Category: Palestinian Politics

RAMALLAH, Thursday, May 18, 2023 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today condemned the Israeli Defense Minister’s decision to start implementing a law calling for canceling the disengagement…

The Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad in Palestine, Ziad Nakhalah, stated in response to the Israeli killing of eleven Palestinians in Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West…

RAMALLAH, Monday, February 13, 2023 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today said it rejects what it described as Israel’s “criminal” decision to expand its colonial settlement…

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates issued the following statement after the formation of the fanatic, the extreme right-wing Israeli government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, who is also…

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, October 18, 2022 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today welcomed the Australian government’s decision to reverse the decision taken by the previous government recognizing…

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs And Expatriates issued a statement denouncing the Israeli army’s execution of a Palestinian and the deliberate targeting of journalists working for Palestine TV in…

Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, the secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, said the Thursday shootings in Tel Aviv demonstrate Israeli security and political failures and the failure of its apartheid wall.…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms statements made yesterday by the Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, regarding his support for Jewish settlement crimes in…

RAMALLAH, Monday, January 10, 2022 (WAFA) – Palestine today summoned a Dutch diplomat over Netherlands’ decision to pull funding from a Palestinian civil society organization. Undersecretary of the Foreign Ministry…

NEW YORK, Friday, December 17, 2021 (WAFA) – Some 156 member states of the UN General Assembly have voted in favor of a resolution affirming the sovereignty of the Palestinian…

Ramallah – WAFA:  Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Riyad al-Malki praised today the overwhelming vote by the United Nations General Assembly in favor of two draft resolutions that…

Theodosius (Attallah) Hanna, the Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, stated that the Palestinians have the right to defend themselves and to act on protecting their…

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network: Since the beginning of the year, Israeli war criminal and “Minister of Defense” Benny Gantz has repeatedly designated Palestinian and international organizations working to defend…

The Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank, issued a statement denouncing the latest Israeli crime, leading to the death of four Palestinians in Jenin, in northern West Bank, on…

Jun 24,2021 – The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor expresses its deep shock at the death of the Palestinian opposition political activist Nizar Banat after his arrest and direct attack by…

The Palestinian Authority and the office of President Mahmoud Abbas strongly condemned the Israeli escalation and the assassination of two Palestinian intelligence officers and a former political prisoner, in Jenin…

The United Nations issued a statement Sunday calling on the Palestinian Authority to set a date for the Palestinian elections to be held. This statement follows the announcement on Friday…

NEW YORK, Thursday, April 22, 2021 (WAFA) – Palestine’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, urged today the world countries to press Israel, the occupying power, not to…

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, April 6, 2021 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today denounced the Israeli army killing of a Palestinian man near Ramallah and injuring his wife,…

Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights: March 21, 2021: March 21 marks the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. It was first proclaimed in 1966 by the United Nations…

(WAFA) – The Palestinian Presidency, on Wednesday, warned that all Israeli unilateral actions are designed to torpedo international efforts to achieve peace in the Middle East. Presidential Spokesman, Nabil Abu…

Ref: 29/2021, Date: 07 March 2021: The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) On 05 March 2021, the Palestinian President issued a law by decree to postpone elections for syndicates and…

(WAFA) – Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Minister Riyad al-Malki stated Monday that Israel’s impunity has been fuelled by the lack of punishment and accountability. Addressing the 46th regular session of…

In its first official letter to the newly elected American President Joe Biden, the Palestinian Authority outlined the agreement reached between all Palestinian factions, including Hamas, regarding their policies, and…

In advance of the Palestinian legislative elections in May 2021, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree ordering the respect of freedom of expression in the Palestinian Territories. He also…

Father Attallah (Theodosius) Hanna, the Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of occupied Jerusalem, stated that there can be no real peace in the region without ending the…

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh denounced, on Thursday at night, the seriously escalating attacks, carried out by the illegal Israeli colonialist settlers against the Palestinians in the West Bank, and…

