Hamas Denounces Attack On Nahr al-Bared Refugee Camp
The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, denounced the Lebanese Army attack on the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in Lebanon on Monday. The attack led to several injuries among the refugees. Five…
Child Killed, 10 Injured, In Nahr Al-Bared Refugee Camp
The Palestine Press News Agency reported that one Palestinian child was killed, on Friday evening, and ten others were wounded, during clashes that took place with the Lebanese army.The child…
Ex-Israeli soldier is seeking Palestinian citizenship
A 23-year old Israeli who served in the Israeli army told reporters Thursday that he wants to renounce his Israeli citizenship and is seeking Palestinian citizenship. He hopes to live…
Palestinian Refugee Killed In Syria
Palestinian medical sources reported Tuesday that a Palestinian refugee was killed during clashes that took place between Syrian gunmen in Hama refugee camp, in central Syria. The slain Palestinian, a…
Residency Of 240.000 Palestinians Revoked By Israel Since 1967
Israeli daily, Haaretz, published a report revealing that Israel revoked the residency rights of around 240.000 Palestinians since it occupied the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, in…
Court Decides To Deport 1,500 S. Sudan Migrants, Israel To Build 25,000 Cells
The Israeli Central Court ruled Thursday for the deportation of 1,500 migrants from Southern Sudan state; the ruling will be implemented in the coming few weeks. Israel also decided to…
Us Congressman Works to Strip Millions of Palestinians of Refugee Status
A new bill introduced in the US Congress by Republican Representative Mark Kirk would call for the US government to demand that a United Nations agency serving Palestinian refugees provide…
Australia Offers 90 million Dollars to UNRWA
PNN has reported that Australia has offered the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) 90 million dollars to help cover costs of the services provided for Palestinian…
Nakba anniversary message
May 15, 2012 On this 64th anniversary of the Nakba we mourn the ethnic cleansing that began in 1948 and that continues today with silent transfer, home demolitions, land confiscation…
64th Anniversary of the Nakba;
Today, 15 May 2012, marks the 64th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the anniversary of the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland. This was the harshest…
On Nakba Day, Palestinian Refugees Remain Uprooted
The Palestinians mark the Nakba Day on May 15; the day armed forces uprooted hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes and lands, and destroyed their villages, killed and…
New UNRWA Upgrade Plan To Improve Dheisheh Refugee Camp
Dheisheh, the oldest refugee camp in the West Bank, is set to receive a facelift under a new UNWRA upgrade plan. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees…
UNRWA Builds 223 Homes In Gaza
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has built 223 homes in the Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern part of the…
10th Palestinians In Europe Conference To Kick Off Next Week
The 10th Palestinians in Europe Conference is due to begin next week as preparations completed. The event is organized by the General Secretariat of the Palestinians in Europe Conference, The…
On Land Day; Israel Orders West Bank Sealed For 24 Hours
As the Palestinians mark the Palestinian Land Day on March 30th, Israel ordered the West Bank completely closed, and deployed thousands of soldiers in the occupied territories, and raised the…
Israeli troops kill alleged gun smuggler on Israel-Egypt border
An Egyptian man was killed Tuesday by Israeli troops while attempting to cross into Israel. Israeli sources report that a group of fifteen men were seen attempting to cross the…
Palestinian Killed in an Iraqi Interrogation Center
Sa’ad Khalil, of the Palestinian-Iraqi Brotherhood Society, stated that the Iraqi security forces killed a Palestinian detainee three days ago, who was undergoing questioning at an interrogation center in Baghdad.Ma’an…
Palestinian Group Marks 63rd Anniversary Of UN Resolution Calling For Right Of Return Of Refugees
On the 63rd anniversary of UN General Assembly Resolution 194, the BADIL Resource Center for Residency and Refugee Rights issued a statement to bring the attention of the international community…
Palestinian Human Rights Worker Kidnapped In Iraq
The Palestinian Human Rights Foundation reported Wednesday that its representative in Iraq was kidnapped by gunmen wearing the attire of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior.The foundation said that, on Wednesday…
450 Palestinians Blocked at Rafah Border Crossing
Egyptian Authorities prevented 450 people from entering Egypt through the Rafah border crossing with Gaza on Sunday, despite the recent opening of the crossing. Meanwhile, Gaza authorities have decided to…
Situation Of Palestinian Refugees In Iraq, The Worst
The Palestinian ambassador in Iraq, Daleel Al Qassous, stated that the situation of the Palestinian refugees in Iraq is the worst compared to any other place on earth, adding that…
