UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres landed in Tel Aviv on Sunday for a set of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders - his first visit since taking office in January 2017. Israeli diplomats greeted Guterres at Ben Gurion airport, since then he…
In the past two weeks, at least 31 Palestinians have been shot dead and hundreds injured by live fire. Including the fatal shooting of Palestinian journalist, Yaser Murtaja, while wearing a blue and white flak jacket with the word PRESS emblazoned ac…
At dawn, on Wednesday 30 August, the Israeli army raided the houses of three Palestinian musicians and arrested them. National singer Mohammad Barghouthi, 23, along with Keyboard player Naji Rimawi and studio owner\producer Nazzal Barghouthi, 28, wer…
Eid al-Adha, the Greater Eid or the “festival of the sacrifice” is a holy time of sacrifice and generosity for family, friends and the needy. Thursday 31 August marked the beginning of an opportune week for millions of Muslims around the world, a…
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres landed in Tel Aviv on Sunday for a set of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders - his first visit since taking office in January 2017. Israeli diplomats greeted Guterres at Ben Gurion airport, since then he…
Hundreds of Gazans gathered late last Saturday evening for a highly anticipated trip to the cinema - something not experience in Gaza for over 30 years. Samer cinema in Gaza City has long been abandoned. It is the oldest cinema in the Gaza Strip and…
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has reaffirmed his commitment to the controversial “Palestinian prisoner and martyr fund” in a letter to the US administration. “I will continue to pay them until my last day,” insisted Abbas, eve…
Presidential adviser Jared Kushner met with Palestinian and Israeli leaders on Thursday 24 August in an effort to jumpstart stagnant peace talks between the two parties. After numerous trips, abundant photo-ops and enough handshaking to give someone…
The United Nations has gifted $2.5 million to Gaza to help counter the ongoing fuel and water crisis that is plaguing the people of Gaza. The funds were donated amid concern that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will further reduce fundi…
Gaza's annual grape harvest is underway for a number of Palestinian farmers and, despite the stifling military blockade, 2017 has offered good weather and fertile soil to yield a bumper crop Numerous Gazan farmers halted crop production during the th…
On Monday 21 August, Riyad Al-Malki, the Palestinian Authority (PA) Foreign Minister, stated that over two decades of negotiations with the Israeli occupying authorities has produced nothing - Safa news agency reported. “We have persuaded the inter…
Human traffickers in Libya have been holding seven Palestinian refugees hostage for a month, Shehab news reported on Tuesday 21 August. The seven refugees in question were trying to travel to Europe in pursuit of a life with better prospects than the…
Israeli military vehicles accompanied by ground personnel have demolished the nursery of the Jabal al-Baba community in the West Bank, confiscating all its contents. On Monday morning, 21 August 2017, only two days before the new school year began, t…