The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it is continuing its efforts with the International Criminal Court to push forward a formal investigation into Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes, especially in the town of Sur […]
Saeb Erekat, secretary-general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) condemned, in the strongest possible terms, Israel’s imminent plan to demolish 10 buildings in the occupied East Jerusalem town of Sur Bahir, […]
Israeli forces today took measurements of 16 Palestinian residential buildings slated for demolition in Wadi al-Hummus neighborhood, located on the edge of Sur Baher, southeast of the occupied city of Jerusalem. Head of the Wadi […]
A Hamas delegation headed by Dr. Musa Abu Marzouq yesterday met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Bogdanov in Moscow. Abu Marzouq briefed the Russian official on the political developments of the Palestinian issue including […]
By Jonathan Cook Israeli police forced out the Siyam family from their home in the heart of occupied East Jerusalem last week, the final chapter in their 25-year legal battle against a powerful settler organization. […]
The Greek Orthodox Church will next week petition against a final ruling of Israel’s Supreme Court which approved the sale of church property in East Jerusalem’s Old City to pro-settlement group Ateret Cohanim. Israeli newspaper Yedioth […]
Israeli forces yesterday arrested two Palestinians and wounded five others in the Issawiya neighborhood located in occupied East Jerusalem, according to the Wadi Hilweh Information Centre. They also destroyed a monument Palestinian residents had built-in memory […]
Israeli police this morning forced a Palestinian family out of their house in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, WAFA reported. Silwan-based Wadi Hilweh Information Center posted a video showing occupation forces and settlers storming the house and […]
A right-wing Israeli settlement group has confiscated money raised to help a Palestinian family facing eviction from their home in Jerusalem. The Elad Association is a notorious right-wing group which works to encourage Jewish settlement […]
Five Israeli soldiers were wounded by a car on Saturday night, at a military checkpoint near Hizma town, northeast of Occupied Jerusalem, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on July 6. “Emergency services stated that two of the […]
Dozens of houses in the east Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan are at risk of collapsing due to a controversial Israeli tunnel project. The neighborhood’s community hub, the Silwan Information Centre, warned dozens of Palestinian buildings in […]
A Palestinian man who was killed by Israeli police during clashes in occupied East Jerusalem last week was laid to rest on Monday after his body was released to his family. Authorities had held the […]
The Falic family of Florida, owners of the ubiquitous chain of Duty Free Americas shops, funds a generous and controversial philanthropic empire in Israel that runs through the corridors of power and stretches deep into the occupied […]
Clashes between Palestinian protestors and Israeli police took place late on Saturday and early on Sunday in East Jerusalem, the Times of Israel reported, amid tensions after police killed a Palestinian for allegedly firing fireworks. Six people were arrested […]
Israel has detained and questioned the Palestinian minister for Jerusalem affairs, Israeli police have said. Palestine‘s Minister for Jerusalem Affairs Fadi al-Hadami was detained for “activities in Jerusalem”, Israeli police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld told AFP on […]
Clashes renewed for a second day on Friday between Israeli forces and Palestinian protestors in the Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem over the killing a Palestinian protestor, Anadolu Agency reports. Mohammad Samir, 20, was shot with live ammunition in […]
A Palestinian teenager was killed and four others injured today by Israeli occupation forces, during ongoing clashes in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of al-Issawiya, according to local sources. Israeli forces shot and killed Mohammad […]
Israeli occupation forces demolished several farming and commercial facilities on Wednesday in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, Felesteen.ps has reported. According to the Head of Ballout Municipality, Yahya Mustafa, the Israelis demolished a barn owned by […]
The “Palestinian-Israeli conflict” inflames radicalization and extremism across the globe, Jordan’s King Abdullah said on Wednesday. Delivering a keynote speech at the International Conference on Cohesive Societies, King Abdullah urged religious cohesion across the world, […]
Seven Jerusalemite men were yesterday banned from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque for four days, Wadi Hilweh Information Centre reported. The ban comes as a condition of their release after they were arrested over the weekend. Occupation forces raided houses […]
Israel’s Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan has “proposed a new bill that would impose a maximum sentence of up to three years in prison for those who sponsor, finance, support or organize activities for the […]
Israeli authorities are pressing ahead with plans to demolish an entire Palestinian neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, human rights NGO B’Tselem reported, which will leave 550 homeless. Wadi Yasul, located between the neighborhoods of Abu Tur and […]
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned in two separate statements the decision by Moldova’s premier to move his country’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, considering the decision […]
The Israeli occupation authorities began to erect a barbed wire and metal fence around the vicinity of the Damascus Gate and Sultan Suleiman Street in occupied East Jerusalem. According to eyewitnesses, Israeli occupation forces placed […]
Israel’s Supreme Court yesterday rejected an appeal against the sale of church land in the Old City of Jerusalem to right-wing settler organization Ateret Cohanim. Supreme Court Justice Alex Stein and Judges Yitzhak Amit and […]
The Palestinian Authority (PA) accused Israel of escalating a “systematic” religious conflict due to the increasing raids by Israeli Jewish settlers of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Quds Press reported yesterday. In a statement, the PA’s foreign ministry said that […]
Israeli soldiers arrested a Palestinian young woman today at Qalandiya checkpoint, on Ramallah-Jerusalem road, under the pretext that she had a knife on her possession, local sources said. Today, at qalandia checkpoint, I saw an […]
This week, Palestinians mark the 52nd anniversary of Naksa Day, when Israel occupied the West Bank, Jerusalem, Gaza, Sinai and the Golan Heights in the 1967 Six Day War, sparking a mass exodus of Palestinians […]
By Ramzy Baroud The Deal of the Century has inspired much discussion about Washington’s latest political gambit in the Middle East. Largely excluded from the debate, however, is the emotional toll involving the Arab […]
After five months in an Israeli prison, Palestinian photojournalist Mustafa al-Kharouf faces deportation to Jordan, Al Jazeera reported. The photojournalist has been living in Jerusalem since 1999. However, throughout that time, 32-year-old Kharouf has struggled to […]
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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