More than 400 Capitol Hill staffers call for cease-fire In Gaza
October 27th, 20230 By Rowaida Abdelaziz/ Huffpost Muslim and Jewish congressional staffers signed a letter Thursday urging Congress to back a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in light of “anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian sentiment on the rise nationwide.” The letter, which HuffPost has learned has been signed by 411...
Israel is losing support as fury grows over its brutality in Gaza
October 27th, 20230 Jordan’s Queen Rania Al Abdullah was offered a chance to express horror at the October 7 Hamas killing and abduction of Israelis. How did she feel, she was asked in a CNN interview, “as an Arab, as a Palestinian, a human being, a mother?” The monarch launched into an impassioned denunciation of Israel’s subsequent bombing...
Israeli ambassador to the United Nations says no visas for U.N. representatives
October 25th, 20230 On October 25, Gilad Erdan, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, said the Israeli government would refuse visas to U.N. officials. The statement comes the day after Erdan called for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to resign from his position for being passionate toward Palestinians. “The U.N. secretary-general,...
Bloomfield Hills High School students to participate in nationwide walkout for Palestine on Wednesday, October 25th
October 24th, 20232 BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI — On Wednesday, October 25th, at 2:15 p.m., Students Organized for Palestine, a student-led group at Bloomfield Hills High School will be participating in the nationwide walkout for Palestine in front of the school's main entrance. The group released the following statement on Tuesday, alongside several student-led...
40 faith leaders & activists hold a pray-in at House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ office calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza
October 24th, 20230 WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Tuesday, a group of about 40 multiracial Christian, Jewish and Muslim faith leaders and activists occupied House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ Rayburn office to lead a pray-in for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza as the only moral choice. The Democratic leader’s staunch support of Israel and refusal to call...
Ceasefire Now Resolution urges support for an end to violence in Israel and Occupied Palestine
October 22nd, 20230 WASHINGTON D.C. — U.S. Reps Cori Bush (D-MO), Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit), André Carson (D-IN), Summer Lee (D-PA) and Delia C. Ramirez (D-IL), alongside Representatives Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Jesús “Chuy” García (D-IL), Jonathan Jackson (D-IL), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN),...
Livonia couple trapped in Gaza, appeals for help
October 20th, 20230 In the heart of the ongoing war on Gaza, a family from Livonia, Michigan, has found themselves trapped for the last 12 days. Zakaria Alarayshi and his wife, Laila, residents of Livonia for the past 23 years, had embarked on a visit to their homeland just days before the crisis erupted. They now remain stranded, unable to return to...
Israeli forces tighten noose on Palestinians throughout the occupied West Bank
October 19th, 20230 With the world’s eyes focused on Gaza, not enough attention is given to Palestinians being killed and arrested by Israeli occupation forces throughout the West Bank. On Wednesday night into the early hours of Thursday morning, seven Palestinians, including four teenagers, were killed during assaults by Israeli forces on several...
France uses tear gas on banned pro-Palestinian rally as Macron calls for calm
October 13th, 20230 PARIS – French police used tear gas and water cannons to break up a banned rally in support of the Palestinian people in Paris on Thursday, as President Emmanuel Macron urged the French to remain united and refrain from bringing the Israel-Hamas conflict home. Macron's interior minister had earlier banned pro-Palestinian protests,...
Iran says crimes against Palestinians to receive response from axis
October 13th, 20230 Under a barrage of more than 3,000 rockets, hundreds of Hamas gunmen stormed into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Oct. 7, on motorbikes, paragliders and four-wheel drives, unleashing unprecedented attacks on nearby towns and villages of Jewish settlers. Hundreds of trained Palestinian militants appeared...
Michigan Democrats decline to adopt resolutions supporting Israel
October 13th, 20230 The deep divisions among Michigan Democrats about the war between Israel and Hamas, Gaza's governing entity, have prompted the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate to so far block action on resolutions offering symbolic support to Israel in the wake of Hamas' attack on Israeli settlements near the Gaza borders. In the House,...
Arab Americans rallying in Dearborn in support of Palestinians in Gaza call for peace and justice
October 13th, 20230 DEARBORN – Chanting "Free Free Palestine", more than 1,200 Arab Americans jammed an auditorium at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center in Dearborn on Tuesday evening to show their support for Palestinians as the death toll increased in Gaza after Israeli strikes. Speakers at the Dearborn rally focused on decades of...
