By: Madeeha Araj

Under the Israeli Ministers of Finance and Housing’s directions, the Israeli “Tvahot Bank” granted financial loans to the Amana Settlement Company estimated at NIS 5,000,000,000, where these funds were used to build housing units and buildings in the 2 randomly built settlements of Amona and Megron outposts . Documents of the loans sho ...

“Canadian dual citizens can travel freely to the U.S. despite Trump travel ban”, is what our Minister of immigration said, added to this the minister of security said that Canadian traveling in Canadian passport expected to be treated with respect, some believed our government and lived their life normally, travelling to the US as they do usual.

Fadwa Alaoui*, a Moroccan-born Canadian citizen and her family, are among those who believed the ...

A formal request to the Attorney General

By: Mohamed S Kamel*

On Sunday night at a safe peaceful place, stood the victims with their families and friends at their local mosque to perform their night prayer. A mosque located in a quiet touristic city. A young Quebecer entered that mosque armed with hate and a rifle, terrorized the prayers, shattered the silence and ended th ...

Dr. Tariq Ramadan: Is the Arab Spring Over?

Part 1 of a short series of interview videos of Dr. Tariq Ramadan with ECCD (Egyptian Canadian Coalition for Democracy).

Special thanks to CJPME - Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East for hosting Dr. Tariq Ramadan in a nationwide tour across Canada.

The Iranian Resistance's President-elect Maryam Rajavi said, "It is a national catastrophe with rare precedent in Iran's history, when the poor and drug addicts take shelter in cemeteries around the capital."

She blamed the ruling clerical regime and the criminal, unscrupulous mullahs for this tragedy and added, "This news provoked vast social outrage, indicating the Iranian people's hatred of a regime that every hour of its rule is tantamount to the devastat ...

A Palestinian youth was shot and injured by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Wednesday evening during clashes that rocked Occupied Jerusalem.

A PIC news correspondent said confrontations burst out in Hizma’s eastern neighborhood, to the northeast of Occupied Jerusalem, where the Israeli soldiers attacked the Palestinian protesters with randomly-shot spates of rubber bullets and teargas canisters.

Several youngsters choked on tear gas ...

Israeli occuaption authorities (IOA) denied the entry of the ex-detainee Asma Abul Haija, the prisoner Sheikh Jamal Abul Haija’s wife, to occupied Jerusalem for medical treatment.

Family sources affirmed that the IOA blocked Abul Haija’s travel to occupied Jerusalem or to Jordan to remove a brain tumor.

Speaking to the PIC reporter, Abul Haija’s daughter said that any delay in her mother’s medical treatment would lead to ...

The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) demolished on Thursday morning a number of Palestinian facilities near Laban village to the west of Ramallah, local sources revealed.

The sources pointed out that IOF soldiers stormed along with a number of bulldozers the village and started demolishing several commercial shops and confiscated their goods and equipment.

The demolition orders came under the pretext of building without permit.

IOF de ...

Members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) have participated in a protest march in Ramallah, calling for the return of the bodies of 11 Palestinians recently killed by Israeli gunfire.

Relatives of the slain Palestinians and national figures also participated in the event denouncing Israel’s refusal to hand over their sons’ bodies.

The protesters carried banners and photos of 11 Palestinians, whose bodies are being held by ...

Hamas’s armed wing—the al-Qassam Brigades—urged on Monday evening the Palestinians and Muslims across the globe to follow the steps of the slain anti-occupation Tunisian scientist Mohamed al-Zouari.

In a ceremony held in honor of the assassinated pro-Qassam Tunisian engineer Mohamed al-Zouari in Gaza, al-Qassam Brigades called on Muslims and Arabs to combine forces in the face of the nation’s sole enemy—the Israeli occupation.

The Palestinian community in Germany held its annual conference, despite relentless pressure from unknown parties.

The conference was held on Sunday in the presence of a number of activists, artists, and youth campaigners.

An article released by the local press last Friday, a couple of days before the conference was expected to kick off, announced that the event was cancelled, raising suspicions on heavy pressure from unknown parties.

Armed resistance will forever remain the spearhead of the Palestinian national liberation struggle, Hamas vowed Tuesday.

In a statement issued to mark the 8th anniversary of the Furqan War, Hamas said: “The Israeli occupation has no future on the Palestinian land. . . . The Palestinian resistance has imposed a new equation of deterrence on the ground.”

