Paris, 20 October—UNESCO Director-General, Audrey Azoulay, firmly condemned the brutal killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which was officially confirmed by authorities in Saudi Arabia last night.

“I firmly condemn the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi,” said the Director-General.

“The killing of Jamal Khashoggi reminds us of the need to fight for press freedom, which is essential to democracy. Accountability for ...

Tayseer Khaled , member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), member of the politbureau of the Democratic Front of the Liberation of Palestine warned of the grave consequences of the Israeli government's policy of dealing with Gaza Strip in Security standards only to continue economic sanctions and internationally banned collective punishments imposed on the Gaza Strip for more than a decade

He added that the ongoing compe ...

By : Madeeha Aaraj

Using all kinds of deception, Netanyahu cheats the International Community, and continues to build new settlements in the West Bank, and denies being old settlements, even though some of which are classified as random ones, and Netanyahu refuses to give them a town name fearing European and the international community’s criticisms. Some of these settlements wer ...

BY: Hassan. Mahmoudi
Truck drivers, heavy vehicle drivers, and oil tanker drivers in Iran are continuing their nationwide strike for 16th consecutive day, now  spreading to over 310 cities in all of the country's 31 provinces.

According to NCRI report :
On Sunday, October 6, the powerful strike of thousands of drivers of heavy trucks and truckers, despite the constant threats and de ...

On 28 September, violence in Gaza led to the death of seven Palestinians including two children, one of whom was an UNRWA student. This latest death brings to 13 the total number of UNRWA students who have been killed since 30 March 2018 in the context of the so-called “Great March of Return” demonstrations near the fence separating Israel and the Gaza Strip. Many other children enrolled in UNRWA schools have been wounded in the demonstrations.

Be ...

By: Hassan Mahmoudi
To celebrate World Teachers' Day, the UNESCO and Education International (EI) mounts a campaign each year to help give the world better understanding of teachers and the role they play on the spirit and thoughts of future generations in the development of students and society. In Iran, the status quo is just the opposite.
In recent years, teachers in Iran who have called for better working ...

By: Madeeha Araj,

The National Bureau for Defending the Land and Resisting Settlement said that the Israeli army and its affiliated organs are not only involved in the crime of forging the Palestinian documents which prove their ownership of the land, but also confiscate and allocate those lands for settlement purposes. The Jerusalem District Court issued a ruling last month alleging that the Mitzpeh Kramim outpost northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West B ...

By: Madeeha Araj,

In its weekly report, the Nationa Bureau reported that t number of settlement expansion in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, has increased several times since the Oslo Accord that as signed at the White House in Washington on Sep. 13th, 1993 between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel. Adding that settlements' number in the occupied Palestinian territor ...

By: Madeeha Araj,

The National Bureau for Defending the Land and Resisting Settlements called on the International Community to exert pressure on the Israeli government, preventing it from carrying out ethnic cleansing crimes in Khan Al-Ahmar village as well as opening an official investigation in its crimes, of which is the Israeli High Court's decision that approved the demolition of the Khan Al-Ahmar vi ...

Tayseer Khaled , member of the executive committee of the PLO , member of the Political Bureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, described the decision taken by the US administration to stop the financial aid it provided to the hospitals in occupied Jerusalem as inhumane and immoral , that reflects political bankruptcy.

He added that the US administration does not in fact punish the Palestinian side or the Palestini ...

By: Madeeha Araj,

International condemnation of the settlement activities in the occupied West including Jerusalem, as the Israeli Minister of Internal Security, Arad ratified the Israeli government’s reduction of the requirements for obtaining arm licenses, especially, settlers as well as allowing the young settlers belonging to terrorist hilltop and pay the price gangs organiza ...

Tayseer Khaled, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), member of the Political Bureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), warned of the reduce of conditions for carrying weapons, which was recently approved by the Minister of Internal Security, Gilad Aradan, in order to allow a large number of armed settlers in the settlements and outposts. This is going to spread throughout the occupied West Bank, incl ...

By: Madeeha Araj,

The Israeli government continues its policy of annexation through creating new facts on the ground and a series of successive settlement projects, exploiting the American umbrella of support and bias toward the occupation and its expansionist colonial policies, particularly in Jerusalem and other areas of the occupied West Bank , the National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settle ...

By: Madeeha Araj

The Israeli Occupation Authorities continue to support and expand the settlement project through annexing largest area in the Palestinian territories. The Knesset enacted the racist "National Law" which places the settlements in the forefront of the Israeli government's interests. The government's claims that the laws of the Knesset override any standard of international law, and therefore ...

By: Madeeha Araj,

At the beginning of the year 2018, the Knesset approved a law of annexing academic institutions in the settlements constructed West Bank e.g. Ariel University and the 2 Education faculties in the Akena and Alon Shvut settlements to the Israeli Higher Education Council, knowing that the above mentioned law is a part of the annexation policy led by Israel Baitona party ...