Press Releases

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(MENAFN) The Palestinian Presidency has issued a sharp condemnation of Israel's approval of 34 new settlements across the West Bank, denouncing the move as a "dangerous escalation and a flagrant violation" of international law and United Nations...

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(MENAFN) The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Monday called for urgent international sanctions against Israeli occupiers and the settlement system following attacks on two villages in the occupied West Bank. According to reports, the ministry...

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(MENAFN) Former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo has said that violence carried out by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank resembles attacks against Jews during the Holocaust and represents what he described as an “existential threat”...

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(MENAFN) Israel has greenlit the construction of 126 settlement homes in Jenin in the northern West Bank, Israeli media reported Wednesday, signaling an aggressive revival of settlement expansion in a zone abandoned nearly two decades ago. The...

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(MENAFN) The European commissioner for equality and crisis management has said that Israel is legally required under international humanitarian law to prevent and investigate alleged violations against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank....

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(MENAFN) Britain has expressed strong concern at the United Nations Security Council over what it described as escalating violence by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, warning that the situation is worsening and threatening the prospects...

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(MENAFN) A senior United Nations official has warned that conditions in Gaza and the occupied West Bank continue to deteriorate, even as international focus shifts toward other regional conflicts.

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(MENAFN) France has strongly criticized recent incidents in the occupied West Bank, accusing Israeli settlers of targeting infrastructure projects financed by European and French support, and calling for accountability and an end to rising...

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(MENAFN) Incidents of violence and disruption were reported in the central West Bank on Sunday, where local sources say Israeli settlers blocked a key road and targeted Palestinian vehicles with stones.

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(MENAFN) Israeli forces reportedly shot a Palestinian man near the separation barrier north of Jerusalem on Sunday evening, while further incidents involving the destruction of agricultural land and olive trees were recorded across different parts...

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(MENAFN) Incidents involving road closures and attacks on vehicles were reported in the central West Bank on Sunday, where Israeli occupiers targeted Palestinian motorists, according to reports citing local sources.

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(MENAFN) Israeli settlers blocked a key roadway in the central West Bank on Sunday and reportedly attacked Palestinian vehicles with stones, according to local sources.

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(MENAFN) Israeli forces shot a Palestinian man near the separation barrier north of Jerusalem on Sunday night, while settlers uprooted olive trees and military units carried out land clearing operations in several parts of the occupied West Bank....

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(MENAFN) Two German activists who participated in a Gaza-bound aid flotilla have accused Israeli forces of mistreatment and torture following their return to Germany, according to statements made at Hannover Airport.

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(MENAFN) Microsoft has quietly revised its digital mapping services to reflect internationally recognised Palestinian geographical designations, removing what advocates have condemned as politically loaded Israeli terminology applied to the...

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(MENAFN) Microsoft has reportedly updated its digital mapping services to include Palestinian geographical terminology and remove what a digital rights organization described as “misleading” Israeli designations in the occupied West Bank,...

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(MENAFN) Microsoft has revised its digital mapping services to incorporate Palestinian place names while eliminating certain “misleading” Israeli labels previously used for areas in the occupied West Bank, according to a digital rights...

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(MENAFN) Israeli military forces stormed the Qalandia refugee camp north of occupied East Jerusalem on Monday, forcibly evacuating Palestinian residents from their homes and repurposing the properties as detention and interrogation centers in a...

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(MENAFN) Crowds numbering in the hundreds converged on central Stockholm on Saturday to voice fierce opposition to Israeli military operations in the Palestinian territories and Lebanon, in one of the Swedish capital's most visible recent displays...

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(MENAFN) Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in central Stockholm on Saturday to protest Israel’s military operations in the Palestinian territories and Lebanon.