Israel is afraid that India is planning to scrap a $500 million deal of anti-tank missiles claiming that more tests are needed on the arms, Ma’an reported yesterday. The...

PLO’s Committee for Prisoners and Freed Prisoners launched a solidarity campaign for burns victim Israa Jaabis who is being held in an Israeli jail. Entitled “Freedom and Treatment: A...

Bassam Abu-Sharif, a senior aide to the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat, revealed yesterday that he has a document which proves that Saudi Arabia approved the Palestinian leader’s assassination,...

The debate on whether Palestinians should be granted international protection continues. Adalah’s November 2018 Report to the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2018 Protests in the Occupied...

Human Rights Day is celebrated on 10 December to remember the day that the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. The irony of...

Radical Jewish groups today called for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to be killed. Posters placed by the groups at the entrance of the illegal Jewish settlement of Yitzhar near...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday his government is looking to obtain retroactive approval for the illegal settlement outpost of Ofra built on private Palestinian land near Ramallah....

The Arab League has told Brazil’s right-wing President-elect Jair Bolsonaro that moving Brazil’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem would be a setback for relations with Arab countries, in a...

How does one explain Canada’s contradictory foreign policy regarding Palestine and Israel? On December 4, Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Saeb Erekat, praised Canada’s commitment not...

At least 11 Palestinian demonstrators were injured by Israeli gunfire off northern Gaza Strip’s Beit Lahia shore, the Palestinian Health Ministry announced Monday, reports Anadolu Agency. The ministry said...

A Qatari envoy overseeing the Gulf state’s humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip said on Monday that he had proposed building an airport in the blockaded Palestinian enclave but...

Bethlehem is enjoying its busiest Christmas season on record, the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism said on Monday, with hotels in the birthplace of Jesus almost fully booked for the...

Israeli soldiers raided the official Palestinian news agency on Monday in the occupied West Bank, a day after suspected Palestinian gunmen opened fire on Israelis outside a nearby Jewish...

Middle East Monitor has partnered with the Palestinian History Tapestry Project (PHT) to launch its exhibition in London tomorrow evening (Tuesday), celebrating the story of Palestine as told by...

The pace of Judaisation in occupied Jerusalem has increased since the US Embassy was moved from Tel Aviv to the city in May. This was accompanied by an increase...

Chile has declared supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement illegal, less than two weeks after saying it would support Palestinian rights. Chile’s National Comptroller – an autonomous...

Israel has been granted permission to become a member of the international body combatting financing of terrorist groups. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) confirmed Tel Aviv as its...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has boasted that Arab countries are falling in line and submitting to Israel’s financial and technological superiority. Claiming that Oman had allowed Israeli planes...

The 6 December was the first anniversary of US President Donald Trump’s announcement that he recognised Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and that he would move the American Embassy from...

Israeli occupation authorities on Saturday forced a Palestinian family to demolish their own home in occupied East Jerusalem. Israel had issued an order to demolish the two-apartment house in the...

The French justice minister has refused to present a prestigious human rights award to Palestinian and Israeli human rights organisations Al-Haq and B’Tselem after being pressured by a French-Jewish...

Three cartoonists from Iran, Turkey and India won the Our Heritage Jerusalem Cartoon Contest held in Istanbul

Israeli authorities are guilty of “persistent unwillingness to conduct genuine investigations into grave incidents of suspected war crimes against unarmed Palestinian civilians” in the Gaza Strip, a leading Israeli...

The World Zionist Organisation (WZO) used Israeli public funds to finance construction in an unauthorised settler outpost in the occupied West Bank, an investigation by Haaretz has revealed. According...

A new poll published yesterday has provided fresh evidence of anti-Arab racism amongst Israeli Jews. Conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute for Channel 10, the poll was conceived of...

In the wake of the UN General Assembly rejection of the US-drafted resolution condemning the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement and some of the other Palestinian factions, the Israeli Ambassador...

Israel has arrested 337,000 Palestinians since the start of the First Intifada in 8 December 1987, the Palestine Prisoners’ Centre for Studies said yesterday. In spite of the arrests,...

The legislation committee at the Israeli Knesset yesterday approved 200 extra communities where non-Jewish inhabitants can be banned, Arab48 reported. MK Bezalel Smotrich, from the Jewish Home party, initiated...

The Trump administration’s failure to secure a UN resolution condemning Hamas and other resistance factions was welcomed by Palestinians as a moral and political victory. They should not, however,...

Evangelical Christian groups have invested up to $65 million in projects in the “Biblical Heartland” over the past decade, however, that doesn’t include services they provide free of charge,...

Fatah's rival Hamas likely to oppose Mahmoud Abbas' move to dissolve Palestinian Legislative Council

Former Israeli Prime Minister and Defence Minister Ehud Barak ordered the targeting of densely populated areas in the 2008 war on Gaza. The revelation was made yesterday by Israeli...