Jeffrey Stevens, Author at ArabAmericanNews

Jeffrey Stevens

Jeffrey Stevens is a senior writer with ThinkCivics News. He’s covered the Israeli occupation since the 11-Day War in May of 2021. Jeffrey is also the director of The Azarias Project, publishing the truth from the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem that isn’t found through mainstream media.

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Iran

Report reveals secret talks between Western officials and Iranian representatives

March 24th, 20230 There have recently been “secret” talks between Western officials and representatives of the establishment ruling Iran. Iranian sources close to the negotiations are saying President Ebrahim Raisi’s government wasn’t informed of the dialogue. There has been a recent trend of seeing a figure close to Supreme Leader Sayyed Ali...

Crime

U.S. rights groups call on the Biden administration to ban Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich from entering the country

March 10th, 20230 Several advocacy and rights groups throughout the United States are calling for the U.S. government to issue an entry ban on Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s finance minister, after Smotrich called for Huwwara to be “wiped out” earlier this week. Through multiple statements, several groups, including rabbinical groups and...

Lebanon

Nasrallah warns U.S.: If you push Lebanon into chaos, we will retaliate against your “protégé” Israel

February 17th, 20231 BEIRUT – Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is threatening the Israeli Karish gas field with warnings that if there is “procrastination” with gas extraction from Lebanese waters for Lebanon, operations will be stopped at the Israeli Karish field. “If there is an intentional procrastination regarding the issue...

Palestine

Israeli occupation forces invaded refugee camp, killed five Palestinians and held their bodies

February 6th, 20230 Israeli occupation forces invaded the Aqbat Jabr refugee camp near the West Bank city of Jericho early Monday morning, killing at least five Palestinians during the invasion. The bodies of the victims are being withheld by occupation forces. Malik Awni Lafi, 22, Thaer Owidat, 28, Rafaat Wael Owidat, 21, Adham Majdi Owidat, 22, and...

Palestine

leaked British documents reveal former President George W. Bush ordered the CIA to find a replacement for Arafat

February 3rd, 20230 The BBC is reporting that British documents have been leaked confirming former U.S. President George W Bush ordered the CIA to find a replacement for former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Bush’s order followed the escalation of the Second Intifada in 2001. The CIA effort came after negotiations failed between then-Israeli Prime...

Palestine

Jenin resists: Israeli raid at Palestinian refugee camp kills 10, injures dozens

January 26th, 20230 At least 10 Palestinians were killed Thursday during an Israeli raid at the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank. According to the Palestinian health ministry, nine Palestinians were shot and killed by Israeli forces, including an elderly woman, and at least 20 others were seriously wounded. At least four people were in critical...

Palestine

U.S. senators visit Israel, ask not to meet with far-right ministers

January 20th, 20230 According to an Israeli official, a delegation of U.S. senators arrived in Israel on Tuesday, asking not to meet with far-right ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, along with any other members of their hardline factions. Democratic Senator Jacky Rosen’s office made the request. Rosen co-leads the bipartisan delegation...

Iraq

U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin discusses her trip to the Middle East, painful lessons from U.S. invasion of Iraq

January 7th, 20230 U.S. Rep. Elissa Blair Slotkin (D- Holly) recently returned from a nine-day trip to the Middle East over Thanksgiving. The Congressional Delegation of House Veterans Affairs Committee members visited Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq and Lebanon. Slotkin had to miss the Lebanon portion of the trip due to President Biden’s visit to Bay City,...

Palestine

The next generation of resistance fighters: An interview with a Palestinian activist

December 12th, 20220 A commander of Palestinian Islamic Jihad and another Palestinian resistance fighter were killed early Thursday morning in clashes between Palestinians and Israeli occupation forces near Jenin. The clashes happened after the IOF raided the city overnight to conduct arrests. According to the Spokesperson’s Unit of the IOF, three...

Palestine

Israeli occupying forces kill a Palestinian teen, injure dozens in the West Bank

November 25th, 20220 NABLUS, WEST BANK – Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager Tuesday night during an Israeli incursion near Nablus in the occupied West Bank. Ahmad Amjad Shehada was shot during a confrontation while Israeli occupation forces secured an Israeli settler incursion at the site of Yosuf’s Tomb. Amjad was only...

Saudi Arabia joins Shanghai Cooperation Organization, ignores U.S. concerns

World