Despite the raging pandemic and Israel’s ever-increasing restrictions on the movements of Palestinians, a few friends and I still manage to meet occasionally to chat and catch up. As w... Read more
Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat Qudwa al-Hussaeini was born on August 4, 1929 in Jerusalem, was known popularly as Yasir Arafat and Abu Ammar, When he finished his secondary school education in... Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to “annex” parts of the West Bank have been widely denounced on the international stage as a violation of international law. Such condemnati... Read more
(By Dr. Essam Yousef) The recent statements made by UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov reveal that the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) income is on the b... Read more
By: Washington Post The Israeli government may begin taking steps toward unilaterally annexing portions of the West Bank soon. This move would present a grave threat to any possibility of a... Read more
Palestinian civil society denounced in a press release Google Maps’ digital discrimination against Palestinians, and urged Google to abide by international law and human rights standar... Read more
During the past two weeks, Israeli occupation authorities demolished or seized 31 Palestinian-owned structures for the lack of Israeli-issued building permits, displacing 13 people and affec... Read more
Palestinian and regional civil society organizations today welcomed the report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur addressing Israel’s collective punishment policy. On 14 July, Michael... Read more
A joint paper by Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), Al-Haq and the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Centre (JLAC) exposed how systematic neglect and de-development of Palestinian health... Read more
The Israeli army detained 2330 Palestinians in the first six months of this year, including 1363 detained since the coronavirus outbreak in early March, prisoners’ advocacy groups said today... Read more