Al Mezan Center for Human Rights welcomes the decree, issued by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, that announces parliamentary and presidential elections for later this year. The first such elections in…

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, January 19, 2021 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today pledged to legally pursue the US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman after he recognized the…

A Palestinian official announced, on Tuesday, that the relationship between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Israeli occupation will resume, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Chairman of the General…

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, November 10, 2020 (WAFA) –Saeb Erekat, longtime chief Palestinian negotiator and secretary-general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), who died today, more than a…

By Muhammad Hussein for Middle East Monitor The Deal: Israel and Hamas conduct a prisoner exchange following the Gilad Shalit deal struck a week earlier, releasing over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners…

The Israeli army shelled, Sunday, two alleged resistance sites in the besieged Gaza Strip, the site sustained material damage, but no human casualties were reported. A Palestinian Information Center (PIC)…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Wednesday, dozens of Palestinians participating in the Fourth National Conference against the illegal Annexation and Normalization, in Tormos-Ayya town, north of the central West Bank city of…

By: Marwan E. Toubassi, Ambassador of the State of Palestine in Greece: Press statement issued by the Embassy of the State of Palestine to Greece Regarding the Tripartite Joint Declaration between…

A heartbreaking report by Israeli journalist Gideon Levy has laid bare the story of 22-year old Jalal Sharafi, who died last month when his urgent application to transfer to an…

Majority of Palestinian resistance factions, across the occupied Palestinian territories, on Saturday, called for heightened Palestinian popular resistance, in response to what the factions described as, ‘Israeli occupation crimes against…

Israeli security services in the internationally-recognized occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem, summoned, on Thursday, a representative of the Fatah party, Shadi Matour, for interrogation. Official Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) said that…

Executive Committee for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), on Saturday, condemned what it termed immoral Israeli withholding slain bodies of Palestinians, killed by Israel, the latest of which was the…

The Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the head of its Negotiations Affairs Department, Dr. Saeb Erekat, strongly denounced the Israel army’s killing of his nephew  Ahmad Erekat,…

Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammad Shtayyeh reiterated, on Thursday, that international donors’ support to the Palestinian people, in the context of the Israeli government’s plans to annex the occupied West Bank,…

Israeli troops reportedly blocked, on Friday morning, reconstruction of a local street in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Local municipality sources told media outlets that Israeli troops stormed the…

Hamas’s political head, Ismail Haniyeh, reportedly said over the weekend, that his Islamist party, that rules the Gaza Strip, will agree to a prisoner swap deal with the state of…

According to the Saudi daily Elaph News Agency, senior sources informed its reporter that Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, and Israel, are slated to conduct a prisoner swap as…

Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammad Shtayyeh asserted, on Monday, that his cabinet has recently sought some prospects for solutions to the standoff of Palestinian prisoners’ monthly allowances, created by a recent…

A number of Palestinian officials in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, condemned on Sunday, Israel’s seizure of the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) tax funds, considering this as theft against…

By Kairos Palestine: April 30th, 2020: Take away from me the noise of your songs; I will not listen to the melody of your harps. But let justice roll down…

Top Palestinian negotiator and executive member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Dr. Saeb Erekat, briefed a number of Palestinian officials on the latest announcement by Israel regarding the planned…

At approximately 12:30 on Saturday, 25 April 2020, Palestinian police in Gaza city arrested a Palestine TV Satellite’s press crew while recording an interview in Jabalia refugee camp, claiming that…

A number of Palestinian officials in the West Bank city of Ramallah, condemned on Sunday, the Israeli seizure of Palestinian Authority’s (PA) tax funds, considering this piracy against the Palestinian…

Palestinians in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip decried, on Monday, the latest Israeli consensus over annexation of the occupied Palestinian West Bank to the occupation state of Israel.…

