Palestine

The Biden administration has now had more official contacts with Palestinian officials in its first two weeks than the Trump administration did in its final three years. Why it matters: The State Department's deputy assistant secretary for Israel-Palestine, Hady Amr, spoke by phone with multiple Palestinian officials on Monday. Those…

Donald Trump wants back on Facebook, and he’s willing to go to court over it. Except in this case, it’s a strange kind of judicial authority: the Facebook Oversight Board, a Facebook-funded body that promises to independently adjudicate cases of import to the platform’s rules and standards. (Lately, it’s been…

For decades, Palestinians have suffered under Israeli colonial occupation backed and empowered by US political, financial, and military support. This has allowed Israel to gradually expand its settlement and colonisation of Palestine, to the point that now only about 5 percent of historical Palestine’s land is actually controlled by Palestinians.…

DUBAI: The UAE recorded 3,407 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, the fourth day in a row that the daily total has hit a new high. An additional seven people have died of virus-related causes. Officials from the Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) said the total number of cases…

LONDON: An Israeli rights group and a UN expert have condemned Israel’s planned evictions of 16 Palestinian families from East Jerusalem. Israeli courts have in the last few months upheld eviction orders to force 16 Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan neighborhoods of East Jerusalem,…

On May 5, 1949, Israel's representative asked the United Nations to admit Israel as a member state. He argued that Israel's admission would allow it to negotiate peace with its Arab neighbours on an equal playing field. Israel was subsequently admitted, and Canada proved a staunch supporter of Israel's statehood. Meanwhile,…

NEW YORK: A ravenous pest is threatening the livelihood of millions of people in the Middle East and Africa — but the menace did not appear overnight. In fact it has been slowly building for three years. Locusts breed in remote areas and thrive in damp conditions. Moisture is critical…

The show featured a map of "Palestine" covering all territory between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, without the State of Israel. A map with the colors of the Palestinian flag reading 'Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Palestine' near Bilin. (photo credit: MOHAMAD TOROKMAN/REUTERS) A children's program called…

RAMALLAH: Israel has released more than $1 billion in funds withheld from the Palestinian Authority, a Palestinian minister said Wednesday, weeks after coordination was renewed between the two sides. “The Israeli government transfers all financial dues of the clearance to the account of the Palestinian Authority, amounting to three billion…

Palestinian leadership has expressed to Newsweek what it hopes to see from the upcoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden, who Palestinian officials hope will depart from the current White House's staunchly pro-Israel policies to seek a more balanced approach on negotiations to end the decades-long Middle East conflict.With roughly two…