Occupied Palestinian Territories

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...

Syria's Foreign Minister has criticized the US administration's stand with Israel over the claim that his country supplied Lebanon's Hezbollah with weapons and Scud missiles. In a press statement...

Israel has stopped the wife of one of the prisoners released in the exchange deal and sent into exile in Qatar from travelling to meet him. The wife of...

The Arab League has condemned strongly the British government's arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah, the prominent leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel. In a statement the League demanded...

A human rights centre concerned with the Occupied Palestinian Territories has stated that Israeli forces use more than one hundred mental and physical torture techniques against Palestinian detainees in...

A Palestinian research centre monitoring Israeli violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories has accused Israel of escalating the level of attacks on Palestinian citizens and their properties over the...

The mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, has stated that settlement construction and development will continue to expand across the whole of Jerusalem regardless of the current political situation.  During...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Thousands of Palestinians have gathered in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in response to calls by various youth campaigns for an end to the division between the two...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES A delegation from the South African embassy to the Occupied Palestinian Territories has held a meeting with elected deputies in Ramallah, including Mohammad Abu Tir, who was...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Mahmoud Zahar, a leading figure in the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has spoken out on the current stalemate in direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority...

The governor of Nablus, Jibrin Al-Bakri, has pleaded for the protection of mosques and religious shrines in the Occupied Palestinian Territories against the "repeated and escalating" attacks by settlers....

The Palestinian Authority has welcomed the news that that Israel has failed in its bid for re-election to the Council of Administration of the Universal Postal Union (UPU); Israel...

Member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) have deplored Israel's ongoing violations against Palestinians and called for an immediate halt to Israeli disregard for human rights...

More than eighty Palestinian civil society organisations have handed a petition to the EU representatives in the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem and Ramallah complaining about Europe's expansion of trade and...

The Council of Catholic churches in the occupied Palestinian territories has condemned the hostile graffiti scrawled on the main gate of a Franciscan monastery in Jerusalem yesterday. The attack...

The Israeli government is set to approve government grants for building hotels in the 1967-Occupied Palestinian Territories, particularly in Occupied Jerusalem, which will speed up the establishment of Israel's...

Official government statistics show that spending by the Israeli government on illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories increased by 38 per cent in 2010 and 2011. The figures...

Media reports in Israel claim that the government is planning to transfer responsibility for up to 90,000 Palestinians from Greater Jerusalem to the military authorities. Haaretz newspaper cites the...

The water supply in the occupied Palestinian territories is becoming uncertain and unsafe due to the punitive measures adopted by the Israeli occupation authorities, claims a report prepared by...

A high-ranking Palestinian delegation is heading to the Vatican to hold talks with the Holy See on the legal status of property owned by the Catholic Church in the...

The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in Britain has said that Israeli participation in any guise at the Eurosatory 2012 arms fair in Paris would be "a stain on...

A report issued by an Israeli NGO has revealed a rise in the number of Palestinians in Jerusalem who are living below the poverty line. This is attributed to...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank held its 37th graduation ceremony at the weekend; the programme of events was spread over two days. Post-graduate students were...

Palestinian human rights sources have revealed that Bilal Diab, Thaer Hlahalah and Jaafar Izz al-Din, who have been on hunger strike in an Israeli prison for more than two...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ramallah has called the UN Human Rights Council's adoption of resolutions on Palestine, with a large majority, "another achievement for Palestinian diplomacy", and...

A report from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has criticised the Israeli army's use of live ammunition against unarmed Palestinian civilians. The UN...

The UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Professor Richard Falk, has called on the Israeli authorities to release the Palestinian detainee, Khader Adnan, who...

The UN Secretary-General has called on the Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, to resume negotiations with Israel, saying that talks are not incompatible with reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas....

Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of maintaining restrictions on the freedom of movement of Palestinians between Gaza and the West Bank years after withdrawing from the Gaza Strip...

The State of Israel killed 180 Palestinians in 2011, including 21 children. These shocking figures were given in a report issued by the Palestinian Liberation Organisation entitled, "A People...

Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed his commitment to his country's illegal settlement policy in the occupied Palestinian territories. Following his victory in the Likud leadership poll, the Israeli prime minister...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs visited Gaza today (Wednesday 25 January), crossing from Israel at Beit Hanoun in Northern Gaza. Baroness Cathy Ashton's visit was...