Top Palestinian negotiator, Dr. Saeb Erekat said on Sunday that the majority of international leaders oppose Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s colonial plans by, insisting that a two-state solution is…

Political Leader of the ruling Islamist Hamas party in Gaza, Ismail Haniyya, told the Alaraby Arabic TV channel, on Friday, that his party has four Israeli soldiers in captivity, and…

On the occasion of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, on Friday, the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, asserted that Palestinians will not sign a final peace deal with Israel, unless…

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), warned on Saturday against a recently-leaked understanding between the USA and Israel over some Israeli plans for the possible annexation of Palestinian lands, for the…

Representative of the Ramallah-based Committee for Palestinian Prisoners and Ex-prisoners, Hassan Abd Rabo, expressed on Tuesday the committee’s growing concerns over the safety of the 5,000 Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli…

Israel’s military control of Gaza and the West Bank has only grown more brutal during the pandemic. Workers are held in quarantine, prisoners have been infected, and Israel is withholding…

Israeli authorities released on Thursday a large shipment of postal packages sent to the occupied Palestinian territories, from abroad. A statement, released by the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Ministry of Telecommunication…

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) follows up on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip in light of the state of emergency announced to limit the spread of…

On 24 March 2020, the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) letters to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and to the Palestinian diplomatic community, Palestine News Network…

The 8th of March marks International Women’s Day (IWD) which was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1977. This day symbolizes women’s ongoing fight and struggle for their…

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics “PCBS” issued its 2019 Labour Force Survey Results, which showed the unemployment rate among labour force participants in Palestine, in 2019, to be 25%;…

The Hamas party has called on all Muslim peoples to widely organize and actively participate in campaigns and rallies in support of the Palestinian people and strengthen their steadfastness in…

The Fateh movement said, today, that it stands behind PA President Mahmoud Abbas and fully supports the positions expressed in his speech before the United Nations Security Council, warning of…

Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Father Atallah Hanna, stated on Tuesday morning, that the so-called “Deal of the Century” of U.S. President D. Trump, is…

Minister of National Economy, Khaled Osseili, said on Sunday, that the Palestinian government was pursuing political, diplomatic and legal action to reverse Israel’s recent ban on the export of Palestinian…

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has reportedly sent a note to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, warning that Palestine now feels free to stop security cooperation with the regime as…

The head of Hamas’s political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, has reiterated his movement’s rejection of the US “Deal of the Century” which Washington intends to announce soon, describing it as “a…

A high-ranking Palestinian official has threatened that the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority would withdraw from key provisions of the Oslo Accords in the case that US President Donald Trump unveils his…

The Fateh International Relations Commission said, in a statement commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, that the Palestinian people, ethnically cleansed by Jewish militias since 1948 and…

PA President Mahmoud Abbas, on Saturday, along with Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, visited Banksy’s ‘Walled-Off  Hotel,’ in Bethlehem, which is surrounded by the Israeli apartheid wall, describing it as a…

Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), on Thursday, condemned the announced plan of the Israeli municipality in occupied Jerusalem, to replace UNRWA-run…

Thousands of people gathered at al-Wihdeh Street in downtown Gaza City, Wednesday afternoon, to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the launch of the Fateh movement, the Palestinian News and Info…

Israeli forces detained, Wednesday afternoon, Fateh secretary general, Shadi Mtour, hours after invading his home and handing his family a summons for him, the Palestinian News and Info Agency reported.…

The Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ministry, on Monday, slammed Israel’s decision to deduct millions of dollars from the Palestinian tax revenues, the Palestinian News and Info Agency (WAFA) reported. The…

Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammad Shtayyeh said today that the Israeli cabinet’s decision to deduct additional amounts from the Palestinian tax revenues amounting to 150 million shekels ($43 million), under the…

Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) stated, on Sunday, that the Israeli government’s decision to withhold 150 million shekels ($43 million) from…

