Israel detained 509 Palestinians in January from occupied Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip, including 89 children and eight women, according to Palestinian prisoners rights groups. What’s behind #Israel’s crackdown on Palestinian prisoners? https://t.co/1gQoR3CDaA […]
Former Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman yesterday warned that the next confrontation with the Gaza Strip must be the last. Lieberman said: “For nearly a year, since the [Great March of Return] started along the […]
The UK government has expressed concern about Israel’s expulsion of Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem, responding to a question from Labour MP Richard Burden. In a question to the Secretary of State for Foreign and […]
Unemployment rate in the Gaza Strip sharply increased in 2018 to reach 52% compared with 44% in 2017, while in the West Bank it was 18% in 2018, compared to 19% the year before, the […]
Israel is “intensifying” its settlement activity in and around Jerusalem’s Old City, according to NGO Ir Amim. Publishing a new map yesterday, Ir Amim described an “accelerated, intensifying chain of new facts on the ground in […]
The Israeli military is preparing for a major new offensive in the besieged Gaza Strip. The Israeli army’s Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi – who was sworn in last month – “has already prioritized preparations for a potential […]
A Palestinian teen succumbed, late Tuesday, to wounds he had sustained by Israeli forces last Friday during protests at the eastern borders of the al-Breij refugee camp in the central besieged Gaza Strip. Spokesperson of […]
The Israeli army has prevented Palestinian activists from documenting Jewish settlers’ crimes against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil). This came after a group of Palestinian activists called Youth Against Settlement […]
A Palestinian was shot and injured by Israeli live fire, on late Monday, east of Gaza City. Local sources told Ma’an that Israeli forces opened fire towards a group of Palestinians, east of Gaza City, […]
The Palestinian foreign minister is asking Arab countries to boycott or downgrade their representation at the upcoming US-sponsored Middle East summit in Poland. Riad Malki said that Arab nations should at a minimum send low-profile […]
Two Palestinians were killed overnight in a tunnel between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, Gaza’s interior ministry said Monday. Bozum said 39-year-old major Abdelhamid al-Akar and Sabhy Abu Qarushayn, 28, “suffocated due to the inhalation of toxic […]
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has cut the salaries of 263 employees from Gaza’s Ministry of Health, most of whom are doctors, as well as a further 400 employees from the Education Ministry, mainly teachers. Spokespersons […]
Israeli forces opened fire at Palestinian shepherds in Khan Younis in the southern besieged Gaza Strip, on Monday. Witnesses told a Ma’an reporter that Israeli forces deployed in military watchtowers in eastern Khuzaa, in Khan […]
Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has called on the African Union to send monitors for potential Palestinian elections. While speaking at the 32nd meeting of the African Union, Abbas asked member states to support […]
UNICEF has said that it is “saddened” by Israel’s killing of two children in the Gaza Strip this weekend. In a statement yesterday, UNICEF’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa Geert Cappelaere expressed the […]
Palestinian activists on Sunday launched a campaign aimed at protecting local residents against settler attacks in the West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil). Mohamed Zghayyar, a spokesman for the NGO Youth Coalition Against Settlements, told Anadolu […]
Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, detained a Palestinian, on Saturday, who was suspected of killing a Jewish settler, who was found dead in a forest between the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo and the al-Walaja village […]
Palestinians living in the Netherlands will be allowed to register the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as their official place of birth, Dutch State Secretary Raymond Knops told the House of Representatives in The […]
The Israeli Prison Services yesterday announced the death of 36-year-old Palestinian prisoner Yasser Hamid Ishtea, making him the second Palestinian prisoner to die in an Israeli jail in the past three days. According to Israel’s Channel […]
Palestinian officials have been invited to a US conference on the Middle East hosted by Poland next week, a senior US official said on Friday, but top Palestinian officials said they would not attend. The senior administration official told reporters […]
Israeli snipers killed two Palestinian protesters, including a 14-year-old child, and wounded 17 others during the 46th Friday protests held as part of the “Great March of Return” in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Ministry […]
Israeli forces killed a woman and child during protests in the occupied Gaza Strip on January 11, while they were at a “significant distance” from the perimeter fence. The findings were published yesterday by the […]
Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and White House senior adviser, is expected to head to the Middle East later this month for an official visit to discuss a US proposal for peace between […]
Israel’s human rights organization B’Tselem released a report Tuesday in which it said that Israel’s Civil Administration which governs Area C of the Occupied West Bank, and Israel’s High Court of Justice could be liable […]
Russia has refused to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, despite previously recognizing the west of the city as Israel’s capital. The announcement was made yesterday by Russia’s Ambassador to Israel, Anatoly Viktorov, […]
The US has said that Israel had “every right” to expel a UN monitoring force from the occupied West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil). US State Department spokesman Robert Palladino yesterday said that it was […]
Jewish settlers set up new mobile caravans, on Wednesday, on Palestinian-owned agricultural lands between the Yaabad town and Zabda village, south of the northern occupied West Bank district of Jenin. The mayor of Yaabad, Samer […]
Palestinian Authority (PA), PLO and Fatah President Mahmoud Abbas said that the date of the upcoming elections is to be announced when holding “it becomes possible” in Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Sputnik reported […]
The US blocked a draft United Nations Security Council statement yesterday from issuing a statement that would have expressed concerns over Israel’s decision to expel the international observatory task force that has been monitoring the […]
Several Palestinian bodies, including NGOs, have severely criticized the measure taken by the Palestinian Authority (PA), PLO and Fatah leader to cut the salaries of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Even member’s of Mahmoud Abbas’ […]
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