Engineer and two drivers killed in recent weeks as scarcity of clean water fuels spread of preventable diseases More Israeli evil – Peter Israeli forces in Gaza killed a water engineer and two drivers who transported water to displaced families over four days in mid-April, exacerbating severe shortages of clean water that are fuelling the spread of preventable disease. Israeli limits on the shipment of soap, washing powder and other hygiene products into Gaza have also forced prices up, adding to the challenge of keeping clean and

Good news – Peter Loyalists of President Mahmoud Abbas won most races in Palestinian municipal elections, election officials say, in a vote that for the first time in nearly two decades included a city in the Gaza Strip run by rival Hamas. Saturday’s ballot marked the ‌first elections of any kind in Gaza since 2006 and the first Palestinian polls since the Gaza war began more than two years ago with Hamas’ cross-border attack on southern Israel. Abbas’ West Bank-based Palestinian Authority (PA) said the

About time – Peter Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip: Palestinians voted in the first elections held in part of Gaza in more than two decades, while tens of thousands of Palestinians cast ballots in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The vote on Saturday (Gaza time) in Gaza’s central city of Deir al-Balah was a largely symbolic pilot election, officials said, part of the Palestinian Authority’s effort to politically link Gaza and the West Bank. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas – unpopular in the West Bank and frozen out of

The Interfaith Action for Palestine (IAP) is bringing together a coalition of faith-rooted activist organizations to counter Christians United for Israel (CUFI) — the largest unconditional “pro-Israel” organization in the United States — during their Annual Summit in July. Last year, IAP mobilized hundreds in Washington, DC to disrupt CUFI’s agenda in powerful and creative ways of nonviolence. This year, interested organizations and groups can get involved by donating or participating in the weekend of action. Those interested can visit www.interfaithforpalestine.com God of Justice, we pray for brave prophetic voices internationally who

Israel has been targetting journalists for many, many years – Peter It has often been described as a stalemate this week — this war that is now primarily centred on the Strait of Hormuz. Not even the financial markets seemed to react much to the latest presidential decrees this week, which seem to bear little connection to unfolding events. This was even though, slowly but surely, the military confrontations in the strait have been escalating, with both sides striking, or seizing, each other’s assets. And

    Politics and the Pope       by Jonathan Kuttab President Trump, followed later by some of his supporters, criticized the Pope for speaking out against the war in Iran and Lebanon. They urged the Pope to “stay in his lane,” arguing that politics and religion do not mix and that he should stick to “religious” issues. Of course, much of this criticism is deeply hypocritical. These same people do not object to mixing politics and religion when it serves their interests but

Experts say attacks, also carried out by settlers, are leading girls to quit school and enter early marriages The level of evil in Israeli’s is beyond understanding – Peter Israeli soldiers and settlers are using gendered violence and sexual assault and harassment to force Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank, human rights and legal experts say. Palestinian women, men and children have reported attacks, forced nudity, invasive and painful body cavity searches, Israelis exposing their genitals, including to minors, and threats of sexual

Human rights campaigners say honour for Avraham Zarbiv endorses ethnic cleansing and war crimes It is so sad that evil is alive and working even in a Rabbi – sadly he is not the only Rabbi that actively works for Genocide – Peter An extremist rabbi known for razing civilian homes in Gaza will light a torch at Israel’s independence day celebration on Tuesday, a role human rights campaigners said marked the embrace of genocide as the official “spirit of the nation”. Avraham Zarbiv is