JERUSALEM (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Following a widespread backlash against the regulations, which at first included requirements that foreigners inform authorities in Israel within 30 days of beginning a relationship with a Palestinian resident, Israel has postponed implementing the set of newly
JERUSALEM (Parliament Politics Magazine) – In a rare street demonstration against the Palestinian Authority’s “rule by decree,” hundreds of Palestinian lawyers in the occupied West Bank denounced President Mahmoud Abbas for running the country without a parliament. Since 2007, the Palestinian Legislative
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RAMALLAH (Parliament Politics Magazine) – On the penultimate day of Ramadan, the Israeli army intensified its arrest and raid operation against Palestinians in many West Bank cities and towns. It arrested 12 Palestinians from Qarawat Bani Hassan, Sanur, Merka, the Jalazoun refugee
GAZA CITY: Al-Najjar couldn’t leave the Gaza Strip ever since he returned to Palestinian land 25 years ago even to get medical treatment for his spine. Neither has he been able to say goodbye to his mother, who passed away in Jordan
Classified documents have recently surfaced that reveal the horrifying accounts of the massacres that took place in order to forge the state of Israel in 1948. Meryem Akil (Umm Osame), a survivor of the Deir Yassin massacre was only 10 years old
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Israel and Palestinian militants halted their fire for several hours early on Thursday amid efforts to reach a truce, although intense rocket fire and further airstrikes throughout the day dashed hopes of an imminent ceasefire. It was not immediately clear if the
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Israeli police have stormed the sacred Jerusalem compound that holds the Dome of the Rock amid mounting international concern over the worsening violence in the city. Following the most serious clashes in the city since 2017, the Palestine Red Crescent reported 305
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The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has announced parliamentary and presidential elections, the first in 15 years, in an effort to heal long-standing internal divisions. The move is widely seen as a response to criticism of the democratic legitimacy of Palestinian political institutions,
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Israel has refused a request from the World Health Organisation (WHO) to immediately make Covid-19 vaccines available to Palestinian medical workers to avert a health disaster, citing shortages of the jabs for their own citizens. The refusal comes amid growing criticism from rights groups of the massive discrepancy between the vaccine
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Israel is celebrating an impressive, record-setting vaccination drive, having given initial jabs of coronavirus shots to more than a 10th of the population. But Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza can only watch and wait. As the world ramps up what
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