President Obama took a step toward a tougher line with Israel in an interview released Tuesday, raising the possibility that the US will allow a United Nations vote on...

Human Rights Watch urged UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday to add Israel to its annual “List of Shame” of children’s rights violators. Israel, said the rights organisation, should...

On the 2nd of June 2015, we published a news item from Anadolu Agency titled “UNRWA warns services may cease within three months“. In the item, we stated: UNRWA...

Since Israel’s new hard-right coalition government came to power last month, there have been two major bogey men: Iran and BDS, the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction...

Interpol has identified 4,000 foreign fighters who joined jihadist groups in conflict areas, mainly Iran and Syria, Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds yesterday reported a senior figure saying. “In September 2014,...

Conflicts and prolonged crises in a number of Arab states “have seen overall prevalence of undernourishment (PoU) increase from the level of a quarter of a century ago”, the...

Palestinian human rights organisations are definitely taking Israel to the International Criminal Court, a leading official stressed yesterday. Speaking at a conference marking the release of a report regarding...

The recent scale of tragedies in the Mediterranean— now rather morbidly dubbed “the sea cemetery”—have elicited media narratives on sunk migrant boats that often conceal policies and practices that...

Events last Friday afternoon at the closing session of the FIFA congress in Zurich have produced a great deal of commentary and social media posts. Most focus on the...

The deputy secretary-general of the Arab League, Ambassador Ahmed Ben Helli, announced on Tuesday that the Arab League will be holding consultations to obtain a new UN Security Council...

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday met Jordanian Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein in Amman to end the crisis over the FIFA proposal, Jordanian news agency Petra reported. Abbas...

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warned on Monday that it would stop its operations aimed at helping Palestinian refugees as a result of...

The director of Amnesty International in Germany, Selmin Çalışkan, has said that Egypt under military president Abdul-Fattah Al-Sisi is currently witnessing one of the worst human rights crises in...

A UN committee has recommend special consultative status for a UK-based Palestinian organisation, despite Israel’s efforts to block the move. The vote comes as a blow to the Israeli...

The United Nations Office for Human Rights Coordination (OCHA) said on Monday that Egypt only opened the Rafah Crossing for five days from the beginning of this year until...

The reconstruction and rehabilitation of Gaza’s health facilities damaged during Israel’s assault last summer has made only “moderate progress”, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has stated. According to WHO...

EU rescue missions have saved more than 5,000 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea since Friday, the bloc’s border control agency Frontex reported Sunday. The rescue missions were jointly carried...

The UN envoy to Syria and the British foreign secretary both condemned Sunday the Assad regime’s barrel bomb attacks on Aleppo in northwestern Syria. At least 136 people, including...

A Palestinian, European and international wave of outrage erupted yesterday as soon as the Palestinian Football Association (PFA) had dropped its bid to suspend Israel from FIFA, Quds Press...

For many observers, the fact that Sepp Blatter was re-elected as president of FIFA came as no surprise. As expected, he was determined to stay in office despite the...

The European Union imposed on Friday sanctions on a senior Syrian military intelligence official, adding him to list of more than 200 sanctioned names, Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds reported. The...

The Palestine Football Association (PFA) has dropped its proposal to suspend Israel from world football. The motion had been included on the agenda at the FIFA Congress in Zurich...

The United Nations Special Envoy to Libya, Bernardino Leon, said yesterday that Libya is on the verge of economic collapse as rival factions haggle over a political settlement. Leon,...

Tomorrow, FIFA will come to a decision on whether they will suspend Israel’s football association after the Palestinian Football Federation filed a complaint on Israeli abuse towards Palestinian footballers....

Israeli and mainstream media have once again united in a chorus of righteous indignation following the release of Amnesty International’s report “Strangling Necks – Abductions, torture and summary killings...

This week, the eyes of the world are on Fifa, the international governing body of football, after top executives were arrested in Switzerland on American corruption charges. Fifa has...

An international campaigning community has released a petition calling on the International Federation of Football Association (FIFA) to suspend Israel’s membership until it stops its discriminatory policies against the...

The head of the Palestinian National Council, Salim Al-Za’noun, has condemned the Israeli jail sentence given to Dr Aziz Dweik, the head of the Palestinian parliament. In a statement...

UNRWA Commissioner General Pierre Krähenbühl issued a memorandum two days ago calling for more conservatism in spending due to the agency’s budget deficit, and for a further reduction in...

UNRWA has been forced to suspend its monthly cash assistance for housing to Palestinian refugee families from Syria living in Lebanon. Starting from July this year, more than 43,000...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg yesterday called for increasing the ability of Middle Eastern countries to enable them to defend themselves, the Anadolu Agency reported. In a meeting with the...

EU Commission in Morocco has denied plans that it has applied for African countries on the Mediterranean to host drone airbases to track migrants to European countries, the Anadolu...