Palestine

What’s the capital of Israel? Not Jerusalem, says an Italian Court

Game show host gets into legal hot water over Israel’s capital city.

Palestinian prisoners denied social distancing rights

The ruling upheld by Israel’s top court flies in the face of basic Covid-19 health practices employed by prison authorities around the world.

Israeli settlers torch West Bank mosque in 'price tag' attack

Officials say attackers spray-painted racist graffiti on a mosque in Al Bireh. "Price tag" vandalism refers to a strategy used by militant Jewish settlers to harm Palestinians and their property over perceived threats to Israeli settlement expansion.

Israel arrests Palestinian cultural leaders, seizes documents

Rania Elias of Yabous Cultural Centre and her husband Suhail Khoury, Director General of Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, arrested at home in Beit Hanina neighbourhood, police and a defence lawyer say.

Dying to live: The Arab World reels from a rise in suicides

For some Arabs, living under the malaise of political and economic hopelessness is proving too much to bear.

Britain has a historic obligation to stop Israel’s West Bank annexation

Given its pivotal role in promising Palestine to the Zionist movement while it was already inhabited by Palestinian Arabs, the British government has a special responsibility to address the suffering caused by the decision

In the US, silencing Muslim voices doesn’t count as ‘cancel culture’

Muslims and Arabs have to work twice as hard to climb half as high, and are de-platformed ten times as quick.

Israel draws up its own list of ‘potential’ Israeli war criminals

Israeli authorities have reportedly drawn up a secret list of 200-300 individuals who could be tried for war crimes if the ICC pursues investigations into alleged abuses in Gaza and other occupied Palestinian territories.

Israel is replacing a 200-year old Muslim cemetery with a homeless shelter

Jaffa has seen countless cemeteries razed and replaced with construction projects, in what many see as an attempt to erase the Arab and Muslim character of the city.

Thousands of Israelis, Palestinians face curbs as Covid-19 cases surge

After imposing strict measures early on during the first wave of infections, Israel and the Palestinian territories appeared to have contained their outbreaks, but an easing of restrictions led to a steady uptick in cases over the past month.

Palestinian rivals Fatah, Hamas pledge unity against Israeli annexations

The joint press conference has been spurred by common opposition against US President Trump's controversial peace plan, which paves the way for Israel to annex territory in the occupied West Bank.

Thousands of Palestinians rally against Israel's West Bank annexation plan

Protests sporting Palestinian flags and placards condemning US and Israel erupted in Gaza and occupied West Bank cities of Ramallah and Jericho.