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Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticised the new Israeli measures regarding the entry of foreigners to the occupied West Bank, saying that they threaten to isolate the Palestinians even...

The Israeli Prison Service transferred veteran Palestinian prisoner slide, 65, and his nephew Assem Al-Barghouti, 35, from Eshel Prison to Nafha Desert Prison on Monday, the Palestinian Prisoners' Club...

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement criticised on Monday Israel's plan to forcibly displace the residents of the Bedouin village of Khan Al-Ahmar, east of occupied Jerusalem, describing it as...

The head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah, said on Monday that repeated Israeli incursions into and attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque are part of the occupation...

The Irish foreign minister demanded on Monday that the Israeli authorities should pay compensation for their systematic destruction of buildings funded by the European Union in occupied Palestine. Michael...

Ahmad Manasra was arrested at 13 and sentenced to attempted murder at 14 despite courts admitting he wasn't involved in a stabbing attack allegedly perpetrated by his 15-year-old cousin. His cousin was shot dead at the scene and so wasn't tried for the attack, but Ahmad turned 21 in jail having served seven years of his 12 year sentence, which was later reduced to 9.5 years.

New Israeli guidelines on access to the Occupied West Bank for foreigners threaten to further isolate Palestinians, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said today. The guidelines came into force in...

The Palestinian return is never as envisaged. For Palestinian poet and author Hussein Barghouti, his struggle with cancer prompted a return to Palestine from his "voluntary exile" after 30...

Zionist organisation, the JNF/KKL (Jewish National Fund/Keren Kayemeth Le'Israel), announced yesterday it will proceed with planting trees near Nahal Yatir in the Negev, despite protests from the local Palestinian...

Recordings uncovered by Israeli sources have revealed that far-right members of the Israeli Knesset are planning to turn the apartheid state into a theocracy. Israel has long been charged...

Israel's Ambassador to Canada, Ronen Hoffman, resigned from his post yesterday to protest the policies of the new government led by the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Hoffman wrote on...

During one of its frequent raids in the occupied West Bank on 19 January, the Israeli military arrested Palestinian journalist Abdul Muhsen Shalaldeh near the town of Al-Khalil (Hebron)....

Employees of UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) started partial strike on Monday in protest against firing the head of Employees Union in Occupied West Bank,...

Israeli ministers from the far-right Religious Zionism party boycotted the cabinet meeting on Sunday claiming that the evacuation of an illegal settler outpost in the occupied West Bank was...

Israel's extreme far-right Public Security Minister has demanded the demolition of what he claims are six illegal structures built by Palestinians in Area C over the past month, in...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sacked Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri as Minister of the Interior and Health Ministries on Sunday in order to comply with a High Court of...

Israeli is angry that EU and other Western envoys visited Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem last Wednesday without prior coordination with the occupation authorities, Israel Hayom reported on Sunday....

The Lebanese army declared a state of alert on Sunday after Israeli forces approached "the technical fence" that separates the two countries, Anadolu has reported. "Enemy Israeli forces consisting...

Incursions by settlers into the Al-Aqsa compound has become a daily occurrence and is encouraged by Israel's new far-right government, who have emboldened Israeli extremists like these seen raising the Israeli flag and singing the national anthem in a deliberate provocation of Palestinian Muslims, to whom Al-Aqsa is sacred.

Facebook users who search for "Hassan Nasrallah", the head of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement now see a warning message about "Dangerous Individuals and Organisations" and are given the choice between...

An official source at the Israel Postal Bank has warned that customers' money is in "real danger" as there is no oversight unit and no one to monitor accounts...

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) sent its President Betsy Korn, CEO Howard Kohr and Israel Director Cameron Brown to the occupation state on 17 January. AIPAC advocates...

The changes would severely limit the power of the Supreme Court of Justice, give the government the power to choose judges, and end the appointment of legal advisers to ministries by the attorney general.

Palestine on Saturday welcomed an announcement by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on receiving a request from the UN to issue an advisory opinion on the legality of...

A Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli army forces in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, according to the Health Ministry, reports Anadolu Agency. A ministry statement said Tarik...

The Israeli government plans to hold a meeting next week to discuss its settlement policy in the occupied West Bank, reports Anadolu Agency. The meeting comes amid divisions between...

The Israeli army temporarily grounded a fleet of its armed drones on Saturday after an aircraft was damaged during takeoff, reports Anadolu Agency. In a statement on Twitter, the...

Lebanese Minister of Culture, Judge Muhammad Wissam Al-Murtada, on Friday called to lift the Israeli siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, Quds Press reported. This came during a visit by a...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Friday welcomed the stance of Saudi Arabia on the normalisation of ties with Israel, stating: "This is a real support for the Palestinians and...

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al-Saud announced on Thursday that there would be no normalisation of ties with Israel without a Palestinian state, news agencies reported. "We have...

Jerusalemite Hanady Halawani told Al-Jazeera Mubasher that the Israeli occupation forces stormed her house on Thursday evening to hand her the decision to extend her travel ban for a...

The International Court of Justice, on Friday, confirmed it had officially received a request from the United Nations General Assembly to give an advisory opinion on the legal consequences...