The international community must hold Israel to account for its 54-year occupation of Palestine, a UN human rights expert said on Thursday, five years after the UN Security Council called for all settlement activities in […]
Israel must immediately halt its settlement activities, the United Nations Special Coordinator for the peace process in the Middle East said on Tuesday. Tor Wennesland called on Israel “to cease the advancement of all settlement […]
The Israeli army has amended its open-fire rules, allowing troops to shoot Palestinian protesters who throw rocks at Israeli settlers’ cars in the occupied West Bank, even if they no longer pose an imminent threat, […]
Israeli occupation authorities on Monday handed a Palestinian family an evict order, telling them to vacate their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Mahmoud […]
An Israeli court has rejected a petition to release Hesham Abu Hawwash, a Palestinian prisoner who has been on hunger strike for 125 days demanding an end of his administrative detention, the official Palestinian news […]
Several Palestinian villagers sustained wounds and fractures early Friday in a settler attack against the village of Qaryout, south of Nablus, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors […]
An Israeli military court rejected on Sunday an appeal submitted for the release of a Palestinian detainee, Hisham Abu Hawwash, who has been on hunger strike for 118 days in protest of his administrative detention, […]
Three Palestinian households of 20 members, in the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, became homeless on Saturday after they were forced by the Israeli municipality of Jerusalem to demolish the building where they live, the […]
Jewish settlers Friday morning embarked on restoration works for a water spring in the Khirbet al-Farisiya area in Jordan Valley, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Aref Daraghmeh, a local human rights activist, told […]
Israeli forces Monday overnight detained at least nine Palestinians, including an 11-year-old boy, from various parts of the West Bank, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Local and security forces told WAFA that Israeli […]
Israeli occupation forces raided on Sunday the house of the family of Mohammad Shawkat Salima, 25, who was shot dead Saturday night by Israeli Police in the Damascus Gate area in Jerusalem’s Old City, the […]
A Palestinian young man was killed on Saturday evening when Israeli police officers opened fire on him at point-blank range in the vicinity of the Damascus Gate plaza in occupied Jerusalem, the official Palestinian news […]
By Ramzy Baroud The Belgian government’s decision on November 25 to label products made in illegal Israeli Jewish settlements is welcome, although it will ultimately prove ineffectual. Belgium has historically shown solidarity with Palestine if […]
Israeli occupation soldiers raided Wednesday morning the Khirbet al-Ras al-Ahmar community in the occupied northern Jordan Valley and seized vehicles, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Mutaz Bisharat, an official with the Tubas governorate, […]
Jewish settlers carried out a provocative rally in al-Wad Street, in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, on Tuesday night, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Israeli police deployed their troops in the Old […]
Palestinian writer and activist Mohammed El-Kurd delivered a speech at the UN on Monday, blasting the “Israeli settler-colonial regime” for its occupation of Jerusalem, The New Arab reported. “Thank you for these groundbreaking speeches,” came […]
Israeli soldiers arrested two Palestinian children after storming their houses during a night raid near Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, forcing them to spend a cold night in custody before being freed without explanation, […]
The European Union (EU) has criticized Israel’s continuous settlement construction on Friday, warning that time is running out for the two-state solution with Israel. EU Representative to the Palestinian Authority Sven Kuhn von Burgsdorff confirmed […]
Belgium’s foreign office has announced on Wednesday that it will label all products produced in West Bank Israeli settlements, considered illegal under international law. The announcement drew a swift rebuke from Israel, with the country’s […]
Israel’s Jerusalem Municipality advanced plans to build 9,000 settlement units on the site of the Kalandiya Airport in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, Israeli media revealed on Wednesday. The proposal is now set to be […]
At least two civilians were killed and several soldiers wounded in an Israeli air raid in central Syria, according to the country’s state media, which noted Syrian air defenses were activated to repel the attack. […]
Israeli occupation authorities on Saturday handed over the body of slain Amjad Abu Sultan, a 16-year-old Palestinian minor who was shot dead by Israeli occupation forces in the town of Beit Jala in the occupied […]
Omar Abu Assab, a 16-year-old schoolboy from the town of Issawiyah, just outside of Jerusalem, was killed by Israeli forces in Jerusalem’s Old City on Wednesday, The New Arab reported. Israel claims he attempted to […]
Palestinian prisoner Sami al-Amour died Thursday morning in an Israeli prison due to deliberate medical negligence, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). PPS said in a press statement that al-Amour, 39 – a resident […]
Over the past two months, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip has repeatedly warned of the dangers of running out of the hormone erythropoietin, which helps treat patients with kidney failure and […]
A Palestinian young man was shot dead on Tuesday morning by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank town of Tammoon, in the northern occupied Jordan Valley, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. The […]
The Israeli rights group B’tselem said Sunday that in 170 incidents of Jewish settler violence against Palestinians, Israeli forces did not intervene to protect Palestinians and at times actively joined the attacks. In the report, […]
Hamas demanded immediate intervention to save the lives of five Palestinian prisoners who are on a hunger strike to protest against their continued administrative detention, in a statement released on Sunday. Hamas spokesman, Abdul Latif […]
Israeli repression units early Sunday morning raided section 13 in the Israeli prison of Nafha and brutally assaulted Palestinian prisoners, according to the Palestinian Authority’s Detainees Affairs Commission. Hasan Abed Rabbo, a spokesman for the […]
Doctors at the Israeli Barzilai Medical Center, where Palestinian administrative detainee Kayed Fasfous is being treated, have told his family that Fasfous is nearing sudden death after 122 days of hunger strike, the official Palestinian […]
A recent New York Times made many claims about the ‘mass rape’ of Israeli women on October 7. But two leading Palestinian media organizations, The Palestine Chronicle and Friends of Palestine Network, conducted a joint investigation, the outcome of which resulted in the ‘The Black Dress’, a groundbreaking 18-minute documentary looking into allegations and the possible falsification of evidence.
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