Palestine

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After Israeli occupation forces stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque once again during Ramadan, several Arab and Islamic states condemned its actions. This angered Israel as it fears the effect this will...

Israel's housing policies in East Jerusalem amount to "racial segregation and discrimination" against the Palestinian people and a violation of their human rights, a group of UN experts said...

The Israeli High Court of Justice, on Monday, ordered the State to submit a plan detailing steps to ensure settlers living in Nokdim, an illegal West Bank settlement, will...

Can you imagine what it must be like to know that your child is being kept in solitary confinement, in a room without light and electricity, and without enough...

Wacth the screening of a short film and a conversation with Scottish-Palestinian actor, singer and writer Amira Al-Shanti about identity and Palestine in the context of her most recent work 'Said the Dove to the Olive Tree'.

An Israeli court convicted seven people of incitement to violence and terrorism for their role in a 2015 wedding where far-right Jews were videotaped mocking a murdered Palestinian toddler

This news piece was removed by MEMO on 28 April 2022 due to inaccuracies in the report. MEMO apologises for the errors....

When the Israeli army advises its political leadership to resort to economic punishment in response to rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, it means that the military has lost...

Palestinian medical workers yesterday called off a strike after reaching an agreement with the Palestinian Authority a day earlier. The move means hospitals in East Jerusalem can remain open....

The Egyptian Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Osama Abdel Khalek, yesterday warned against Israel's "continued attempts to Judaise East Jerusalem and change the historical and legal status quo...

Speakers at an Al-Quds Day event sponsored by Iran said on Tuesday that Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque are currently subject to "the most brutal ever attacks" by the Israeli...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has ordered the security services to take action in the occupied West Bank cities of Jenin and Hebron against anti-occupation armed resistance activities, Khleej.net...

US Vice President Kamala Harris has wine produced in illegal Israeli settlements in her office, it has been revealed by Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq. The director of the...

A Palestinian farmer discovered a stone sculpture over 4,500 years old in the southern Gaza Strip

Human rights groups accused the Israeli judiciary on Tuesday of providing legal cover for the army's crimes against unarmed Palestinian civilians. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), Al-Mezan...

Israeli occupation forces have turned Jerusalem into a military base to choke Al-Aqsa Mosque, Grand Imam, Sheikh Ekrema Sabri, said yesterday. "Israeli measures in Jerusalem and against Al-Aqsa Mosque reiterate the Zionist...

Head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem Archbishop Atallah Hanna said yesterday that Israeli aggression on Al-Aqsa Mosque is aggression on Church of Holy Sepulchre. The archbishop's remarks came during a popular action organised...

Earlier this month, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid called for "international support for returning calm to Jerusalem" when tweeting about updating US Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the...

The vast majority of American Jewish students do not feel unsafe or discriminated against because of the anti-Israel climate in US universities, a new survey by the American Jewish...

UN's Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, yesterday called for maintaining the status quo in Jerusalem. During his monthly brief to the UN Security Council, Wennesland...

Israeli occupation authorities moved Palestinian prisoner Zakaria Al-Zubaidi to solitary confinement in Ayalon Prison, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs reported yesterday. Al-Zubaidi has been held in harsh...

After nine Turkish activists were killed by Israeli commandos who boarded Turkey's humanitarian ship the MV Mavi Marmara in 2010 in international waters (a tenth activist died of his...

The number of Israelis who have applied for gun permits since March has increased sharply in a manner that a Public Security Ministry official said was "unprecedented." According to Israel...

Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, told a press conference yesterday that the occupied West Bank is "Judea and Samaria" and "these are not occupied lands… this is...

Qatar has called for providing protection to the Palestinian people and their holy sites amid Israeli violations in occupied East Jerusalem, Anadolu News Agency reports. Qatar "calls on the...

In what was another slap in the face of the Palestinians and free people around the world, at a time when Israeli security forces are storming Al-Aqsa Mosque and...

UN human rights experts yesterday slammed Israel over its "apparent misuse of anti-terrorism legislation" to attack some of the leading civil society organisations, while calling on the international community...

A joint Israeli military-police operation has reportedly foiled an attempt to smuggle grenades and firearms from Lebanon last night suspected to be by Hezbollah. According to Israeli police, 100...

Occupied Jerusalem's largest Palestinian hospital has closed its doors to all except emergency patients in protest against its ongoing financial crisis, Arab48.com reported on Monday. The union of workers...

Earlier this month, Professor Paul Hellewell, Vice Provost and Dean of the College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences at Britain's Brunel University, assured its students that an "anti-Israel"...

Jerusalem and the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque are a red line for the whole Islamic nation, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) announced yesterday. "There is no security or stability...