March 5, 2023 - Many commentators have described the toxic train incident as 'Ohio's Chernobyl' and there are growing fears of health problems down the line.

February 21, 2005 - A Palestinian village in the northern West Bank has appealed for pressure to be put on Israel to end the recurrent poisoning of their only source of water supply by Jewish settlers.

April 18, 2023 - By Dana Drugmand When the Norfolk Southern train transporting hazardous material derailed in East Palestine, Ohio on February 3, the subsequent release and explosion of chemicals fouled the air and exposed the community to a toxic cocktail of contaminants, including a substance known to cause ...

1 week ago - ‘Every day we see people scavenging through trash looking for food or material to burn for warmth,’ says UN agency spokesperson

2 weeks ago - Palestinians in Jordan refers mainly to those with Palestinian refugee status currently residing there. Sometimes the definition includes Jordanian citizens with full Palestinian origin. Most Palestinian ancestors came to Jordan as Palestinian refugees between 1947 and 1967.

November 11, 2024 - The second list "Pre-Mandate" consists of people with roots in the region of Palestine prior to the modern identity politics resulting from the creation of Mandatory Palestine and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. As well as native Palestinian Muslims and Christians, the list includes those ...

The General Assembly today emphasized that a two-State solution remains the “only path to lasting peace” in the Middle East, adopting three resolutions to advance this goal, with speakers overwhelmingly urging a Gaza ceasefire and pressing Israel to permit food and aid deliveries into the ...

November 10, 2024 - At least 20 children are among the dead in attacks north of Beirut and in northern Gaza, officials rescuers and medics say.

September 29, 2023 - DARLINGTON, Pa. — Marilyn Leistner feels a kinship with the people of East Palestine. It’s a connection she would rather not have. Leistner was the last mayor of Times Beach, Missouri, before state and federal health officials declared the town uninhabitable in December of 1982 due to heavy ...

October 28, 2019 - The nation of Israel should be distinguished from the land region of Palestine, defined as an “area of the eastern Mediterranean region, comprising parts of modern Israel and the Palestinian territories of the Gaza Strip (along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea) and the West Bank (west of ...

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November 1, 2024 - Troops humiliate Palestinians swept up in West Bank raid by referring to them only by their numbers instead of by name

The long-term occupation of Palestinian territory, marked by violence and destruction, has caused unemployment, poverty, and food insecurity.

Environmental apartheid refers to Israel’s systematic exploitation of the environment in Palestine/Israel and the discriminatory system by which Palestinians are dispossessed of their land, water, and other natural resources while being disproportionately impacted by ecological damage caused ...

Political Graffiti on the West Bank Wall in Israel/Palestine ... Olberg, Steven T. ... Great strife has plagued the Middle East for decades. Israel and the Occupied Territories of the West Bank of Palestine' have been battling over the land they both claim as holy.

September 4, 2013 - The site in Gaza City where Palestinian demining teams collected unexploded ordnance. Unexploded white phosphorus canisters and shells lie in the foreground.

October 26, 2023 - On October 7, members of the military wing of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad launched a surprise attack on civilian and military targets in southern

July 4, 2010 - The threat posed by the revival of the “Jordan option” is all too real, says Lamis Andoni.

May 22, 2019 - What's happening across the West Bank and East Jerusalem is not merely military occupation

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