Israeli Occupation

The Palestinian government in Gaza has called the electricity and fuel shortages "totally fabricated political crises", and accused the Israeli occupation and its "tools" of trying to aggravate the...

The Islamic Resistance Movement has condemned the position of the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, with regards to the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. At least 25...

A new Turkish-owned Arabic-language satellite channel plans to convey a positive image of Turkey to Arab viewers. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is following developments at the channel closely...

On International Women's Day, 8th March, the Palestinian Working Woman's Society for Development along with The Coalition of Women for Peace and several other women's and human rights organisations,...

Mustafa El-Barghouthi, the Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative movement and an elected legislator, has reiterated that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Palestinian people. "All of...

An official Palestinian report has accused the International Committee of the Red Cross of failing to protect Palestinian prisoners "who are exposed to massive violations of their rights and...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Abu Jihad Centre and Al Quds University organized a seminar in Ramallah on Thursday, 9 February, in solidarity with the Palestinian parliamentarians and ministers abducted by...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Israeli occupation today served notice to demolish a number of homes in Khirbat al Taweel village in the northern West Bank. When enforced the measure would...

The Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, has started his foreign tour by holding talks with Egypt's Intelligence Minister Morad Mowafi, the Arab League Secretary General Nabil El...

The Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, strongly condemned a draft law that declares the city of Jerusalem as "the capital of Israel and the Jewish...

Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party, having won more than 46 per cent of the seats in the next parliament, has confirmed that it will lend its full support to...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On Wednesday, Islamist deputies in Ramallah met with the Archbishop of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Atallah Hanna, within the framework of an extensive solidarity campaign for...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES A four-day food fair has been held to promote Palestinian produce. The fair, which ended on Sunday 18th December, was called "Our food" and was organised by...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Palestine's Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) marked its 24th anniversary yesterday with a massive rally in Gaza City. Hundreds of thousands gathered in Brigades Square under the slogan,...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Israeli forces have continued shelling various regions of the Gaza Strip. Yesterday night, they launched several raids targeting a sight in the North West of Gaza City...

The Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar University and Mosque has warned that Israel's plans for the Judaisation of occupied Jerusalem and attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque are a red line that...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES A member of Fatah's Revolutionary Council has warned of Israeli plans to exhume 1,000 bodies from the historic Ma'man Allah Cemetery in occupied Jerusalem. In a press...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Workers from some factories in Gaza have expressed their joy at being able to return to work after the Israeli occupation allowed the entry of certain raw...

Soldiers of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have raided the homes of some ex-prisoners in the city of Qalqiliya in the occupied West Bank. The homes included those belonging...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The freed prisoner, Amal Fayez Jumaah, has languished in the Nablus Specialist Hospital in the northern West Bank for more than two weeks following a serious deterioration...

Sources in the Israeli occupation and internal security forces have said that the latest campaign of detentions and arrests against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank is an attempt...

A statistical report issued today, 4 February, by the Government Information Office entitled "the state of media freedom in the Palestinian territories last January", indicates that forces of the...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Palestinian government in Gaza has announced that it will employ 5,000 graduates from Gaza universities for a full year under the temporary employment clause. In a...

The death of former prison detainee, Ashraf Abu-Thurai'a, on Monday night shortly after his release from prison has brought attention to the issue of medical negligence in Israeli...

Israel is continuing to desecrate the Ma'man Allah Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem, with a new wave of construction on the historic site. Details were revealed by Al-Aqsa Foundation for...

Palestinian losses resulting from the Israeli occupation have been estimated at around $7 billion every year, claims a report issued by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The difficult...

Hamas has called on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to stop all forms of negotiations with the occupation authorities following Shimon Peres's de facto acknowledgement that Israel was behind the...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Palestinian photographers and journalists have captured the suffering experienced by the people of the Gaza Strip during the recent eight day Israeli aggression. The war claimed the...

Jordan's Islamic Endowments Minister Abdul-Salam Abadi has accused Israel of planning to partition the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, the country's Al-Ghad newspaper reported on Wednesday. The move, claimed Abadi,...

A report issued by the Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR) has highlighted the abuse of such rights by the security agencies operated by the Palestinian...

Ninety Palestinians were wounded, one critically, as clashes erupted on Thursday evening between Palestinians and Israeli occupation forces in Hebron. The clashes started after the funeral of a 17...

The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Richard Falk, has called for an investigation into the "apparently deliberate" attacks on civilian targets during the...