Palestine

The number of settler-related incidents in the Occupied Palestinian Territory reached 591 in the first six months of 2023, the UN said on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. "That's an...

The head of Hamas' political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, has made a series of contacts with senior Lebanese officials and discussed the latest developments in the Ain Al-Hilweh refugee camp, Quds...

A 21-year-old Palestinian detainee in Israeli custody was tased by two Israeli officers last week while he was handcuffed to a hospital bed at Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem....

The commander of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah), and a member of the movement's Lebanon Command, Major General Munir Al-Maqdah, yesterday...

Israeli occupation forces yesterday arrested the senior leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, Sheikh Khaled Saleh Abu Zina, from the Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West...

The Islamic Jihad movement has called for mass protests in support of the Palestinian resistance and to denounce the political arrests carried out by the Palestinian Authority's security services...

Archbishop Atallah Hanna, the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Sebastia, has slammed events in the Ain Al-Hilweh camp in Lebanon as "shameful." "The use of weapons in the camps between...

As the Biden administration has been a disappointment for them, Palestine is "increasingly turning to China", said the Palestinian Foreign Minister on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports. "Three years have...

The Palestinian Authority is hoping to engage with Saudi Arabia to discuss their concerns over a potential agreement normalising relations with Israel, Palestinian Foreign Minister, Riyad Al-Maliki, said on...

The appeal against the illegal West Bank outpost of Homesh, urging its evacuation to allow Palestinian landowners access to their land, was dismissed by Israel's High Court of Justice....

Israeli occupation forces today destroyed and uprooted dozens of olive trees in the town of Battir, west of occupied Bethlehem, WAFA News Agency reported. According to a local Palestinian activist, an...

Outgoing EU Envoy to the occupied West Bank and Gaza Sven Kuhn Von Burgsdorff attracted the wrong sort of attention when he paraglided off Gaza's coast last month, purportedly...

A Moroccan court has sentenced a blogger to five years in prison over posts on Facebook criticising the normalisation of relations with Israel that were deemed "offensive" to the...

Israeli human rights group Hamoked has revealed that the apartheid state is currently holding over 1,200 detainees with neither charge nor trial, the highest number in more than three...

Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Tuesday banned Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem's Silwan neighbourhood from holding ceremonies to celebrate students' exam results, WAFA News Agency reported. Israeli occupation forces...

Israeli offensives against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip increase the suffering of people with disabilities, Human Rights Watch has warned. The military offensive in May might have faded...

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh denied on Wednesday that he had criticised Qatar for funding the Gaza Strip's electricity plant, Al-Watan Voice has reported. Earlier this week, the...

Far-right Israeli Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage Minister, Amichai Eliyahu, yesterday urged Tel Aviv to annex the occupied West Bank, local media reported. The extremist minister called the Green Line, which separates the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948  – now Israel -from those occupied...

On 25 July, 1994, the State of Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, after a spell of negotiations, signed the Washington Declaration in which they committed to signing...

During much of 1948, Palestinians driven from their homes by the violence of that terrible year took safety in what could reasonably be called refugee camps; camps for people...

Palestinians say that the historic town of Sebastia, located in the Occupied West Bank, is facing the threat of "Judaisation" by Israel, Anadolu Agency reports. The town is designated...

More than 2,000 Palestinian-Americans have travelled into or through Israel since it eased conditions for them at border crossings as part of a bid to achieve a visa waiver deal with...

Irfan discusses her latest book 'Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the international refugee system' in which she looks at how refugee groups are important actors in global politics and not just aid recipients

As Israel's government pushes through judicial reforms that have convulsed the nation with mass protests and warnings of civil unrest, a core component of the fragile governing coalition has little...

The Israeli Education Ministry yesterday banned the grassroots organisation, Parents Circle-Families Forum (PCFF), which comprises bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families, from arranging activities at schools. The decision was based...

21-year-old Palestinian Hussam Qasim makes drum from waste materials due to lack of availability and financial issues. He combines plastic and tin cans in an original way in order to achieve the closest sound to the drum.

The "Replace It" campaign in Gaza is distributing bags made of cloth to encourage residents to avoid using plastic totes, which can end up in the sea or littering...

The events of Ain Al-Hilweh began with Muhammad Zubaidat, nicknamed Al-Somali, who is affiliated with the Fatah movement and the Palestinian National Security, opening fire in the market last...

An Israeli soldier set himself on fire yesterday after the Defence Ministry denied his request for disability status. The soldier, identified as Bar Kalaf, suffered severe injuries and was...

Several Palestinians suffered from suffocation, while others were shot by Israeli gunfire during a military raid into the eastern area of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, reported Wafa news agency....

Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has revealed new information regarding an Israeli soldier it captured during the occupation state's 2014 military offensive...

The Palestinian community within what is known today as the state of Israel was devastated on 8 June by a heinous crime in Nazareth that claimed the lives of...