Friday's Fact

Hamas has handed over control of the border crossings in the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority (PA) on 1 November, as stipulated in the…

Saeb Erekat, the Palestinian long-time diplomat and chief negotiator, underwent a successful lung transplant operation in the US last week, according…

Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers while they were harvesting olives near Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank on Wednesday, according…

A delegation of the Palestinian Authority (PA), headed by Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, arrived in the Gaza Strip on Monday, 2 October, to prepare…

The death of five-year-old Mohammed Al-Sayis from the Gaza Strip was recently reported by Al Jazeera English.

The announcement made on Sunday morning by Hamas declaring the dissolving of its administrative committee and the call to Fatah to assume governmental…

Issa Amro, a prominent political and anti-settlement activist, was finally released on bail, Sunday; six days after Palestinian Security Forces…

The Presidential Guest Palace in Surda, near the West Bank city of Ramallah will be converted to a national Library, the Palestinian Minister of…

Last week saw the crackdown of Palestinian Authority (PA) on several news websites in the Occupied Territories.

As the Gulf States have been hit by the most serious diplomatic crisis in recent history, the effects on the Palestinian people remain most likely…

"We were glued to the radio, listening to the news bulletins from Radio Cairo", writes Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, founder of PASSIA, a Palestinian think…

The Palestinian prisoners' mass hunger-strike, the "Freedom and Dignity" strike, ended after 40 days last Saturday, after Palestinian sources reported…

On Monday, 15 May, fisherman Mohammed Majid Bakr was shot by Israeli naval forces and succumbed to his wounds later the same day in an Israeli…

Tomorrow will see the Occupied Palestinian Territory’s (OPT) first local elections since 2012. While the votes have not yet been cast, we are unlikely…

President of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Mahmoud Abbas met with US President Donald Trump in the White House on Wednesday 3 May, the first such…

During the second week of the Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike led by Marwan Barghouti, this Thursday and Friday have been declared a day of…

While thousands of Palestinian Christians celebrated Easter throughout the occupied Palestinian territory last Sunday, Israeli-enforced restrictions…

This week witnessed large-scale public unrest in the besieged Gaza Strip which is likely to further aggravate Hamas and Fatah’s tense relationship at…

Israel is accused of assassinating a Hamas military leader in the Gaza Strip. This is the last in a series of security development that may lead in a…

A UN report describing Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory as apartheid was pulled under the gaze of the world…

One of the few remaining symbols of Palestinian political life in occupied East Jerusalem, the Mapping and Geographic Information Systems (MGIS)…

The Israeli army shot and killed a Palestinian political activist, Basel al-Araj, 28, in a raid on al-Bireh city, a few hundred meters from the centre…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come under heavy pressure due to a report published by the State Comptroller Yosef Shapira on 28…

For the first time in Fatah’s nearly 60-year history, the movement has finally established the position of Deputy Leader.

The nomination of Yahya Sinwar as the new head of Gaza's politburo is a sign that Hamas' internal elections are well underway, with the election of…

The Israeli Knesset passed one of its most controversial bills in recent times, the so-called 'Regularisation Law', earlier this week.

On Tuesday, a few kilometers outside of the Palestinian city of Khan Yunis in the besieged Gaza Strip, Israeli aircraft sprayed the border area…

On 15 January 2017, France held a multilateral peace conference in Paris with the goal of reinjecting life back into the frozen Middle East Peace…

Israel will revoke the residency of 12 relatives of Jerusalem’s truck assailant, Al-Quds newspaper and Haaretz reported. The summons, received by the…