Governance

A petition condemning Israeli practices and calling for an immediate end to the Jewish state’s “apartheid regime” has been signed by more than 600 scholars, artists and intellectuals from more than 45 countries.The petition, organized by the Associatio…

An alliance of Palestinian political parties has urged that the Palestinian Authority (PA) government be removed from office.The group takes issue with PA violence towards reporters and protesters at rallies for Nizar Banat, a government critic who die…

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry yesterday called on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) “to protect all Palestinian archaeological and religious sites from Israeli violations, attacks, and falsifications.”In a…

Jordan today refused to allow Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fly through its airspace on his way to the UAE for his first official visit to the Emirates following the signing of peace accords between the two.Israeli news sites had announc…

Hospital wards in parts of the occupied West Bank are at full capacity as coronavirus continues to spread in the Palestinian territories, according to officials.Naji Nazal, the head of hospitals at the Palestinian health ministry, said on Tuesday that …

The Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad (PCPA) has called for all Palestinians in the diaspora to take part in the election for the Palestinian National Council.More than 200 Palestinian figures from 26 countries have just spent three days discu…

Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh and Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Marie Eriksen discussed in a telephone call today preparations for the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) meeting of donor countries scheduled to be held in New York on the 23rd of this …

Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh today discussed Gaza’s chronic electricity crisis with the European Union Representative to Palestine, Sven Kuehn von Burgsdorff, and ways to solve it.At a meeting in his office in Ramallah, Shtayyeh discussed the issu…

At least two Palestinians, including a journalist, were injured by Israeli occupation forces today during the weekly protest against illegal Jewish settlements, in the village of Kafr Qaddum in the northern West Bank, local sources said.Morad Shtewi, c…

Israeli authorities on Wednesday released a senior member of Hamas, Mazen Jamal Al-Natsheh, to his home in the occupied city of Hebron (Al-Khalil) after he spent three months in administrative detention.Hamas’ Prisoners’ Information Office said in a st…