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An Israeli lawyer, Mordechai Tzivin, has filed charges in the International Criminal Court (ICC) against President Abbas and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on the grounds of committing crimes...

The Secretary-General of the United Nations has expressed his belief that the current situation in the occupied Palestinian territories "cannot continue" from both a political and economic perspective. In...

The eleven martyrs in Maroun el-Ras in southern Lebanon and the four in the occupied Golan Heights on May 15, 2011, were enough to turn the "Return to Palestine...

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced on Thursday that 8,833 Palestinian refugees have fled the camps in Syria and are now living in...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS A group of Palestinian activists calling themselves "Activists of the Intifada" organised a rally on Wednesday in front of the European Union head office in the Gaza...

Exclusive Photos The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has reduced its provision of aid in the Gaza Strip, saying that 9,400 families will no longer receive food...

In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Palestinian government in the Gaza Strip criticised the UN position towards the tunnel that was discovered last week between Gaza and Israel....

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES Two young people from Gaza have won the first prizes in the photography and film categories of a competition run jointly by the United Nations Relief and...

Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, has called on the UK to recognise the Palestinian state, raise the level of diplomatic relations between the two countries,...

Members of the Union of Arab Employees of the UN's Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) have gone on general strike in UN-affiliated institutions across the Gaza...

Dozens of angry Palestinian youth have protested on Sunday against the lack of services in the Jalazoun refugee camp near Ramallah. The protest marks a new phase of public...

The US administration has announced that President Barack Obama is planning to meet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday. Spokesman Ben Rhodes said that the meeting will be...

On Friday the United States and Israel lost their right to vote in UNESCO after failing to give clarification about suspending their contribution to the cultural international organisation, an...

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat revealed on Friday that the US president Barack Obama considers the Palestinian Authority's (PA) application to the UN for non-member state as crossing all...

The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has recently decided to open a consular representative office in Gaza City, due to the urgent need for the existence of such an...

The Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has welcomed UNESCO's adoption of a Jordanian resolution for the protection of the Old City of Jerusalem and the historic path leading...

The UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation UNESCO has decided to postpone opening a Jewish exhibition at its headquarters in Paris after Arab states protested. UNESCO's director general Irina...

In North America, the mainstream media is not exactly sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. This presents a huge obstacle for solidarity activists who want to change the hegemonic discourse...

MEMO published an article recently by Egyptian scholar and diplomat Abdullah Al-Ashaal about what he calls the disastrous "bartering policy" framework of the ongoing negotiations between Israel and the...

Israel is a de facto, not a de jure, entity. The League of Nations' "mandate" given to Britain to turn Palestine into a "Jewish homeland" was as baseless in...

UNICEF's report, Children in Israeli Military Detention, Observations and Recommendations, detailing the condition of Palestinian children detained in Israel's military jails fails to address torture as a modus operandi,...

"The establishment of the Court is a gift of hope to future generations, and a giant step forward in the march towards universal human rights and the rule of...

An overview of the Fourth Committee's meeting during the 68th UN General Assembly regarding the humanitarian work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in...

The question of legitimacy has recently been the subject of a report by Israel's secret agency, Mossad, claiming that a peace agreement with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was impossible...