Dozens of Palestinian families have fled their homes in parts of Gaza City which face a threat of flooding amid a cold snap that hit the Palestinian territories a...

Bethlehem is waiting with baited breath for the promised influx of Christmas tourists. The city’s economy is dependent on tourism for up to 70% of its income yet this...

21 year old Mahmoud Udwan was shot and killed by Israeli special forces in Qalandia refugee camp near Ramallah earlier today. The Israeli forces attacked the camp in the...

Mass marches were held after Friday prayers in Gaza today to coincidence with the 27th anniversary of the formation of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas. The marches began in...

Palestinian Authority minister and member of Fatah’s Revolutionary Council, Ziad Abu Ein was killed during a non-violent olive tree planting event in the village of Turmusayya near Ramallah on...

Many Palestinians in Gaza consider the cooking gas crisis to be the worst in years due to the fact that it coincides with the electricity crisis and because it...

The tradition of olive wood carving has been practiced by Palestinian Christians for many centuries around the Bethlehem area. As tourists now begin to arrive in the city to...

Ziad Abu Ein, head of the Anti-Wall and Settlement Commission, died today after suffocating on tear gas and being beaten during the Israel army’s dispersal of a protest in...

Israel’s navy on Saturday detained ten Palestinian fishermen off the coast of the Gaza Strip, a spokesman for Gaza’s fishermen said. “Israeli naval forces detained ten Palestinian fishermen as...

The health care system in the Gaza Strip is deteriorating in the wake of the sanitation crisis which has stalled all the departments of Al-Shifa Hospital and garbage and...

The scenes in Gaza’s Shifa Hospital today are not much different from during the recent Israeli offensive – bloodied bandages and linen overflowing onto floors, bathrooms becoming filthier by...

“I am a student of agriculture and my passion is olive trees and olive oil. I have visited various Mediterranean countries studying olive trees.” Patrick Corsi’s passion for olives...

At the heart of the current upsurge of resistance in Jerusalem is the struggle against Israeli settler-colonialism and its various tools. The ongoing attacks against al-Aqsa mosque, settler violence,...

Life in Shujaya, Gaza, is still very difficult. Residents are living between demolished houses, surrounded by rubble. They have nothing to protect them from the elements as winter approaches....

The Palestinian Information Technology Association of companies (PITA) and Palestinian Telecommunication Group (Paltel) have launched the 11th Palestine Technology Week, “Expotech”, 2014 in coordination with the Ministry of Telecommunications...

Last week, a caller to a local radio talk show in Ramallah vented his anger: “People are dying in Jerusalem, al-Aqsa is being attacked and no-one is demonstrating here,...

As Israeli attacks against Jerusalem’s Palestinian population and al-Aqsa mosque continue, tensions continue to run high across the West Bank yet recent factional calls for demonstrations have not received...

Dozens of women, whose houses were demolished during Israel’s war on Gaza, staged a sit-in this morning demanding Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas move quickly and move the international community...

It has been more than three months since the end of the war on Gaza however Fadl Misbah, 41, is still living as others are, in a house which...

Nearly 27 years after it began, the First Intifada remains etched in the Palestinian pysche and collective memory. It was a time of hope and unity which has not...

Israel has permitted the first shipment of only 400 tonnes of cement to enter the Gaza Strip and be distributed to a select number of traders under the supervision...

Moataz Sukkar no longer runs to his home’s balcony in the Gaza Strip to welcome the year’s first autumn rain. The young Palestinian man had to carry out an urgent...

Since the imposition of the blockade on the Gaza Strip eight years ago, Israel has prohibited the export of animal skins to the West Bank. Leather, and in particular...

Since the beginning of the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip which it called “Operation Protective Edge”, Egypt has banned construction materials for Qatari projects from entering the Strip....

Eid al-Adha should be a time that for family and friends, yet many thousands of Palestinian children have been forced to pass through the 2014 festival, as every year,...

Eid Al-Adha is a few days away and the Palestinians in Gazastill live under siege after surviving a war that has killed thousands and destroyed homes. Palestinian families are...

Livestock markets across Palestine are in the midst of one of their busiest times of the year in the lead-up to the muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. Following religious...

Palestinian tourist infrastructure is minimal, as is the number of international tourists aside from pilgrims and the ‘conflict tourists’ who break their holidays in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem for...

Al Jazeera this week revealed an explosive letter from the office of the top prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. In it, Fatou Bensouda recounted a meeting with Riad...

During the 50 day long Israeli bombardment and massacre of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip 2146 Palestinians were killed according to the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights, of...

The United States welcomed on Monday the arrival of the first Somali ambassador to Washington in more than 20 years. State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki said in a statement...

In July 2004, the International Court of Justice published their advisory ruling on the Israeli Apartheid Wall judging it to be illegal and calling for its dismantling. More than...