Unemployment in Gaza: 42.7%

A report issued last week by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics indicates that Gaza’s unemployment rate went up to 42.7% (201,900 workers) in the third quarter of 2015, compared to 41.5% in the previous quarter. Unemployment in the West Bank is at 18.7%. The unemployment rate among women is 63.3%, while for men it…

MK Odeh: Netanyahu Still Being Led by Settlers Who Control His Coalition; Protest Today in Tel-Aviv

Joint List chairman, MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash) blasted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday, October 8, after the PM extended to Arab MKs the ban he imposed a day earlier on Jewish MKs and ministers from ascending Al-Aqsa Mosque (Temple Mount). “Netanyahu is wobbly; he has no position or backbone,” Odeh slammed and continued: “Furthermore, Netanyahu has…

Palestinians mourners demonstrate during the funeral of Ahmad Khatatbeh, 26, who died from his wounds after being shot three times in the shoulder, chest and abdomen by Israeli forces at the Beit Furik military checkpoint in the district of Nablus, the West Bank, last Friday, September 25, 2015.

CPI and Hadash: No to the Status Quo of Occupation!

The Communist Party of Israel (CPI) and Hadash released a statement over the weekend, in which they justify the claims of Mahmoud Abbas (Abu-Mazen), President of the Palestinian Authority when, in his speech before the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week, he blamed the Netanyahu government for escalating its crimes related to…