Israel to ban US Congresswomen, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, from upcoming political trip

In a controversial move, the Israeli government has decided to bar Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, the first two Muslim women elected to US Congress, from entering Israel-Palestine because of…

Israeli forces attack Palestinians worshipers at Al Aqsa

  Israeli forces attacked Palestinian worshipers at Al Aqsa mosque compound, on Sunday 11 August, with tear gas, rubber bullets and sound grenades as they were praying for Eid Al-Adha. …

Israeli forces kill four Palestinians at Gaza boundary

Four armed Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli forces Saturday 10 August, after they attempted to cross the Gaza-Israel separation fence.  According to a statement by the Israeli military on…

Canadian Federal Court rules wines from the West Bank labelled as Israeli is “misleading and deceptive”

On July 29 a Canadian Federal Court ruled that “labelling a wine from the West Bank as a ‘Product of Israel’ is misleading and deceptive”. The decision is the latest…

Prime Minister announces to treat all of the West Bank like Area A

The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Prime Minister, Mohammed Shtayyeh, announced on 4 August, during a meeting of the Defense of Wadi al-Hummus Committee, that the PA will start treating all Areas…

Increase of media violations in Palestine

The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA), has published a new report on Monday, 29 July, indicating a rise in media violations in Palestine for the first half…

UNRWA under scrutiny after leaked ethics report

On 29 July, an internal ethics report about the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) was leaked to Al Jazeera and AFP news agency.   The internal report…

The Spearhead of Resistance: Bedouins in the West Bank

South of Iraq, 609 A.D. The ground shook, and the air was filled with animal roars and shouts. The origins of the sound did not come from predators, but from…

“It should be condemned”; Rabbi who praised Hebron massacre to receive an award.

Education Minister Rabbi Rafi Peretz and Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich are slated to speak at an event this week in which extremist Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh, who praised the settler responsible…

Safeguarding Palestinian stories at Disarming Design

Arriving at the building in the Palestinian town of Birzeit, north of Ramallah where the organisation Disarming Design is located, one can quickly tell that it is a place where…