Hamas added that its resistance battalions will remain on guard to any projected I ...

Hamas embarked on the construction of a so-called Mohamed al-Zouari Mosque, in a move aiming to pay tribute to the slain Tunisian drone engineer al-Zouari.

Speaking with PIC, Dr. Ossama Hamad, in charge of the project, said Hamas initiated the construction of the mosque in honor of the Tunisian scientist Mohamed al-Zouari, killed last Thursday outside of his home in the southern Tunisian city of Sfax.

The Mosque is located to the northwest of Ja ...

Dozens of Jewish settlers on Sunday morning desecrated the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards on the second day of Hanukkah (Jewish holiday).

According to Quds Press, 76 settlers in different groups toured the Mosque’s courtyards during the morning hours under tight police escort.

Extremist Jewish groups had incited its followers and supporters to march en masse to the Aqsa Mosque during the eight days of Hanukkah, which started on Saturday.

The Israeli municipality intends to approve the construction of thousands of housing units in settlements in Occupied Jerusalem and beyond the green line in the coming days in response to the recent UN Security Council resolution calling for ending settlement activities.

According to Israel Hayom newspaper, the Israeli district planning and building committee in Occupied Jerusalem will convene on Wednesday to discuss the construction of 5,600 housing units in ...

The Bulgarian authorities have officially informed the wife of Palestinian ex-prisoner Omar Nayef that it closed the case of his death at the Palestinian embassy in Sofia, claiming that he killed himself and was not assassinated.

The wife, Rania Nayef, said on Saturday that she was informed of this development without providing her with any documents or explanation on how her husband had committed suicide
 
Nayef rejected the suicide claim aga ...

Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned the UN Security Council resolution on settlement construction in the occupied Palestinian territories, expressing no intention of abiding by its terms.

“Israel rejects the contemptible anti-Israel UN resolution and will not subordinate itself to it,” a statement released late Friday by Netanyahu’s office said.

Netanyahu defended the settlement expansion in Jerusalem and the West ...

A number of Arab countries welcomed the UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution against Israeli settlement construction in occupied Palestinian territories.

Kuwait parliament speaker Marzouq al-Ghanim praised the UNSC resolution that urged Israel to immediately stop Jewish settlement expansion in occupied Palestinian territories.

The resolution "is a step in the right direction," al-Ghanim said in a press statement, and is another tool to exercise ...

Israeli Prison Service’s special units stormed on Thursday morning room No 51 in section 10 in Nafha prison, and conducted a large-scale search campaign that lasted several hours.

Elements of Dror unit stormed the room and conducted extensive search campaign, claiming that the prisoners are hiding mobile phone.

A number of prisoners were brutally attacked during the raid, while several punitive measures were imposed on them including power cuts.

he Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) on Thursday sentenced the Palestinian detainee Sadam al-Saada to four months in administrative detention, without charge or trial.

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said a four-month prison-term was issued against 24-year-old Sadam al-Saada right after he ended a ten-month sentence in Israeli jail and a suspended four-year prison-term.

Prisoner Saada was expected to be released from Israeli jails on ...

Israeli military bulldozers demolished at dawn Wednesday a Palestinian house in Silwan town, southeast of occupied Jerusalem, for being allegedly built without permit.

The house’s owner Abu Hussein Ghazal affirmed that dozens of Israeli police forces surrounded his house before starting the demolition process.

Abu Hussein was earlier notified by the Israeli occupation authorities that his house will be demolished under the pretext that he ...

On November 28, 2016, Jimmy Carter, the President who negotiated the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt in 1978, wrote an op ed for the New York Times titled, “America Must Recognize Palestine.” His urgent plea was directed to you to take “the vital step…to grant American diplomatic recognition to the state of Palestine, as 137 countries have already done, and help it achieve full United Nations membership,” before you leave office on J ...

The Israeli Knesset on Tuesday evening ruled for banning Arab lawmakers’ visits to Palestinians in Israeli jails.

The ban was slapped by the Knesset House Committee following allegations that MK Bassel Ghattas (Arab Joint List) smuggled cell phones to security prisoners.

The House Committee adopted Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan’s recommendation, which was based on Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) chief Nadav Argaman’s p ...

