Press Releases

UN International Training and Research Center

The Program for Global Human Resource Development for Peacebuilding and Development was set up by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan to strengthen the capacity of individuals working for peacebuilding and development professionals, with the...

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(MENAFN) Palestinian Football Association President Jibril Rajoub launched a stinging rebuke of the United States on Friday after being denied entry to the country despite his accreditation for FIFA World Cup-related activities — warning that...

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(MENAFN) Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian graduate student at Columbia University, has escalated his legal battle against removal from the United States, with his attorneys filing an appeal against a deportation ruling to the Court of Appeals for the...

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(MENAFN) Three Palestinians lost their lives Saturday in two separate Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, the latest bloodshed in what medical sources described as an ongoing pattern of ceasefire violations.

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(MENAFN) Metropolitan Police officers arrested 107 people Friday outside Woolwich Crown Court in a sweeping crackdown on demonstrators who had gathered to show solidarity with Palestine Action — a group that remains legally proscribed despite a...

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

Government of Slovenia

SLOVENIA, June 11 - The competent ministers will immediately seek concrete solutions to speed up the processes from damage assessment and evaluation to the payment of assistance.

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(MENAFN) Three Palestinians, including a woman, were injured on Thursday in separate incidents involving Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, while Israeli troops also demolished a Palestinian house under construction in the occupied West Bank,...

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(MENAFN) An Israeli representative was prevented from completing a speech during an international labor gathering in Geneva after delegates repeatedly interrupted the session with demonstrations supporting Palestinians.

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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) Palestinians have expressed growing concern over what they view as increasing Israeli efforts to take control of Solomon’s Pools, a historic landmark and tourist destination located south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. The...

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(MENAFN) The Palestinian Authority has denounced Israel’s approval of 2,162 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank, urging the United States to take immediate steps to halt what it described as Israeli “madness.” “All settlement activity...

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(MENAFN) A group of 22 countries along with senior European officials has expressed concern that a recent Israeli legal decision upholding a controversial NGO registration law could significantly hinder humanitarian operations in Gaza and the...

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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) 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) Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez attended the Primavera Sound music festival in Barcelona on Saturday, an event that has increasingly become associated with expressions of solidarity with Palestinians and criticism of Israel’s...

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(MENAFN) Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez made a high-profile appearance at Barcelona's Primavera Sound music festival Saturday, lending his presence to an event that has evolved in recent years into one of Europe's most visible cultural...