Palestinian Legislative Council

An MP representing Hamas in the Palestinian Legislative Council has claimed that the Palestinian Authority's security agencies in the West Bank are still engaged in violence amounting to torture...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The President of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Dr Aziz Duwaik, along with other deputies from the Change and Reform bloc held a sit-in on Wednesday afternoon in...

Undercover Israeli police officers have abducted Palestinian MP Ahmed Atoun from the Red Cross compound in Jerusalem where he had sought refuge in the face of a deportation order....

Israel's Supreme Court has told the Minister of the Interior that it is minded to overturn the deportation order he issued on June 30 against Jerusalemite members of the...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On Tuesday, tens of thousands of Palestinians gathered in Gaza City's Al-Katiba Park to celebrate the return of more than 400 Palestinian political prisoners released by Israel...

The Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Aziz Duwaik, has criticized the Palestinian Authority for going to the United Nations in a bid for independent Palestinian statehood without making...

The Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners' and Detainees' Affairs in Gaza has revealed that the Israeli authorities are continuing to detain 20 elected members of the Palestinian Legislative Council. Seventeen...

A member of the Palestinian Legislative Council member has accused the Israeli government of trying to divert attention from its domestic crises at the expense of the Palestinian people....

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Israeli occupation yesterday (4th August) released the Hamas leader and deputy in the Palestinian Legislative Council, Sheikh Hassan Youssef. Mr Youssef was released from the Ofer...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Islamic bloc deputies have held a protest in solidarity with the Jerusalem deputies and minister who continue to seek sanctuary at the headquarters of the International Red...

A human rights center concerned with prisoners' issues stated that the Israeli Occupation Authorities are currently detaining 17 members of the Palestinian Legislative Council. The center noted that the Israelis,...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Commissioner General for Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, Dr Mamdouh Al-Akar, on Thursday, 9th June, presented the Commission's sixteenth annual report into human rights conditions...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On Tuesday (26.04.2011), the Sri Lankan ambassador in the Palestinian territories, Jaya Singh, met with the head of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Dr Aziz Duweik, along with...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Israeli security forces have broken into the offices belonging to five elected members of the Palestinian Legislative Council from the Change and Reform Bloc in Nablus, ransacking...

The Change and Reform Bloc of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) has denounced the Occupation Authority's decision to extend the detention of one of its members, Nayef Rajoub, for...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Palestinians organised several activities in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and the 1948 territories yesterday to mark the 35th anniversary of Land Day. They reaffirmed...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Women's Support Centre in the West Bank municipality of Nablus has opened an exhibition of popular Palestinian women's handicrafts to mark the centre's one year anniversary....

Jerusalem MPs threatened with deportation from their home city by Israel have accused the Palestinian Authority and what they call "Arab and international complicity" responsible for the increasing Judaisation...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Israeli occupation authorities have released Islamic bloc politician Mr Abd al-Jaber Fuqaha. He was given his freedom at the al-Thahiriya checkpoint near Hebron in the south...

A ground-breaking video conference took place on Tuesday 25th January at the headquarters of the European Parliament in Brussels, between Members of the European Parliament and the three members...

A photo gallery has been opened in Gaza by the Ministry of Culture with an exhibition focusing on the status of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque. During the opening ceremony...

A deputy in the Palestinian Legislative Council has warned that the Israeli occupation authority is exploiting international preoccupation with other events in the Middle East to implement its plans...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESA delegation from the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) has returned to Gaza after a tour across several Arab countries. Lasting for more than a month, the tour and...

The relatives of political detainees who are on hunger strike in Jericho Prison have organised a protest in front of the Hebron Red Cross headquarters. Islamic deputies and the...

The Secretary General of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Dr. Mahmoud Al-Ramahi, yesterday condemned the threats and pressure being put on the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah by the US administration...

The Change and Reform bloc of parliamentarians, which represents Hamas in the Palestinian Legislative Council, is holding the Palestinian Authority led by Mahmoud Abbas responsible for any consequences resulting...

A deputy on the Palestinian Legislative Council has warned of an Israeli resolution to ban the export of foodstuff from the West Bank to Occupied Jerusalem. The focus, claims...

Fatah has condemned Israel's detention of Hassan Youssef, the Hamas leader and Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) member who was arrested at his home in Ramallah on Tuesday. A spokesman...

Ahrar Centre for Prisoners' Studies and Human Rights has demanded the release of Palestinian MPs and ministers being held in Israeli jails. The Centre called upon the Secretaries General...

Israeli occupation forces have detained five Hamas parliamentarians from several Palestinian cities in the West Bank. The detentions took place early on Friday morning. In Ramallah, the centre of...

The Hamas-led Palestinian government in Gaza has made an unambiguous apology for the police attack on a women's protest march on Tuesday. The demonstration had reached the Palestinian Legislative...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture opened the annual olive harvest season in the Gaza Strip on Monday. Ministry officials also watched the olive pressing process as part...