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The Israeli Attorney General gave the green light to Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers to continue their attacks on Palestinian citizens as long as they are not cause direct...

The United Nations called on Israel to "stop the policy of forced eviction and demolition of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem" warning that there are 60,000 people whose homes...

The Israeli Fruit Growers' Association revealed that farm owners have suffered huge losses this year due to the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip. The association noted that its...

The Hamas-run interior ministry in the Gaza Strip has ordered Palestinians in the territory not to take part in elections called by Mahmoud Abbas, the West Bank-based president. Abbas...

By Khalid Amayreh in Ramallah1 November, 2009 Anyone listening to Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas these days would think the man is a paragon of democracy and liberty. ...

Efforts to prosecute those who may have committed war crimes in Israel's war on Gaza have spread beyond the Middle East. A lawyer in South Africa has identified 75...

The dream of Samir Murtaja, a Palestinian prisoner now entering his seventeenth year in captivity, is to see his elderly mother – whom he hasn't seen of even heard...

An Israeli report published this week warned that Palestinians will make up the majority of the Jerusalem's population within 20 years despite the Occupation policies in the city which...

  Israeli authorities have torn down several Palestinian houses in occupied east Jerusalem, defying international calls to halt the demolitions in the disputed city. Gidi Schmerling, a Jerusalem municipality...

Aggressive orthodox Israeli settlers attacked the Salah family on their way to Friday prayers in a bid to take over their home in the East Jerusalem community of Beit Safafa....

Ten Palestinians including a 70-year-old woman, seven women and two journalists were attacked by Israeli forces south of Hebron on Thursday, local sources said. The incident began when Israeli...

Israeli forces closed the main southern road to village of Qaryout south of the city of Nablus at dawn on Thursday. Israeli bulldozers arrived to the place accompanied by...

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...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon implored Israel to bring an end to "provocative" actions in East Jerusalem following the eviction of a third Palestinian family from their home in...

Israel's navy said special forces they discovered a weapons cargo after they boarded a ship 100 miles off the coast of Israel on the Mediterranean on Wednesday. Israeli authorities...

Hamas says remarks about its possessing weapons is a mere 'fabrication' to mobilize world opinion against the movement ahead of the UN General Assembly's vote on a Gaza war...

The Hamas-run de facto government in Gaza must take effective steps to protect workers in the territory's tunnel trade, the Al-Mezan Centre for Human Rights said on Monday The...

BEIT IJZA, West Bank — Sabri Mohammed Ghraieb has seen the olive groves that once fringed his West Bank home turn into a Jewish settlement and prison-like walls but...

Israeli settlers arrogated the home of the Al-Kurd family in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem on Tuesday, residents of the area said. About 30 settlers were seen...

Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has said he will not seek re-election when elections are held in January, Palestinian officials said. "The president insists on not running in the...

Tehran on Thursday accused German Chancellor Angela Merkel of being influenced by "Zionist circles" in a reference to Israel after her remarks that a nuclear bomb in Iran's hands...

For nearly six weeks now Mohammed Othman, a prominent Palestinian activist and an outspoken advocate of the nonviolent boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, has been held in an...

The Israel Broadcasting Authority claimed today (Tuesday, 10 November) that several key European leaders support Israel's military campaigns against the Palestinians. The authority disclosed that French President Nicola Sarkozy,...

The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continued incursions, raids and abductions of Palestinians on a daily basis in most parts of the Occupied West Bank at the rate of more...

When it comes to Israel the buck stops in Washington, having enabled and continued to support its worst excesses, writes Jeff Gates* Israel's "legitimacy" will not last. Of course,...

Mustafa El-Barghouti, the Deputy Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative called for adopting a national strategy that combines the popular resistance and support for national steadfastness, mobilizes the broadest...

The French National Consultative Commission of Human Rights chose the Palestinian NGOs Network as a one of five global winners of France's human rights award. The Mezan Centre for Human...

A senior Palestinian Legislative Council member, Ahmed Bahar, called for the launch of a broad Arab-Islamic campaign in order to save Jerusalem city -with all its Islamic and Christian...

A Jewish rabbi has issued a book giving Jews permission to murder non-Jews, including babies and children, who may pose an actual or potential threat to Jews or Israel....

Ministers in the Israeli cabinet threatened to take unilateral steps in response to the Palestinian plan to declare a Palestinian state without reaching a political agreement with Tel Aviv. The...

Palestinian sources of Fatah Movement in the Occupied West Bank announced that the Revolutionary Council of the Movement held a consultative meeting, on Sunday, November 8, to discuss the...

The Israeli occupation authorities released, on Sunday, Nov. 15, one of its longest serving prisoners, Younis Hussein, 45 years, from the Gaza Strip, after serving a 22-years sentence. Hundreds...