On Friday, July 19, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an advisory opinion requested in 2022 by the UN General Assembly to address the legality of Israel’s continued occupation of Palestinian territories seized in 1967. Confirming everything that legal scholars, human rights…

May 15th of this year was the 75th anniversary of the Nakba (Arabic for catastrophe) that befell Palestinians when the state of Israel was created, at least 750,000 Palestinians (about 75 percent of the indigenous population) were Israel forcibly exiled and became refugees. Some 530 Palestinians…

The details of the May 9-14 escalation of hostilities in Gaza and Israel are available in United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Flash Updates. The UN verified the killing of 33 Palestinians including 12 civilians (4 girls, 2 boys, 4 women and 2 men). One…

May 11 marked the one-year anniversary of the murder of Palestinian America journalist Shireen Abu Akleh who was killed by an Israeli soldier while wearing a clearly marked vest while on assignment to cover a military raid in Jenin refugee camp in the illegally occupied West Bank. To date, the U.S…