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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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