Occupied West Bank

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Al-Najah National University has held its 32nd graduation ceremony at its campus in the occupied West Bank. The programme on Sunday 10 June was attended by the...

Israel's Prime Minister has vowed to continue the construction of Jewish settlements in all occupied Palestinian territory. Benjamin Netanyahu was responding to the angry reactions of settlers and far-right...

The denial of unhindered access to education is one of the untold stories of the suffering of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank. While thousands...

Coinciding with International Children's Day on 1 June, figures released by the Palestinian Ministry of Information show that 1,456 Palestinian children have been shot dead by Israelis since the...

Israel's Minister of Defence has said that any political agreement with the Palestinians will exclude a number of settlements in the occupied West Bank. Ehud Barak claimed that the...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Palestinians across the occupied West Bank have held a number of activities to mark Prisoners' Day. Events were held in several cities, with Ramallah witnessing the largest....

Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has announced that he will continue to support Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank in general, and in the city of Hebron in...

A Palestinian human rights organisation has revealed that the Israeli occupation authorities have closed more than 120 Palestinian institutions in Jerusalem since it completed its occupation of the city...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The High Follow-up Committee for Prisoner Affairs in Nablus, in the north of the occupied West Bank, held a solidarity vigil today in support of Palestinian prisoners...

Israeli occupation forces sealed the entrances to the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya in the northern West Bank, on Saturday, isolating it from the surrounding area for a...

The Israeli occupation authorities have demolished three farm buildings and six wells in Ezna to the west of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. According to the Mayor of...

The Israeli authorities have approved the establishment of a new settlement bloc near the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem. The new construction will have 40 housing units built...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESIn a bid to promote local products as an alternative to Israeli-produced goods, the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank has hosted a "Kanafeh and Soap...

An expert on settlement issues has warned of an Israeli plan which will displace thousands of Palestinian citizens from 20 towns and villages near Hebron in the occupied West...

Israel's occupation forces have arrested another five Palestinians in the occupied West Bank following a sweep through Nablus, Ramallah and Hebron. Witnesses said that the Israelis used an explosive device...

Hassan Yasser Karajeh, a 29 year old activist in the Stop the Wall Campaign, was arrested by Israeli occupation forces in the early hours of Wednesday morning. He was...

Israel has complained to the United States about what it alleges is "weak" security coordination with the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. This vulnerability is, claim the Israelis,...

Israeli security forces have made a sweep of cities in the occupied West Bank and detained 11 Palestinians. The Israelis used vehicles equipped with anti-missile weapons during the operation...

An Israeli human rights centre has revealed that the occupation authorities have ten Palestinian children in jail who are aged between 8 and 10 years. The Israeli Information Center...

The leader of Yesh Atid Party and new Finance Minister, Yair Lapid, has launched a major settlement plan for the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem. Ministry staff are working...

A report in Haaretz newspaper has revealed that Palestinians paid more than $3.6 million in fines to the Israeli occupation authorities in 2011 alone. This is the recorded value...

Israeli occupation forces have detained a further 12 Palestinians from Hebron and Bethlehem in raids which took place in the early hours of Monday morning. Local sources confirmed that...

Israel has detained more than 15,000 Palestinian women since 1967, the Palestinian Minister of Women's Affairs said on Thursday. On the eve of International Women's Day, Jamila Al-Shanti condemned...

Israeli forces have sprayed Palestinian homes in the village of Nabi Saleh with 'Skunk'* as a punishment for organising weekly protests against the Apartheid Wall built on occupied West...

An Israeli military court has given prison sentences to two Palestinian minors from the occupied West Bank after finding them guilty of "throwing stones" at Israeli soldiers. Waleed Shoqeer,...

On Tuesday, forces of the Israeli occupation raided several Palestinian cities and neighbourhoods in the Occupied West Bank detaining 11 Palestinian citizens, including a disabled former prisoner. Sources from...

The Grand Shaikh of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Ekrema Sabri has accused the Israelis of trying to create a new reality inside Al-Aqsa Mosque through repeated incursions by illegal Jewish settlers....

After 261 days on hunger strike in an Israeli jail, Palestinian prisoner Ayman Al-Sharawneh was deported to Gaza on Sunday evening. At dawn the following morning, Al-Sharawneh's brother Jihad...

On the third day of protests which erupted following the death of a Palestinian prisoner in Israeli custody, Israel's occupation forces shot and killed two young Palestinians. Three others...

An Israeli court has rejected the appeal made on behalf of Palestinian MP Ahmed Attoun against his detention without charge. Instead, the court in Jerusalem confirmed the six-month "administrative...

Israeli media sources reported on Monday May 13, that the Israeli government plans to construct a city in the West Bank's Jordan Valley for Palestinian Bedouins. Palestinians are of...

Israel's Attorney General, Yehuda Weinstein, on Tuesday sent a strongly worded letter to Israeli Defence Minister, Moshe Ya'alone, accusing security forces of acting wrongly in protecting illegal settlement construction...