Occupied West Bank

Deputy Chairman of Hamas' Political Bureau, Moussa Abu Marzook, has expressed grief over the torture taking place in Palestinian Authority prisons and believes that the EU statement issued on...

About a million landmines have been planted by the Israeli occupation in occupied Palestinian West Bank, official Palestinian data has shown. The Commissioner General of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation...

Israeli occupation forces have blocked efforts to extinguish fires caused by Jewish settlers' arson attacks. A fire engine sent to help was prevented from getting close to the blazes...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticised the management of Superland Amusement Park for refusing to allow Arab students to enter on the same day as Jews. He described...

Official Israeli data has shown a 176 per cent increase in Israeli settlement during the first quarter of 2013 when compared with the same period last year, the Israeli...

Israeli aggression against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip continues to escalate. The occupation forces arrested 17 Palestinians in Jerusalem and the Israeli navy opened fire...

Israeli settlers from the Itmar Settlement on Wednesday afternoon uprooted 300 fruit bearing olive trees in Awerta village in the north of the occupied West Bank. A Palestinian official,...

An opinion poll conducted by the Smith Research Centre has revealed that the vast majority of Israelis are opposed to the release of Palestinian prisoners in return for the...

Contradicting statements by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior officials, Deputy Defence Minister Danny Danon has repeated his claim that Israel's ruling party and the governing coalition are strongly...

The Israel police service has revealed that the Jewish settlers' "Price Tag" group carried out 165 attacks against Palestinian properties inside Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories in a...

Jewish settlers have escalated their attacks against Palestinians in Nablus, throwing stones and petrol bombs at Palestinian-owned cars and properties on Wednesday night. Witnesses said that settlers from the...

The Israeli cabinet decided on Sunday not to designate as terrorists the extremist "Price Tag" settlers' group, reported Haaretz. The group is responsible for many attacks against Palestinians, their...

The Palestinian Authority in Ramallah has cut off aid to Palestinian activists in a bid to boost peace efforts being promoted by US Secretary of State John Kerry, a...

Israeli occupation forces detained more than 100 Palestinian labourers in the occupied West Bank village of Bartaa in a pre-dawn sweep on Wednesday. Eyewitnesses said that "hundreds" of Israeli...

Israeli occupation forces have arrested parliamentarian Mohammed Abu Tair at his home in Ramallah. He is a Palestinian Jerusalemite who was deported to Ramallah by the Israelis in October...

The biggest clothing chain in Israel, Fox Network, has unveiled its new branch in the occupied West Bank. Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, which reported the opening of the store in...

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat has said that he remains optimistic about the second round of peace talks despite the Israeli government's approval of 1,200 new settlement units in the...

Prominent Hamas leader, Mahmoud al-Zahar, has said that his movement strongly opposes the Palestinian Authority's return to negotiations, describing the move as "absurd." In a press conference in Gaza,...

The Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem issued a report on Thursday stating that "Palestinian citizens, mostly minors, have been subjected to harassment and torture at the hands of Israeli...

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh confirmed that there is no room for Palestinian resistance in Egypt and denied any Palestinian interference in the Egyptian crisis. In a meeting with...

On Friday afternoon Palestinian security services and Israeli occupation forces cracked down on two separate solidarity marches with Egyptians in the occupied West Bank. Palestinians in the occupied West...

A spokesman for Fatah has claimed that the Egyptian coup, which he called a "revolution", has "downed the establishment of a mini-state in Gaza and Sinai". Osama Qawasmi referred...

PHOTOS Thousands of Palestinian youths took to the streets on Friday protesting against continued Israeli aggression against Jerusalem and al-Aqsa mosque. The coalition of Palestinian youths, a newly founded...

Israeli housing minister, Uri Ariel, has said that the West Bank will be under Israeli control forever. Ariel was addressing settlers near the Shilafim settlement in the occupied West...

The Israeli occupation army has delivered demolition notices to the Palestinian residents of Yatta village in the south of the West Bank relating to 10 wells, a tent and...

The Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza called his Turkish counterpart on Friday to discuss the rising level of Israeli attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque and occupied Jerusalem. After congratulating Recep...

The Palestinian Authority is ready to exchange land with Israel in a deal which will mean that 65 per cent of the illegal settlers and their homes will stay...

Israeli occupation forces have killed an unarmed Palestinian in clashes with civilians near the occupied West Bank city of Jenin. The incident took place when a large Israeli military...

A senior Israeli army officer has said that Palestinian Authority (PA) security services arrested a Palestinian group from Ramallah that planned to capture Israeli soldiers for prisoner swaps last...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES Independent Palestinian MP Jamal Al-Khoudary has ignited a symbolic flame to break the siege of the Gaza Strip. The head of the Popular Committee against the Siege...

Israeli human rights organisation Peace Now has revealed that Israel's Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon approved building 3,000 new housing units in the West Bank during the first four months...

The residents of the village of Al-Mazra'a al Qibliya, near Ramallah, look set to lose their land as Israeli bulldozers have started to clear the way for yet another...