Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he is ready for “a historic peace deal with Israel based on the two-state solution”. “We are waiting for Israel to respond to the initiative of the US President, Donald […]
Israel has placed 34 Palestinians, including a woman, in administrative detention during the last two weeks of June, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said on Tuesday. PPS attorney Mahmoud Halabi said 25 prisoners had their […]
The African National Congress (ANC), the ruling party of South Africa, voted on Tuesday in favor of downgrading South Africa’s diplomatic representation in Israel in protest of the occupation. The decision, made during ANC’s National […]
By Ramzy Baroud No matter how hard White House officials try, they cannot construct a coherent ‘Trump doctrine’ that would make sense amid the chaos that has afflicted US foreign policy in recent months. However, […]
The United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization’s (UNESCO) World Heritage Committee adopted a resolution on Tuesday reaffirming the international body’s non-recognition of Israeli sovereignty in occupied East Jerusalem, and condemning Israeli policies in the […]
Delegates at the 31st General Synod of the United Church of Christ in Baltimore, Maryland, voted overwhelmingly on Sunday night – 79% yes, 13% no, 9% abstain – in favor of a resolution which calls on […]
A Gaza-based prisoner’s rights group has raised alarm over unsafe conditions for Palestinian prisoners held in Israel’s Ktziot prison, located in the Negev desert region, amid a scorching heat wave sweeping across the region. The […]
On the same day that four Palestinian families were delivered punitive home demolition orders after their relatives carried out attacks on Israelis, the Israeli Supreme CouMuhammed Abu Khdeirrt ruled on Tuesday not to demolish the […]
United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley expressed late on Monday her opposition to a planned UN Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) vote over whether to include the Old City of Hebron […]
The USS George H.W. Bush, a Nimitz-class warship, has docked outside an Israeli port, local media report, saying it is the first such visit in 17 years. The supercarrier has been a base for US […]
A Palestinian family was forced to demolish its own house in the town of al-Issawiya in Jerusalem, after the Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem threatened to demolish the house under the pretext it was built […]
Palestinian artist Steve Sabella on the liberation of the self and the meaning of The Parachute Paradox, the title of his latest memoir. (Video: Electronic Intifada)
Spain has officially recognized activists’ right to “promote the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaigns”. The International Cooperation Committee of the Congress of Deputies approved the initiative proposed by the Unidos Podemos (Together We Can) parliamentary […]
Israeli occupation forces have killed 327 Palestinians since the start of the ongoing Jerusalem Intifada in October 2015, according to figures released by Al-Quds Centre for Palestinian and Israel Studies yesterday. According to the statistic, […]
The Netherlands has reacted with outrage after Israeli authorities seized dozens of solar panels in a remote occupied West Bank village that were donated by the Dutch government. Israeli forces confiscated the solar panels in […]
After being convicted in an Israeli court in March on a number of charges related to his smuggling phones to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody, now resigned Knesset member Basel Ghattas entered the first day […]
A Hamas delegation departed from the Gaza Strip for Egypt on Sunday morning, to follow-up with a previous meeting in Cairo last month, amid growing ties between Gaza’s de facto ruling party and the Egyptian […]
Palestinian political leadership has reacted with outrage over the detention of feminist, human rights activist, and Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) member Khalida Jarrar, detained by Israeli forces from her home in Ramallah during a predawn […]
‘This Is Palestine’ follows the journey of Riverdance founder John McColgan through the West Bank and Gaza as he explores the impact of ongoing conflict and military occupation on the people who live there. The […]
In an unprecedented move, 32 members of US Congress Wednesday wrote Secretary of State Rex Tillerson a letter urging him to exert pressure on Israel to cease its attempts to imprison Palestinian human rights defender […]
The Hamas movement said on Thursday that the Israel Prison Service (IPS) had decided to suspend family visitations for Hamas-affiliated prisoners from the besieged Gaza Strip. A committee of Hamas-affiliated prisoners detained by Israel said […]
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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