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.

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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 ...

Names of 69 IRGC forces – Brigadier and IRGC forces-Colonels killed in Syria

According to Mullah Seyyed Mohammad Ali Shahidi Mahallati, Khamenei’s representative in “Martyrs and Veterans affairs foundation” and Rouhani’s deputy, the number of IRGC forces killed in the Syria war is more than one thousand. In a seminar on the occasion of “Bassij Week” he stressed: “Number of our coun ...

"بلاد الظلم أوطانى" هذا ما رصدته بعض الصور فى مركز نجع حمادى، بمحافظة قنا، الاثنين، التى شهدت تكدس مئات المواطنين أمام الجمعية الاستهلاكية في طوابير للحصول على السكر المدعم، الذي أعلنت مديرية التموين بقنا بيعه بسعر 7 جنيهات ونصف للكيلو الواحد.

المفاجأة ليس ف ...

On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the Women's Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran salutes the freedom-loving women who have defied the state-sponsored violence against women and carry on with their struggle for regime change in Iran. The Women's Committee also commemorates those women who gave their lives in this confrontation with utmost courage.

The clerical regime's violent policies and conducts against I ...

Lebanon International Short films Festival, in this 2016 Edition, will show 61 short films coming from 25 countries: Italy, Egypt, Switzerland, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Palestine, USA, Lebanon, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Georgia, Armenia, Croatia, France, Lybia, Canada Azerbajan, Jordan, Netherlands, Poland, India, UK. The Festival will also devote one day at Tyre to show short films made by students coming from Lebanon universities and Lebanese di ...

By: Hassan Mahmoudi
Early hours of Wednesday
November 8th.The sun has just started shining on the Gulf. It is early morning
in Tehran and other parts of Iran, but Tuesday evening across the United
States. American people, as well as other nations, are still waiting for the
news media to introduce the next occupant of the White house. Whether the next
US ...

The Iranian resistance emphasizes that Mahan Air belongs to the IRGC and is engaged in transferring weapons and forces to Syria to massacre the people of that country, and is a tool to clearly violate UN Security Council’s resolutions, and calls on the Council and its member states especially European countries for a total sanction of the company and any dealings with it.

Mahan Air is apparently a private company founded in 1991 in Kerman. The major shareh ...

The authoritarian regime in Egypt is undertaking hugely risky economic measures that severely impact on the daily lives of millions of Egyptians. Economic experts estimate that 40% of the population will come under the poverty line after the floatation of the Egyptian pound.

Calls for demonstrations and civil disobedience have been steadily rising and in the next few days, on the 11th of November, street protests against these economic measures are expected.

By: Pejman Amiri
Amidst the deep internal economic corruption, social protests and violation human rights in Iran, Rouhani’s visit to UN on September 28, 2016 confronted with a large rally of Thousands of Iranian-Americans in New York condemned his visit to UN. They Demand that the international community hold the Iranian regime’s accountable for its abhorrent human rights record. At the rally, participants condemn ...

n-based charity International Alert is behind the show, Create Syria (22 September-2 October), which aims to draw attention to the plight of Syrian refugees and their hopes for a better future.

Animations, short films, photographs and audio installations will be dotted around the House of Vans exhibition space, which consists of a series of tunnels located underneath the train station.

The featured artists have all been running workshop ...

Assem A. Abulkhair:

            PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT [w]e, on behalf of the majority of the Egyptian People, reject the International Loan requested by the Egyptian Government in the amount of $12 billion dollars and any future corrupt loans, as we did the same with the previous ousted government [.]

As a conclusion of Dr. Azzam’s, the head of the ERC, visit to Canada, she and Mr. Lotayef the president of the ECCD presented, in a joint press conference from the Press Gallery of the Canadian Parliament, on August 17, 2016, the demands of the civil Society, human rights organizations and the Egyptians people.  That the Canadian Government, and the international community, show solidarity with the Egyptian people and pressure the Egyptian regime to respect p ...

“On this day three years ago, my 21-year-old sister was murdered in cold blood. I knew then that I no longer belong here.”
This bitter comment was published Aug. 14 by IT specialist B. Ibrahim, 28, in a private posting on social media shown to Al-Monitor. Ibrahim was referring to the day in 2013 when 817 protesters were brutally killed by security forces in a bloody dispersal of their encampment in Rabia al-Adawiya ...

To the Court Of History ' Document about a town called Rmaimeen '

By The Attorney at Law: Hassan Al-Hattab

Rmaimeen is a town in the Balqa' Range, Jordan that is meek and simple with magnificent Falls and a magical nature. A prison was built right on the top hill of this town instead of enhancing tourism and supporting the adequate development and invest ...

Maha Azzam, President of the Egyptian Revolutionary Council (ERC), and Ehab Lotayef President of the Egyptian Canadian Coalition for Democracy (ECCD) will be in Ottawa to ask the Canadian government to review its current policy toward the Egyptian regime.
 
Wednesday August 17 2016 11:00 a.m.

Charles Lynch Press Conference Room, Press Gallery Center Block Parliament Hill
 
Ottawa- August 17 2016
The mili ...