Israeli authorities

The Arab League has called for international pressure to be applied on Israel to ratify the Convention Against Torture. The call follows the League's condemnation of the "dangerous measures"...

An Israeli court has decided to release Jerusalem parliamentarian Ahmed Abu Atoun on condition that he is deported from his own country. The prosecution, meanwhile, asked for time to...

A human rights researcher has claimed that the Israeli authorities have escalated their crackdown on Palestinian journalists order to "hide the truth about Israel's crimes". Abdel Nasser Ferwana said...

Palestinian sources have reported that groups of Israeli settlers have attacked civilians across the occupied West Bank. In the village of Burqa near Nablus, two cars were set on...

The Organisation of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has called for Gaza's land crossing with Egypt to be fully opened to both individuals and goods. Currently only the movement...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES As part of a week-long series of activities in solidarity with the four Arab Jerusalemite MPs currently seeking refuge at the international Red Cross Centre in Jerusalem,...

Rabbi Meir Hirsh, Jerusalem – Arrest of Shaykh Raed Salah in London There are very few people in Jerusalem who have not heard of or do not know Shaykh...

16 June 2011This statement was issued by the Office of Shaikh Raed Salah, Um al Faham People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones The vicious political harassment of Sh....

Israeli media outlets have unveiled a government plan to displace 30,000 Palestinians from their villages in the Negev, which the authorities refuse to recognise. They would be forced to...

An Israeli organization has warned against the dangerous repercussions of the implementation of a new Israeli plan to establish a national garden in the East Jerusalem towns of Issawiya...

The Israeli Occupation authorities banned the Muslim call to prayer (Adhan) at Hebron's Al-Ibrahimi Mosque 54 times in the month of October. Palestinian sources said that the Occupation banned the...

A large force of Israeli police and special forces supported by armoured bulldozers, machinery and trucks have demolished a Palestinian village for the sixth time. The Israelis entered Al-Arakib...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESThe Al-Aqsa Foundation for Heritage and Endowments has revealed that after midnight on 10 August, bulldozers of the Israeli Occupation dug up and completely removed more than 200...

A leading member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation's Executive Committee has condemned the Israeli authorities in Jerusalem for their structural map proposals for the Holy City. Dr. Hanan Ashrawi...

Israeli sources have revealed that about 20,000 Palestinians in the West Bank are living in fear of expulsion because they hold residence papers issued in Gaza and the Israeli...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESOn Sunday, tens of Palestinians and international peace activists gathered at a protest rally near Gaza City organised by the Popular Committee Against the Siege to demand that...

A Palestinian man had his arm broken by Jewish settlers on Monday morning in the southern Hebron suburb of Jaber. Shadi Al-Zarou was attacked by a group of illegal...

The United Nations Fourth Committee has accused the Israeli authorities of obstructing efforts to reconstruct the Gaza Strip, which was devastated during the Israeli war in 2008/2009. Life in...

Israeli security forces have detained 11 Palestinians in three West Bank cities in raids on Monday morning. Three of those detained are minors. Local sources said that the soldiers...

The Israeli authorities have freed Hasan al-Safadi after a total of 166 days on hunger strike amid extremely harsh prison conditions. Al-Safadi ended a 93-day hunger strike on September...

An Israeli court has heard that the government of Ehud Olmert drafted a plan to starve Palestinians in Gaza. The details were revealed after a human rights group obtained...

The Israeli authorities have stopped a number of Palestinians from travelling to Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj pilgrimage. Sources said that they were turned back because they refused...

The Council of Catholic churches in the occupied Palestinian territories has condemned the hostile graffiti scrawled on the main gate of a Franciscan monastery in Jerusalem yesterday. The attack...

The European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs has criticised Israel for plans to expand the illegal Har Homa settlement located on Mount Abu-Ghneim between Jerusalem and Bethlehem. "The...

Planning permission has been approved for the construction of a new military complex on Al-Zaytoun and Al-Mokabber Hills overlooking the southern side of Al-Aqsa Mosque. A site of around...

Palestinian prisoners in Israel's Etzion Prison started an open hunger strike on Wednesday in protest at the conditions of their detention. According to the Palestinian Prisoners' Club, 25 prisoners...

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has revealed that the Israeli army has deployed tanks on the border with Egypt following clashes near the Kadesh Barnea settlement. The move breaches the...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Islamic Resistance Movement has organised a record breaking human chain in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. The demonstration in Gaza lasted for two hours....

The Israeli authorities have released two members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), Mahmud Al-Ramahi, the PLC secretary from Ramallah, and Nizar Ramadan from Al-Khalil (Hebron). Both men are...

The International Committee of the Red Cross in the Gaza Strip has said that it has not received any information from the Israeli authorities regarding visit schedules for Gazan...

As organisations dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights, the Palestinian Council of Human Rights Organizations (PCHRO) and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-Israel) are gravely concerned for...

The Fifth Conference on the Development of the Negev and Galilee has been told that there are plans for 10 new settlements in the Negev Desert. This comes at...