Jewish American challenges denial of entry to Israel for ‘suspected conversion to Islam’
Last year, Israeli security forces at Ben Gurion Airport denied entry to 30-year old Jewish American Harold Fuller-Bennett because they claim he was ‘suspected of conversion to Islam’. Fuller-Bennett hired…
Israel Extends Family Unification Ban For A Year
The Israeli Knesset approved a request by the government of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to extend the ban on family reunification for an additional year prohibiting granting Israeli citizenship,…
Gaza Refugees Continue Their Sit-in Protest Outside UNRWA Building
For the second day, the Popular Committee for Palestinian Refugees in Gaza, continued the peace sit-in protest in front of the UNRWA building in Gaza City, in protest to due…
Fundamentalist Israeli Minister Seeks Additional 6 Months Ban on Family Unification
Israeli Interior Minister, member of the extremist Shas ultra-orthodox Jewish party, Eli Yishai, is demanding the Israeli cabinet to extend the ban on family unification for Arabs and Palestinians for…
UNRWA Appeal For Funds To Support Palestinian Refugee’s
Jordan’s Prime Minister Marouf al Bakheet and the UNRWA’s Commissioner General Filippo Grandi appealed for monetary aid to appeal for finances to fund the UNWRA’s work among Palestinian refugees. In…
Report: “30% of the Palestinians in the W. Bank, 67% In Gaza, Are Refugees”
The Palestinian Census Bureau reported that nearly half of the Palestinians in the occupied territories are internally displaced refugees, and that, since its creation in Palestine in 1948, Israel forcibly…
Conflicting Reports On Syria’s Involvement In Border Clashes During Nakba and Naksa Day
The UN Disengagement Force have reported their findings that Syria allowed Palestinian Refugees access to the Syria-Israeli occupied Golan border. The report also concluded however that Syrian officials did not…
Palestinian Mourners Clash With Security In Syria
There has been an outburst of violence between mourners of those killed at Israel’s border to Israel on Naksa Day and Palestinian resistance group Popular Front for the Liberation of…
Tension Remains High on Syrian Border
The Israeli Army deployed dozens of additional units at the border with Syria following Sunday clashes in which the army short and killed 23 protesters marking the Naksa Day, and…
24 Killed By Israeli Fire In the Golan, 350 Injured
Syrian media sources confirmed that Israeli soldiers shot and killed on Sunday 24 protesters who gathered on the Syrian side of the border of the Israeli occupied Golan Heights marking…
June 5th March Postponed In Lebanon
A high ranking Palestinian leader has told Lebanon Daily Star newspaper that the June 5th march by Palestinian refugees will be postponed due to pressure from the Lebanese government. The…
Netanyahu: “Israel Will Act Firmly Against Attempts To Cross Border”
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, warned Thursday that Israel will act firmly against attempts to cross into the country while the Palestinian mark the “Naksa” day this coming Sunday. The…
Lebanese Military Closes Border Area In Run Up To June 5th
The Lebanese military is due to close off the border to Israel on Sunday to prevent a repeat of the clashes on Naksa Day of this year, according to Israeli…
Peace, Not Surrender
As I walked recently along the Israeli separation barrier, being constructed inside the 1967 borders between Israel and the Palestinian Territories, my attention was brought to one of the many…
Protetests Announced For Naksa Day
Refugees are preparing for a second display of mass civil disobedience on June 5th as part of commemorations of “Naksa Day”. Palestinian refugees plan to once again gather at Israel’s…
Time to tear down the fences
I spent a part of my youth in a kibbutz very close to southern Lebanese village Maroun al-Ras, where the historic march of return of Palestinian refugees took place earlier…
Call For Further Marches On ‘Naksa’ Day
The International Solidarity Committee, the international activist organisation for Palestine, has called for solidarity marches around the world with upcoming “Naksa” events in the Middle East.The group, which maintains a…
Lebanese government files complaint against Israel for killing 10 protesters at border protest
The Lebanese representative to the United Nations filed a complaint against Israel to the UN Security Council Monday, saying that Israel violated territorial sovereignty by shooting at demonstrators at the…
150 Palestinians Injured By Army Fire In Ramallah
Palestinian medical forces reported Sunday that at least 150 Palestinians were injured by Israeli military fire, while dozens of residents were kidnapped as the army opened fire at the “Return…
9 killed as Israeli forces attack Nakba marches on northern, southern and central borders
An estimated four people were killed Sunday on the Syria-Israel border, five killed on the Lebanon-Israel border, 52 injured in Gaza, and at least 24 injured in the West Bank…
Refugees march to return
