A member of Fatah's Central Committee is pressuring Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails to call for postponing the upcoming elections if Israel bans them in Jerusalem, Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar revealed yesterday....
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April 20, 2021 |
Dr Ramzy Baroud Covid-19 cases in occupied Palestine, especially in the Gaza Strip, have reached record highs, largely due to the arrival of a greatly contagious coronavirus variant which was first identified...
Israeli forces again demolished on Monday a Palestinian Bedouin village in the southern Negev region, Anadolu Agency reported. The forces demolished Al-Araqeeb village for the 186th time despite the start of...
Israeli settlers today razed Palestinian land in the area of Khirbet Al Hamma in the north of the Jordan Valley, Palestinian sources reported. According to the sources, who spoke...
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) is calling for a boycott of the first-ever art exhibition of Israeli artists in the United Arab...
The administration of US President Joe Biden has conveyed several messages to the Israeli government recently, through which it expressed unease over Israel's attacks against Iranian targets, Yedioth Ahronoth...
Israeli occupation forces arrested three Palestinian candidates for holding a press conference at St George Hotel Jerusalem on the upcoming elections in occupied East Jerusalem. The press conference was...
Israel has lifted a public mask mandate and fully reopened its education system in the latest easing of coronavirus restrictions following its mass vaccination drive
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Have our special days just become painful memories that we relive every year? Such days within the past few weeks were some that will not be forgotten or erased...
Israeli occupation yesterday summoned Jerusalemite activist Mohamed Arnaout for questioning at the Qishla detention centre and handed him an order banning his entry to Al-Aqsa Mosque for six months,...
Mahmoud Abbas has warned that Israel is on the path to becoming an apartheid state in a speech to the annual J Street Conference in America. The President of...
Yossi Langotsky, retired colonel of the Israeli occupation army, has warned that the Iron Dome defence system is not reliable, pointing to previous wars on Gaza which have proven...
April 17 marks Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, an international day of action for Palestinian political prisoners
PalMed Europe yesterday launched an Endowment Fund to help fund pioneering medical aid programmes in Palestine. Speaking to attendants, head of the Palestinian Physicians' Association in Britain (PalMed), Dr Riyad...

Interviews
April 19, 2021 |
Eman Abusidu Palestinian electrical engineer Loay Elbasyouni, who was part of the NASA team which sent the Perseverance spacecraft to Mars last month, has returned to prominence as the space agency...
Two Palestinian brothers, 57-year-old Abdul Jawad and 51-year-old Mohammed Shamasneh, have entered their 29th consecutive year in Israeli detention facilities, the Palestinian Prisoners' Club reported yesterday. In an official...
A number of US congressional staffers are pushing for removing allegedly "anti-Semitic" content from the curricula taught to Palestinian children in schools run by the United Nations Relief and...
Member of Fatah's Central Committee and the PLO's Executive Committee Azzam Al-Ahmad yesterday reiterated that the PLO and Fatah will not accept carrying out elections without Jerusalem. Speaking to Voice...
The besieged Gaza Strip yesterday recorded the highest number of COVID-19 fatalities, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the coastal enclave said. According to the daily briefing issued by...
The Israeli intelligence service on Sunday summoned Sheikh Omar al-Kiswani, the director of East Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque, for interrogation, according to the Jordan-run Islamic Endowments Authority, Anadolu Agency reported. The authority,...
Israeli forces detained 144 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in the first half of April, according to a Palestinian research center on Sunday, Anadolu Agency reported. Six women and five...
Palestine today called on the international community and signatories of the Geneva Conventions to assume their responsibilities towards protecting Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, Anadolu Agency reports. This came in...
The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas has called on the Palestinian people to march towards Al-Aqsa Mosque and stay in its squares during the blessed month of Ramadan, protect it...
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April 17, 2021 |
Asa Winstanley "This is the real apartheid," Jewish American lawyer Brooke Goldstein tweeted last week. "The fact that Jews can't enter into 'Palestinian territory'," she claimed, "I reject that some places...
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Interviews
April 17, 2021 |
Ahmad Hwedi Arab and Islamic communities are scattered across various continents around the world. Statistics have shown that Arab communities hold weight in Europe and America, especially the Palestinian communities, which...
Israeli occupation authorities have prevented thousands of Palestinian worshippers from the occupied West Bank from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque on the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan,...
The Israeli army has revealed a plan including simultaneous attacks on hundreds of targets in Gaza based on a prepared bank of targets, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported on Friday. According...
Turkey's Presidential Spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin on Friday condemned the latest Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, Anadolu Agency reported. "We strongly condemn Israel's airstrike on Gaza during the holy...
One cold night in December 2019, Shatha Hassan, 23, was woken by her brother Mohamed to tell her that the Israeli army had slapped a siege on their home...
An Israeli solider is pushed to the ground in Jerusalem
UN human rights experts have warned that violent attacks against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, including physical assaults and property demolitions carried out by Israeli settlers, have...
Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque, called on Arab and Muslim nations to intervene against Israeli violations against the hoy site, the Palestinian...