Balad al-Shaykh, was an Arab village. A massacre was perpetrated on the night of December 31, 1947, to January 1, 1948. The Palmach, an arm of the Haganah, attacked the town while the reside... Read more
Fahad Al Qawasmi was born in Hebron on 13 April 1934. He was educated in Cairo, joined the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Cairo. He graduated with a BA and an MA. Then he went b... Read more
Dozens of school children suffocated today when Israeli soldiers fired tear gas and sound bombs in their direction as they were leaving their schools in the southern West Bank town of al-Kha... Read more
Minister Hussein al-Sheikh, Chairman of the Palestinian Authority’s Civil Affairs Commission and Member of the Central Committee of Fatah Movement, has urged the international community to p... Read more
Veronika Honkasalo, a member of Finland’s parliament, has introduced a legislative motion which seeks to ban the import of goods manufactured in the Israeli settlements illegally built... Read more
Holy Jihad force (Kata’eb al-Jihad al-Muqaddas) was established by Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni as the Army of the Holy War during the 1936–39 Arab revolt and during the 1948 war. It consis... Read more
Under Israeli army protection, Israeli settlers have carried out large-scale attacks against Palestinian civilians and their properties in the West Bank, in what appears to be state-sponsore... Read more
Michael Lynk, the UN Special Rapporteur for the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, said yesterday that the international community must hold Israel t... Read more
President Mahmoud Abbas received tonight the US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and his accompanying delegation. During a meeting at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah, Presid... Read more
The Palestinian human rights organizations, Al-Haq and Addameer, submitted on December 16 a joint urgent appeal to the UN Special Procedures on the Israeli arbitrary administrative detention... Read more