Israel/ Palestine

By Nur Arafeh, Samia al-Botmeh and Leila Farsakh |Al-Shabaka/ Ma’an News Agency | – – Al-Shabaka is an independent non-profit organization whose mission is to educate and foster public debate on Palestinian human rights and self-determination within the framework of international law. In this policy brief, Al-Shabaka Policy Fellow Nur Arafeh and Policy Advisors Samia […]

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The majority of Palestinians support the recent string stabbing attacks against Israelis, a poll released Monday found. The poll, conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Research (PCPR), found that 67 percent of Palestinians support the use of knife attacks in the current confrontations with […]

Ma’an News Agency | – – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A delegation from the International Criminal Court is expected to visit the occupied Palestinian territory in February, a Palestinian Authority offical said. A member of a national committee in charge of follow-up with the ICC, Wasel Abu Yusif, told Ma’an that the visit will include ongoing […]

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Over $220 million has been given in tax-exempted US funds to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank over the last five years, according to an investigative report by Israeli news site Haaretz this week. Haaretz published the findings after analyzing thousands of documents from […]

By IMEMC News | – – An Israeli court sentenced, Sunday, democratically-elected leftist Palestinian legislator, and a senior political leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Khaleda Jarrar to 15 months imprisonment. The army kidnapped the legislator on April 2nd of this year, and on April 5th, she was sentenced for […]

Ma’an News Agency | – – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Right-wing Israeli groups on Sunday raided the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound under the protection of Israeli forces, witnesses told Ma’an. Witnesses said 43 Israeli settlers raided the compound after right-wing Jewish extremist groups called for supporters to flock to the site before the start of the Jewish […]

By Mahmoud Jabari | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – It can be argued that the rising escalation in tensions and confrontations between the Israelis and Palestinians over the past two months demonstrates that the Israeli policy of conflict management in order to maintain the status quo in the occupied Palestinian territory has become unsustainable. […]

By IMEMC | – – The Jerusalem District Court, on Monday, convicted two of the three people accused in the murder of Muhammad Abu Khdeir. On July 2, 2014, Abu Khdeir, 16, was murdered by tree Israeli men in the neighborhood of Shuafat, in occupied East Jerusalem close to his home. He was driven to […]

Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israel said Sunday that it would suspend diplomatic contacts with European Union bodies involved in the Palestinian peace process, following an EU decision earlier this month to label goods produced in Israel’s illegal settlements. The Israeli foreign ministry said in a statement that Israeli Prime Minister […]