Long before Muhammad Bouazizi there was Muhammad al-Dura. The horrific footage of the 12-year-old Palestinian boy gunned down by Israeli soldiers while seeking refuge alongside his father in September 2000…
Defying Israeli Restrictions; Thousands Mark The Nakba Day in Jaffa
Despite Israeli “laws” criminalizing the commemoration of the “Nabka Day”, that marks the creation of Israel on Palestinian lands and the displacement of millions of Palestinians, thousands of residents, including…
Alleging Security Concerns, Egypt Demands Cancellation Of “The Return March”
The Ministry of Interior in Egypt demanded organizers of the Return March to cancel their May 15 “The Return Procession” to Gaza, due to what it called the “current delegate…
Marking The Nakba Day On May 15, Egyptians Plan To March To Gaza
As the Palestinians prepare to mark the Nakba (Catastrophe) Day on May 15, thousands of Egyptians are said to be preparing to march to the Gaza Strip to challenge the…
Sources: Israel’s Army Gears up to Suppress Nakba Events
Israeli media sources reported on Wednesday that the Israeli Army are set to increase West Bank deployment as Palestinians prepare to commemorate the Nakba, or in English ‘catastrophe’ from the…
Israel Admits To Cancelling Residency Rights For 140,000 Palestinians
Haartz has today revealed files showing that Israel cancelled the residency of up to 140,000 Palestinians between 1967 and 1994. The paper reports that the files, obtained by the Centre…
Israel criminalizes commemoration of the Nakba
A bill was passed by the Israeli Knesset (parliament) last week which calls on the government to deny funding to any organization, institution or municipality that commemorates the founding of…
Serving the Refugees of Dheisheh Camp: an Insight into the Popular Committee
On a visit to Al-Feneiq Cultural Center, meeting with well-respected Naji Owdah seemed to be a worthwhile opportunity to familiarise with what work is done by a popular committee inside…
Right-wing Israelis March In Jaffa against Arab Presence
Right-wing Israelis held a march through Jaffa to protest against what they deemed, “the Islamic movement gaining control” over the city.The march was organised by Michael Ben-Ari, an MK (member…
Lebanon Grants Palestinian Refugees More Work Permissions
The Lebanese government started to implement the new labor and social security law which allows Palestinian refugees in Lebanon to occupy more jobs.This adjustment is expected to enhance the living…
On Humanitarian Basis, 350 Libyan-Palestinians To Be Allowed Into The West Bank
Israeli sources reported on Wednesday at night that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, approved the return of nearly 350 Palestinian refugees living in Libya into the West Bank.The sources stated…
Canada’s Role in Whitewashing Ethnic Cleansing Met with Protests
On Monday, Palestinian, Israeli and international activists protested and held vigils in front of Canadian Embassies organized by the Committee for the Defence of the Rights of the Latrun Villages.…
New UK DFID Aid for UNRWA
The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) has pledged ₤1.5 million of new support for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. The aid will go the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA)…
Abbas: “Al Jazeera Report Mixed Between Israeli Proposals, Palestinian Demands”
Describing the report of the Qatar-based News Agency, Al Jazeera, as shameful, Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated that the report is misleading as it mixed between what Israel is proposing…
Barhoum: “Fateh Is Dropping The Right Of Return”, Fateh Denies Al Jazeera Report
Fawzi Barhoum, spokesperson of the Hamas movement, stated that the cables published by the Al Jazeera TV in Qatar prove that the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas in the West…
Ethiopians Seeking Israeli Citizenship Arrive in Israel
A group of 175 Ethiopians who claim Jewish heritage arrived in Israel on Monday, with the intention of becoming citizens of the Jewish state.A second group made up of another…
Refugees Committee Slams The “Jordan Is Palestine” Conference
The Higher Committee for Defending the Right of Return of the Palestinian Refugees, slammed a Tel Aviv conference that calls for considering Jordan as the alternative homeland of the Palestinian…
Israel Deported 150 Sudanese Migrants
150 asylum seekers were sent back to Sudan, on Monday night, as Israeli officials believed they entered the country illegally in search of work, media agencies reported on Tuesday. Sudanese…
Israeli Forces Raid Refugee Camps Near Jenin
Israeli troops entered the refugee camps of Barqin and Aqaba, in the proximity of Jenin, on Friday morning, PNN claimed. Five military jeeps reportedly invaded Barqin camp, north of Jenin,…
Israel Set to Vote on Holding Facility for ‘Infiltrators’
The Israeli cabinet is due to vote on Sunday on the planned holding facility for illegal migrants, media agencies reported on Thursday.Prime Minister Netanyahu’s cabinet will vote, on Sunday, on…
Erekat: “Statements of UNRWA’s Director, Disappointing”
