Palestinian Territories

According to the Centre for Prisoner Studies in the Palestinian territories, there are 2,000 sick Palestinian and Arab detainees being held in Israeli prisons. This constitutes 25% of the...

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 The freed Palestinian prisoners were received at the various crossing points into the Palestinian Territories by large crowds of well-wishers from across the political spectrum. Prisoners from...

Media reports claim that the Israeli Defence Ministry has ordered its forces to throw a security cordon around the occupied Palestinian territories in September. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF)...

The Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, Dr Mustafa Al Barghouthi, has said that despite being prevented from setting sail from Greece, Freedom Flotilla II managed to achieve...

On Sunday, June 19th, The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) issued a report stating that, scattered across dozens of camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and the Palestinian territories...

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 On the 17th of April, popular and official activities were held across the occupied Palestinian territories to mark Palestinian Prisoners Day which is commemorated annually after it...

A Palestinian specialist in settlement affairs has claimed that America's use of its veto in the UN Security Council last month has led to a rise in the rate...

A report issued on Thursday (17.02.2011) by the Palestinian Centre for Development and Media Freedom, Mada, has stated that over the course of 2010, there has been a perceptible...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESThe Samaritans living in the Palestinian Territories are one of the smallest and oldest communities in the world. They number no more than 743 individuals half of whom...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESThe organization Medecin Sans Frontieres has emphasised that the continued Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip which has lasted for several years has had a...

This morning (22.07.2010), the Ministries of Education in Gaza and Ramallah jointly announced the results of the 2010 General Secondary level examinations in the Palestinian Territories revealing that this...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Prime Minister of the Gaza Strip, Isamail Haniyeh, has met with the families of those killed during the recent 8-day Israeli offensive to honour them for...

The Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman has threatened to dissolve the Palestinian Authority (PA) if its president, Mahmoud Abbas, insisted on going ahead with his request for UN recognition...

The Israeli government has criticised the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. Richard Falk has called for a boycott of all companies...

The Israeli government is to launch a wide-ranging campaign to boost the global image of Jewish settlers and bolster its illegal settlement policy in the occupied Palestinian territories. The...

The Palestinian leadership and Ministry of Finance have frozen the budgets of all of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation's factions, led by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine....

Official Palestinian sources have confirmed that Egypt has formally rejected proposals for the establishment of a free trade zone on its border with the Gaza Strip as a means...

The World Bank has launched an appeal to its member states urging them to address the fiscal crisis afflicting the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank as a...

Former soldiers in the Israel Defence Forces who served in the occupied Palestinian territories have revealed that the abuse of Palestinian children is a "routine exercise" which occurs even...

Reports from the Middle East claim that Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi is facing "frightening" pressure not to open the border with the Gaza Strip and thus end the siege....

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES West Bank cities are suffering from massive rises in the price of basic food commodities and fuel, as well as the general economic recession caused by uncertainty...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Central Elections Committee held a graduation ceremony on Thursday for representatives of political parties and mass media personnel in the West Bank after their completion of...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Ministry of Education and Higher Education for Gaza and the West Bank has announced a 62.2 per cent overall pass rate in General Secondary Education examinations...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Attorney General in the Gaza Strip said on Tuesday morning that different internal and external sides have assigned a huge amount of money in order to...

A senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation's Executive Committee has called on the European Union to reconsider its relations with Israel in the light of its actions as...

A Palestinian human rights group has condemned Israel's policy of destroying Muslim graves in the occupied West Bank and inside Israel itself. The aim, claims Al-Tadamun Human Rights Organisation,...

Mustafa Barghouthi MP, the secretary general of the Palestinian National Initiative movement, has described peace with the "settlers' government" of Benjamin Netanyahu as a "pipe dream". The solution, insists...

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...

Palestine's Ambassador to the United Nations, Dr Riyad Mansour, has warned of a grave threat to the lives of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails. He made...