UN Official says Opportunity Exists for Two-State Solution
The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Robert Serry, briefed the UN Security Council in New York yesterday on developments in the Middle East in the last…
Jerusalem Municipality & Israeli Government Fund New Settlement Close to Al-Aqsa
The Jerusalem Municipality along with Israeli Ministry of Tourism are to jointly allocate 4 million NIS to fund the development of a new settlement project, according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz,…
Israel Extends Monopoly over Oil/Gas Supply to West Bank and Gaza: PA Quiet
Two Israeli oil companies have signed 2 year contracts which will supply all of the gasfuel requirements of the West Bank and Gaza Strip thus extending Israel’s monopoly and strategic…
New Computer Virus hits Iran & West Bank in Unprecedented Cyber Attack
Internet security company Kaspersky Lab announced on Monday that it had uncovered a ‘cyber-espionage worm’ designed to collect and delete sensitive information, primarily in Middle Eastern countries.Kaspersky called the malware,…
Israeli Official: Turkey ‘Killing’ Relations with Israel over Gaza Flotilla Charges
A court in Istanbul has voted unanimously to approve an indictment against Israel’s former military chief Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, along with the former heads of its navy, air force…
Fuel Crisis Impacts Water and Sanitation Services in Gaza
The current fuel crisis in Gaza, now in its fifth month, is causing extended power outages that severely disrupt the lives, health and livelihood of the region’s 1.6 million residents.…
Egypt Confirms Mohammed Morsi and Ahmed Shafiq in Election Runoff
Egypt’s final presidential race will be between the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate, Mohammed Morsi of the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice party, and a former air force general Ahmed Shafiq, a law…
Israel Court Rejects Appeal to Free Palestinian Legislator
On Sunday, Israel’s high court on Sunday rejected an appeal to end the administrative detention of Palestinian legislator Hussam Khader. Khader has been detained without charge or trial since June…
Palestine Airlines Resume Flights After 7 Years
Palestine airlines are finally back to business in Jordan following seven years of being grounded. The carrier Palestine Airlines is a small operation which owns two 48 seat turboprop planes…
Hezbollah ‘Deplores’ Houla Massacre in Syria
Reuters reported Sunday that the Shiite political party and militant group, Hezbollah, President Bashar Assad’s main Lebanese ally, said it deplored the Houla massacre in neighboring Syria.Without assigning a blame…
DFLP leader Calls for Settler Watch Groups to Counter Increasing Settler Violence
B’Tselem reported that after armed settlers arrived in Asira al-Qibilya on Saturday two Palestinian men were injured. DFLP leader, Qais Abed al-Karim, stressed the importance of forming popular watch committees…
Footballer: Prisoners’ Health Deteriorates After 70 Days on Hunger Strike
Ma’an News has reported a PA Ministry of Detainee Affairs warning from Sunday that a prisoner on hunger strike for 70 days is suffering deteriorating health.Mahmoud al-Sarsak, a 25-year-old soccer…
UK: Israel’s Settlements Harm its International Standing
The WAFA News Agency reported today a UK Foreign Office statement issued on Wednesday. British Foreign Secretary William Hague told his visiting Israeli counterpart Avigdor Lieberman that Israel’s settlement expansion…
An Hour Before Release, Prisoner Transferred to Administrative Detention
In a PNN report today, the Al-Ahrar Centre for Prisoners’ Studies and Human Rights stated that on Wednesday, May 23rd, prisoner Sameh Elaiwe, 50, was transferred from Nablus city to…
Amnesty International: Israel Often Uses Excessive Force, Killed 55 Palestinians in 2011
Haaretz reported today that the Amnesty International 2012 Annual Report for 2011 was released on Wednesday, and detailed violations of human rights worldwide. Among other things, the report is highly…
EU Defends Right of Palestinians to Peaceful Protest
The WAFA News Agency reported a statement issued by the spokesperson of the EU’s High Representative Catherine Ashton yesterday that the European Union defends the right of Palestinians to hold…
Palestinian Hotel Occupation in First Quarter Decreases
The WAFA News Agency reported a press release by the Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) today that hotel occupancy in the Palestinian areas decreased by 16% in the first…
UK Community Split Over JNF Invitation to Avigdor Lieberman
