The population of Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank grows at a rate that is three times faster than that of the general Israeli population, inside Israel, according to a 2007 report released Monday by an Israeli university....

People are not starving in Gaza but there is what the aid agencies call “food insecurity”. To see what this means we visited the family of Fauzi Abu Gerada in Gaza City.

The Israeli authorities have prevented a senior UN human rights official from entering the country, accusing him of being seriously biased against it.

Israel has released 224 Palestinians from its jails as a gesture of support towards Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president. Most of those freed on Monday were affliated with Abbas’s Fatah party, which is a signatory to peace negotiations with...

Campaigners in the West Bank city of Nablus launched on Monday what they say is the largest ever popular initiative to compel Palestinian rivals Fatah and Hamas to end their conflict. The campaign aims to collect one million Palestinians’ signatures...

Traveling around for any purpose has become a far away dream for people in Gaza. The story started 2 years ago on 25th June 2006 when the kidnapping incidence of Israeli soldier Shalit took place. After that particular incidence, Israel decided to...

Israel’s leading civil rights organisation yesterday broke a taboo by describing Israeli policies in the occupied West Bank as being “reminiscent of apartheid” in South Africa. Alleging an intensification of human rights abuses against...

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, a frontrunner in the race to become premier, said on Thursday that Arab Israelis should move to a Palestinian state when it is eventually created

Lately on Friday, Palestinian Authority (PA) employees in the Gaza Strip had finally received their salaries which were denied before Eid festival due to the cash crisis that Gaza Banks suffered, as Israeli side stopped bank dealing few months ago and...

The Free Gaza Movement’s latest ship departed “Gaza International Port” late on Thursday night with 11 Palestinian students aboard, according to a statement received by Ma’an. The students had previously been denied exit by...