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There have been disturbing violations of media freedoms in the occupied Palestinian territories during October 2009. The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) monitored many of the...
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The Palestinian Institute for Communication and Development has condemned Israel's continued detention of Palestinian journalists and attacks on media organizations. In a press release, the PICD called on the...
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Ahmed Toubassi, a researcher at the International Solidarity Foundation for Human Rights, has said that the excavations and digging carried out by the Israeli authorities in the historic Al...
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A UN report has highlighted the escalation of Israeli aggression against Palestinian children in March and April this year. Issued by UNICEF, the report alleges that Israeli hostility against...
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EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On Wednesday, 13.04.2011, the Centre for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture held a workshop entitled "Our prisoners are free, however high the walls". The...
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The head of the PLO's Jerusalem Department has said that the Israeli security forces don't realise the seriousness of destroying the historic Mughrabi Bridge in the Old City. Ahmed...
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The Palestinian Authority has asked Egypt to use all of its resources to mobilise international support for its bid for recognition at the United Nations. The PA aims to...
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A report by the state-owned Jordanian News Agency, yesterday confirmed "acute tensions" in Jordanian-Israeli relations caused by Tel Aviv's failure to fulfil its obligations under the Wadi Araba Peace...
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King Abdullah of Jordan has said that the challenges facing the city of Jerusalem, including Israel's attempts to impose a new demographic reality, require an active and firm Islamic...
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The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has condemned the decision of the Israeli occupation authorities to list Islamist deputies in the occupied West Bank as "a banned group". It is,...
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The monthly report issued by the PLO's Department of International Relations has revealed that Israel approved the construction of more than 4,300 new illegal settlement units in May. "A...
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EXCLUSIVE PICTURES 50 Palestinian activists, including many former prisoners of Israel, have begun a hunger-strike in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners currently being held inside Israeli prisons. The Prisoners'...
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More than 70 Jewish settlers broke into the sacred courtyard of Al-Aqsa Mosque on Wednesday morning, performing Talmudic rituals and writing racist phrases on the walls before they left....
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Statistics made available by a human rights organisation reveal that the Israeli occupation forces and illegal Jewish settlers have violated sacred Muslim sites on Palestinian land on 80 occasions...
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Israeli soldiers have committed 26 assaults against Palestinian civilians in Gaza and 22 against fishermen offshore since the "ceasefire" agreed between Israel and Hamas which was supposed to bring...
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Israeli daily, Yedioth Ahronoth, reported on Thursday that US-based organization, Human Rights Watch (HRW), has criticized Israel for violating Palestinian rights during the recent war against the Gaza Strip....
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Israeli Prison Services carry out "planned, severe violations" against Palestinian prisoners that have transformed prisons into a "dirty killing and liquidation tool", a leaked letter from the prisons has...
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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...
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PICTURES More than 75 casualties have been recorded among Palestinian worshippers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque following the Friday Prayers today with one seriously wounded as Israel opens live fire...
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As a result of increased Israeli violations of their rights, Palestinian prisoners are to globalise their issue, the director of the Prisoners' Study Center (PST) announced on Sunday. Speaking...
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Fatah's Central Committee member and International Relations Commissioner, Dr Nabil Shaath, asserted the need to apply international and European rules in response to Israeli violations. This came during two...
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January 28, 2014
Saeed Eraikat
The US State Department is circulating a confidential letter urging European Union (EU) members and other "friendly" countries to help block Palestinian attempts to secure non-member Observer State status...
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January 25, 2014
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Jamal Kanj
A DAY after the UN vote to upgrade Palestine's status at the UN, the right-wing Israeli government responded by adding 3,500 illegal Jewish-only homes in the occupied West Bank...