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Israeli occupation forces have arrested dozens of Palestinians in a sweep through several towns in the occupied West Bank. The men who were arrested are members of Islamic Jihad,...
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Several groups of drivers have launched a general strike in the occupied West Bank in protest at the Palestinian Authority ignoring their demands for change. The strike has paralysed...
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Israeli occupation forces have made several raids across the West Bank and detained at least 13 Palestinian civilians. Local sources confirmed that houses in Jenin, Nablus, Hebron, Bethlehem and...
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The Council of the Arab League has condemned strongly the ongoing Israeli settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territories. In a statement issued at the end of the council's...
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Palestinian researcher Abdul-Naser Ferwaneh has revealed that Israel is holding 4,600 Palestinians spread across 17 of its prisons. The specialist in prisoners' affairs said that 83 per cent of...
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Fatah and Hamas continue to take practical steps on the ground to create a climate for the implementation of the national reconciliation agreement to bring an end to the...
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Israeli media sources reported that Germany is to delay compensation payments for holocaust survivors until Israel halt its settlement building in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli daily, Yedioth...
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Dozens of families in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are awaiting the fate of their missing sons. This is according to information received from former prisoners who...
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Israeli occupation forces detained on Monday evening the mother of a Palestinian prisoner during a visit, local sources in the West Bank reported. According to the sources, the Israelis...
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Israeli settlers have resumed use of a deserted garbage dump in Qauseen and Deir-Sharaf villages near the Palestinian West Bank city of Nablus. Local residents have expressed fears of...
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The former director of Israel's Lands Administration (ILA) has confirmed that privately-owned Palestinian lands in the northern Jordan Valley area have been transferred to a kibbutz, Merav, inside Israel,...
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Israel's incumbent Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, announced yesterday their agreement to form the country's next coalition government and pledged to protect the "Jewish...
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During a meeting with the Palestinian Authority's (PA) Minister of Finance, Dr Nabeel Kassis, representatives from the private sector, academics, businessmen, and economists called for the reduction of government...
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UN Middle East Peace Envoy, Robert Serry, last week told Israeli newspaper Haartetz that the peace process in the region is in an "extremely grave condition" noting that talks...
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The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas described the victory of its students' arm (Islamic Bloc) at An-Najah National University in Nablus by 33 seats against 43 seats for the Fatah...
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On Monday The Times of Israel newspaper published the results of a poll conducted by Ariel University, revealing "the overwhelming majority of Israeli Jews support Israel extending its sovereignty...
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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 Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, is to sack his Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad, due to profound disputes between the two men, informed sources close to Abbas have said. The...
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Israeli occupation forces have entered three Palestinian primary schools in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron and detained more than 30 children, local sources have told MEMO. A...
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PICTURES More than 75 casualties have been recorded among Palestinian worshippers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque following the Friday Prayers today with one seriously wounded as Israel opens live fire...
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The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, on Thursday welcomed the position recently taken up by the European Union recommending a halt in financial transactions and trade with Israeli settlements, a...
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Ayman Al-Sharawneh arrived in the Gaza Strip on Sunday having been deported from his home in the occupied West Bank as part of a deal with the Israeli prison...
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Jewish settlers from the illegal Havat Ma'on settlement have set fire to half-an-acre of wheat grown by Ali Awad in the South Hebron Hills. The arson attack took place...
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Israeli occupation forces have blocked efforts to extinguish fires caused by Jewish settlers' arson attacks. A fire engine sent to help was prevented from getting close to the blazes...
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The EU decision to boycott Israeli settlements is expected to take effect on the ground on Friday and has aroused outrageous comments by Israeli officials. According to the decision,...
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Israel expects to retain about 85 per cent of settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories at the end of the negotiations, Yedioth Ahronoth said on Thursday. Citing sources in...
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The number of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank has increased by 2.12 per cent during the first half of this year the Israel Today newspaper reported. According...
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After the recent killing of two Israeli soldiers in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, senior Israeli officials have accused the Palestinian Authority (PA) security services of doing little in...
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IMAGES The Israeli occupation authorities have imposed a complete closure of Kabsa neighbourhood in Abu-Dis on the outskirts of the holy city of Jerusalem in response to activists smashing...
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Israeli occupation forces killed three more Palestinians in two separate incidents on Tuesday evening in the south of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. Although the killings took...
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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...
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Monday that he will not dismantle any of Israel's settlements in the occupied West Bank, Israeli media have reported. All of the settlements...
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