Press Releases

Oxfam

More Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military and settlers across the occupied West Bank in the last three years than in the previous 17 years combined, analysis from Oxfam has found.

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(MENAFN) Israeli forces reportedly ordered the evacuation of a residential area east of the Nur Shams refugee camp in the northern West Bank on Wednesday to carry out military exercises, according to local sources.

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(MENAFN) Residents of the Palestinian village of Marda in the northern occupied West Bank say ongoing Israeli settlement-related construction is placing increasing pressure on their community, threatening agricultural land and further limiting...

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(MENAFN) Amnesty International UK has called on the British government to impose wider sanctions on senior officials in Israel, arguing that recently announced measures do not go far enough to hold those it describes as the “architects” of...

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(MENAFN) According to reports, fires were set on agricultural land in the Palestinian town of Taybeh, east of Ramallah in the central West Bank, in an incident described by the local mayor as an attack on cultivated farmland.

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(MENAFN) According to reports, Israeli forces have demolished a Palestinian home in an area between Bir Nabala and Beit Hanina, northwest of occupied East Jerusalem, in a move condemned by a rights organization.

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(MENAFN) The United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, and Norway announced on Tuesday coordinated sanctions targeting networks accused of financing and enabling attacks by settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank,...

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(MENAFN) The Israeli Knesset has passed a law formally authorizing the withholding of Palestinian clearance revenues, a move that threatens to severely worsen the Palestinian Authority's chronic financial distress and has ignited immediate...

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(MENAFN) According to reports, the Israeli military is preparing contingency plans for a possible return to large-scale combat operations in Gaza, even as ceasefire discussions continue in Cairo.

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(MENAFN) Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa on Monday called on the international community to intensify efforts aimed at pressuring Israel to end what he described as unlawful actions and ongoing violence by occupiers in the occupied...

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(MENAFN) Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa on Monday issued an urgent call for stepped-up international pressure on Israel to put an end to what he described as Tel Aviv's "illegal measures" and occupiers' "terrorism," as violence across...

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(MENAFN) The Israeli Knesset has approved legislation allowing the deduction of funds from Palestinian clearance revenues, a move that could further strain the Palestinian Authority’s already fragile financial situation, according to reports....

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(MENAFN) The Palestinian militant movement Hamas declared Tuesday that meaningful progress had been achieved on the most divisive sticking points of a Gaza ceasefire agreement with Israel, following a fresh round of negotiations in the Egyptian...

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(MENAFN) Israeli forces have demolished six Palestinian-owned structures, including homes and a carpentry workshop, across the occupied West Bank, leaving dozens of residents displaced.

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(MENAFN) Israeli army bulldozers demolished six Palestinian homes and a carpentry workshop across the West Bank on Monday, in the latest wave of demolitions to sweep the occupied territory.

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(MENAFN) Israeli settlers burned a Palestinian-owned vehicle Tuesday in a pre-dawn assault on the village of Beit Imrin, northwest of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, drawing fresh condemnation from a local rights group.

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(MENAFN) Amnesty International UK has urged the British government to stop a real estate event scheduled to take place in London, arguing that it promotes property sales linked to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. According to...

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(MENAFN) Israeli authorities released Palestinian football player Rand al-Halawani on Monday after she spent nearly a week in detention, according to Palestinian officials.

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(MENAFN) The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) has accused Israel of what it described as “systematically targeting” Palestinian football players, following the detention of two members of its women’s national team, according to reports.

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(MENAFN) Nine Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, according to the territory’s Health Ministry, pushing the overall death toll since October 2023 to 72,980. In a statement, the ministry also said...