Palestinian Infrastructure

The Minister of Local Governance in Gaza, Engineer Mohammed Al-Farra, announced the signing of five agreements to expand a number of cities in the Gaza Strip during his visit...

An advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas has said that Israel plans to arrest Palestinian activists in response to a global cyber-attack. Telecommunication and technology expert Sabri Seedam told Wafa...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS Labour Day in the Gaza Strip is unlike in any other place in the world as workers here continue to work today. Yes, they continue to work...

On Sunday, the Israeli occupation handed over an 'administrative destruction notice' to the owner of a six-flat building under construction in the Beit-Haneena neighbourhood in Jerusalem and detained three...

It has been announced that four Palestinian patients were poisoned by carbon monoxide gas sent to Gaza hospitals as nitrous gas. Palestinian Health Minister, Mofeed al-Mokhalalati, affirmed that four...

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...

A report by Israel's Ministry for Environmental Protection has revealed that 2.2 million cubic metres of raw sewage flows annually from the country's illegal settlements in the West Bank...

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation announced on Sunday that it is to unveil a package of project proposals for the development of Jerusalem worth $500 million. The Jeddah-based OIC...

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) announced on Sunday a record budget deficit of 65 per cent. In a press...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS As yet another cohort of students has graduated in Gaza, their success and achievements have been hailed by local dignitaries and international visitors to the territory. Speaking...

PICTURES Long queues of vehicles are lining the streets in front of gas stations up and down the Gaza Strip in the latest gasoline crisis to have hit the...

The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has called for member states and donors to sponsor projects for developing the medical waste treatment system in the Gaza Strip in...

Israel is studying proposals to cut the electricity supply to the occupied West Bank as a punitive measure for unpaid bills owing to the Israeli Electricity Company, Israeli TV...

An elderly Palestinian woman has died after the ambulance taking her to hospital was detained by Israeli soldiers in Hebron. Seventy-one year old Amena Abed Rabbo's health deteriorated rapidly...

The crisis engulfing the Gaza Strip has deepened following the closure of the Rafah Border Crossing and many of the lifeline tunnels by the Egyptian coup authorities. Fuel supplies...

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) said on Sunday that the illiteracy rate in Palestine is among the lowest in the world. According to PCBS statistics, illiteracy among...

The Minister of Health in Gaza has urged the international community to put pressure on Israel and Egypt to lift the siege and allow medicines, medical supplies and basic...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS The Palestinian Minister of Health in Gaza, Dr Mufid Al-Mukhalalati, has warned that frequent power outages could result in a humanitarian catastrophe claiming the lives of Palestinian...

On 1 November, Gaza's only power plant, which normally provides around 30 per cent of the Gaza Strip's electricity supply, ran out of fuel. For the past month, Gaza's...

The United States has announced a donation of $123 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). The UN agency said on Tuesday that...

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Monday in Beijing. The latter expressed his country's support for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. The...

Reports in the Israeli media have revealed growing tension in relations between Israel and Poland. Haaretz reported on Wednesday that Poland's deputy foreign minister refused to meet with the...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS During a visit to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Finnish foreign minister, Erkki Tuomioja, discussed the humanitarian issues facing the Sector and promised a $1.5m increase in...

Earlier this month, Oxfam published 20 facts about Oslo that painfully illustrate why the "peace talks" between Israel and Palestine have abysmally failed. In the past ten years alone,...

The notion of Palestinian economic development while under Israeli occupation has again been promoted, notably by US Secretary of State John Kerry, as the means to advance the cause...