United Kingdom charities yesterday condemned statements by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on International Criminal Court’s (ICC) investigation into Israeli war crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory. In a letter to the Conservative Friends […]
The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, called on Tuesday for immediate international intervention to stop Israel’s detention of its parliamentary election candidates. The movement made the announcement at the Palestinian Central Elections Commission in Ramallah. […]
The Jewish National Fund (JNF) in Israel approved on Sunday plans to purchase land in the occupied West Bank to expand illegal settlements, mainly in Nablus and Jenin, Haaretz has reported. The fund is known […]
The Israeli government’s position regarding an impending investigation by the International Criminal Court of alleged war crimes committed in occupied Palestine has been finally declared by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “It will be made […]
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has strongly condemned Israel’s decision to refuse cooperation with the International Criminal Court following the latter’s announcement in March on opening an investigation into possible war crimes in the Palestinian […]
The defense team of the head of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel Sheikh Raed Salah has slammed the Israel Prison Service’s decision to transfer him to Ramon prison. The team announced […]
Israel will tell the International Criminal Court (ICC) that it does not recognize the authority of the tribunal, which is set to investigate alleged war crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian Territories, Israeli Prime Minister […]
Jewish settlers seized 15 Palestinian houses in the occupied East Jerusalem district of Silwan, Israel’s Channel 7 reported. According to the channel, the settlers placed Israeli flags on 15 houses in Silwan after the Ateret […]
The Israeli government is ramping up its efforts aimed at creating a centralized strategy to combat an imminent investigation into war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC). A high-level meeting brought top Israeli officials […]
Hamas on Monday stressed it would not accept holding Palestinian parliamentary election without the participation of Palestinians in Jerusalem. In a statement, member of the movement’s political bureau Ezzat Al-Reshq said: “We insist that the […]
In another move that shows US President Joe Biden is navigating between the Trump administration’s era and the return to the two-state politics, the US State Department’s 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights presented two facets of […]
The Palestine Authority (PA) yesterday urged the Quartet on the Middle East to pressure Israel into allowing Palestinian parliamentary elections to take place in occupied East Jerusalem, Wafa news agency reported. In a letter sent […]
Marking Palestine Children’s Day, the Palestine Prisoners’ Club revealed that there are 140 Palestinian children in Israeli prisons, including two under administrative detention. According to the Defence for Children International-Palestine, every year between 500 and […]
The administration of US President Joe Biden plans to revoke the sanctions imposed by his predecessor, President Donald Trump, on the International Criminal Court (ICC) top officials as early as this week, the Foreign Policy […]
Jewish settlers today stormed an archaeological site in As-Samu’ town, south of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil), according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Local and security sources confirmed that dozens of […]
The Palestinians have asked the European Union to use its influence to ensure Israel allows its citizens in occupied East Jerusalem to vote in the upcoming Palestinian legislative and presidential elections. Earlier reports suggested that […]
A Palestinian prisoner is on his 40th day of hunger strike, in protest against his prolonged administrative detention, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS). The PPS said in a statement that Imad Batran, 47, […]
A Palestinian youth was injured on Sunday evening during a Jewish settlers’ attack on the village of Kufr ad-Dik, near the occupied West Bank city of Salfit. Faris al-Dik, an activist, told WAFA that about […]
Thousands of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip have been deprived of identity documents and consequently, several basic rights, most notably the right to freedom of movement, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said in a […]
The Israeli occupation authorities have imposed a travel ban on Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, the president of the Supreme Islamic Council in Jerusalem, Wafa news agency has reported. Sheikh Sabri is banned from traveling abroad for […]
The Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs has accused the Israeli occupation police and jailers of physically assaulting and maltreating a Palestinian child from Jerusalem during his detention, the Palestinian Information Centre reported. According […]
A Palestinian man, Atef Yousef Hanaysha, was killed by Israeli occupation forces on March 19 during a weekly protest against illegal Israeli settlement expansion in Beit Dajan, near Nablus, in the northern West Bank. Although […]
The Israeli government has said that it will not allow any economic project to be implemented in the occupied territories unless the Palestinian Authority (PA) stops cooperating with the ICC probe into Israeli war crimes, […]
Israel revoked Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki’s special travel permit after he returned to the West Bank yesterday from a trip to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. The Palestinian diplomat urged […]
More than 100 Palestinian homes face demolition and about 1,550 residents, including more than 800 children, will be made homeless at the hands of Israel’s Jerusalem Municipality, Arab48 reported yesterday. This comes as the Israeli […]
In 2021, the Israeli targeting of EU-funded aid structures to the Palestinians tripled compared with the monthly average in 2020. In addition, Jewish settlers damaged and stole donor-funded aid, said the United Nations Office for […]
Fourteen Palestinian and regional organizations sent a joint urgent appeal to United Nations special procedures on forced evictions in East Jerusalem. The appeal addressed six UN Special Rapporteurs, including the Special Rapporteur on the situation […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to legalize West Bank settler outposts if he is re-elected in the upcoming elections slated for March 23, reported the Jerusalem Post. He made the announcement during a […]
Twelve members of the US Congress yesterday called on the administration of President Joe Biden to oppose Israeli annexation of occupied Palestinian lands, to condemn Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes, and to officially rescind his […]
A Palestinian family from the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan embarked last night on emptying their home after the Israeli municipality informed them that the home will be demolished soon for lack on an Israeli-issued […]
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