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Marc Lamont Hill whose speech at the UN created a controversy, apologized Saturday. | Photo: Twitter / @Th2shay

CNN TV Host, Fired For Urging a Free Palestine, Apologizes

Marc Lamont Hill, a Temple University professor and former CNN analyst who was fired for calling for a “free Palestine” at the United Nations, issued an apology for hurting the sentiments of his “Jewish brothers and sisters.”

December 3, 2018
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Gaza remains under a decade-long Israeli military blockade which has thrown the enclave into a humanitarian crisis. | Photo: Reuters

USAID to End Operations in Occupied Palestinian Territories

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced that all operations in the West Bank and Gaza will close by early 2019. Half of the agency's staff are expected to be let go in the coming weeks.

November 29, 2018
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Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference Monday said that Khan al-Ahmar will be demolished soon. | Photo: Reuters

Netanyahu: ‘Khan al-Ahmar Will Be Demolished Very Soon’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday during a press conference that Khan al-Ahmar, the Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank, will be destroyed soon.

November 20, 2018
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A member of the press was injured in the attack. | Photo: ISM Italy

Israeli Forces Tear-Gassed Journalists in Occupied Palestine

Leaders of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) came under tear gas attack from Israeli occupation soldiers during a demonstration for press freedom outside of the Qalandia checkpoint. The group assembled outside the checkpoint in a symbolic attempt to enter the occupied and illegally-annexed city of East Jerusalem.

November 18, 2018
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Mourners gather around the bodies of Palestinian boys who were killed in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip frontier, during their funeral in the central Gaza Strip Oct. 29, 2018. | Photo: Reuters

'On-going War Crime': PLO Calls on ICC to Investigate Israeli Killing of 3 Gaza Children

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Monday called on International Criminal Court (ICC) to launch an investigation into an Israeli airstrike that killed three children in the east of Khan Younes in the Southern besieged Gaza strip.

October 29, 2018
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Mourners carry the body of Palestinian woman Aisha Rawbi during her funeral in the town of Biddya near Nablus in the occupied West Bank Oct. 13, 2018. | Photo: Reuters

Palestinian Government Condemns Woman's Murder by Israeli Settlers

Ramallah, Oct 13 - The Palestinian government condemned on Saturday the murder of a woman, mother of eight children, by Israeli settlers when the car in which she was found was stoned on a road in the occupied West Bank.

October 15, 2018
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Palestinians protest in front of an Israeli bulldozer against Israel's plan to demolish the Palestinian Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar, Sept. 14, 2018. | Photo: Reuters

PLO: US ‘Encouraging' Israel To Demolish Khan al-Ahmar

The Palestine Liberation Organization’s International Relations Committee said Wednesday that the United States is “inciting” Israel to move forward with the demolition of the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar.

October 4, 2018
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U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton tells a reporter how he refers to Palestine during a White House press briefing in Washington, U.S., Oct. 3, 2018. | Photo: Reuters

US Withdraws From International Accords After ICJ Ruling on Iran, Palestine

WASHINGTON DC, October 4, 2018 - The United States withdrew from two international accords Wednesday after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered the country's government to ease sanctions against Iran. The international accords allowed Iran and Palestine to pursue legal action against the U.S.

October 4, 2018
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