Palestinian Territories

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES There are growing concerns across the Palestinian territories for the life of detainee, Hasan Al Safadi, who has now passed 52 days on hunger strike. Mr Al...

The Israeli occupation authorities have arrested a number of foreign nationals who arrived at Ben Gurion Airport to take part in solidarity events in the occupied West Bank. The...

It has been disclosed that the Israeli occupation authorities have seized hundreds of acres of agricultural land in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem for the benefit of illegal...

The Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, has drawn attention to Israel's continued violation of freedom of worship in Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories. Sheikh Hussein asserted that...

Media sources in Israel have revealed that the Israeli Transport Minister and Railway Authority have prepared a blueprint for the extension of the country's railway network to service the...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Israel's Supreme Court has decided to hear an urgent appeal for the release of Khader Adnan, a Palestinian detained without charge, who has been on hunger strike...

Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of maintaining restrictions on the freedom of movement of Palestinians between Gaza and the West Bank years after withdrawing from the Gaza Strip...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES A cold air current has descended over Gaza and other parts of Palestine for more than two weeks now accompanied by rainy downpours. The extreme cold weather...

A high-ranking human rights delegation from the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Observatory began an official visit to Tunisia on Tuesday 10th January. They presented President Al Moncef Al Marzouki with...

The Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, strongly condemned a draft law that declares the city of Jerusalem as "the capital of Israel and the Jewish...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza has announced that a military academy is to be built in the territory. Speaking during the graduation ceremony of a military...

The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Ekmal El-Din Ihsan Oglo, on Sunday announced that an international seminar to discuss heritage sites and the importance of protecting...

The Egyptian Foreign Minister, Mohamed Kamel Amr, has said that the Palestinian issue is one of the top challenges faced by the Islamic world on a political level. During...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Islamic University in Gaza has organised a conference and exhibition to showcase the talents of engineering students at the university. The exhibition highlighted the use of...

A statistical report issued today, 4 February, by the Government Information Office entitled "the state of media freedom in the Palestinian territories last January", indicates that forces of the...

Palestinian security agencies consumed 31 per cent of the 2011 GDP of the Palestinian Authority and their officials outnumber those employed in the education and health sectors, research conducted...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Palestinian territories have been hit by severe weather conditions which are some of the worst seen this winter. Accidents caused by the freak weather have been...

Official figures show that unemployment in the Occupied Palestinian Territories during the first nine months of 2012 rose by just over 2 points to reach 23 per cent. A...

The Gulf Cooperation Council has stressed that it remains committed to Israeli withdrawal from all Arab territories it has occupied since 1967. Without this, says the GCC, a comprehensive,...

A statement issued by a Palestinian research centre on Monday said that if elections were to take place in the Palestinian territories, Palestinians were noticeably more willing to vote...

The Palestinian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in the Gaza Strip has announced a ban on dealing with Israeli communications and internet companies. A statement from the ministry...

The Islamic Movement in Israel has re-elected a new leadership under the chairmanship of Sheikh Raed Salah. The Sheikh will be serving for a second term in office. The...

Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has announced bullishly that a Palestinian state will not exist before the Palestinians recognise Israel as a Jewish state. In yet another shift of...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The death of Palestinian prisoner, Arafat Jaradat, in Israeli custody on Saturday has caused a wide-scale wave of protests and demonstrations across the Palestinian territories. Israel has...

Maariv newspaper reported on its website that it has obtained an unusual letter written to the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy for the...

Israel confiscates money from Palestinian travellers coming from abroad through al-Karameh crossing between the Palestinian territories and Jordan, the Tadamon Organisation for Human Rights said on Tuesday. Al-Tadamon's field...

On Monday, it was reported that the number of Palestinian prisoners who have spent longer than 25 years behind bars in Israel has now reached twenty five. The researcher...

A UN report has revealed that more than two hundred Palestinians were wounded during the clashes that erupted last week with the Israeli occupation forces in parts of the...

The Israeli authorities allocated less than one per cent of so-called state land in the West Bank to the Palestinians, compared to 37 per cent to the illegal Jewish...

The leader of Yesh Atid Party and new Finance Minister, Yair Lapid, has launched a major settlement plan for the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem. Ministry staff are working...

A British charity to combat poverty has accused a local private security company of involvement in torturing a Palestinian to death in an Israeli prison. It called for holding...

One hundred Palestinian non-governmental organizations have considered U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to the Palestinian territories scheduled in a week "meaningless as long as the U.S. administration does not...