Human Rights Watch says Israel used white phosphorus in Gaza, Lebanon
October 13th, 20231 On Thursday, Human Rights Watch accused Israel of using white phosphorus munitions in its military operations in Gaza and Lebanon, saying the use of such weapons puts civilians at risk of serious and long-term injury. Asked for comment on the allegations, Israel's military said it was "currently not aware of the use of weapons...
Israel tells all Palestinian civilians to leave Gaza City within 24 hours
October 13th, 20230 On Friday, Israel's occupation forces called for all civilians of Gaza City, more than 1 million people, to relocate south within 24 hours, as it amassed tanks near the Gaza Strip ahead of an expected ground invasion. "Now is a time for war," Israeli Minister of War Yoav Gallant said on Thursday as Israeli warplanes continued pounding...
Israel, White House condemn Trump for remarks about Hamas attack, “smart” Hezbollah
October 13th, 20230 On Thursday Israel and the White House condemned remarks by Donald Trump in which he praised the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over an attack by Palestinian Hamas militants that killed more than 1,300 people in Israel. Trump, a former Republican president who is the front......
A day to remember: How the “Al-Quds Flood” altered the relationship between Palestine and Israel forever
October 11th, 20231 Regardless of the precise strategy of the Palestinian group Hamas, or any other Palestinian movement for that matter, the daring Palestinian military campaign, deep inside Israel, on Saturday, October 7, was only possible because Palestinians are simply fed up. 17 years ago, Israel imposed a hermetic siege on the Gaza Strip. The...
The Gaza war is lost: But will Netanyahu concede?
October 11th, 20232 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had often boasted about the readiness of his army to deal with, and to eliminate all threats to Israel's “security.” The Israeli military, too, has contributed to the Israeli hasbara that Tel Aviv would be able to face several threats at all fronts, from Gaza, to the West Bank, to Lebanon......
At least four PRCS medics, nine U.N. workers and seven journalist have been killed in Israeli bombardments
October 11th, 20230 According to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), at least four Palestinian medics were killed on Wednesday, October 11, by Israeli military airstrikes. “Another PRCS paramedic was killed in Gaza, increasing the number to four,” The PRCS said in a statement. “A PRCS ambulance was directly targeted east of the Gaza...
Israeli forces bomb Rafah crossing, blocking Egyptian aid to Palestinians
October 11th, 20230 According to reports from Ahram Online, Israeli occupation forces bombed the Gazan/Egyptian Rafah border crossing, enforcing a siege of 2.3 million Palestinians and making it impossible to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. Following the Al-Aqsa Flood operation launched from the Gaza Strip by Hamas on October 7, Israel’s...
U.N. warns an Israeli total blockade on the Gaza Strip is equivalent to a war crime
October 10th, 20230 The human rights chief of the United Nations warned that a total blockade on the Gaza Strip by the Israeli government would violate international law and amount to a war crime. In a statement on Tuesday, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, said that a total blockade would “seriously” risk an already dire...
Humiliation vs. self-respect: The untold story of the abuse of Palestinian women in Hebron
September 13th, 20230 The humiliation of Palestinian women by Israeli soldiers in the occupied city of Al-Khalil (Hebron) on July 10 was not the first such episode. Sadly, it will not be the last. Indeed, the stripping of five women in front of their children, parading them naked around their family home and then stealing their jewelry by an Israeli......
9-year-old Palestinian boy who survived Israeli bombing hosted in Dearborn Heights while receiving prosthetic leg
September 2nd, 20230 At only 9-years-old, Saleh Humaid has been through more than many of us could imagine. The young boy managed to survive a horrific Israeli bombing in Gaza, Palestine, where he lost part of his right leg. Saleh was able to receive a prosthetic leg thanks to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF), but he had to travel all the way to...
Palestinian American journalist says she was discriminated against by employees of Israel’s airline, stripped half naked
September 2nd, 20230 A Palestinian American journalist who was barred from boarding her flight from Newark to Tel Aviv in July says that she was humiliated and discriminated against by employees of Israel's flagship carrier. Now, the U.S. Department of Transportation has opened an investigation into the incident, it confirmed to Insider by email. The......
Hamas looks to Hezbollah for help restoring peace in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp
August 4th, 20230 The Hamas resistance movement has asked the secretary general of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, to make the best effort he could to end the deadly clashes between factions in the Palestinian Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon. The head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, requested that Nasrallah get...
Palestinian clashes continue for a third day at the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in Saida, Lebanon
July 31st, 20230 According to local media, heavy fighting between armed Palestinian groups at a refugee camp in Lebanon continued for a third consecutive day on Monday morning. At least nine people have been killed since the clashes began on Saturday. More than 40 people have been wounded. Tensions sparked at the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in Saida......
