Since the 1948 Nakba when Israel was created in the historic land of Palestine, which resulted in the ethnic cleansing of more than 700,000 Palestinians from their homeland, successive Israeli governments have continued to propose political and demographic plans for the displacement of more Palestinians from the West Bank, the …

Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian farmer while he was working on his farmland in the Sakout area, in the northern Jordan Valley, said a local official. The settlers had beat the farmer as he worked, leaving him with bruises throughout his body, the head of Tubas agricultural centre, Majdi ‘Odeh, …

Move may signal Netanyahu wants to discuss bill with US, which has been seeking to restart long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to postpone a vote on a controversial bill that critics say would amount to the de facto annexation of Israeli settlements surrounding Jerusalem, an …

Construction of 31 units would increase settler numbers in West Bank city by a fifth but Palestinian officials vow to go to court to block plan on Monday approved permits for a new settlement to be built in Hebron in the illegally occupied West Bank for the first time since …

NABLUS, October 16, 2017 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers Monday stole the olive harvest of Palestinian farmers in two separate incidents in Ramallah and Nablus districts, according to a local source. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in the north of West Bank, told WAFA that settlers stole the olive harvest …

PNN/ Nablus/ As the olive harvest season begins in Palestine, every year Israeli settlers and the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) intentionally harass Palestinian farmers who go to their land to harvest olives and plow the land. Recently, extremist settlers did a new attack early morning on farmers in Qaryot village, …

Hamza Abu Eltarabesh The Electronic Intifada 13 October 2017   The posters outside the home of Nidal al-Jaafari in Rafah, southern Gaza, tell their own story. Most bear messages of congratulations for the 29-year-old’s nuptials. But they are now a little faded. The marriage was nearly a year ago. Instead a fresh one, …

PNN/ Bethlehem/ Thousands of extremist Israeli settlers stormed Joseph’s tomb an archaeological site in Nablus, West Bank on Friday night. While Tens of thousands of Israeli settlers stormed Al-Ibrahimi Mosque as well in Hebron, West Bank for the second day in a row under tight protection of Israeli police and …

Cairo: Egypt’s military has bulldozed at least 140 homes and cleared more than 200 acres along the Gaza Strip border, expanding a buffer zone in an effort to cut off the flow of weapons and militants. The governor of Northern Sinai province, Major-General Abdul Fatah Harhour, told AP late on …

A new video has shown strong anti-Arab, anti-Palestinian sentiment among Israelis in Jerusalem, with residents providing extreme solutions to the country’s conflict, such as killing all Palestinians and transferring them to other Arab countries. “I would carpet bomb them – it’s the only way to deal with it,” one Israeli said …