 2021.

Uptick in Attacks by Settlers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Nearly two dozen cars in the Ramallah-area Palestinian town of El-Bireh were vandalized overnight into Tuesday, November 9, in an anti-Palestinian hate crime perpetrated by Israeli settlers. Vehicles were daubed with the Hebrew phrase “price tag” — a slogan used by extremist settlers to describe attacks on Palestinians purportedly made in reprisal for some  damage incurred…

Adel Amer was unanimously reelected General Secretary by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI) on Saturday, October 6, 2021.

Adel Amer, CPI General Secretary

During last month’s 28th Congress of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI), the delegates unanimously reelected Adel Amer as the party’s General Secretary. Having in 2015 initially succeeded the previous General Secretary Mohammed Nafa’h (1940-2021), the renowned Arab-Palestinian Druze writer from the Galilee, Amer is a well known educator and journalist from Kafr Kassem in…

Al-Jalaa Tower in Gaza, which housed international media offices, only seconds before it was entirely toppled by an Israeli air strike on May 15, 2021

Palestinian Journalists to Complain to ICC against Targeting by Israel

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS), and international rights groups are preparing to lodge a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israel over the latter’s “systematic targeting” of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, the IFJ has announced in a press release. Al-Jalaa Tower in Gaza, which housed international media…