It started with the TikTok of Palestinian youth, and escalated to an unprecedented exchange of fire between Hamas and Israel. This is not a classic war, because while the leaders take care to be protected and guarded, the residents of…
Category: Occupied territories
Let Us Breathe!
The oppressive permit regime imposed on Palestinian workers must be abolished. When the black movement in the United States raised the slogan “let us breathe”, for us here, in our struggle for rights of Palestinian workers it was a natural…
Left and Right against Annexation
Two days before a beaming Donald Trump announced the Deal of the Century at the White House, while standing next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and backed by a prominent group of settlers, US secret services briefed the President…
Who will annex Palestinian health?
While Benny Gantz and Bibi Netanyahu are arguing over whether to immediately annex Area C to Israel, the Ministry of Health beat them to it and made a clear statement: “There will be no choice but to annex health care…
Da’am Party condemns a violent settlers’ assault on the Palestinian unionist Hatem Abu Ziadeh his wife & Â daughter
Hatem Abu Ziadeh, head of the workers’ committee at Zarfati Garage, along with his wife and young daughter, was assaulted on Saturday March 30 by a group of about 30 armed settlers at his family olive grove. Abu Ziadeh…
WAC-MAAN combats settlement employers to improve conditions for Palestinian workers
Sa’id Al Ghazali* On Dec. 18, 2018,Palestinian workers at NA Metal Industries, in the settlement of Mishor Adumim, declared a warning strike after the employer had refused to meet their basic demands. Eleven workers who participated in the strike…
Even Kites Shoot
“Kite terror” is what newspapers call incendiary kites that set ablaze the fields of Israeli farmers on the “Gaza periphery.” This new terror has replaced “tunnel terror,” which, in turn, was neutralized by the IDF deployment of a new detection…
Mahmoud Abbas is angry. So what!
In an exhausting two-hour speech before the PLO Central Council on January 14, 2018, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen) provided the morning papers with many headlines. Abbas laid into Trump saying Yehreb Beitak, a common insult which translates…
Economic Warfare in Gaza
NO MORE LIES lies or twisted tongues. Israel is saying at last what, in the past, it always refused to acknowledge: its war is against the Palestinian population. Until now, in discussions about the separation wall, closures, blockades, house demolition,…
The Gaza Economic Crunch
QASSAM ROCKETS hit the Israeli town of Sderot on an almost daily basis, but on September 4, 2007, at the start of the new school year, one fell beside a day-care center. That night Haim Ramon, a deputy and close…