JERUSALEM, April 30, 2026 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Supreme Fatwa Council has condemned the approval by the Israeli occupation authorities of the establishment of a Jewish school on a large area of citizens’ land and homes in the East Jerusalem ne...
WEST BANK, April 30, 2026 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces detained 35 Palestinian citizens across several areas of the occupied West Bank on Thursday, during a series of raids and house searches. In Nablus, Israeli forces detained five citize...
Israeli forces continued to maintain a high level of activity, with reports indicating that tanks advanced in the Jabalia area (within the “orange line” - a buffer area near the “Yellow Line” of Israeli control where the authorities require c...
JERUSALEM, April 28, 2026 (WAFA) – The European Union Representative, Alexander Stutzmann, announced at Augusta Victoria Hospital the disbursement of €9.29 million to support Palestinian medical referrals to East Jerusalem hospitals through the E...
Thousands of people – residents of dozens of Palestinian communities located throughout Area C, the West Bank – face imminent expulsion by Israeli authorities on a variety of pretexts. The live blog will pool the regular updates we get from B’T...
Israeli forces’ activities reportedly escalated, including trench digging and earth mounds, restricting vehicle movement and limiting crossing between the Israeli-militarised zone marked by the so-called “Yellow Line” and other parts of the Gaz...
April 20, 2026, 7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media has released a new position paper titled “From Image to Body: Visual Violence as a Tool of Humiliation and Domination over Palestinian Youth.” The paper highlights the r...
Holy Fire Saturday in Jerusalem on 11 April was marked with violence against Christian worshipers, as Israel security personnel once again denied Christians their right to worship freely in Jerusalem. Worshipers who managed to enter Jerusalem’s Old...
As humanitarian and human rights organisations that have worked for years in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, we are appalled by the Israeli Knesset’s decision to approve a bill that makes death penalty effectively mandatory in the We...
Until 1948, Jerusalem was a mixed city of Jews and Arabs, alongside Armenians, Greeks, and others—all of whom had deep religious, cultural, and collective ties to it. The rise of national movements—Zionism on one hand, and the Palestinian nati...
RAMALLAH, April 1, 2026 (WAFA) – A general strike was observed Wednesday across the occupied West Bank governorates, including occupied Jerusalem, in response to a call from the Fatah movement and other national and Islamic forces, in protest again...
Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem pay taxes to the Israeli authorities. Yet Palestinian neighborhoods in Jerusalem do not receive adequate services. Only 10% of Jerusalem’s city budget is directed toward Palestinian neighborhoods, which are h...
