Hanan Ashrawi, member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)’s Executive Committee, said today that the international community must hold Israel accountable for its violations... Read more
President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree extending the state of emergency for 30 more days starting June 4 amidst the coronavirus outbreak in the occupied territories. This the fourth month f... Read more
The European-Palestinian Credit Guarantee Foundation (EPCGF) launched a new initiative to improve access to finance for small and medium enterprises in the wake of the economic crisis caused... Read more
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) stressed that Israel must swiftly develop to a full, independent, impartial, competent and transparent investigati... Read more
Finance Minister Shukri Bishara and the French Consul General in Jerusalem, René Troccaz, today signed an €8-million agreement to support the Palestinian 2020 budget, according to a statemen... Read more
The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases among Palestinians in the diaspora has reached 1,793 and 112 deaths, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates. In addition, 9... Read more
(By Ahmed Abu Artema) The images of George Floyd suffocating under the knee of a racist police officer who ignored his pleas that he couldn’t breathe, until he gasped his last breath, were s... Read more
The Palestinian cabinet adopted in its meeting last night in Ramallah a recommendation by the Minister of Finance Shukri Bishara to establish a financial institution or a bank for managing P... Read more
For his next act, after surviving a yearlong political struggle that he needed three national elections and a health crisis to overcome, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has annou... Read more