US President-elect Donald Trump has picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, a choice that would add to Trump's list of provocative picks whose confirmation processes will test the loyalty (...)
When a white van drew up next to the office of the Palestine Customs Police in Tubas, a town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Abdel Nasser Sarhan had no reason to be suspicious.
According to Abdel Nasser's colleagues, the van's driver got out and (...)
The Israeli army has launched an investigation after a Palestinian volunteer paramedic was killed in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Red Crescent (PRCS) said Mohammed Awad Allan, 50, was shot while treating people who had been injured by (...)
Six people have been arrested on suspicion of a plot to disrupt the London Stock Exchange.
The Met Police said information suggested activists from the Palestine Action group were intending to target the exchange on Monday,
The force said it was (...)
Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails say that guards carried out abuse and collective punishment in the weeks after the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7 October.
They have described being hit with sticks, having muzzled dogs set on them, (...)
By nightfall, the road in front of the Beitunia checkpoint had the feel of a restive festival, the sting of politics and tear gas mingling in the air.
Small campfires flickered in front of a handful of green Hamas flags; there were many more (...)
Palestinian authorities must strengthen fundamental legal safeguards against torture and ill-treatment, especially from the first moments of detention, a group of UN human rights experts said on Monday.
The members of the UN Subcommittee on (...)
"We had to flee. Or my daughters and I would have been killed," Fatina al-Ghoul says, weeping as she looks back at a pile of rubble that was once her home.
A bulldozer has already arrived and is clearing up debris from her street, which has been (...)
A thick crust of black ash has settled on the pavements and roads in the center of Jenin.
It comes from barricades of burning tires set up by young Palestinian men, who prowl streets where they might see an Israeli jeep. Some of them carry rocks or (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) delivered 800 shelter bags to needy people in West Darfur state, the Republic of Sudan, benefiting 6,597 individuals, on Saturday.
This comes within the relief and humanitarian projects that (...)
The international community must take firm and principled action to protect the human rights and dignity of Palestinians, amid mounting violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and the threat of even further annexation, an independent (...)
Ten Palestinians, including an elderly man and several militants, have been killed during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank, witnesses and Palestinian health officials say.
Explosions and gunfire sounded as troops raided the heart (...)
Five Palestinians, reportedly all gunmen, have been killed in a major Israeli raid against a group in the occupied West Bank.
A sixth Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli troops who were attacked with stones in a protest against the raid, (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed yesterday shelter materials to the displaced people in the West Coast, Yemen, including 100 tents and 100 shelter bags, benefiting 600 individuals.
This aid comes within the (...)
Director of West Bank Operations at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Gwyn Lewis has expressed her appreciation for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's generous support, through the Saudi Fund for (...)
Heads of Mission and representatives from Belgium, Denmark, EU, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom visited Beita, a village near Nablus in the West Bank, the UK (...)
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 (...)
The International Healthcare Research Center (IHRC) is publishing a special edition of its Medical Tourism Index (MTI) that specifically focuses on destinations from the Arab World.
This updated Arab compilation is one segment of the larger Medical (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has distributed 1,015 Ramadan food baskets in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, in cooperation with Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization, benefiting 10,050 individuals, it was reported here (...)
Palestinians tilling the fertile Jordan Valley said on Wednesday they have been rooted for generations to the West Bank land that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to annex, and they vowed never to give it up.
"We tell Netanyahu, and (...)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a rare visit to a core ultra-nationalist Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, pledging a permanent Israeli presence there as he tries to rally right-wing votes for an election two weeks (...)
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 (...)