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A Palestinian prisoner Ahmed Yellowish, from Nubani farms near Ramallah, who is serving a 13 year sentence has reported that, "Raymon Prison management is imposing sanctions on the prisoners...
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For nearly six weeks now Mohammed Othman, a prominent Palestinian activist and an outspoken advocate of the nonviolent boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, has been held in an...
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The Egyptian Journalists Syndicate's investigation committee decided, at its meeting on Tuesday, to refer Dr. Hala Mustafa, the editor of the Democracy magazine (part of the Al Ahram institution), ...
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Hebrew media reported that the commander of NATO, Admiral James Stavridis, has paid an official visit to Tel Aviv, in response to an invitation addressed to him by Israel's...
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Tel Aviv announced officially, on behalf of its Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, that it rejects that Turkey plays the intermediary role which it has been performing to push for...
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When it comes to Israel the buck stops in Washington, having enabled and continued to support its worst excesses, writes Jeff Gates* Israel's "legitimacy" will not last. Of course,...
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The Israel Broadcasting Authority claimed today (Tuesday, 10 November) that several key European leaders support Israel's military campaigns against the Palestinians. The authority disclosed that French President Nicola Sarkozy,...
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The Arab League and the Egyptian Foreign Ministry condemned the newly announced Israeli plans for building 900 settlement units in the Gilo colony in Jerusalem. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry...
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An Israeli Human Rights report stated that: "Israeli army killed more than 1,500 Palestinian citizens, since the beginning of 2009, mostly during the last war in the Gaza Strip,...
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A senior Palestinian Legislative Council member, Ahmed Bahar, called for the launch of a broad Arab-Islamic campaign in order to save Jerusalem city -with all its Islamic and Christian...
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Mustafa El-Barghouti, the Deputy Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative called for adopting a national strategy that combines the popular resistance and support for national steadfastness, mobilizes the broadest...
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Israel's decision to push ahead with settlement expansion in East Jerusalem in defiance of international community opinion generated a rebuke from the EU on Wednesday (18 November). "The Presidency...
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Palestinian sources of Fatah Movement in the Occupied West Bank announced that the Revolutionary Council of the Movement held a consultative meeting, on Sunday, November 8, to discuss the...
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A Jewish rabbi has issued a book giving Jews permission to murder non-Jews, including babies and children, who may pose an actual or potential threat to Jews or Israel....
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The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continued incursions, raids and abductions of Palestinians on a daily basis in most parts of the Occupied West Bank at the rate of more...
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Leader of the Islamic Movement's northern faction Sheikh Raed Salah was convicted by an Israeli court of assaulting an Israeli border guard during the thick of diplomatic and local...
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The Israeli occupation authorities released, on Sunday, Nov. 15, one of its longest serving prisoners, Younis Hussein, 45 years, from the Gaza Strip, after serving a 22-years sentence. Hundreds...
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The French National Consultative Commission of Human Rights chose the Palestinian NGOs Network as a one of five global winners of France's human rights award. The Mezan Centre for Human...
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel on Friday rejected a U.N. General Assembly resolution urging an investigation into a report saying war crimes were committed in Gaza, and condemned the world...
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Several Israeli bulldozers and machinery infiltrated the Az-Zaitoun neighborhood in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Gaza police reported. In a telephone interview, a de facto police officer in Gaza...
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Ministers in the Israeli cabinet threatened to take unilateral steps in response to the Palestinian plan to declare a Palestinian state without reaching a political agreement with Tel Aviv. The...
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Hundreds of Gaza Palestinians set off for Makkah on Friday for the annual hajj pilgrimage, after bitter rivals Fatah and Hamas set aside their dispute to agree on a...
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Hebrew media outlets reported that the Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, personally supervised the preparation of a document titled the "higher goals", which drops the settlement process with the...
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The Al Aqsa Foundation for Endowments and Heritage revealed that the Israeli occupation authorities began excavation works at Al Sharaf alley, tens of meters west of the Al Aqsa...
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Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, director of Military Intelligence, announced Tuesday that Hamas launched a rocket some 60 kilometers into the sea, apparently as an experiment. Such a rocket, if...
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Official report An official report, received by Arab League from the minister of prisoners' affairs in the Palestinian Authority (Ramallah), revealed that the Israeli occupation forces have kidnapped about...
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A Palestinian report unveiled that Israel exploited Palestinian prisoners as laboratory samples to test new drugs – produced in the laboratories of the Israeli Ministry of Health. Several years ago...
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The number of Palestinians who have died as a result of the Israeli siege on Gaza has passed 360, a statement released by the health ministry of the deposed...
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Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned that the establishment of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders would "not end the conflict but shift it to inside Israel," he...
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There are reports of a deal to exchange hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for captured Israeli Sgt. Gilad Shalit. This is welcome news because the Islamic militant group Hamas has...
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Egyptian authorities raided three tunnels and seized a large number of goods in the Gaza Strip on Thursday morning, Egyptian security forces said. Egyptian forces said they raided the...
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The Israel Defense Forces' chief rabbi told students in a pre-army yeshiva program last week that soldiers who "show mercy" toward the enemy in wartime will be "damned." Brig....
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