In the UK, the Jewish National Fund and more than 280 ‘concerned’ Jews, including the religious head of the Reform Movement, clashed this week over the charity’s invitation to Israeli…
Israeli Military Probing 15 Cases of Soldiers Ignoring Settler Attacks on Palestinians
Haaretz reported today that from the start of the second intifada in September 2000 through December 2011, the human rights group B’Tselem filed 57 complaints over soldiers who allegedly did…
For Second Straight Year Marchers Chant Anti-Arab Slogans During Jerusalem Day
Haaretz reported Monday that hundreds of Jewish youths participating in the Jerusalem Day flag procession Sunday shouted anti-Muslim slogans like ‘Mohammed is dead’ at Palestinian protesters gathered at Damascus Gate…
Evictions of Palestinians From Their Homes and Other Properties Using Affadavits
A recent court case, from May 8 2012, reported by Haartez has highlighted how The Absentee Property Law together with unsupported affadavits has been used to secure the evictions of…
Complaint About Extreme Police Violence to Demonstrators Passed to Israeli Justice Department
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reports today that the complaint about severe police violence against imprisoned protesters after a demonstration outside Ramle prison made by the Adalah advocacy group two weeks ago…
Gaza-Built Boat to Sail from Gaza
The Canadian Boat to Gaza, in cooperation, with international initiatives in the US, Australia and other countries, is launching a new initiative to challenge the illegal and inhumane Israeli blockade…
Israel Tied with North Korea in BBC Negative Influence Poll
Israel’s foreign and domestic policy seems to have tarnished its image on the world stage as it came joint third in an annual international BBC poll assessing the negative influence…
Arafat Adviser Suspected of Embezzling Millions of Dollars’
Ma’an News has reported from Bethlehem that Muhammad Rashid, a former adviser to the late President Yasser Arafat, is accused of embezzling tens of millions of dollars, the head of…
Abbas Swears in New Ministers in Ramallah Reshuffle
Ma’an News reported from Ramallah today that Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad lost his dual role as finance minister in a government reshuffle on Wednesday, as President Mahmoud Abbas…
Jerusalem Rabbinical Court Grants Rabbis Custody over Nablus Tomb, Violates Oslo Status Quo
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported today that the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court has awarded legal and administrative custody over Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus in the middle West Bank to two rabbis who…
Medics: 80 Injured in Nakba Protests Near Ramallah
Ma’an News reported Medics as saying that over 80 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli forces near Ramallah on Tuesday, as protesters commemorated the Nakba, or catastrophe, the name…
EU Foreign Ministers Criticise Israel’s Activities in West Bank
Israeli settlement building and curbs on economic development in the occupied West Bank risk wrecking Palestinian hopes of creating their own state, the European Union was reported by Reuters as…
Israel Allows Gaza to Export Clothes After 5 Year Ban
Reuters has reported that Israel allowed the export of Palestinian-made clothes from the Gaza Strip for the first time in at least five years on Monday. Raed Fattouh, who coordinates…
Court Injunction Delays Demolitions of Jerusalem Area Bedouin Homes
The Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center obtained on Wednesday an injunction order for Khan al-Ahmar Kurshan community. This temporary injunction prevents the demolition of homes of the eight…
Ads Warn Jewish Parents – Keep Daughters Away from Arabs
Ari Gallahar of Ynetnews reports today that advertisements made to look like imaginary wedding invitations have been distributed throughout Jerusalem’s streets in a bid to demonstrate what would happen if…
Israeli Court Rules Against Two Long-Term Palestinian Hunger-Strikers
On Monday, Israel’s Supreme Court turned down an appeal to free two Palestinians from administrative detention who have been on hunger strike for nearly 70 days. But in its decision,…
Hunger Strikers Must Leave Beds To See Lawyers
The Israeli Prison Service has confirmed that it is withholding interviews between hunger striking prisoners and their legal representatives as this privilege is conditional on prisoners physically getting up from…
Army Orders Farmers To Uproot 1400 Olive Trees In Salfit
Israeli soldiers order Palestinian farmers to uproot 1400 olive trees in Wadi Qana area, near Dir Istiya, in the West Bank district of Salfit. On Wednesday, the army tried to…