When the third of Israel’s recent major military offensives against my besieged country was over last year, I wrote a memoir about surviving three wars through the brutal black...

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Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza took part in marches to celebrate the 28 years since Hamas was founded. During the march in northern Gaza, Deputy Chief of...

Gaza doctors have achieved unprecedented success as they bred a child free of Sanfilippo Syndrome, Palestinian Safa news agency reported yesterday. Malak was the first child born in her...

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Representatives of the disabled and those working in the rehabilitation sector in the Gaza Strip wrote a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday asking him to assume his...

Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across the UK last night in rallies to protest against British military intervention in Syria ahead of parliamentary vote on whether Britain...

Dozens of women in the Gaza Strip participated in the formation of a “human chain” yesterday to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Those...

Thousands gathered across the UK on Saturday in rallies organised by the Stop The War coalition to stand against British Prime Minister David Cameron’s proposal for airstirkes in Syria....

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Palestinian Health Minister Jawad Awad has accused the Israeli soldiers who “left Palestinian martyr Mohamed Ismail al-Shobaki to bleed to death” of committing a “war crime”, adding that the...

Dozens of Palestinian children participated in an exhibitory march in Gaza City yesterday to mark Universal Children’s Day. The event, organised by the international organisation Save the Children, included...

At the beginning of the Syrian revolution in 2011, the town of Harasta, on the outskirts of Damascus was the scene of major protests against the regime of President...

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Middle East Monitor organised an evening with four of the seven shortlisted authors for the 2015 Palestine Book Awards last night at the P21 Gallery in London. An annual...

Mawtini (My Homeland), the poem written by Palestinian poet Ibrahim Tuqan and composed by Muhammad Fuliefil, is an anthem that sings the praises of the Palestinian resistance. This anthem...

Leading artists with ties to New York have expressed their support for the cultural boycott of Israel in a new video from campaign group Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign...

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The Deputy Leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, has called on the Palestine Liberation Organisation and all Palestinian factions to hold a PLO leadership committee meeting as soon as possible....

UK lawyer Yasin Din, who is working with a humanitarian aid convoy on the Greek island of Mytilene to help refugees, has appealed to the international community to pressure...

Undercover Israeli Special Forces shot dead a Palestinian man inside a hospital in occupied West Bank Thursday, Palestinian Ministry of Health said. The deceased was identified as Abdullah Shalaldeh,...

This year marks the eleventh anniversary of the death of Yasser Arafat. The Palestinians commemorate his death every year, as Yasser Arafat is and considered by many as “the...

A 13-year-old Palestinian boy, who was shot by Israeli police last month, was put under harsh interrogation methods by Israeli security forces

The Luxembourg government and UNRWA will be working to assist in the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and to push the process forward, Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said....

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A 23-year-old Palestinian man has been shot and killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip today, Palestinian officials have revealed. A 72-year-old woman was also shot dead in...

Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across the UK last night in rallies to protest against British military intervention in Syria ahead of parliamentary vote on whether Britain...

Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi slammed journalists who criticised the government’s response to flooding in Alexandria last week when five people were killed. “I see people do not understand...

Turkish Coast Guard Command has rescued 448 refugees within the last 24 hours, Turkish military said Saturday. The refugees were found aboard boats off Turkey’s western coasts of Izmir,...

There is a moment towards the beginning of Marsha Emerman’s award-winning documentary On the Banks of the Tigris in which the protagonist and co-collaborator of the film Majid Shokor...

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A Palestinian women shot in an Israeli bus station earlier this month is expected to be released without charge this week, Israeli Channel 2 reported yesterday. A Justice Ministry...