Israel

Illegal settlements continue to be built across the West Bank and bring with them even more problems, including increasing incidents of settler violence. The illegal settlers colonising the West...

In the framework of Israel's policy of Judaising Jerusalem and making the Holy City its eternal capital, Israel has pursued a number of measures following its occupation and illegal...

FACT SHEET Raed Salah was born in 1958 in the Palestinian town of Umm al-Fahm where he received his early education. He was a founder of the Islamic movement...

Introduction The Middle East Monitor (MEMO) has obtained primary evidence of how Israeli forces and Palestinian security services have embarked on a campaign of arrests against Hamas supporters in...

"We are very fortunate to have two leaders, in President Abbas and Prime Minister Netanyahu, who are committed to achieving a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through peaceful means."...

IntroductionThe Palestinian economy is in a state of total collapse with a 31% rate of unemployment in the West Bank. As a result, despite the difficult circumstances they face,...

Relations between the United States and Israel are believed to have hit rock bottom after America's Newsweek magazine published reports accusing Israel of espionage against the United States, including...

Introduction Since the beginning of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967 the number of Palestinians detained is in excess of 700,000 men, women...

Background 'The Peace Process' is the term that has come to be used to describe Middle Eastern diplomacy and peace negotiations following the 1967 War in which Israel on...

As the Middle East Monitor (MEMO) highlights the human cost of Operation Cast Lead (War Diaries), Israel has during the last two weeks intensified its air strikes at civilian...

The supreme judge in Palestine, Tayseer Al-Tamimi, has denounced what he calls the "repeated crimes of the Israeli occupation authorities against all things Palestinian, be they human beings, stones...

URGENT MEDIA FACT SHEET BREAKING NEWS ON VIVA PALESTINA Friday, 8th January 2010 The Viva Palestina Convoy left London on 6th December 2009 to deliver humanitarian to Gaza ;...

Monday 2nd of November 2009 marked the 92nd anniversary since Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued the Declaration to establish a national home for the Jews in Palestine. The Balfour...

Israeli Settler Violence against Palestinian Civilians in the Occupied West Bank and Jerusalem "The holy martyr, Baruch Goldstein, is from now on our intercessor in heaven. Goldstein did not...

Israel is deeply concerned after Syrian opposition forces were reported to have control of more than 70 per cent of the border area, the Jerusalem Post said on Friday....

Hamas can no longer be regarded by the United States simply as a terrorist organisation. Any attempts at solving the Arab-Israeli conflict, or broader conflicts in the region, will...

The agreement signed by Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority to build a pipeline from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea came as a shock to many politicians...

Natural gas resources in the Mediterranean Sea will become a principal reason for conflicts in the region between Israel and its allies on the one hand and the neighbouring...

In response to the suffocating and continuous electricity crisis in the Gaza Strip, Palestinians in Gaza have begun searching for alternative means of generating electricity, including: generators, batteries, and...

"Cyprus must do everything possible to secure use of Israeli gas at a planned LNG terminal on the island, or else risk jeopardising the whole project," Charles Ellinas, national...

Renewed 'peace talks' between Israeli and the Palestinian Authority officials have quietly been going on behind closed doors and a U.S.-imposed media blackout for three months now. Like all...

In a recent debate in parliament, it was reported that former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw had said that the greatest obstacle to peace between Israel, Palestine, and its...

Preface – The national interest, pro-Israel advocacy and anti-Semitism BICOM and its staff/donors are part of the British establishment, notably the right of the Labour Party. The interests of...

The Constitutional Assembly in Tunis gave up demands to vote on sacking tourism minister Amal Karboul and deputy interior minister for security Ridha Sfar for facilitating the entry of...

A member of Hamas political bureau Izzat Al-Risheq has welcomed the position of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in occupied Jerusalem who has refused the recruitment of Palestinian Christians into...

Palestinian students who study at Israeli universities are confronted by racist assaults from the day they step foot on university campuses in an attempt to discourage them or even...

By Elias Sa'adah In 2008, a few days after giving birth, Mrs. TM, a teacher since 2006 and living in the occupied West Bank, received a letter terminating her...

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails The number of Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli prisons and detention centres has reached 4,750 people from every sector of Palestinian society. The...

The Jordan Valley is part of the occupied West Bank and lies along the border between Palestine and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. It is at the centre of...

The Beit Hanoun Crossing, called "Erez" by the Israeli Occupation Forces, has become a trap to catch Palestinians requiring treatment in Israeli or Palestinian Hospitals in the West Bank...

The Palestine Liberation Organisation's Department of International Relations has issued a brief report giving details of the 266 Palestinians killed by Israel in 2012. Israeli violations against the Palestinian...

The head of Hamas's Political Bureau has claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu requested a ceasefire through the Americans, Europeans and Egyptians. Khaled Meshaal was quoted as saying...