The Palestinian military prosecution has indicted all 14 officers from the Preventative Security Service in Hebron (Al-Khalil) for allegedly beating opposition figure Nizar Banat to death in late June. Banat, a well-known critic of the […]
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid announced on Friday that 90 percent of Israel’s relationship with the Palestinian Authority (PA) concerns security coordination, Arab48.com reported. Lapid’s remarks, according to Arab48.com, came during a meeting with Israeli […]
The high-level meeting between Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has prompted outrage from both Israeli lawmakers and Palestinian political movement Hamas, which termed it a “betrayal of martyr […]
The Palestinian Authority (PA)’s Corruption Crimes Court sentenced Ghassan Banat, brother of murdered activist Nizar Banat, to two years in prison in absentia after accusing him of corruption, ordering him to repay 6,900 shekels ($2,143), […]
By Ramzy Baroud The killing of four young Palestinians by Israeli occupation soldiers in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, on August 16, is a consequential event, the repercussions of which […]
The Palestinian Authority’s security forces have been arresting civil rights activists in Ramallah for the third consecutive day, Lawyers for Justice announced yesterday. “Among those arrested were the freed prisoner, Muhammed Allan, Ibrahim Abu Al-Ezz, […]
Palestinian security forces on Sunday arrested senior Islamic Jihad leader Khader Adnan, reports Anadolu Agency. Adnan was detained during his participation in a protest in the West Bank city of Ramallah to demand the release […]
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has prevented his Defence Minister Benny Gantz from meeting with Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli TV Channel 12 reported on Friday. According to the TV channel, Gantz requested […]
By Ramona Wadi Following the signing of last year’s Abraham Accords brokered by the Trump administration, the international community woke up to the normalisation of Israel’s colonization of Palestine; nobody seemed to be particularly averse […]
Palestinian police on Tuesday shut the office of J-Media in Ramallah. The director of the Ramallah office Alaa Al-Rimawi told Safa Press Agency that the police had closed the network’s office after “prohibiting (the) staff […]
United Nations special rapporteurs Monday called for the rescheduling of Palestinian elections within a reasonable time to ensure “free, fair, democratic, peaceful, and credible” polls, Anadolu News Agency reported. The Palestinian parliamentary elections had been […]
By Ramona Wadi Jerusalem is once again in the diplomatic crosshairs over US President Joe Biden’s intention to reopen the American Consulate in Jerusalem, which was closed by the Trump Administration in 2019. According to […]
A senior US diplomat warned Israeli officials this week that the multiple crises facing the Palestinian Authority left it “like a dry forest waiting to catch fire”, Axios reported. Hady Amr, deputy assistant secretary of […]
During a meeting in Istanbul held on Sunday, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas asked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to stop Hamas’s incitement against the PA. Both leaders discussed the latest developments in the […]
Recent violence by Palestinian government forces against demonstrators in the West Bank has constituted a “chilling campaign of repression”, according to Amnesty International. The rights NGO slammed the use of “unlawful force” by the authorities […]
By Ramzy Baroud “The Palestinian Authority’s days are numbered”. This assertion has been oft-repeated recently, especially after the torture to death on June 24 of a popular Palestinian activist, Nizar Banat, 42, at the […]
The Palestinian Public Prosecution today released journalist Alaa Al-Rimawi after detaining him for three days. Al-Rimawi’s lawyer, Gandhi Al-Rubei, said that the Public Prosecution “closed Al-Rimawi’s file, and he will not be tried.” Al-Rimawi runs the […]
Palestinian Authority (PA)’s security services yesterday detained 21 Palestinian protesters who arrived in Al-Manara Square to protest against the murder of Palestinian activist Nizar Banat. Eyewitnesses said that 21 activists were detained as soon as […]
By Ramona Wadi The Palestinian Authority might not have envisaged that the killing of Nizar Banat by its security services would have unleashed such a response from the Palestinian people. Ongoing demonstrations and calls for […]
Palestinian police arrested a lawyer and three activists Sunday morning in the West Bank amid ongoing protests against the Palestinian Authority over the death of activist Nizar Banat. Muhannad Karajah, the head of the Lawyers […]
14 Palestinian security troops, including officers, have been detained over their alleged involvement in the death of prominent activist Nizar Banat, according to his cousin. “We have been informed that 14 of those who took […]
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is reported to have dismissed the head of the Palestinian National Library, Ihab Bseiso, for criticizing the security services’ extrajudicial killing of political opponent Nizar Banat. Local media outlets said […]
An alliance of Palestinian political parties has urged that the Palestinian Authority (PA) government be removed from office. The group takes issue with PA violence towards reporters and protesters at rallies for Nizar Banat, a […]
By Ramona Wadi In the international community’s narrative of illusory state-building in Palestine, the Palestinian Authority’s security services are dissociated from violence. Whether such violence is meted out according to PA Leader Mahmoud Abbas’s directives, […]
The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, yesterday condemned the ongoing Israeli detention of Palestinian MPs on the UN’s annual International Day of Parliamentarism, June 30. Hamas spokesman Abdul Latif Al-Qanou pointed out that the Israeli […]
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has provided the United States with a number of objectives it seeks to work on in its negotiations with Israel while US President Joe Biden is in office. The PA has […]
The family of Palestinian activist Nizar Banat, who was murdered by the PA last week, has called for a local-international investigative mission to look into what led to his death, Arab48 reported yesterday. WATCH: Anti-PA […]
The UN is “concerned” about the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s suppression of freedoms in the occupied West Bank, the spokesman for the UN secretary-general has said. In a news brief held yesterday afternoon, Stéphane Dujarric addressed […]
By Iqbal Jassat “Why was he killed?” is the cry of Palestinians protesting the brutal murder of Nizar Banat. Demanding answers and justice, protesters have directed their anger at the Palestinian Authority (PA), whose security […]
Protests in the occupied West Bank continued Monday against the Palestinian Authority, following the death in custody of Palestinian activist Nizar Banat. After police violently suppressed a demonstration on Sunday evening, more Palestinians took 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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