Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh called on the world on Monday to stand with the Palestinians and end the brutal Israeli aggression carried out against the innocent people of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Shtayyeh's call to the international (...)
After the postponement of the Palestinian Legislative Council elections, originally scheduled for May 22, a senior UN official in the region on Friday urged the authorities to set a new date for the polls.
UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East (...)
The Palestinian Authority on Friday announced it will hold its first national elections in more than a decade.
In a statement carried by the Palestinian news agency, WAFA, the PA said that President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday enacted a decree to hold (...)
The Palestinian authorities have drawn the attention of the UN Security Council toward Israel's continued settlement building on the Palestinian land.
In a statement, the Palestinian foreign ministry on Friday urged the UNSC to reassume its role and (...)
Hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated in the West Bank on Wednesday to demand legal protection for women after a 21-year-old woman died last month in what rights groups say was a so-called honor killing.
A Palestinian Authority investigation is (...)
A veteran Palestinian negotiator said on Monday she had been denied a US travel visa for the first time, and viewed it as retaliation for her criticism of the Trump administration and Israel.
Asked about Hanan Ashrawi's allegations, a US State (...)
The Palestinians on Tuesday requested the United Nations to deploy a permanent international force in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Tuesday's request comes a day after Israel said it was suspending operations of an observer force in the city of (...)
Jordan's king flew by helicopter to the West Bank on Monday — a rare visit seen as a signal to Israel that he is closing ranks with the Palestinians on key issues, such as a contested Jerusalem shrine.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and (...)
The West Bank-based Palestinian autonomy government will stop paying for electricity in the power-starved Gaza Strip and "dry up" the flow of funds to the territory's Hamas rulers, a senior official said Wednesday.
Hamas seized Gaza in 2007, driving (...)
Popular support for a hunger strike by hundreds of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel has been gaining momentum with West Bank marches, sit-ins and a social media campaign showing video clips of celebrities from across the Arab world drinking salty (...)
An Israel official says that on the 15th day of a hunger strike, the number of Palestinian prisoners participating in the protest has dropped to 870, from 1,300 last week.
The strike is among the largest such protests in years. The strikers demand (...)
Israeli forces gunned down a Palestinian during a raid on occupied West Bank.
"During an arrest mission of a suspected Palestinian gunman in Ramallah, a suspect opened fire at security forces," the army claimed. "The forces fired toward the (...)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday that he hopes the upcoming Mideast conference in France will set a timetable to end settlements, as Israel moves ahead with new housing unit construction in East Jerusalem, despite the recent UN (...)
In a divorce court where a man's testimony is worth twice a woman's, victory for lawyer Reema Shamasneh is rare and often bittersweet.
On this morning, a young nurse is desperate to end her marriage to a truck driver who she says beat her, doused (...)
A Palestinian film organization has launched a new cinema award in an attempt to stimulate the local filmmaking industry and promote cinema culture in the Palestinian territories.
Filmlab, a local nonprofit backed by European partners, hopes the (...)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' party says the Palestinian high court has postponed municipal elections set for next month till at least December.
The Oct. 8 vote would have been the first contest at the ballot box between Abbas' Fatah and (...)
Four Palestinian youths were wounded in clashes early Monday with Israeli forces who were demolishing the West Bank homes of two assailants' families, a Palestinian health official said.
One of the four was seriously wounded, Ramallah hospital (...)
A Palestinian man was killed and 10 others wounded by gunfire from Israeli soldiers and police at the Qalandiya refugee camp near Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian medical sources said Tuesday.
Violent clashes broke out after a jeep (...)
At a time of simmering Mideast tensions and rising malaise, a group of French chefs recently visited the West Bank to bring a little joie de vivre to Palestinian kitchens.
The eight chefs visited restaurants in Ramallah, Hebron, Nablus and east (...)
The Israeli military reopened the main Palestinian city in the West Bank late Monday after imposing a rare, day-long partial closure of surrounding roads.
Citing a "situation assessment," the military said crossings to and from Ramallah have (...)
Palestinian officials reacted warily to what US Secretary of State John Kerry hailed as Jordan's "excellent suggestion" to calm Israeli-Palestinian violence by putting Al-Aqsa Mosque compund under constant video monitoring.
"This is a new trap," (...)
The Palestinian UN ambassador is urging the Security Council to immediately provide international protection for the Palestinian people as as trigger-happy Israeli police killed three more Palestinians in east Jerusalem and occupied West Bank on (...)
A Palestinian peace negotiator says the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is too big to ignore, even though it was sidelined in a meeting between Israel's prime minister and US President Barack Obama.
Saeb Erekat said Tuesday that in the Middle East, (...)
Israeli soldiers raided two Palestinian television stations in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, seizing transmitters the military said were interfering with air traffic communications.
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad visited one of the (...)
An international human rights group has urged Israel to lift what it says are arbitrary restrictions on Palestinian residency in the West Bank and Gaza.
The New York-based group Human Rights Watch said in a 90-page report Sunday that such (...)