RAMALLAH, The Presidency of the State of Palestine welcomed today the positions of the United Nations, the European Union, EU member states and other countries that have expressed support for holding the elections in all the Palestinian territories, in…
JERUSALEM, Israeli police violently suppressed a demonstration against Israel’s imminent eviction of seven Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem.Israeli police attacked demonstrators who rallied …
RAMALLAH, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates welcomed today the decision of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on the admissibility of its inter-State communication against Israel, the occupying power, for racist and…
AMMAN, The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said today it was disappointed by the language adopted by the European Parliament in its 2019 discharge resolution on European Union (EU) budget implement…
GENEVA, The Israeli occupation authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Palestinian journalist Alaa Al-Rimawi, end its policy of administrative detention and stop targeting journalists in the occupied Palestinian territories, the Euro-M…
RAMALLAH, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad al-Maliki, called today upon Ireland to press the occupying state of Israel to allow Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem to participate in the upcoming Palestinian elections, as well as t…
RAMALLAH, President Mahmoud Abbas said today that the Israeli government has rejected the holding of the upcoming Palestinian national elections in occupied East Jerusalem, and therefore affirmed that the elections will not be held without the Israeli-…
RAMALLAH, President Mahmoud Abbas is going chair a leadership meeting tonight in Ramallah that includes all the political factions to discuss the latest with the elections and whether they should be held or cancelled, according to Fatah official Mahmou…
