Press Releases

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(MENAFN) The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Monday called for urgent international sanctions against Israeli occupiers and the settlement system following attacks on two villages in the occupied West Bank. According to reports, the ministry...

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(MENAFN) Former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo has said that violence carried out by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank resembles attacks against Jews during the Holocaust and represents what he described as an “existential threat”...

National Union of Journalists

The NUJ has joined the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) and the Union of Journalists of Lebanon (UJL) in condemning continued targeted attacks on journalists in Palestine and Lebanon by...

EIN Presswire

The Court of Appeal's ruling in Ammori restores Palestine Action's proscription and redraws the line between lawful protest and national security.

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(MENAFN) The European commissioner for equality and crisis management has said that Israel is legally required under international humanitarian law to prevent and investigate alleged violations against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank....

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(MENAFN) Britain has expressed strong concern at the United Nations Security Council over what it described as escalating violence by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, warning that the situation is worsening and threatening the prospects...

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(MENAFN) Israel has greenlit the construction of 126 settlement homes in Jenin in the northern West Bank, Israeli media reported Wednesday, signaling an aggressive revival of settlement expansion in a zone abandoned nearly two decades ago. The...

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(MENAFN) France has strongly criticized recent incidents in the occupied West Bank, accusing Israeli settlers of targeting infrastructure projects financed by European and French support, and calling for accountability and an end to rising...

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(MENAFN) Israeli settlers blocked a key roadway in the central West Bank on Sunday and reportedly attacked Palestinian vehicles with stones, according to local sources.

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(MENAFN) Israeli forces shot a Palestinian man near the separation barrier north of Jerusalem on Sunday night, while settlers uprooted olive trees and military units carried out land clearing operations in several parts of the occupied West Bank....

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(MENAFN) Microsoft has quietly revised its digital mapping services to reflect internationally recognised Palestinian geographical designations, removing what advocates have condemned as politically loaded Israeli terminology applied to the...

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(MENAFN) Microsoft has reportedly updated its digital mapping services to include Palestinian geographical terminology and remove what a digital rights organization described as “misleading” Israeli designations in the occupied West Bank,...

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(MENAFN) Microsoft has revised its digital mapping services to incorporate Palestinian place names while eliminating certain “misleading” Israeli labels previously used for areas in the occupied West Bank, according to a digital rights...

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(MENAFN) Israeli military forces stormed the Qalandia refugee camp north of occupied East Jerusalem on Monday, forcibly evacuating Palestinian residents from their homes and repurposing the properties as detention and interrogation centers in a...

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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) Israeli settlers torched Palestinian vehicles and destroyed agricultural property Friday in a series of attacks across areas south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, as Israeli military forces simultaneously conducted sweeping raids and...

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(MENAFN) The Israeli army conducts a raid on the Qalandia refugee camp north of occupied East Jerusalem on Monday, taking over Palestinian homes after forcing residents to leave.

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(MENAFN) Israeli forces carried out 443 assaults in the West Bank over the last month, resulting in the deaths of nine Palestinians and the displacement of six Bedouin communities, according to the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance...

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(MENAFN) Two German activists who participated in a Gaza-bound aid flotilla have accused Israeli forces of mistreatment and torture following their return to Germany, according to statements made at Hannover Airport.

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(MENAFN) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday asserted that Israel has stepped up its military actions in Gaza and the West Bank, even after a ceasefire agreement took effect earlier this month.