Palestine

Current and former UN officials and global legal experts will come together on Monday to discuss the effectiveness of international law with regards to the Palestine issue, Anadolu News...

Israeli occupation authorities appear to have stalled plans to build 9,000 settlement units on the site of the deserted Qalandia Airport in the occupied West Bank, according to a...

Palestinians in Israeli occupied West Bank favour one bi-national state over a two-state solution, a new opinion poll conducted by the Jerusalem Media and Communication Centre (JMCC) shows. Support...

It was a surprise when British Home Secretary Priti Patel announced last week that she planned to designate the political wing of Hamas as a "terrorist organisation". The resistance...

British Member of Parliament, Crispin Blunt, yesterday warned the UK against proscribing the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, saying it will have "a terrible chilling effect on putting anything into...

The UK government labels Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories as countries which are "concerning" due to their human rights issues, an updated assessment by the Foreign Commonwealth and...

Palestinian groups, on Thursday, denounced the visit of Israeli Defence Minister, Benny Gantz, to Morocco which witnessed the signing of military agreements, Anadolu News Agency reports. Ismail Radwan, a...

The Tunisian navy rescued 487 migrants today from an overloaded boat that ran into difficulty in rough seas in the Mediterranean as they tried to reach Europe, Reuters reports. The vessel...

The Israeli Central Court in Jerusalem yesterday sentenced a Palestinian teen from the occupied city of Jerusalem to ten years imprisonment and issued him a fine of 17,000 Israeli...

The Israeli authorities released the Palestinian governor of Jerusalem on Thursday hours after detaining and interrogating him, only to place him under renewed house arrest. A statement issued by...

Egypt and Israel have signed a memorandum of understanding to increase natural gas supplies from Israel to Egypt, with the aim of re-exporting, the Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum announced...

Water is essential for life, which is why the situation is bleak for the people in occupied Palestine because Israel is stealing Palestinian groundwater as it seizes ever more...

The head of the National Association of the Moroccan Press, Abdullah Al-Bakali, announced his rejection of the visit by a delegation of Moroccan journalists to Israel, considering that "paying...

A Palestinian official, on Thursday, said Israeli authorities are working to build more than 17,000 settlement units in different parts of Jerusalem, Anadolu News Agency reports. In a statement,...

Belgium, on Thursday, tried to downplay scuttled meetings by a visiting top Israeli diplomat, insisting that the measures Tel Aviv objects to are long-standing EU policy differentiating between Israel's...

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh has hailed Belgium's decision to label products made in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories as a "move in the right...

Jewish settlers today placed a big menorah on the roof of the Palestinian Nabi Samuel village mosque in occupied northern-western Jerusalem, the Palestinian Information Centre reported. One of the local residents said...

The European Union is ready to provide all the support necessary to help this process along.

Israeli Foreign Ministry yesterday slammed the Belgium government's decision to label Israeli settlement products. "The decision to label the products harms Israelis and Palestinians and is out of step...

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, yesterday praised the Malaysian authorities for the ban on Israeli squash players entering the country to take part in a major tournament next...

The security cooperation agreement between Israel and Morocco will create a "strategic alliance of knowledge" between the two countries, an Israeli defence official said yesterday. "Morocco has been fighting terror...

Sabah Shorbaji, a 39-year-old Palestinian mother, is trying to make up to her children for the time she lost when she was in an Israeli prison, Anadolu News Agency...

Germany has pledged €25 million ($28 million) as part of a funding agreement with the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to...

Labelling Israeli settlement products "strengthens extremists, does not help promote peace in the region, and shows Belgium as not contributing to regional stability," according to Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister...

Palestinian prisoner Louay Al-Ashkar was moved to the Ramle prison hospital yesterday after his health took a turn for the worse as he continued his hunger strike for 47...

Israel's Jerusalem Municipality advanced plans to build 9,000 settlement units on the site of the deserted Kalandiya Airport in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, local media revealed yesterday. The proposal...

Illegal Israeli settlers used live ammunition and stones on Wednesday in attacks on Palestinian residents and their homes in Burqa, near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, Wafa has...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) yesterday called on the international community to blacklist Israeli settlements and declare armed settlers terrorist organisation. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry condemned the "crime"...

The 30th anniversary of the Madrid Peace Conference has passed. The Madrid Conference marks the beginning of the state of decline in international interest in the Palestinian cause, as...

Middle East Monitor's flagship annual literary awards ceremony – the Palestine Book Awards (PBA) – has entered its 10th year today, as awards were handed out to the winning authors and books...

A Palestinian doctor, on Wednesday, lost his last Israeli court appeal for compensation over the killing of his three daughters and a niece in shelling by Israel during 2009...

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