by Jonathan Kuttab   It was truly amazing to see the joy and celebration surrounding the release of three Israeli hostages, who were released this week as part of a prisoner exchange/ceasefire agreement. They appeared to be well-fed and in good condition, though I am sure the psychological scars of their captivity will be with them for a long time. But, what of the Palestinian prisoners? 90 of them, all women and children, were released the same day. But, we did not see them in mainstream

My decision is an acknowledgement that this status never held any legitimacy to begin with. *********************************** I recently entered an Israeli consulate and submitted papers to formally renounce my citizenship. It was an unseasonably warm fall day and office workers on break were lounging by the pond in Boston Common. The night before had seen a particularly gruesome series of aerial attacks by Israel on refugee tent camps in Gaza. Even as Palestinians were still counting bodies or, in many cases, collecting what remained of loved

Well that’s no surprise – Mark Freed Palestinian leader, politician and activist, Khalida Jarrar, said Israeli authorities do not treat Palestinian prisoners as human beings, describing the conditions in prisons as “the worst and most difficult since the Occupation of the West Bank in 1967”, Anadolu Agency reports. In the early hours of Monday, Israel released 90 Palestinian prisoners under a ceasefire and prisoner swap agreement that suspended its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which has claimed more than 47,000 lives since 7 October, 2023, and left

Ten killed, more than 35 wounded says Palestinian Ministry of Health, as violence rises in the occupied West Bank. It may be a ceasefire in Gaza but that wont stop the Israeli’s from continuing the Genocide in the West Bank – Mark At least 10 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Jenin governorate in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said. The Israeli army said earlier on Tuesday that soldiers, police and intelligence services launched a “counterterrorism action”, but gave no

What a surprise – Israel murders children despite ceasefire – this is pure evil – Mark An Israeli sniper shot and killed a Palestinian child in central Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip despite a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. The child, Zakaria Hamid Yahya Barbakh, was killed near Al-Awda Square in central Rafah on Monday when Israeli forces opened fire. Another Palestinian was injured while attempting to retrieve Zakaria’s body, according to the agency. On Tuesday, one

(The Age, 20/1/2025) Why don’t the media ask how come there are tens of thousands of Palestinian prisoners to release against 100 Israeli’s – Mark A small crowd came together in Melbourne’s north – sharing plates of food and dancing to Palestinian music – to celebrate the moment the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was due to come into effect. They cried hopeful tears as the deadline arrived at 5.30pm on Sunday (AEDT), but the truce was delayed by almost three hours because of an eleventh-hour dispute.

(The Age, 20/1/2025) Please God all sides stick to it – Mark Three Israeli hostages released from Gaza have been handed over to Israeli forces in the first test of a fragile ceasefire deal that has halted fighting between Israel and Hamas. Live television pictures showed three female hostages leaving a vehicle surrounded by armed Hamas men. The hostages got into vehicles belonging to the International Committee of the Red Cross as the crowd of fighters chanted the name of the armed wing of Hamas. An Israeli

ABC | Riley Stuart & Orly Halpern | 19 January 2025 Just shows how evil Netanyahu is – kill as many innocents as possible until forced to behave like a human – Mark Amer al-Sultan is showing off images of his smiling relatives on his phone. Sitting on a bench in Deir Al-Balah, in Gaza’s south, he explains who they are and where they fit on his family tree. He stops swiping when a montage of multiple faces fills the screen. “That’s a picture of all

The Age (& SMH) / AP | Samy Magdy | 19 January 2025 Please God all sides stick to it – Mark Israel’s cabinet approved a deal early on Saturday for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of dozens of hostages that will pause the 15-month war with Hamas for six weeks. The deal brings Israel and Hamas a step closer to ending their deadliest and most destructive fighting ever. The ceasefire – just the second achieved during the war – is expected to begin