Head of the Negotiations Department at the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Dr. Saeb Erekat, said that the statements of UNRWA New York director, Andrew Whitley, regarding the Palestinian Right of…
While Israel Banned It, P.A. Approves Textbook Telling “Both Sides Of The Story”
“Learning Each Other’s Historical Narrative” is the name of a new textbook approved for teaching in Palestinian schools but is still banned in Israel. The book explains the historical narratives…
Israel refuses to lift ban on family unification
Jerusalem-born Firas al-Maraghi has been holding a hunger strike outside the Israeli embassy in Berlin, Germany, since 26 July, protesting a decision by the Israeli government to prevent his newborn…
Impact of Israeli Military Order No. 1650
Located at the European University Institute (EUI), the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) conducts ‘inter-disciplinary and comparative research (on) major issues facing the process of integration and European…
Jerusalem residents pray with exiled legislators in Red Cross tent
A number of Palestinian residents of Jerusalem have traveled to the Gaza-Israel border each day since Ramadan began last Wednesday, to break their daily Ramadan fast with legislators who have…
Lebanon Allows Work Permits For Palestinians
The Lebanese government has amended one of its labor laws to allow Palestinians to work in areas previously forbidden to them.The Administration and Justice Parliamentary Committee amended Article 59 of…
Palestinians may have to swear loyalty to ‘Jewish’ state with new law.
Israel’s cabinet is set to accept a host of new measures that will greatly increase the burden on Palestinians seeking to be with their families in Israel.This coming Sunday, Israel’s…
Silicon Valley Science Prize Awarded to Palestinian School Girls From Nablus
Three school girls from Nablus have been awarded first prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Silicon Valley, California. Their winning entry was a walking cane for…
Thousands of Palestinians commemorate Nakba in Ramallah
In a massive protest march, Saturday, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, thousands of Palestinians marched through the city streets in remembrance of the 62nd anniversary of the Palestinian…
New Refugee Camp To Absorb Palestinians Forced Out Of The West Bank
The Palestinian government in the Gaza Strip, headed by the Hamas movement, has decided to establish a new temporary refugee camp at the Erez Terminal, between the Gaza Strip and…
Two African men killed; One Israeli returned home safely from Egypt-Israel border
In two separate incidents Sunday which critics say demonstrate the double standard of Egyptian and Israeli authorities, two African men were killed by Egyptian border police while crossing the border…
Gaza man who has lived in West Bank since age 4 forcibly removed by Israeli troops
In the third incident of forced removal by Israeli troops since the new regulation was implemented, Israeli troops abducted and forcibly removed 19-year old Fadi Al-Gharazmeh from the southern West…
Israeli forces deport 2 Palestinian residents of Israel to Gaza
In what appears to be the first enforcement of a recent Israeli military order on Palestinian residency rights, 2 Palestinian residents of Israel have been deported to Gaza in separate…
Thousands March Towards A Destroyed Arab Village Near Al Teera
Thousands of Palestinians, carrying Palestinian flags and posters carrying the names of destroyed Arab villages, marched on Tuesday from Al Teera Arab city towards the ruins of Miska Arab village…
JCESR:”New Israeli Decision, As Dangerous As the Nakba of 1948”
The Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights (JSCER) issued a press release slamming the Israeli decision to expel thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank, and stated that this…
Israeli Order To Expel Thousands of Palestinians and Internationals From the West Bank
The Israeli government is set to start the implementation of a new order that would lead to the expulsion of thousands of Palestinians, and even internationals living in the West…
Israeli government allows sale of stolen Palestinian property to Israelis
In response to an inquiry by the Palestinian human rights organization Adalah, the Israeli Justice Ministry has clarified its recent revision of Israeli land law, confirming that the revision allows…
EU Commission Allocates €58 Million To Relief Palestinians in the country and in Lebanon
Kristalina Georgieva, of the European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, stated Tuesday, that the European Commission decided to allocate €58 million to help the Palestinians affected…
EU Commission Allocates €58 Million To Relief Palestinians in the country and in Lebanon
Kristalina Georgieva, of the European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, stated Tuesday that the European Commission decided to allocate €58 million to help the Palestinians affected…
Knesset Approves Bill To “Compensate Jewish Refugees”
The Israeli Knesset debated and passed a new bill on Monday evening to ensure compensations are paid to Jews who are “refugees” from Iran and other Arab states as part…
