Israeli settlements

Yesterday, Wednesday June 22, Israeli army bulldozers and machinery razed to the ground some twenty facilities for the production of coal in the village of Barta'a which is situated...

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...

A report commission by European NGOs has condemned the EU's "inconsistency" of regarding Israeli settlements as illegal while importing goods made on the same settlements. European countries buy 15...

The Israeli government has criticised the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. Richard Falk has called for a boycott of all companies...

Israel's Prime Minister has announced that his government will do everything it can to prevent Syria's chemical weapons falling into the hands of "terrorists". Speaking during a meeting with...

President Mohammed Morsi has used his maiden speech at the UN General Assembly to speak out on behalf of Arab and Muslim issues. Mr. Morsi also told world leaders...

A Palestinian expert in international law has revealed that the number of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is now 469, of which 29 are in Jerusalem. The...

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES Israeli forces have killed six Palestinians and wounded two others in two separate attacks in the Gaza Strip in less than 12 hours, Palestinian paramedics said...

Jewish settlers have cut down 250 olive trees belonging to Palestinians from the village of Beitillu, west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. In a telephone statement to...

Fatah has declared that purchasing goods and produce made on Israeli settlements constitutes "a national crime against the rights of the Palestinians". Spokesman Osama Al-Qawasmi added that a boycott...

The government of Israel has decided to cut ties with the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) a week after the council declared its intention to open an investigation into...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ramallah has called the UN Human Rights Council's adoption of resolutions on Palestine, with a large majority, "another achievement for Palestinian diplomacy", and...

A senior member of the PLO Executive Committee has welcomed the conclusions and recommendations of the UN's Human Rights Council report on Israel. Dr. Hanan Ashrawi described it as...

A senior member of Fatah's Foreign Relations team met on Monday with the new Argentinian ambassador to the Palestinian Authority. Nabil Shaath, who is also a member of Fatah's...

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Sunday that he opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state and proposed 'a form of rule' in parts of the territories occupied...

The London-based Al Hayat newspaper has reported that the Palestine issue will return to the UN Security Council based on an agreement with EU countries to change the formula...

Hundreds of Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian city of Al-Lid took to the streets on Friday in protest at Israel's Judaisation policies. The protests began after the Friday prayers...

Officials from Israel's Likud party on Tuesday accused US president, Barack Obama, of interfering in internal Israeli affairs after he sharply criticised Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Israeli media...

A Palestinian farmer shot in the head by Israeli soldiers on Monday in the northern Gaza Strip has died in Kamal Adwan Hospital, medical sources have announced. Mostafa Abu-Jarad,...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the Jewish settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank will remain under Israeli control forever. "I want to reassure the...

The Israeli Maariv newspaper has reported that four prominent Likud Party candidates are demanding the imposition of Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank. The demands were made in...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used his Facebook page on Tuesday to insist that he refuses to advance the peace process with the Palestinians. Netanyahu was seeking to counter...

The Israeli government has given the green light for 346 new settlement housing units in the occupied West Bank, news agencies have reported. A statement from the Israeli Ministry...

The South African ambassador to Palestine visited Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza on Tuesday. His Excellency Professor M. W. Makalima congratulated Mr. Haniyeh on the Palestinians' victory in...

Several Israeli diplomats have expressed their concerns about the increasing worldwide criticism of Israel, a local radio station claimed on Wednesday. The report attributed the rising tide of comments against...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has criticised his successor, Benjamin Netanyahu, for not negotiating with Mahmoud Abbas, an Israeli newspaper reported on Sunday. Speaking at a business convention,...

Egyptian President and head of the 12th Summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Mohammed Morsi, stated that the Palestinian cause is and will remain a cornerstone for achieving...

The Israeli authorities allocated less than one per cent of so-called state land in the West Bank to the Palestinians, compared to 37 per cent to the illegal Jewish...

Just days after leaving office, the former Israeli Defence Minister, Ehud Barack, has suggested the two-state solution and a Regional Security Framework to deal with the unexpected instability resulting...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip took to streets on Friday in large demonstrations condemning Israeli aggression against Palestinian prisoners and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Palestinian...

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, on Thursday welcomed the position recently taken up by the European Union recommending a halt in financial transactions and trade with Israeli settlements, a...

Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics has revealed that the number of illegal settlements constructed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem this year has increased by 130 per...