The oldest Ptolemy map of Palestine is dated 150 AD. The large red letters in the center say in Greek: Παλαιστινης or Palaistinis.
Mali has removed French Language as its official language.
"Advancing the revolution through weapons and thought in pursuit of liberation and socialism" by Rafeik Sharaf, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), 1973.
Palestinian resistant hijacker and member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Leila Khaled pictured wearing a Keffiyeh as she is interviewed in an office in 1970. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images).
The Spring That Was - Ismail Shammout (1930-2006) circa 1966.
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"My brother in arms: take my place if I fall''.
The Palestinian National Liberation Movement, 1979.
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Robert Wade [...] writes that he has "never encountered elsewhere" anything like the sophisticated and extensive Israeli control system designed with great care to ensure that "political and economic development is barely possible" for the Palestinians. As he reviews, Israeli restrictions penetrate deeply into the micro details of Palestinian everyday lives, including the movement of people [...], the import and export of goods and services, investments, education, and access to basic infrastructure.
Palestinian prisoner, Maher Sa'sa (45 years) has died today in the Israeli prison of "Rimonim". Maher has been detained by the Israeli occupation since 2006.
Who is Georges Abdallah?
Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a “Lebanese revolutionary,” in the words of his support campaign, has been imprisoned in France for 34 years.
He is now incarcerated in Lannemezan prison. His period of unconditional imprisonment ended in 1999 when he became eligible for release.
Born in a Christian family, this Lebanese from Kobayat, in northern Lebanon, is now 67. In 1979, he co-founded the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions, a small Marxist anti-imperialist group which claimed the execution of an American military attaché, Charles Ray, in Paris, and of an Israeli diplomat, Yacov Barsimentov, in Boulogne-Billancourt while Lebanon was invaded by the Israeli army. He was arrested in Lyon on 24 October 1984 and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987.
During his trial in Lyon, in 1987, he was found guilty of complicity in these assassinations. The former teacher declared before his judges: “I am a fighter, not a criminal.” “The path I have followed has been imposed on me by the human rights abuses perpetrated against Palestinians”, he added. Abdallah was sentenced in 1987 to life imprisonment during a controversial hearing, viewed a black mark on the French legal system.
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JORDAN. Near Amman. 1969. Soldiers of the Palestinian Liberation Army training.
Photograph: Bruno Barbey/Magnum Photos
Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud abouzied "Shawkan" arrives to his home in Giza,egypt, After his release after more than five years in the prison. Shawkan convicted of involvement in a 2013 sit-in protest by Islamists that was broken up by Egyptian security forces in an operation that left hundreds dead.
Photos by: Mohamed El Raai
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remembering Shadia Abu Ghazaleh, the first palestinian woman martyr…she lost her life during a military operation fighting against the occupation in her birthplace, Nablus.
"For our future". Vietnamese war poster, artist unknown.
"The generation of the palestinian revolution", Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) - 1985.