The Council of Catholic Churches in the Holy Land has criticised the escalation of “price tag” attacks against Palestinian Christian and Muslim properties, as well as the Israeli police’s...

A group of extremist Israeli activists attempted to prevent a Palestinian politician from giving a lecture about the Nakba in Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheva yesterday. The activists affiliate...

Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved on Sunday a bill that would bar the release of Palestinian prisoners before the end of their sentences in an effort to prevent...

Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved on Sunday a bill that would bar the release of Palestinian prisoners before the end of their sentences in an effort to prevent...

The Oslo project died a long time ago because Israel prefers continuing with its settlement activities and occupying Palestinian land to reaching peace, a senior al-Fatah official said. According...

Israeli authorities have demolished 237 Palestinian structures since the beginning of 2014 including 27 buildings in East Jerusalem and the remainder in area C in the West Bank compared...

The spokesperson for the interim Tunisian government, Abdel-Salam Al-Zobeidi, has denied that Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa gave any statements or interviews to the Israeli media, Al-Amatonline.net news website...

The Jerusalem village of Abu Dis has been under Israeli military attack since early this morning. Over recent nights youth activists in the area have opened up a very...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israel are continuing secret peace talks brokered by the US administration, Palestinian news agency Quds Net reported today. Quds Net said information about the...

The Israeli occupation army declared the Quneitra crossing area, between the occupied Golan Heights and Syrian soil, a closed military zone yesterday. A spokeswoman for the Israeli occupation said...

Briefing Paper – October 2010By Sawsan Ramahi Hebron is one of the oldest cities in Palestine, perhaps one of the oldest in the world, and is located in the...

Briefing Paper – September 2010 A step towards another historic handshake, perhaps, but not necessarily a solution. Preamble The latest round of Middle East “peace talks” is under way....

Briefing Paper – June 2010By Sawsan Ramahi Racism was, and still is, an inherent feature of Zionism and the state established on its back, Israel. From its declaration of...

Briefing Paper – June 2010 An overview of the Christian presence in Palestine The estimated number of Palestinian Christians in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem is...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) The last decade has seen some major welcome developments by the international community to promote universal justice and human rights. This is manifest, for...

Briefing Paper – June 2010 “Israel has enjoyed strong economic growth over the last decade, but the benefits of this are being distributed unevenly. Poverty rates are higher than in...

Briefing Paper – April 2010 Last month, Shadow Foreign Secretary, William Hague, outlined a new foreign policy framework for a future Conservative government to an audience at RUSI –...

Briefing Paper – Mar 2010 By Sawsan Ramahi Background Land Day is considered to be a milestone in the history of the Palestinian struggle. It is the day when...

  Palestinians in Israel’s ‘democracy’: The Judaization of the Galilee   Briefing Paper – Mar 2010 By Ben White Summary Points  The ‘Judaization of the Galilee’ refers to Israeli...

Briefing Paper – Mar 2010By Sawsan Ramahi World Water Day is upon us. Initiated by the United Nations in 1992 during its Conference on Environment and Development, 22 March...

Briefing Paper – Feb 2010 Key Points Israel’s continued threats and belligerence toward its neighbouring states could plunge the region into all-out war. Given the current regional dynamics, it...

Briefing Paper – Mar 2010The March/April 2010 addition of Foreign Affairs1 features an article entitled ‘Armistice Now’ written by the Lafer International Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East...

IntroductionPalestinian civil society in the Occupied West Bank today faces one of its most daunting challenges in decades. Saddled with a military occupation Palestinians must also contend with an...

Briefing Paper – Dec 2009 After last month’s astonishing speculation about a breakthrough in the prisoner exchange negotiations between the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Gaza and Israel, it...

The people of Gaza have been suffering for more than two years now under an illegal siege put in place by Israel.  This siege has been aided and abetted...

Israeli settlers from the Ma’on settlement build on occupied land south of the West Bank city of Hebron kidnapped and tortured a Palestinian child on Saturday. Six year-old Musab...

FACT SHEET According to hundreds of Palestinian, Arab, Israeli, and Western sources, both written and oral, Zionist forces committed dozens of massacres against Palestinians during what was called the...

FACT SHEET Although the Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel have the right to vote in the Israeli elections, many have chosen not to, due to the fact that Israeli...

– Israel’s anti-African protests, which have turned into full-fledged race-riots, started about a year ago. – In January 2011, the daughters of Nigerian migrant workers were attacked by a...

FACT SHEET The recent escalation of Israeli attacks on Muslim and Christian religious sites in Palestine, including Jerusalem, other cities in the occupied West Bank and the area occupied...

FACT SHEET 1.1 – The issue of Palestinian prisoners is one of the worst consequences of the Israeli occupation.  Since 1967, over 700,000 Palestinians, 20% of the population of...

FACT SHEET Sheikh Raed Salah came to Britain at the invitation of the Middle East Monitor (MEMO) last June for a 10 day speaking tour. He was invited to...