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Quds Press: Hebrew sources revealed that the Israeli government is currently mulling the formation of a committee to investigate the war that Israel had launched on Gaza 9 months...
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Quds Press: A Swiss rights association has considered the speech made by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas Sunday, 11 October, to be "at attempt to escape responsibility" for postponing the...
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Israeli authorities are planning to demolish 150 Palestinian houses, home to about 1,000 people in East Jerusalem, according to a new report from the Jerusalem Center for Social and...
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon supports a new Palestinian proposal to reopen debate on the Golstone report on the Gaza war in the Human Rights Council. Ban's spokesperson,...
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Israel's prime minister has lashed out against the Goldstone report which criticises Israel for deliberately targeting civilians during its war on Gaza earlier this year. Opening the winter session...
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The Acting Palestinian Authority chief says he will push for a vote on a recently released UN report about Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip. Mahmoud Abbas had...
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The Palestinian Media Forum has called upon different Palestinian, Arab, and free institutions to set an urgent media plan to expose Israeli strategies to Judaize Jerusalem and Al Aqsa...
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The Jerusalem Centre for Social and Economic Rights has warned of a scheme by the Occupation's Municipality of Jerusalem for the imminent demolition of about 150 homes in various...
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The Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, Mustafa Al-Barghouthi, stated that "A strenuous efforts are being exerted to reach a national agreement on the Egyptian paper for reconciliation...
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Three suspected Israeli spy devices were blown up in south Lebanon on Sunday. Two were detonated remotely by the Israeli army while the other was destroyed by the Lebanese...
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A Hungarian lawmaker has voiced worry over Israel's expansionist policies, saying Israel is trying to take over the world. "I'm a Hungarian nationalist. I love my homeland, love the...
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Director of the Gaza-based Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights, Essam Yunis, welcomed the decision of the Human Rights Council to adopt the report of the UN inquiry led...
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The Israeli Occupation Forces have carried out several incursions, raids and arrests of Palestinian citizens in almost every part of the West Bank on a daily basis over the...
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According to Israeli data, the volume of trade exchange between Turkey and the Jewish state has severely declined since the beginning of the year 2009. "A decline of 40...
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Israel's former Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz, has threatened to launch a new war on Gaza Strip "if necessary" at a time when the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva...
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The Muslim-Christian Committee in Support of Jerusalem has accused the U.S administration of giving the green light to the Israeli government, led by Netanyahu, to move forward with Judaizing...
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The 'Human Rights for All' Swiss Foundation demanded the Egyptian authorities to "open an urgent and independent investigation" into the circumstances of Yousef Abu Zuhri's death, Hamas Palestinian movement...
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The Palestinians and their allies have called for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to become involved in a row over Gaza war crimes investigations. The proposal was contained in a...
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Two leading human rights groups in Israel have released a report that severely criticises Israel for detaining Palestinians for long periods of time without charges. The report says more...
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A Palestinian human rights official has accused the Israeli government of committing multiple crimes during its war on the Gaza Strip last winter, as it deliberately killed Palestinians after...
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The Jewish broadcasting service revealed yesterday (19/10) that joint military exercises were conducted two weeks ago between the Israeli and Italian Air Forces. The radio station revealed that the...
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The former National Unity cabinet's agriculture minister, Mohamed Al Agha, has called upon the member states of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to pay attention to the suffering...
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Egyptian paper: Israeli experts visited south Sudan last week An Official source from the Sudanese Irrigation Ministry revealed that a number of Israeli experts visited South Sudan, in coordination...
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The Israeli military said its warplanes bombed two smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip and a building that it alleged was used to produce weapons near Gaza City...
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The President of the Popular Committee Against Siege (PCAS), MP Jamal El Khoudary, invited the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bernard Kouchner, to visit the besieged Gaza Strip via...
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The Arab League is currently intensifying its efforts to prosecute the Israelis who committed war crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and a delegation from the League's General...
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Israel's army, its U.S. counterpart and the Agency for anti-missile defense of the U.S. Department of Defense "Pentagon" started yesterday, Wednesday Oct. 21, a joint exercise of air defense,...
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From Khalid Amayreh in al-Khalil, occupied West Bank21 October, 2009Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister, had an unpleasant experience Tuesday, October 20th, when during a visit to the...
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A Palestinian child died of disease yesterday, Tuesday, October 20, after being prevented from travelling abroad for treatment due to the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip. "The Gazan,...
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A study by Save the Children International Foundation (SCF) reveals that thousands of Palestinian families are threatened with eviction from their homes and places of residence as a result...
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An Israeli politician criticized the ill-treatment meted out to Palestinians in the country noting that there is no dignity and freedom except for Jews. Shulamit Aloni, a former Education...
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Israeli police raided and dismantled on Wednesday a sidewalk tent set up by a Palestinian family that was evicted from their East Jerusalem home in July by Israel. According...
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