Palestine

Israel's Walla news website reported that Israel Prison Service, IPS, had discovered on Thursday a tunnel dug by Palestinian prisoners detained in Shatta Prison. The website said that the...

At the height of the Israeli campaign against the Palestinian national unity government, Palestinian sources have revealed that the Israeli Minister of Justice and chief peace negotiator, Tzipi Livni...

Palestinian success in burying a seven-year division has surpassed its domestic effects and has, without a doubt, regional and international implications. With the Palestinian unity government, the relationships between...

The Palestinian Authority security services in the occupied West Bank arrested 28 activists and journalists in 48 hours and summoned seven others, including senior Hamas officials. All the activists,...

Palestinian newspapers published from the Gaza Strip hold the Palestinian Authority (PA) responsible for the Israeli decision to prohibit printing and distributing them in the West Bank. The papers...

The national liberation phase of a nation whose land is occupied and whose will has been usurped has acted as a turning point in the life of these people....

As prisoners held under Israel's "administrative detention" pass the 50th day of their hunger strike, Palestinian leaders and activists called for a strike in solidarity today, Thursday. The commercial...

Israeli bulldozers backed by a military helicopter on Thursday demolished the Bedouin village of Al-Araqeeb in the Negev Desert for the 70th time on the pretext that it had...

The streets are narrow, and houses tower towards the sky in Aida refugee camp. The Palestinian refugee camp was founded in 1950, and has continued to expand since then,...

The Israel Medical Association warned that doctors who are involved in force-feeding Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike could be tried in the International Criminal Court in The Hague and...

Exhibiting the usual contempt, the Israel Defence Forces have dismissed the autopsy results on Nadim Seyam Nawara and Mohammed Mahmoud Odeh which determined that live fire was the cause...

Hundreds of Palestinians joined a demonstration organised by the Islamic Resistance Movement in Gaza City on Wednesday evening to protest against the suppression of freedoms in the West Bank....

Israel is now living with the fear that the European boycott of products from settlements built on Palestinian land occupied in 1967 will expand to include products from settlements...

Israel's annual Herzliya Conference sees national policy articulated by the country's military, political, and security elite. The issues raised at the conference reflect public debate, and go on to...

Ahmad was 15 when he was arrested during a 3 am raid by Palestinian security forces at El Far'a refugee camp in September 2013. He was accused of throwing...

Adverts highlighting Israeli violations of Palestinian rights have gone up in Boston's subway system, thanks to local non-profit group Ads Against Apartheid. The series of three ads cover home...

Palestinian banks in the Gaza Strip reopened this morning, the Palestinian Monetary Authority said in a statement. Thousands of employees queued in front of cash machines all over the...

Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has ruled out the annexation of the West Bank, saying that "although it's a good idea, it is unrealistic". He called instead for "population...

Israel's Finance Minister Yair Lapid has come under attacked from officials close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office after he threatened to topple the government if it attempted...

Israel is trying constantly to create the impression that it is the only the party that possesses any cards in the Middle East power game. It does so in...

Saudi officials intervened at the last minute on Sunday to prevent a rift occurring between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Egyptian authorities during the inauguration ceremony of President...

The Palestinian Authority has crossed all red lines through its practices against members of the Palestinian Legislative Council and those who stand in solidarity with prisoners, Hamas' Deputy Political...

Hamas' senior leader Mousa Abu-Marzouk said yesterday that his movement would overcome all obstacles in the way of Palestinian national unity. Speaking in a meeting in northern Gaza, Abu-Marzouk...

The Israeli Ministry of Health has placed strict restrictions on visits to prisoners on hunger strike by private doctors, in a move that adopts the recommendations of Shin Bet,...

Reuven Rivlin was elected yesterday the tenth president of Israel. He has previously served as Speaker of the Knesset (2003-'06, 2009-'13), and has been a Member of Knesset since...

'Omar' star Samer Bisharat is the protagonist of a new short film launched by Palestinian citizens of Israel campaigning against military conscription. 'Project X' is the result of collaboration...

The Israeli security services' Chief of Staff, Benny Gantz appointed Brigadier Ronnie Noma as chief of the Command and Staff College, head of the Depth Corps and promoted him...

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki yesterday stressed that Palestinians would not call off joining international organisations and conventions should Israel continue undermining the peace process. Speaking to a local...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sharply criticised the plan put forward by Yair Lapid which calls for Israel to withdraw from many areas in the West Bank and to...

Tension between the Palestinian Authority security services and the Islamic Resistance Movement in the West Bank reached a peak last night after Hamas accused the PA security forces of...

Informed Palestinian sources claim that disgraced Fatah leader Mohamed Dahlan was seen accompanying the Crown Prince of the United Arab Emirates when the coup leader Abdul-Fattah Al-Sisi was sworn...

American thinker Noam Chomsky has called for an end to the eight -year Israeli siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Member of Parliament Gamal Al-Khodari said yesterday. "Every...