Palestine

Turkey must hold fast to its demand for Israel to ease the blockade of Gaza Dr Daud Abdullah In recent days, attempts by Israel and Turkey to normalise relations...

It is possible to assume that there are real reasons that made Israeli Minister of Infrastructure Yuval Steinitz gloat to the army leadership, security institutions and media elites in...

Palestinian teachers at governmental school have now been on strike for more than one week in protest at low wages and amidst claims of the Palestinian Authority retreating on...

The persistence of the Jerusalem Intifada, despite the lack of strategic organisation and involvement of Palestinian resistance factions, has incurred Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett’s misplaced wrath. Notoriously known...

The price of cigarettes smuggled into the Gaza Strip has risen thanks to Daesh destroying a consignment that it captured in the Sinai Peninsula, Quds Press has reported. Anonymous...

Israel’s Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy Yisrael Katz has proposed that Israel expel the families of Palestinians who carry out attacks against Israelis to Syria or the Gaza...

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon said yesterday that his army is preparing for an escalation with Hamas in Gaza, but hoped that this would not be very soon, QudsNet...

Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett came under severe criticism yesterday after he announced the upcoming school year as the “year of united Jerusalem”, Al-Resalah newspaper reported. Bennett, from the...

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked Britain to remove posters from London's tube network that describe Israel as an apartheid state. A spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry...

Israeli restrictions imposed on the Palestinian economy have been relaxed in return for greater security coordination between the two sides to counter the ongoing Intifada, local media has reported....

Israel has issued and renewed 191 administrative detention orders against Palestinian prisoners since the start of 2016, Palestinian Prisoners’ Centre for Studies revealed yesterday. According to a statement reported...

Last week, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was put in block 10 of Ma'asiyahu Prison near Ramle to spend a year and 7 months behind bars for corruption...

Education Aid for Palestinians (EAP) in Britain today announced the opening of its first clean water project in a school in the Gaza Strip. The project, the first in...

An Israeli military checkpoint was recreated at the University of Cambridge on Monday, as part of Israeli Apartheid Week 2016. The Cambridge University Palestine Society, along with various students,...

The Palestinian Ministry of Public Works and Housing has said that around 95 per cent of the rubble left after the 2014 Israeli war on the Gaza Strip has...

Arriving in Rome by train for an interview with director Giulia Giorgi, I find myself at Stazione Termini. A few months back, the station implemented security measures and had...

Jordanian civil society groups protested Sunday outside the United Nations headquarters in Amman, demanding action towards the release of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Muhamaad Al-Qeeq. Al-Qeeq, a journalist, is being...

Last week the government made an announcement intended to intimidate supporters of Palestinian rights. It was trailed in the media as a "ban" on boycotts of Israel, which The...

Israeli authorities have issued more than 20,000 demolition orders since the start of the Israeli occupation of Jerusalem, Quds Net reported yesterday. Also read:  Israel demolishes Palestinian primary school...

Palestinian refugees in areas controlled by Bashar Al-Assad’s regime in Syria are struggling to escape conscription and often have little choice but to join the regime’s forces, Task Group...

The Islamic-Christian Commission in Support of Jerusalem and the Holy Sites said yesterday that the Israeli occupation destroyed a Palestinian primary school in East Jerusalem to obstruct the education...

Palestinian teachers have continued their industrial action for the second week protesting against the freeze in wages and promotions, Quds Press reported yesterday. The Palestinian Authority tried to convince...

A Palestinian teen was shot dead Sunday by Israeli troops near the West Bank city of Nablus after allegedly trying to attack Israeli soldiers with a knife, the Israeli...

British historian Simon Schama has written a comment piece for the Financial Times on “the left’s problem with Jews”, the main purpose of which is to argue that “anti-Israel...

The leader of Hamas in Gaza, former Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, announced on Friday that the movement’s military wing, Al-Qassam Brigades, has found electronic devices used by the Israelis...

This is the story of two journalists treated unjustly by Israeli occupation authorities. Yet they are not being equally treated by the media. Indeed, they should not be equally...

The Israeli army’s Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot sparked a storm of criticism after he said that soldiers must use proportionate force in dealing with Palestinian attacks. Speaking with...

Israeli police have said that on Thursday their forces raided two organisations in the cities of Haifa and Umm Al-Fahm on suspicion that their activities serve the Islamic Movement’s...

Egyptian power lines stopped feeding the Palestinian city of Rafah yesterday afternoon as a result of a technical malfunction in the central station in the city of Al-Arish. Palestinian...

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has been in the news recently following the British government's decision to “ban” local authorities from applying their ethical procurement policies if...

The Israeli authorities refused to allow the family of journalist Muhammad Al-Qeeq, who has been on hunger strike for 87 days, from visiting him today in Afula Hospital citing...

Hapoalim Bank, one of Israel’s largest banks, is considering severing ties with Palestinian banks, Maariv newspaper revealed today. The newspaper said that the bank’s position stems from its fear...