Press Releases

Oxfam

Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Policy Lead Bushra Khalidi - a Palestinian mother from Jerusalem living in the West Bank - addressed the UN Security Council in New York today, warning that the ceasefire in Gaza is failing and urging member states to...

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(MENAFN) More than 460 former European political leaders have signed an open editorial urging the European Union to adopt stronger measures in response to Israel’s military operations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, according to reports.

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(MENAFN) On the edges of Marda, a Palestinian village north of Salfit in the occupied West Bank, Israeli bulldozers continue uprooting olive groves as part of intensified settlement projects.

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(MENAFN) Israeli army bulldozers demolished six Palestinian homes and a carpentry workshop across the West Bank on Monday, in the latest wave of demolitions to sweep the occupied territory.

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(MENAFN) Israeli settlers burned a Palestinian-owned vehicle Tuesday in a pre-dawn assault on the village of Beit Imrin, northwest of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, drawing fresh condemnation from a local rights group.

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(MENAFN) Israeli forces reportedly ordered the evacuation of a residential area east of the Nur Shams refugee camp in the northern West Bank on Wednesday to carry out military exercises, according to local sources.

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(MENAFN) Residents of the Palestinian village of Marda in the northern occupied West Bank say ongoing Israeli settlement-related construction is placing increasing pressure on their community, threatening agricultural land and further limiting...

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(MENAFN) Three Palestinians, including a woman, were injured on Thursday in separate incidents involving Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, while Israeli troops also demolished a Palestinian house under construction in the occupied West Bank,...

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(MENAFN) Palestinian Football Association President Jibril Rajoub launched a stinging rebuke of the United States on Friday after being denied entry to the country despite his accreditation for FIFA World Cup-related activities — warning that...

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(MENAFN) Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa on Monday called on the international community to intensify efforts aimed at pressuring Israel to end what he described as unlawful actions and ongoing violence by occupiers in the occupied...

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(MENAFN) Farmland on a hill in the town of Taybeh, a predominantly Christian community located east of Ramallah in the central West Bank, was set ablaze after a late-night incident involving settlers, according to local officials and reports.

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(MENAFN) While billions worldwide celebrate the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Palestinian girls in Gaza are fighting an entirely different match — reclaiming their lives through football after losing limbs in the ongoing conflict.

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(MENAFN) Germany has ruled out backing new sanctions targeting extremist Israeli settlers, even as violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank continues to rise.

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(MENAFN) Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa on Monday issued an urgent call for stepped-up international pressure on Israel to put an end to what he described as Tel Aviv's "illegal measures" and occupiers' "terrorism," as violence across...

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(MENAFN) Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian graduate student at Columbia University, is appealing a ruling that determined he is eligible for deportation under US immigration law, according to his legal team.

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(MENAFN) Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, has appealed to Israel’s Supreme Court for his immediate release, describing his detention as “unjust and arbitrary” during his first court appearance in nearly a...

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More Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military and settlers across the occupied West Bank in the last three years than in the previous 17 years combined, analysis from Oxfam has found.

Government of Ireland

The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Helen McEntee TD, will today (15 June) travel to Luxembourg for the final meeting of EU Foreign Ministers before Ireland assumes the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

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(MENAFN) According to reports, fires were set on agricultural land in the Palestinian town of Taybeh, east of Ramallah in the central West Bank, in an incident described by the local mayor as an attack on cultivated farmland.

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(MENAFN) Amnesty International UK has called on the British government to impose wider sanctions on senior officials in Israel, arguing that recently announced measures do not go far enough to hold those it describes as the “architects” of...