After two years of bloodshed and inconceivable destruction, a ceasefire agreement in Gaza was signed in October 2025. The US regional initiative that led to the signing of the agreement was bolstered by the French-Saudi initiative to promote a two-st...
JERUSALEM, June 22, 2026 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces on Monday detained a child from the East Jerusalem town of Silwan. According to the Jerusalem Governorate, the occupation forces detained the child from inside a commercial shop in the ...
AMMAN, June 20, 2026 (WAFA) – Jordan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Affairs has condemned the Israeli authorities’ seizure of land belonging to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in the town of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem, des...
RAMALLAH, June 19, 2026 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates strongly condemned the Israeli occupation authorities’ seizure of land belonging to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem in the town of Silwan in occupied Je...
Over the past three years, Israel has dramatically reshaped the West Bank area around Jerusalem, often referred to in Israeli political discourse as “Greater Jerusalem.” Through accelerated settlement expansion, the establishment of outposts and ...
This week, the reported exposure of personal data belonging to hundreds of thousands of aid recipients in Gaza highlights the immense responsibility carried by humanitarian actors collecting and processing sensitive information. In contexts of crisis...
The Israeli government has instructed Israeli forces to expand military control to up to 70 per cent of the Gaza Strip. Current control is estimated at approximately 65 per cent, including the so-called “Orange Area.” Further expansion of the mil...
The paper provides an overview of a series of legislative measures that mark a profound escalation in the use of residency status as a punitive tool against Palestinians in Jerusalem. It examines how these developments undermine core protections guar...
JERUSALEM, May 29, 2026 (WAFA) – The European Union Representative Office said on Friday that the situation for Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem remains dire, noting in particular that the Silwan area has witnessed a dramatic escalation of f...
The Israeli Minister of Finance instructed the Israeli Civil Administration to advance the enforcement of demolition orders related to the Palestine Refugee Bedouin community of Khan al Ahmar. The community, located east of Jerusalem in the E1 corrid...
Chair, I have the honour of speaking on behalf of the European Union and its 27 Member States. The candidate countries North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Albania, Ukraine and Republic of Moldova, the EFTA country Iceland, member of the Europe...
According to OCHA, between 7 October 2023 and 13 May 2026, 1,095 Palestinians – at least 240 of them children – were killed in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Forty-nine of them have been killed since the beginning of 2026. On ...
