Hamas praised UNRWA Commissioner-General for Palestinian refugees Filippo Grandi’s “humanitarian stance and the leadership” in which he called for the lifting of the “unjust siege on Gaza and for...

Rashid Al-Rashq, a 14 year-old Palestinian boy, has revealed that Israeli forces tortured and mistreated him, including stripping him of his clothes, after he was imprisoned for two months...

Filippo Grandi ends his four-year term as UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Commissioner-General on 29 March, and is handing over to the Swiss national, Pierre Krähenbühl. Mr. Grandi,...

The Israeli army is to blame for the death of 14-year-old Palestinian boy Yousef Al-Shawamreh last week, Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem said yesterday. In a statement published on...

The Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas has expressed deep concern about the Arab League’s final statement as it “ignores the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip”. The Arab League’s two-day...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas could face the same fate of the late President Yasser Arafat over his position on the peace talks with Israel, Palestinian Legislative Council second deputy...

Turkish medical supplies and construction material have been allowed in to the Gaza Strip to build the Turkish Friendship Hospital, Israel’s Haaretz newspaper said today. The newspaper said Defence...

Palestinian Secular movement Fatah hailed the decision of the Egyptian military-coup leader Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi to run for presidential elections, a statement issued today said. Deputy Secretary of Fatah’s...

The Arab Summit’s final statement has refused to recognise Israel as a Jewish state and condemned the Israeli illegal settlements established on the Palestinian territories. The Arab delegations attending...

General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative Mustafa Barghouti announced that the Arab Social Democratic Forum, which was held this week in the Jordanian capital of Amman, has adopted...

Fourteen members of Hamas inside Palestinian Authority (PA) jails in the occupied West Bank have been on hunger strike for a week, The Islamic resistence movement announced today. Prominent...

Hamas is ready to commence the implementation of reconciliation agreements signed between the Palestinian factions as long as Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas stops being “selective” about which...

The UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has expressed her “deep concerns” over Israel’s continued siege of the Gaza Strip, imposed since 2006. She also blamed Israeli...

Arab leaders should withdraw the Arab Peace Initiative as the Israeli occupation has ignored it, Ahmed Bahar, first deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), said. Speaking before...

Though the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the assassination of Hamas’ founders Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Abdul-Aziz Al-Rantisi ended more than 24 hours ago, related hashtags on social...

Israeli forces beat up, tortured and insulted the youngest Palestinian prisoner Rasheed Rasmi Al-Rashq, a 14-year-old from Jerusalem, following his arrest on February 10, Palestinian officials said. The Palestinian...

Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank warned on Sunday that Jenin could become the capital of Palestinian resistance once again, stressing that this scenario is now a cause...

The Israeli government is now demanding an extension of the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks for another year as a condition for releasing the fourth group of Palestinian prisoners, Israeli sources...

The Palestinian Authority will not agree to recognise Israel as a Jewish state, abandon the right of return or commit to an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Israel’s channel...

Thousands of Palestinian citizens will attend a festival organised by the Hamas government in Gaza Sunday under the title “loyalty and steadfastness on the path of martyrs”. Hamas is...

The majority of Palestinians do not support the framework agreement proposed by the United States because it does not herald real freedom or respect the right to self-determination, a...

The son of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on his father to dissolve the Palestinian Authority, end the negotiations with Israeli and seek a one-state solution. In a rare...

Palestinian worshippers expelled Knesset Deputy Speaker Moshe Feiglin and the Jewish settlers who accompanied him in to Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyards today, the Palestinian news agency reported. Accompanied by tens...

A senior member of the Islamic Resistance movement Hamas, Mousa Abu Marzouk, has called on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and former Fatah leader Mohamed Dahlan to refrain from exchanging...

Hamas welcomes Jordan as a mediator to end the Palestinian internal divisions and denies reports that the Kingdom sent a formal invitation to the Islamic Resistance movement on this...

Approximately 50 Palestinian citizens have been killed since the start of the current Palestinian-Israeli talks, Secretary General of the National Palestinian Initiative Mustafa Al-Barghouti said. Al-Barghouti accused the Israeli...

Supporters of the former Fatah leader Mohamed Dahlan attacked Fatah spokesman Ahmed Assaf after he refuted accusations by Dahlan against Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas on an Egyptian TV channel,...

An international tender for oil exploration in the West Bank for foreign companies in partnership with the Palestinian Investment Fund was put out by the Palestinian government in Ramallah...

Nabil Shaath, a member of Fatah’s central committee, has denied the media reports about a recent statement he made regarding the Palestinian leadership’s willingness to reconsider the Israeli demand...

A new Israeli poll indicates that about half of Israeli settlers living illegally in selected areas of the West Bank would evacuate their settlements under a peace agreement with...

The image of crowds of Palestinians lining up for UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) food parcels, which has emerged as an icon of the Syria...

Egyptian authorities have refused to renew prominent Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook’s residency permit, a Hamas spokesman said. It is now believed that Abu-Marzook may be deported when his...