Hunger-striking prisoners Ahmed Abu Fara and Anas Shadeed have suffered new serious health complications that will lead to their death, Israeli medical reports have warned.

According to Wa’ed Society for Detainees and Ex-detainees on Tuesday, very recent medical reports from Assaf Harofeh hospital on the health conditions of Abu Fara and Shadeed affirms that they are likely to suffer sudden cardiac arrests or strokes.

The society, for its ...

By: Hassan Mahmoudi
Sadiq Larijani is in charge of Iran’s so-called judiciary, making him one of Iran’s most powerful Ayatollahs. He chairs the system signing off all executions verdicts and prison sentences.
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Alongside other regime officials, including “moderate” president Hassan Rouhani, they repeatedly claim tha ...

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, hailed the steadfast people of the besieged city of Aleppo, describing the massacre of the its innocent people a war crime and a crime against humanity.

She said the mass executions by the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards and their mercenary militias were underway in Aleppo, adding that inaction against the greatest crime against humanity in the 21st century is totally unacceptable ...

Damascus/Geneva: Thousands of civilians’ lives are in danger as frontlines close in around them in eastern Aleppo. As the battle reaches new peaks and the area is plunged into chaos, thousands with no part in the violence have literally nowhere safe to run.

A deepening humanitarian catastrophe and further loss of life can be averted only if the basic rules of warfare – and of humanity – are applied.

We urge the parties to consi ...

By: Hassan Mahmoudi

During the U.S. presidential campaigns both candidates, Democrat and Republican, attacked the religious regime of Iran and showed their disparity with the mullahs’ foreign policies. As a major threat to world peace and security, the Iranian regime has been an important subject in election debates on both sides of the Atlantic. ...

IRGC presence, transfer of weapons to Syria are flagrant violations of UNSC resolutions

The main Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) command center and barracks in Aleppo is at “Fort Behuth,” located 30 kilometers southeast of the city (5 kilometers south of the city of al-Safire). Iran has named this site as “Fort Hazrat Roqiye,” under the command of IRGC Brigadier General Seyed Javad Ghafari, c ...

The Israeli authorities issued late Sunday evacuation orders against eight Palestinian-owned facilities in Umm al-Hairan village in Negev.

Head of the popular committee in the village Raed Abu Qei’an affirmed that Israel Land Administration crews stormed the village on Sunday escorted by Israeli police forces and delivered the evacuation orders.

The evacuation orders were delivered against four houses and four sheds in the village, he added.

A ...

Fatah Movement stressed in a statement marking the end of its seventh conference on Sunday its commitment to peace talks with the Israeli occupation.

Fatah spokesman Mahmoud Abu al-Heija reiterated Fatah’s unyielding commitment to foster communication with the Israelis in favor of the peace process.

The group called for the need to activate international efforts in favor of the recognition of Palestine as an independent state after the UN 67/19 Resolu ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking ways to legitimize nearly 4,000 settlement units illegally built on Palestinian private lands in the occupied West Bank.

The Israeli Channel 7 said a strategic deal is about to see the day as soon as a compromise will be reached between Netanyahu and Bayit Yehudi chairman Education Minister Naftali Bennett over the settlement bid.

The compromise will culminate in the legalization of 4,000 settlement units ...

Women's Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran condemns repressive measures against Ms. Afsaneh Bayazid and Ms. Hajar Piri, two Kurdish political prisoners. It asks international authorities for advocating human rights and women rights to take urgent action to address situation of all female political prisoners in Iran and to stop imposing pressures on them.

These two Kurdish female political prisoners were arrested in Naghadeh and Mahabad (western ...

By: Hassan Mahmoudi

Amol public prosecutor Ali Talebi The public prosecutor in the city of Amol, northern Iran, reported authorities busted a network involved in selling newborn babies, with government officials also involved.

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State-run Mizan news agency cited Amol public prosecutor Ali Talebi in this regard, adding two illegal abortion clinics were also closed down in this city.

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By: Stes de Necker

It’s Thursday morning , In Karaj, a small city just off the Iranian capital city of Tehran. Just as the sun comes out, four people are hanged in the city’s central prison. On what charges? Is not important, the authorities will find something. The night before, Prisoners met with their families for the last time. A day before four other Iranians were hanged in Qeshm, south of Iran. They were all yo ...