Israeli Occupation

The Israeli Occupation Forces have carried out several incursions, raids and arrests of Palestinian citizens in almost every part of the West Bank on a daily basis over the...

The President of the Popular Committee Against Siege (PCAS), MP Jamal El Khoudary, invited the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bernard Kouchner, to visit the besieged Gaza Strip via...

Sheikh Mohammed Hussein, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine, and the preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque, has expressed outrage at the Israeli occupation forces' storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and...

A Palestinian research centre, specialised in monitoring Israeli violations, revealed that the Israeli occupation authorities destroyed 14000 olive trees in the Palestinian territories during 2009. Such assaults included the...

Fatah's official spokesman and member of the Revolutionary Council, Fahmi Al-Zaarir, considered the law, which passed in the Israeli Knesset, entailing that the Israeli government hold a referendum before...

Sheikh Mohammad Hussein, the mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine, warned off the consequences of the excavations carried out by the Israeli authorities under the Aqsa Mosque's walls, Jerusalem's Old...

The Council for the maintenance of Islamic cemeteries in Jerusalem confirmed that the Israeli occupation has begun bulldozing an area of the Ma'man Allah cemetery near the grave of...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The ongoing Israeli occupation and the classification by the Israeli government of Islamic places of worship as "Israeli heritage sites" brought Palestinians onto the streets of the...

The Israeli occupation authorities have decided to close the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron on Wednesday 31st March and Thursday 1st April under the pretext of celebrating "Easter". Since dawn...

The Palestinian Prisoners Club in Hebron said that the rate of arrests of Palestinians from the Hebron district is the highest of all of the Palestinian governorates, in the...

The Israeli Occupation Forces proceeded, on Monday morning, to intensify its presence and expand its activities in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli actions have come against the background...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESA press conference was convened today Thursday in Ramallah, concerning the decision of Israeli Occupation decision to revoke residential rights of four members of the Palestinian legislature to...

The minister of women's affairs in Gaza, Jameela al-Shuntee, has denounced a decision by the Israeli Prison Authorities to install surveillance cameras in female common areas inside the Hasharon...

Israel is continuing with its policy of demolishing the homes of Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem on the pretext that the properties do not have official permits. In at least...

The policies of the Israeli occupation in East Jerusalem and the West Bank continue to prevent students from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque. Police officers stationed at the gates and inside...

A conference in Jericho and the Jordan Valley has been told that the water situation in Palestine is "catastrophic". Delegates at the "Water is a Human Right" conference include...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES A demonstration attended by farmers and fishermen from the Federation of Agricultural Workers and held under the auspices of the Union of Civil Organisations has marched on...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip held a vigil in front of the office of the United Nations yesterday in support of the detained Al-Jazeera correspondent Samer...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Israeli aircraft have launched intense night raids against civilian areas inside the Gaza Strip. During the attacks, the Abu Samra household was targeted and completely destroyed. A...

A Palestinian youth, Amin Talib Dabash, died late last night 16 August after he was run over by a military jeep belonging to the Israeli 'border guards', in the...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Israeli occupation yesterday (4th August) released the Hamas leader and deputy in the Palestinian Legislative Council, Sheikh Hassan Youssef. Mr Youssef was released from the Ofer...

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has launched a new report, "Seven years after the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the...

The Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, Dr Mustafa Al Barghouthi, has said that despite being prevented from setting sail from Greece, Freedom Flotilla II managed to achieve...

The Palestinian National Assembly for Jerusalem is the highest representative body for Palestinians in the Holy City, with members from all Palestinian political parties, Muslim and Christian religious denominations...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On Sunday, Palestinians commemorated the 44th anniversary of the June 1967 War which resulted in the Israeli occupation of vast swathes of Palestinian and Arab territory including...

A report issued by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has confirmed that since its occupation in 1967, authorities of the Israeli occupation have...

The Israeli occupation on Monday, 9th May, refused to release one of the longest serving Palestinian prisoners from the Gaza Strip under the pretext of the Jewish holidays. Palestinian...

The Palestine Section of Defence for Children International has claimed that Israeli occupation forces target children during actions against Palestinian civilians. DCI-Pal said in a statement that the Israeli...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On the 17th of April, popular and official activities were held across the occupied Palestinian territories to mark Palestinian Prisoners Day which is commemorated annually after it...

The Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar, Dr Ahmed Al Tayeb, has stated that he opposes the normalisation of relations with the Israeli Occupation and that this has always been...

A report released by the Palestinian Ministry for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners has stated that the Israeli Occupation authorities have renewed the administrative detention of Hanaa Yahia Saber El Shalabi,...

The Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza denounced the Israeli air strike that was launched on Sunday (March 27), killing two Palestinians and wounding three others.  "Today's crime at the...