Occupied Palestine

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...

Figures released by the Supreme Council of Islamic Judiciary in Gaza show that 2009 saw the highest number of marriages since the establishment of Shari'ah Courts in the territory....

Construction work in around 25 percent of Israel's illegal settlements across the occupied West Bank is continuing despite the government's "freeze" on building activity. Israel's Deputy Defence Minister Matan...

Any reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah must not entail security coordination with Israel, according to Ismail Haniyeh. The Prime Minister of Gaza made this announcement during a ceremony to...

An interfaith agency has warned of plans to build a "Jewish holy city" on the remains of the area of Silwan threatened with demolition. The Islamic-Christian Commission in Support...

Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has warned that unless a political settlement is reached between Israel and Syria, a full-fledged war might well erupt. Speaking at the annual conference...

Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, has condemned in very strong terms the statements made by the President Mahmoud Abbas to the Guardian newspaper earlier this week. In an...

An Israeli Minister has linked the Israeli government's negotiations with the Palestinian Authority to the international community's endeavours to halt Iran's nuclear programme. Israel's Minister of Intelligence and Atomic...

By Saed Bannoura A rabbi has been arrested on suspicion of an arson attack on a mosque in the occupied West Bank. Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, head of the Od...

An official denial has been issued quashing "malicious rumours" that Egypt is putting pressure on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume negotiations with the Israelis. In a written statement,...

A delegation from the Arab Parliamentary Union (APU) is to visit the Gaza Strip which the government in Gaza believes will "indicate the depth of genuine Arab solidarity with...

Egypt has asked the UN to provide specific guidance from the international community in order "to curb Israel's policies and practices". Without such guidance making clear the position of...

Deputy-head of the Central Committee of Fateh movement, Jibril Rajoub, stated that the movement and its presidents, Mahmoud Abbas, were threatened on boycott by the United States should they...

The Israeli Minister of Trade and Industry has said that he doesn't expect diplomatic relations between Ankara and Tel Aviv to return to "normal". Among other issues, Benjamin Ben...

More land subsidence has occurred south of Al-Aqsa Mosque just a week after a similar collapse in the same place was attributed to Israeli excavations. The latest subsidence was...

By Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & AgenciesReports of torrential rain and subsequent flooding in Egypt and Israel, resulting in seven deaths, have highlighted the dangers in such areas which...

Following the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti last week, 13th January, in which hundreds of thousands of people have lost their lives, the expected donations of humanitarian aid and...

The Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners' Affairs has denounced the Israeli occupation authorities' policy of harassment aimed at Palestinian fishermen in Gaza. The policy has led to the Israeli navy...

Palestinian sources in the occupied West Bank claim that the Palestinian Authority (PA) has launched a campaign against those West Bank Imams who did not follow the officially prepared...

Egypt's National Sports Council has ended the controversy surrounding reports that the Egyptian national soccer team intended to play a friendly match against its Palestinian counterpart at a stadium...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES – READER DISCRETION ADVISED, YOU MAY FIND SOME IMAGES DISTURBING Studies conducted by a group of Italian researchers have revealed the presence of dangerous levels of toxins...

The High Coordinating Committee for Palestinians in the territories occupied in 1948 accused the Israeli media of incitement against Palestinians, describing it as a "misleading and distorting media." In...

Occupied Jerusalem – Salim Tayeh Sheikh Kamal Khatib, deputy head of the Islamic movement in the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948, in an interview with Quds Press said: "the...

A report by the Centre for Equality and Coalition Against Racism has confirmed a 28% rise over the past year in incidents of racism against Palestinians in Israel who...

Jamal Al Khodary MP and Chairman of the People's Committee Against the Siege, called on international officials to convert their statements into actions in order to end the Israeli...

Sama: Gaza / Ramallah An opinion poll conducted by the 'Sama' News Agency on its website revealed that the majority of Palestinians support a proposal to dissolve the Palestinian...

If as now expected, the delayed "proximity" talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority resume this week, it is expected that the government of Benjamin Netanyahu will demand that...

Reports in Israel's Hebrew press claim that Benjamin Netanyahu is hoping to persuade Egypt to drop its proposal to make the Middle East a "nuclear-free zone". The Israeli Prime...

Islamic charities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories play an important role in helping the poor and needy who are suffering from poverty and unemployment. The siege of Gaza –...

The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has said that the Judaisation of Jerusalem requires all Muslims to make a firm stand against this...

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has appealed to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to intervene to end the arrest and torture of Palestinian "people of resistance" by Egypt's state security...

A senior Israeli political source has denied that the government gave the US administration a guarantee on a settlement freeze in East Jerusalem. The denial came after the start...