A video, which surfaced on social media on Friday, demonstrated the nature of Israel’s political discourse at the moment, in light of the Israeli crackdown on Sheikh Jarrah protests in occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem. Thousands […]
A group of 185 top Israeli scientists and intellectuals called on the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) not to accept Israel’s investigation into its own alleged war crimes, after the court granted […]
Israeli forces today killed two Palestinians and injured another near Salem military camp, west of Jenin, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Security sources onfirmed that Israeli troops opened fire towards a Palestinian vehicle […]
The Israeli Supreme Court postponed Thursday its ruling on the eviction of several Palestinian families from the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah until May 10. The court’s decision came after it was told […]
Israeli police violently cracked down on Palestinians resisting forceful eviction and dispossession in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on Friday, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Sizable Israeli police forced its way into […]
Israel’s opposition leader Yair Lapid received a mandate to form a government Wednesday, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s failed effort following the nation’s fourth inconclusive vote in less than two years. President Reuven Rivlin made […]
Palestinian families facing an imminent Israeli threat of eviction in the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah told the Supreme Israeli Court today that no compromise has been reached with Jewish settlers concerning land and […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said yesterday that Moscow supports defusing tension between Israel and the Palestinians in the occupied city of Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, Anadolu reported. Speaking at a press conference with […]
Israeli forces Wednesday evening killed a Palestinian teenager in the village of Odla, near Nablus, according to the Health Ministry. It confirmed in a press statement that Said Yousef Mohammad Odeh, 16, from Odla village […]
Israeli authorities issued 100 administrative detention orders during the month of April against Palestinian detainees held in Israeli prisons. The sentences varied between two and six months and could be renewed at the end of […]
Israel’s president on Wednesday signaled he would move quickly to task a new candidate with forming a government after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to do so ahead of a midnight deadline. President Reuven Rivlin […]
Germany has expressed its rejection of a recent report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) describing Israeli practices toward Palestinians as amounting to “the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution.” German government spokesman Steffen Seibert […]
Hamas yesterday denounced the assault and intimidation of the residents of occupied East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood at the hands of Israeli occupation forces and settlers. An Israeli soldier presses his knee on the neck […]
Head of Israel’s Likud Party, Benjamin Netanyahu, said yesterday that he was ready to accept Yamina Party head, Naftali Bennett, as prime minister during the first year of a rotation agreement if a coalition is […]
Israeli occupation forces are to increase the number of troops in the occupied West Bank in preparation for a possible escalation, Israeli media reported an army official saying yesterday. “The IDF [Israeli army] will increase […]
Extremist Jewish settlers yesterday attacked Palestinian homes in the occupied Nablus’ southern town of Qusra. The Palestinian official who monitors Israeli settlement activities in the northern West Bank, Ghassan Douglas, said in a statement that […]
Israeli police Tuesday overnight rounded up four members of the Abu Asab family after breaking into their house in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. As they descended […]
The heavy firing of tear gas canisters and stun grenades by Israeli forces caused the fire to break out in Palestinian-owned lands in the village of Fa’run, south of the occupied West Bank city of […]
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad Al-Maliki, sent a letter to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Fatou Bensouda regarding Israel’s actions against the Palestinian people in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of […]
The Israeli Supreme Court on Sunday gave four Palestinian families from Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood until Thursday to reach a deal with Israeli Jewish settlers regarding the ownership of their homes, Al Jazeera reported. The […]
A Palestinian elderly woman, who was shot and critically injured by Israeli soldiers’ fire yesterday, has succumbed to her wounds, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Rehab al-Horoub, 60, from Bethlehem’s village of Wadi […]
Israeli occupation forces last night assaulted and dispersed dozens of Palestinian nonviolent protesters while holding a sit-in in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, in occupied Jerusalem, against an imminent threat of eviction from their homes […]
Israeli soldiers shot and injured a Palestinian woman in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Sunday, according to the Israeli army and a Palestinian security source, Anadolu Agency reported. The official news agency Wafa, […]
The United Nations has urged Palestinian authorities to set a new date for the elections originally scheduled for the end of May, following President Mahmoud Abbas’ announcement on Friday that they would be postponed. Protests […]
Israeli police have prevented West Bank Palestinians from entering Jerusalem for Ramadan’s third Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, Anadolu Agency reported. Israel recently set a requirement that those wishing to pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque must […]
A disabled Palestinian man sustained severe wounds and bruises to his face and body after a private Israeli security guard beat him in the occupied East Jerusalem town of Silwan on Wednesday evening, Felesteen newspaper […]
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Friday condemned the decision by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to delay long-awaited polls. “The decision to postpone the planned Palestinian elections, including the legislative elections originally scheduled for […]
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced last night that the first Palestinian national election in 15 years has been postponed until Israel allows the vote to take place in Jerusalem. The election was due to […]
A Palestinian man sustained injuries today after he was shot by Israeli occupation forces near the village of al-Nashash, south of the city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian news […]
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday said elections will be postponed until there is a guarantee that voting can take place in occupied East Jerusalem, further delaying polls in a country that last voted […]
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