Palestinians

Israeli forces kill three Palestinians including a woman

Three Palestinians killed by Israeli fire, including a woman who allegedly tried to stab officers in Jerusalem, a man shot during occupied West Bank clashes and another man who approached the border fence.

Hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli jails set to hold hunger strike

Qadri Abu Bakr, head of the Palestinian Authority's commission for prisoners, said 1,380 prisoners were to start the strike on Friday in protest of their detention conditions.

What the Galboa prison break symbolises for Palestinians

For Palestinian prisoners, prison break is a resistance method that seizes the power of life and death — and the power of release — from the Israeli state.

Sheikh Jarrah families offered murky ‘protected status’ in eviction case

The country’s top court judges proposed the so-called settlement, which might prevent evictions at the hearing of four Palestinian families facing expulsion by Israeli settlers in the flashpoint neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem.

Israel's government fails to renew law that keeps out Palestinian spouses

The Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law prevented Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip who marry Israeli citizens from gaining citizenship themselves.

Palestinians call for change of government at Abbas critic's funeral

Thousands of people accompanied Nizar Banat’s coffin through the streets of occupied West Bank, many of them chanting “the people want the fall of the regime” and “leave, leave Abbas”.

NYT investigation finds Israel strikes in Gaza’s Rimal possible ‘war crime’

Investigation determines series of Israeli air strikes that left more than 40 people dead in besieged Gaza’s neighbourhood were conducted “without warning” and “with limited intelligence about what they were attacking”.

Autopsy shows head blows in death of Abbas critic as UN seeks probe

Palestinian parliamentary candidate Nizar Banat was severely beaten in custody, causing his death, his relatives allege. Banat had accused Palestinian leadership of corruption and had condemned a short-lived Covid-19 vaccine exchange with Israel.

Israeli police tortured Palestinians, denied them urgent medical care

Palestinian bystanders, protesters, minors, and attorneys were subjected to 'systemic' torture in an Israeli police station in Nazareth, a new report reveals.

Israelis are the victims of their own media

In a militarised society like Israel, even the media serves to perpetuate a brutal occupation and reinforce Zionist illusions.

Israeli police suspend right-wing march in occupied East Jerusalem

The police said in a statement that new plans would be considered regarding the procession, which Palestinian residents of occupied East Jerusalem see as a provocation.

The Palestinian exception to free speech

A Canadian law school’s hiring scandal has exposed the limits of academic freedom and laid bare the Palestinian exception to the rule of law.