Palestine

A member of Fatah's Central Committee, Azzam Al-Ahmad, has confirmed that consultations "are now quietly taking place to form a government of national consensus and will be completed before...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met late on Monday with a delegation from the Islamic resistance movement Hamas in the West Bank to discuss the composition of the unity...

There has been much talk over the past ten years about the "new Middle East" which America has called for. This US project is based around four main areas:...

The Israeli government sets a state budget which is allocated to all sectors of society. Claims of economic discrimination are rife given the disparity in living conditions between Palestinian...

Following the leak of some 1600 documents a selection known as the Palestine Papers were released by Al Jazeera and the Guardian newspaper; they highlight previously unknown details relating...

The number of Palestinian children ill-treated and held in solitary confinement in Israeli jails has risen since 2012, a specialist report released earlier this month said. An international human...

Senior member of Hamas's political bureau Mousa Abu-Marzouk said on Monday that the US had attempted to sabotage the internal Palestinian reconciliation. In a meeting with intellectuals and writers...

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said that peace in the Middle East is not achievable because Israel continues to occupy Palestinian lands. Speaking at the opening ceremony of...

Disagreements between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres have increased against the backdrop of Netanyahu's intention to postpone the presidential elections and unconfirmed reports that the...

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza warned on Monday that vaccines necessary for children are running out, posing a "real disaster" to the Palestinian society. Spokesperson of the...

There has been a rise of more than 200 per cent in the crimes of extremist Israeli Jewish groups such as Price Tag against Palestinian property in the past...

Several organisations in Gaza offer rehabilitation and psycho-social services in different fields to integrate people with special needs into society by providing them the necessary training to earn a...

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...

Some 156 infrastructure projects in the Gaza Strip have been halted because of the tightening of the Israeli siege, Palestinian Minister of Local Governing Mohammed Al-Farra said yesterday. The...

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 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...

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 – 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...