Palestine

A new report issued by an Israeli human rights group has found that most of the complaints filed by Palestinians against the violations committed by Israeli occupation forces, including...

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation held an emergency meeting of the Quds Contact Group on Wednesday in the Moroccan capital of Rabat, during which the group urged the UN...

Mahmoud Al-Zahar, a senior member of Hamas's political bureau, said that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is hindering the work of the consensus government because he is preventing officials...

Ten years after Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned by polonium, probably murdered, several Latin American countries have joined Palestinians in commemorating both the anniversary of his death and...

It is clear that what is happening now in the city of Jerusalem and the West Bank is the beginning of an explosion in the face of the Zionist...

A secret meeting was held on Tuesday between security officials from Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), Hebrew news website Walla reported. The meeting centred on their joint efforts...

I was surprised last Friday by Palestinian Authority media outlets in Ramallah reporting the 15 bombings near the Fatah headquarters in Gaza and the platform established to mark the...

Sources in the French National Assembly said that the socialist MPs will present a proposal on the formal recognition of the State of Palestine; the vote is due to...

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Wednesday that conditions in Jerusalem, or Al-Quds for Muslims, are worse than during the 1967 war. "The current situation in Al-Quds...

The Palestinian government and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), with the support of Sweden, yesterday signed an agreement aimed at removing the rubble and debris in the Gaza...

The Palestinian Prisoners Society said that the Israeli Prison Service had transferred Fatah's leading activist Marwan Barghouti to solitary confinement in the Hadarim prison in central Israel after he...

The United States expressed concern over Israel's decision to build 200 new housing units in East Jerusalem, it also condemned the burning of a mosque in the West Bank....

Last Saturday, Khair Hamdan, a 22-year-old Israeli-Arab construction worker, was shot by Israeli police in a town in Galilee. Officers said initially that Hamdan had attacked them, wielding a...

A group pf Israeli hackers calling themselves "UP" claim to have successfully taken down a number of official websites run by the Palestinian Authority (PA), Israeli media reported on...

"What we have seen within the past week can only be described as racist, state-controlled terrorism and military anarchy. There is no less than an apartheid system existing to...

Israeli authorities denied entry on Wednesday night to the commission appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate possible war crimes committed during Israel's latest war against Palestinians...

A new survey conducted by the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies at the Doha Institute shows that 85 per cent of Arabs polled hold negative views of...

Israel's Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch yesterday announced that visitors to Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound will soon be "scanned by a facial-recognition surveillance system that can pick out faces...

Clashes broke out yesterday morning between Palestinian youths and Israeli police officers in the town of Al-Issawiya, north of Jerusalem, as the area witnessed intense gas and sound bombs....

Arab states have intervened to stop the "incitement" to demonstrate in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque, a senior Israeli official revealed yesterday. In an interview on Israeli Army Radio, the...

Columnist for The Sun and infamous celebrity Katie Hopkins provoked outrage this week by taking to Twitter to describe Palestinians as "filthy rodents", as well as other Islamophobic remarks....

The local Israeli committee for planning and construction in the Palestinian city of Jerusalem is set to approve on Wednesday the building of 200 new housing units in the...

More than 40 Palestinian citizens have been arrested over the last few days, as protests continue following the killing by Israeli police of Khair Hamdan. According to a source...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday accused Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas of "teaching terror", Israeli website Ynetnews reported. "Abu Mazen is not a partner to the effort...

The Palestinian Information Technology Association of companies (PITA) and Palestinian Telecommunication Group (Paltel) have launched the 11th Palestine Technology Week, "Expotech", 2014 in coordination with the Ministry of Telecommunications...

Last week, a caller to a local radio talk show in Ramallah vented his anger: "People are dying in Jerusalem, al-Aqsa is being attacked and no-one is demonstrating here,...

Some 56 per cent of Israeli Jews have said that they support the continuation of the current policy prohibiting Jews from praying in Al-Aqsa Mosque, while 38 per cent...

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that he believes that the area known as "the triangle" should be part of a Palestinian state in exchange for Israel's annexation of...

The leader of the Fatah movement detained by Israel, Marwan Barghouti, called on Tuesday for the Palestinian Authority (PA) to support both "comprehensive resistance and the gun", Arabs48 news...

Events cannot be allowed to develop in Gaza, regardless of who is behind them, into an internal Palestinian conflict at a time when Israel has become even more vicious,...

Palestinian Jerusalemite Bassam Zeidani confirmed that Israeli forces stormed his Jerusalem home yesterday and ordered the arrest of his nephew Hamza Zeidani, a child who is only two years...

Individual resistance operations in the West Bank and Jerusalem are a justified and natural reaction to the Israeli military occupation and its crimes against the Palestinian people and holy...