Ramallah

By Khalid Amayreh in Ramallah1 November, 2009 Anyone listening to Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas these days would think the man is a paragon of democracy and liberty. ...

Official report An official report, received by Arab League from the minister of prisoners' affairs in the Palestinian Authority (Ramallah), revealed that the Israeli occupation forces have kidnapped about...

De facto Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh announced on Tuesday that his Gaza administration will release 100 prisoners ahead of the Eid Al-Adha holiday which begins on Thursday. In a...

A Palestinian prisoner Ahmed Yellowish, from Nubani farms near Ramallah, who is serving a 13 year sentence has reported that, "Raymon Prison management is imposing sanctions on the prisoners...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESA press conference was convened today Thursday in Ramallah, concerning the decision of Israeli Occupation decision to revoke residential rights of four members of the Palestinian legislature to...

Israel's Defence Minister has called on the Israeli government to work on improving its relations with the United States to protect Israel's legitimacy and fight attempts to "de-legitimise" the...

An Egyptian journalist specialising in the Palestine issue has claimed that key Palestinian and Egyptian journalists in Cairo boycotted a press conference held by Fatah's Mohammed Dahlan on 29...

The People's Democratic Party in Jordan has called upon the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah to reject a return to direct negotiations with the Israeli government because the latter "will...

The Ministry of Prisoner Affairs for the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah has warned of an 'explosion' of the situation within Israeli prisons, given the systemic conduct of collective punishment...

The Palestinian Authority in Ramallah has banned the recitation of the Qur'an and the call to commence prayer, the Iqaama, over the loudspeakers of mosques in the occupied West...

On Tuesday morning Israeli settlers blazed ten Palestinian cars in Dier Jareer neighbourhood in the east of the West Bank city of Ramallah. Local sources said that Israeli settlers...

The Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza has said that the visit of the US President is not going to make any "breakthrough" regarding political change on the ground. Ismail...

Thousands of illegal Jewish settlers have damaged property in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Kafl Haris near Salfit in the occupied West Bank. The settlers, who claimed that they were...

Israel has amended the path of its "apartheid" Separation Wall near the West Bank village of Rantis in order to include an area where it is believed oil may...

Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth has reported that the Palestinian Authority has put conditions for the resumption of talks, including the building of an airport near Ramallah and exploration rights for...

The biggest clothing chain in Israel, Fox Network, has unveiled its new branch in the occupied West Bank. Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, which reported the opening of the store in...

The senior member of Fatah's Central Committee in charge of the national reconciliation portfolio has noted that the August 14 deadline for Hamas to fulfil certain obligations has passed...

On Thursday Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas pledged to Israeli leaders that Palestinians would never file legal cases demanding their return to cities such as Jaffa, Acre and...

The Secrets of Arabia web site has obtained confidential documents from the Palestinian Fatah movement, including a report despatched from Fatah's branch in Jordan to its leadership in Ramallah....

The Palestinian Primary Court in Ramallah has postponed a hearing against 16 members of Hamas for the thirteenth time. The reason given was the repeated absence of representatives from...

The two leaders of Palestine's negotiating team, Dr Saeb Erekat and Dr Mohammad Shtayyeh, have submitted their resignations to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, according to Ma'an news agency....

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has revealed that during their meeting in Ramallah on Thursday, US Secretary of State John Kerry told him to "Please, send my greetings to General...

Israeli settlers attacked and burned a house in Sinjil, a village to the north of Ramallah in the West Bank, during the early morning hours on Thursday. Five children...

Arab student groups at the Hebrew University demonstrated on Wednesday evening against the Prawer Plan, which is aimed at Judaising the Negev and expelling Arabs from their own villages....

The Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) has revealed that an undersea gas field off the coast of Gaza contains an estimated 33 billion cubic metres of natural gas. This, reports...

Israeli human rights organisation Peace Now has revealed that Israel's Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon approved building 3,000 new housing units in the West Bank during the first four months...

Iman Haridi, a Palestinian journalist from Ramallah in the West Bank, surprised her readers when she published an open letter on her Facebook account to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud...

The European court of auditors has criticised the EU for continuing to pay the salaries of Palestinian Authority employees in the Gaza Strip who have not worked for 6...

Israel informed the Palestinian Authority on Sunday evening that it plans to cut off power in the areas surrounding Ramallah. Palestinian sources have told Quds Net news that they...

Local Palestinian sources and eyewitnesses are reporting that a group of Jewish settlers, backed by the Israeli occupation army, intercepted on Tuesday morning the motorcade of the Palestinian Prime...

The United States announced yesterday that it will be providing $148 million in aid to support the Palestinian Authority's budget, which is experiencing a fiscal deficit worth $3.1 billion...

Palestinians have long suspected their leader Yasser Arafat was assassinated by Israel. Thanks to Clayton Swisher and his team at the Al Jazeera Investigations Unit, we have new evidence...