HRW Report: “Jordan: Stop Withdrawing Nationality from Palestinian-Origin Citizens”
(Amman) – Jordan should stop withdrawing nationality arbitrarily from Jordanians of Palestinian origin, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Authorities stripped more than 2,700 of these Jordanians…
Egypt Detains 10 African Immigrants Trying To Infiltrate into Israel
Egyptian security sources reported Saturday that Border Guard policemen managed to arrest eight Eritreans and two Ethiopians while trying to cross the border fence in an attempt to infiltrate into…
Israel to Stop Issuing Work Permits for NGOs in the West Bank
Israeli media is reporting that the Ministry of Interior has made the decision to stop issuing work permits for internationals working for non- governmental organizations in the West Bank and…
American Journalist, Jared Malsin, Deported
The following is the latest press release from Ma’an News Agency concerning the status of chief English editor, Jared Malsin. Mr. Malsin has now been deported.For the first time in…
Current Status of Detained Maán Journalist – Jared Malsin
Ma’an have issued a press release concerning the current status of chief English editer, Jared Malsin. Arguments will be heard tomorrow at Tel Aviv District Court to determine his possible…
Hearing Set for Detained Journalist Jared Malsin
Ma’an News Agency has released a press release regarding the current status of their chief editor of the English desk, Jared Malsin. Mr. Malsin is currently waiting a hearing in…
American Journalist Denied Re-entry to Israel, Deportation Imminent – UPDATE.
Ma’an have released a further statement on status of the potential deportation of chief editor, Jared Malsin.On Wednesday night, Ma’an attorney Castro Daoud filed an injunction in a Tel Aviv…
Chief Editor of major Palestinian news Agency detained – IMEMC Exclusive interview
Following the detention of Jared Malsin, Ma’an News Agency’s chief editor at Ben Gurion yesterday, IMEMC spoke with George Hale, an editor at Ma’an.Mr. Hale told IMEMC that in addition…
American Journalist and Partner Denied Re-entry to Israel – Deportation Imminent
The following is a prepared statement from Ma’an News network regarding the detention and immanent deportation of the chief editor of their news desk, Jared Malsin.The English Desk at Ma’an…
Marking The Balfour Declaring, Hamas Calls For Unity, Resistance To Counter The Occupation
Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, issued a press release on Monday calling for unity between all Palestinian factions in order to maintain strong resistance against the occupation and ‘Zionism”. OSCAILTIMAGE(attachments/nov2009/balfour_declaration_unmarked.jpg 300…
Some Palestinian refugees in Iraq will be moved to Scandinavia
The United Nations Refugee Agency stated on Tuesday that some of the Palestinian Refugees who are stranded in Iraq will be relocated under a settlement program in Iceland and Sweden.…
More than six million Palestinian Refugees in the world
On the eve of the International day of refugees, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) released a statistical review on the status of Palestinian Refugees. The main findings are summarized…
Christian Residents of Nablus commemorate the Nakba
The Good Shepherd Church in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and the Palestine Forum, held an activity on Wednesday at night commemorating the Nakba. Members of the Palestinian…
General Strike, protest and commemorations of the Nabka in Jerusalem
Palestinian residents of Jerusalem, their political and social leaders conducted a general strike in the occupied city of Jerusalem in commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Nabka, while Israeli…
Arab, Israeli students of the Hebrew University hold a protest commemorating the Nakba
The Regional Union of Arab Students in Israeli Universities organized on Thursday a protest at main entrance of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of Palestinian disposition,…
60 Years of the Palestinian Nakba, 60 Years of Ethnic Cleansing
May 15, 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, when Palestinians were forced from their homes and ethnically cleansed en masse in a premeditated and organized campaign carried…
Palestinians Commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Catastrophe (Nakba)
Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in a number of Palestinians cities, towns, villages and refugee camps to commemorate 60 years of their dispossession by Israel in 1948. The…
Palestinian PM: “Israeli shouldn’t celebrate independence until peace is achievedâ€
Palestinian Prime Minister, Dr. Salaam Fayyad, stated on Tuesday that Israel should not celebrate its independence before peace is reached with the Palestinians. Dr. Fayyad added that Israel is still…
Bethlehem: hundreds mark the 60th Nakba by carrying the largest key in the world
At least 700 Palestinians from the southern West Bank district marched on Thursday side by side next to the largest key in the world to mark the 60th anniversary of…