Hamas spokesman Abdul-Latif al-Qanua has described, as “a war crime,” the Israeli decision to have the settlements and outposts in Area C of the occupied West Bank registered with the…

The head of Hamas’s political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, has denounced what appears to be a possible attempt to assassinate Father Atallah Hanna, Archbishop of the Palestinian Orthodox Church in Occupied…

Presidential spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudainah condemned, on Thursday, calls by some parties for President Mahmoud Abbas to issue an order for legislative and presidential elections, irrespective of whether Israel will…

Prominent Fatah leader, and prisoner, Marwan Barghouthi, has decided to run for the presidential election in Palestine, Quds News Network reported. Hatem Abdel Qader, a member of Fatah’s Revolutionary Council,…

Hamas spokesman Abdul-Latif al-Qanu has affirmed that the March of Return and Breaking the Siege will continue and will be held using new tools as part of the ongoing Palestinian…

Saeb Erekat, head of the National Committee responsible for following up on the International Criminal Court (ICC), today, confirmed that “the decision announced by the Office of the Prosecutor of…

Member of Hamas’ political bureau, Khalil al-Hayya, has described the information about a long-term truce between the Palestinian resistance in Gaza and the Israeli occupation state as “false and unfounded.”…

Israeli occupation intelligence, on Monday evening, delivered the Jerusalem governor, Adnan Ghaith, a decision issued by the Minister of Internal Security, Gilad Erdan, to prevent him from holding meetings, seminars…

Ramzy Baroud – Middle East Monitor 15 years after the passing of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian people continue to reflect on his legacy. Thousands of images of “Abu…

A statement by the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on Wednesday, said that the State of Palestine firmly rejects Israel’s cynical attempts at the politicization of the UNRWA and it’s…

“Israel’s return to the illegal and criminal policy of extrajudicial assassination and its willful disregard for the lives of the Palestinian civilian population is reckless and criminal,” today said Hanan…

Abdul Sattar Qassem – Middle East Monitor Finally, it appears that the two major factions, Fatah and Hamas — or rather the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas — are preparing…

by Dana El Kurd, for Al Shabaka Palestinian Policy Network Overview The Palestinian Authority (PA) has perhaps never been so embattled, polarizing, or internally fragmented. In the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT),…

by Asa Winstanley Despite what you may have heard, the Palestinian Authority is not a “Palestinian government”. Indeed, “Palestinian Authority” is a misnomer, as the entity has no genuine authority,…

Marking the 102nd Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration on Saturday, Senior Palestinian Official, Dr. Saeb Erekat said Britain has the responsibility to make a qualitative shift towards realizing the political…

Augusta Victoria Hospital (AVH), in occupied Jerusalem, Sunday evening, launched a distress call entitled “The Future of AVH Hospital is in Danger,” which has reached a dead end, according to…

by Tamara Nassar The Palestinian Authority has blocked 59 Palestinian and Arabic-language news websites and social media pages. The Ramallah magistrate’s court issued the order on 17 October at the…

by Motasem Ahmed Dalloul In the late of 1970s, Islamists began to emerge as an effective group in the battle against the Israeli occupation. Their rise led to the formation…

September 2019 has witnessed a noticeable increase in the number of violations against media freedoms in Palestine. MADA has documented a total of 53 attacks compared to 36 during August.…

After months of having refused tax money collected by Israel, on behalf of the Palestinian state, the financially starved PA has decided to once again start accepting the funds. The…

Following a Thursday meeting between the Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon and his Palestinian counterpart Hussein Sheikh, the former stated that Israel will be transferring 1.8 Billion Shekels from the…

PA President Mahmoud Abbas today called his Israeli counterpart, Reuven Rivlin, to congratulate him on the Jewish New Year. During the call, they exchanged views on the latest developments in…

by Karam Omar for Al Shabaka Palestinian Policy Network Overview Social security functions as a safety net to protect workers in cases of illness, injury, and disability, and as a source of…