Middle East Monitor

The Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights demanded an explanation from the PLO's Executive Committee over the Palestinian stance on the UN-mandated Goldstone report. A statement...

A number of prominent Palestinian human rights organizations prepared a joint statement they intended to read at the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday. However, that was before the...

Israeli police imposed strict restrictions over Muslim worshippers coming to pray Friday at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Israeli sources said that men holding Jerusalemite or Israeli identity cards (blue cards)...

Hamas is critical of the Goldstone commission's report on alleged war crimes in Gaza, but will nonetheless accept its recommendations and investigate charges that militant groups violated the rules...

Israeli military jeep runs down Jenin teen, killing him. A seventeen-year-old student was killed on Wednesday morning when an Israeli military jeep ran him over near the West Bank...

Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, head of the right-wing Yisrael Beitinu party, at the Knesset on 29 June. Israel's right-wing Yisrael Beitinu party proposed a bill this past May...

Israel's air force launched three strikes on the tunnel area in Rafah, between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip, on Sunday morning. The strikes terrified residents, but no casualties...

The postponement of the UN Human Rights Council vote on the findings of Richard Goldstone's report into Israel's recent 22-day war on Gaza has raised many questions. Sahar Francis,...

Palestinians in Jerusalem's Old City are describing it as a community "under siege" as Israeli forces continue to operate in large numbers fearing renewed demonstrations. Restrictions in the city...

Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council Aziz Duwaik called for the resignation of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday, following the failure of Palestinian leadership to demand action on...

In a single phone call to his man in Geneva, Mahmoud Abbas has demonstrated his disregard for popular action, and his lack of faith in its accumulative power and...

As soon as the prison gates opened for his mother to breathe the air of freedom, Palestinian baby Yusuf celebrated his second birthday with the unprecedented merit of being...

Israeli security forces reportedly surrounded and threatened to storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem on Monday evening in an ongoing standoff with demonstrators inside the holy site. Around...

A senior member of Hamas has demanded that the Palestinian president resign for supporting the postponement of a UN vote which could have led to the prosecution of Israel...

Israeli occupation authorities on Sunday released the final Palestinian female prisoner as part of a swap with Hamas for a short video of its soldier captured in Gaza. Roudah...

During the past two weeks, five Palestinians were killed and two injured, as violence escalates in Gaza; one Palestinian was killed and 50 injured in the West Bank, over...

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told AP there is no chance of ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for many years, in an interview published Thursday. The comments to the international...

Israel's ambassador to the United States argues that a United Nations war crimes investigation poses a genocidal threat to Jews comparable to the Nazi Holocaust. "Recognizing the murder of...

At least two Israeli F16 warplanes dropped three bombs on the tunnels area in Rafah early Friday morning, Palestinians reported no injuries from the attacks. Palestinian medical sources at...

Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, is facing a growing backlash over the postponement of a vote on a UN report that criticises Israel for the Gaza war. The report...

In clear defiance of international disapproval of its settlement activities in Occupied Jerusalem and in an attempt to heighten already existing tensions in the city, Israel yesterday celebrated the...

The UN's Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Palestinian territories Professor Richard Falk has yesterday described the decision of the Palestinian Authority (PA) to defer the vote on...

Israeli police have detained and released a leading member of the Islamic Movement, a Palestinian group, accusing him of inciting violence. Sheikh Raed Salah was arrested during clashes between...

The Palestinian ministry for prisoners' affairs says at least 25 lawmakers along with two former ministers are still being held in Israeli prisons under appalling conditions. According to a...

Clashes broke out in the As-Sabra area of the Gaza Strip on Saturday afternoon, according to residents. Eyewitnesses told Ma'an that the clashes lasted for two hours before de...

Israeli police have barred Palestinians protesting in defence of the al-Aqsa mosque compound from gaining access to Jerusalem's Old City. Friday's increased restrictions on the mosque compound in occupied...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...