The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly renewed the mandate for a UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees for another three years amid misconduct allegations and a cash shortfall triggered by a halt in US [ More … ]
The United States Congress has advanced a new resolution supporting a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians, which can be brought to the floor for a vote. According to a report in The Hill, lawmakers [ More … ]
The declaration puts the United States at odds with virtually all countries and UN Security Council resolutions The United States no longer believes that Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories are illegal, Secretary of State [ More … ]
Dozens of Palestinian journalists rallied on Sunday – protesting with one eye covered in solidarity, while hundreds more, including celebrities, imitated the move online. On the other hand, Palestinians buried their dead as ceasefire entered [ More … ]
The Palestinian group Islamic Jihad says an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire with Israel has been agreed after air attacks killed at least 34 people in Gaza. The truce was in force from 5:30 am local time (03:30 GMT), the group’s [ More … ]
Israel has killed Islamic Jihad Commander Bahaa Abu al-Atta in Gaza and the Palestinian group says one of its political leaders was also targeted in Damascus Palestinian group Islamic Jihad has said one of its [ More … ]
Journalists and human rights defenders say Lebanese popular uprising has prompted the Palestinian Authority to stifle free speech The Palestinian Authority has blocked 59 Palestinian news websites and social media pages, following a request by [ More … ]
The Israeli army detained 13 Palestinians, including two brothers, a father and his son and a man and his wife, during raids early today at their homes in various parts of the West Bank, according [ More … ]
Palestinians in ‘Israel’ observe a general strike to protest police apathy toward rise in crime Palestinians inside ‘Israel’ observed today a general strike called for by the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee to protest Israeli police [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reaffirmed Wednesday the Palestinian position on the cessation of all agreements signed with Israeli if the later decides to impose sovereignty on any part of the occupied Palestinian territory. Abbas said [ More … ]
The Israeli army detained early this morning 28 Palestinians during raids at their homes in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, reported the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS). In southern West Bank, the Israeli army demolished [ More … ]
After many years, the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) is back to the occupied West Bank despite efforts exerted by the Israeli and cooperating Palestinian security agencies to thwart any armed Palestinian group that [ More … ]
Raid latest in series of cross-border Israeli attacks in Syrian and Lebanese territory Israeli air strikes targeted a Palestinian faction in eastern Lebanon before dawn on Monday, Lebanese state media and the group said. “Three [ More … ]
Nabeel Shaath’s son Ramy has been held since early July, possibly over his ‘opposition to Trump’s Deal of the Century’ Ramy Shaath, whose father is former senior Palestinian diplomat and negotiator Nabeel Shaath, has been [ More … ]
Ahead of the Trump administration’s “economic workshop” in Bahrain, Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt recently acknowledged what many had already surmised: that the full unveiling of the US “peace plan” would be postponed once more, [ More … ]
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