Israeli violations

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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'...

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....

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...