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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
Al-Sisi met with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in New York on Monday to discuss the Middle East peace process in the first ever public meeting between the two leaders. Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi [ More … ]
China can be a honest broker in pushing forward the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in light of its fair stance on the issue, a senior Palestinian official told Xinhua in a recent interview. Tayeb Abdul Rahim, [ More … ]
Accusing Palestinians in Jerusalem of law violation, Israel commits war crime by revoking their residency Israel revokes the residency status of the Palestinians accusing them of violating the laws, punishing them, as well as their [ More … ]
Four Palestinians were injured by Israeli airstrikes in the besieged Gaza Strip on Tuesday night. An Israeli army spokesperson said on Wednesday that the Israeli air force had targeted “two Hamas posts” in the northern [ More … ]
BY: BURHANETTIN DURAN* Even if the ongoing row around Al-Aqsa Mosque ends peacefully, new tensions fueled by Israel for its interests will continue appearing In the face of mounting criticism, Israel decided to remove from the [ More … ]
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