NAZARETH - A former Israeli army commander has confessed to razing entire Arab villages in the Nakba that led to the creation of "Israel" on the land of Palestine. Brig. Gen. (res.) Yitzhak Pundak said in an interview with the Israeli army radio Monday on the occasion of his 100th birthday, “My conscience is at ease with that, because if we hadn’t done so, then there would be no state

Occupied Jerusalem - Three Israeli settlers attacked [Sunday June 16] an elderly Palestinian woman in Deir Yassin area, in Jerusalem. Medical sources said that Fathiyya Mohammad Ajaj, 75, was visiting her son, Abed, at a hospital in the area.The woman left the hospital and was waiting for a car to take her home when three Israeli settlers beat, kicked and threw her onto the ground. The

CAIRO - Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi is to meet a Hamas delegation led by its supreme leader Khaled Mishaal in Cairo on Monday night, sources close to the delegation said. They said that the discussion would cover Palestinian reconciliation, the ongoing media campaign against Hamas, political arrests by the PA in the West Bank, and the Rafah border terminal. The sources pointed out that Egy

Bethlehem - The Israeli occupation is planning one of its largest schemes to illegally confiscate 22.500 Dunams (5559.87 Acres) that belong to the Palestinians in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, as part of its illegal “Greater Jerusalem” settlement project. Dr. Jad Ishaq, head of the Applied Research Institute (ARIJ) stated that Israel decided to rip-off 22.500 Dunams from Pales

Al Qassam website- Occupied Jerusalem- Jewish settlers including journalists from various media outlets broke into the holy Aqsa mosque in occupied Jerusalem on Sunday morning and strolled inside its plazas. Eyewitnesses said that around 70 settlers provocatively roamed various plazas inside the holy site amidst tight security measures. They said that the settlers were taking shots of vario