The Palestinian Arab community in Israel has been invited to take part in a march to commemorate the Nakba (Catastrophe) as the 63rd anniversary of the founding of the...

A human rights organisation based in Jerusalem has said that in 2010 Israeli occupation authorities in Jerusalem demolished 55 homes belonging to Palestinian residents of the Holy City. Forty...

Israel has arrested underage Palestinians from the Silwan district in Occupied Jerusalem. Sources in the area say that security forces raided a number of homes at dawn, arresting five...

Demands have been made for an international committee to investigate the type of bombs used by Israeli security forces against civilian demonstrators in Jerusalem last week. The calls were...

It has been revealed that there has been a remarkable increase in the number of breast cancer cases in the Gaza Strip. Dr. Sawsan Hammad, the Director of the...

The Israeli occupation forces have turned the roofs of Palestinian homes in the ancient city of Hebron, south of the West Bank, into military barracks and control points under...

The International Solidarity Foundation for Human Rights (ISFHR) has revealed that the Israeli military authorities have decreed that the Islamic Representatives bloc in the Palestinian Legislative Council is a...

Diplomatic sources have revealed that the Egyptian government has contacted its Israeli counterpart to strike a deal for the release of its nationals being held in Israel's prisons. At...

A human rights organization has reported that the Israeli Prisons' Administration is deliberately and continuously transporting isolated prisoners on hunger-strike in Ashkelon, from one cell to another several times...

A Palestinian human rights organization has reported that the management of the Negev Prison moved 6 Palestinian prisoners into solitary confinement following their announcement that they would embark on...

Israel's "concern" once again propels itself into news headlines as Tel Aviv warns that a "new intifada" could begin following the death of Ahmed Jaradat while being interrogated in...

On September 30, 2000, Muhammad Al-Durrah was killed in the arms of his father by Israeli army gunfire at the Al-Shohada Junction in the Gaza Strip. This was filmed...

Palestinian sources reported on Thursday that a Palestinian child has died at an Israeli occupation checkpoint that is known as "the Container" and which separates the central West Bank...

The British government is said to be 'urgently' looking into its universal jurisdiction laws, following the successful issuing of a warrant by Westminster magistrates' court for the arrest of...

British physicist, Stephen Hawking, has backed an academic boycott of Israel as he announcing he would not attend a conference hosted by Israeli president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem, the...

At the 2013 MEMO Palestine Book Awards held at the London Hilton Paddington prizes were awarded to honour outstanding authors who have written on Palestine over the last year....

The death of South African liberation icon Nelson Mandela last night has brought in floods of well-deserved tributes. But the hypocrisy of many of these, often from the very...

The Balfour Declaration of 2 November 1917 was central to the wartime British-Zionist alliance and a powerful Zionist-Jewish propaganda tool. As the centenary of the Declaration approaches it is...

Andrew Roberts is a historian of note, but his robust defence of the state of Israel in the Financial Times (Israel is no more rogue than America, 3 March)...

The leaked documents known now as the "Palestine Papers" have been picked over and analysed extensively by Al Jazeera and the Guardian; at least, most of them have. The...

The overwhelming majority of officers who attended the Annual Conference of High Officers in the Israeli army convened recently, are religious Zionists. Former director of the Israeli Defence Forces...

On this year's Land Day, tens of thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel marched in Sakhnin, an Israeli city in the Lower Galilee, to protest against past and present...

The brutal killing of an unarmed Palestinian as he lay asleep in his own bed has been "regretted" by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). I am sure that the...

The sixty-third anniversary of the Nakba witnessed a number of important events set up by Palestinian refugees in Arab countries surrounding Palestine, in the Diaspora, and inside the occupied...

In recent months, there have been repeated attacks by Israeli settlers against mosques across the West Bank. They were carried out with the complicity of Israel's occupation army and...

Two American officials have claimed that the main target of the Israeli raid on Syria last Wednesday was a military convoy travelling towards Lebanon, but it hit a scientific...

Whenever the topic of the Palestinian Authority arises, few people talk about the institution itself, or the PLO or its President. The main topic for discussion is Salam Fayyad...

According to its own website, Freedom House is "an independent watchdog organisation that supports the expansion of freedom around the world". It "supports democratic change, monitors freedom, and advocates...

How do we stop the creeping growth of Israeli settlements? How do we put the freeze on settlements in their various manifestations at the top of the agenda for...

Our brothers in Egypt have the right to dig trenches as they want, build walls as they like, and stick in the ground, to whatever depth they want, reinforced...

We assume that the Obama administration is committed to the peace process and the "two states for two peoples" solution. We have no doubt on this proposition, particularly when...

Exactly thirty-seven years ago, on 30th March 1976, the people of Palestine rose up against Israel's occupation of their land. After 28 years of living under curfews and restrictions...