Palestine

According to Israeli sources, the District Planning and Construction Commission for Jerusalem today approved the construction of 172 new housing units in the Har Homa settlement in East Jerusalem....

The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia has called for international intervention to stop Israel's escalation against the Palestinians. "The Israeli military has committed crimes against Palestinian civilians under the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged the international community to call on Mahmoud Abbas to dissolve the unity government backed by Hamas. Speaking at a press conference alongside...

Lebanese judges today sought the death penalty for two detainees, in two separate cases, a Palestinian and a Syrian – as well as four other Syrian fugitives – on...

Israeli occupation forces arrested 65 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank last night, 50 of whom were prisoners released in Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit's prisoners swap held between Hamas...

A senior aide to the Tunisian president yesterday condemned the harsh Israeli campaign against Palestinians, including the kidnapping of more than 20 members of parliament over the last few...

The UAE Red Crescent is to carry out aid projects in the Palestinian territories worth $80 million in 2014 and 2016, a senior official said. Sami Mikawi, manager of...

Israel has a penchant for speaking about retribution as an isolated and necessary response – an extension of the ultimate, imaginary patriot who lacks land and invents ownership. Speaking...

The entire Palestinian population is being held hostage to the whims of the Israeli occupation forces following the kidnapping of three Israeli settlers in Hebron, a statement published today...

The EU Court of Auditors has said "there is no evidence of corruption, mismanagement or diversion of funds" received by the Palestinian Authority (PA) from the EU, a statement...

A senior official from the Israel Prison Service has met with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, the Ahrar Centre for Detainees Studies and Human Rights said. The prisoners told...

Israeli Occupation Forces this morning began to demolish shops in Hebron, in the south of the occupied West Bank. Sources in the city said that military vehicles raided the...

In the West Bank, the search continues for the three Israeli youths who went missing near the Israeli settlement bloc of Gush Etzion on Thursday night. The boys, who...

Israeli warships have attacked Palestinian fishermen off the northern coast of the Gaza Strip. The attack took place on Tuesday morning. Earlier Israeli fighter-bombers carried out several airstrikes across...

Since the reported disappearance and claimed kidnapping of 3 young Israeli settlers near Gush Etzion settlement on Friday, Israeli Occupation Forces have been carrying out widespread raids and attacks...

Four people were injured early this morning in a series of Israeli raids targeting resistance sites and empty land around the Gaza Strip. Dr Ashraf, spokesperson for the Ministry...

Israel always tries to give the impression that the side that holds the cards can dictate what it wants to its enemies, where enemy leaders would have no other...

US Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday condemned the kidnapping of three settlers in Hebron and accused Hamas of kidnapping them and demanded their immediate release. In a press...

With the heat of the summer and the start of the school and university holidays in the Gaza Strip, students have no other outlet than to head to the...

The Israeli government is considering expelling Hamas leaders from the West Bank as punitive measures for the kidnapping of three settlers; Israel's Channel 2 reported yesterday. Reporter Audi Siegel...

Egyptian army units on the Gaza-Egyptian borders have been on alert since three Israeli settlers were announced missing on Friday, witnesses said. According to the witnesses from Rafah, the...

Senior Islamic Jihad leader Sheikh Nafiz Azzam said on Sunday that the massive Israeli arrest campaign would not stop Palestinian resistance or "break the Palestinians' will" to regain their...

Israeli occupation forces killed two Palestinians overnight and arrested 40 more across the occupied West Bank. The Speaker of the Palestinian parliament, Aziz Dwaik, and two other MPs were...

A senior Hamas official in Gaza said on Sunday that the ongoing Israeli escalation against the Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip is aimed at foiling...

The number of Palestinian ministers of parliament detained in Israeli jails has risen to 20 deputies after a campaign of arrests over the past 48 hours, the Palestinian Prisoners...

The Palestinians have learnt from experience to be wary of political initiatives "Made in London". They have witnessed how projects from the Balfour Declaration to the Oslo Accords were...

Deconstructing the mythological 'right to land' would prove a crucial requirement to achieve an understanding of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Shlomo Sand's new book, The Invention of...

Janan Abdu is a Palestinian social and feminist campaigner and researcher. Her husband Ameer Makhoul is also a human rights activist on behalf of Palestinians living in Israel; imprisoned,...

Meticulously researched, Hamas and Civil Society: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector (Princeton University Press, 2011) is a significant study of Hamas and Gaza's social institutions. The evolution of Hamas...

Every week, inmates at the Israeli prison of Beer Al-Sabe' hold political debates inside their cells. What are the benefits of negotiations with Israel; how useful is the Palestine...

The Israeli army arrested 80 Hamas leaders in the West Bank Sunday morning, the Israeli Channel 7 reported. According to the Israeli army's radio channel, the army rounded up...

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas on Sunday rejected Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu's accusations of abducting three Jewish settlers from the West Bank. Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri dismissed Netanyahu's...