A rare joint conference with Fatah’s Jibril al-Rajoub and Hamas’s Saleh al-Arouri was the first major joint media appearance for the two Palestinian parties since 2017. A joint video conference between the two biggest Palestinian [ More … ]
Over a hundred jurists and law scholars from around the world, including scores from Israel, have said Israel’s plans to annex the occupied West Bank would “constitute a flagrant violation of bedrock rules of international [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that Palestine will reconsider the deals and understandings reached with both Israel and the US, should Israel annex parts of the occupied West Bank. “We will hold the US [ More … ]
Eleven European ambassadors, led by the UK, have issued a formal protest to Israel over its planned annexation of Palestinian land. The ambassadors of the UK, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, [ 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 … ]
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 … ]
2 Israeli soldiers killed in West Bank shooting Two Israeli were killed and two other wounded in a drive-by shooting near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday, according to the Israeli military. In a statement, [ More … ]
Ten Palestinians have been killed in violence since Trump’s 6 December announcement he would recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital Two Palestinians were killed as youths clashed with Israeli soldiers on the Gaza border on Friday [ More … ]
The Saudi crown prince could be working to engineer a two-state solution that favors Israel The Trump declaration recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and relocating the U.S. embassy there is as historically significant to Israel’s [ More … ]
Over 40 Portuguese photographers, teachers of photography and photography students pledged on Saturday, which marked World Photography Day, not to accept professional invitations or financing from Israel, and to” refuse to collaborate with Israeli cultural [ More … ]
Israeli authorities have reportedly completed the construction of a 26-mile section of Israel’s separation wall — deemed illegal by the International Court of Justice in 2004 — in the South Hebron Hills in the occupied [ More … ]
As tensions have continued to rise in occupied East Jerusalem after Israeli authorities implemented security measures at gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Palestinians across the occupied West Bank and besieged Gaza Strip participated in a [ More … ]
Israeli forces detained at least 19 Palestinians in overnight raids between Monday night and Tuesday morning, including at least two minors — one of whom was reportedly beaten by Israeli soldiers during his detention. According [ More … ]
Several Hamas-affiliated Palestinian lawmakers said on Sunday that the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority (PA) stopped payment of the salaries of 37 Hamas Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) members living in the occupied West Bank. PLC member Ayman [ More … ]
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