Palestine
March 13, 2013
Israeli forces shoot dead a young Palestinian protester using bullets prohibited by international law.
March 12, 2013
Israel's system of checkpoints and restrictions in the occupied West Bank inflicts long-term damage on Palestinians' ability to compete in the global market, the World Bank said in a report on Tuesday
March 9, 2013
On his 222nd day, Issawi speaks out about his protest and demands that Israel either charge him or let him go.
March 7, 2013
More than 40 per cent of the guests who stayed in Palestinian hotels in the West Bank during fourth quarter 2012 were from European Union countries, new figures reveal.
February 28, 2013
For Palestinian West Bankers, the term “Third Intifada” is bandied around almost every week so for a resident to take the idea seriously, all the right ingredients need to be present.
February 27, 2013
Israel’s settlement construction in annexed east Jerusalem is part of a strategy aimed at preventing the Holy City from becoming the capital of two states, an internal EU report found on Wednesday.
February 26, 2013
![A rocket fired from Gaza hot southern Israel early on Tuesday. [File photo]](http://cdnlive.albawaba.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/slideshow_thumb/im/gazarocketsonist.jpg "A rocket fired from Gaza hot southern Israel early on Tuesday. [File photo]")
As unrest continues in the West Bank, a rocket from the Gaza Strip hit southern Israel early Tuesday morning, Israeli and Palestinian media report. The Grad rocket landed in south of Ashekelon and inflicted no injuries.
Israel on Monday demanded that the Palestinian Authority act "responsibly" and rein in unrest, as Palestinian protesters vowed revenge over the death of a Palestinian prisoner allegedly under Israeli torture.
February 25, 2013
Unemployment in Palestine eased slightly in the third quater of 2012, but over quater of the population remain without work, according to Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.
After Arafat Jaradat dies while in Israeli custody, thousands of Palestinians in Israeli prisons go on hunger strike in solidarity.
February 20, 2013
The Palestinian Authority announced on Tuesday that it will pay its employees part of the January salary in the next two days, according to a cabinet statement issued after its weekly meeting.
February 19, 2013
What happens when Israeli “Absentee Property” law deprives the Ayyad Family of a Home-cum-Hotel: a family's struggle to keep hold of the Cliff Hotel -incidentally built on land owned pre-dating the State of Israel's conception- in the face of arbitrary state laws. This is the case of the Cliff Hotel and the 'disappearing' Palestinian birthright.
February 15, 2013
The Oscar nominated, '5 Broken Cameras', will be playing in the Egyptian capital on Sunday.
February 12, 2013
The Turkel Committee found that the state security services ought to make audio and visual recordings of interrogations.
The Islamist movement Hamas which rules Gaza has set up its own news agency, called Al Rai (Opinion), the Palestinian territory's Hamas government announced on Monday.