Press Releases

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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, is appealing a ruling that determined he is eligible for deportation under US immigration law, according to his legal team.

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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) Palestine issued an urgent appeal to the international community on Wednesday, accusing Israel of exploiting ongoing regional instability to entrench its territorial ambitions, with UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour warning that unchecked...

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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) Palestinian Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin has urged the international community to take concrete steps to halt what she described as illegal Israeli settlement activity in the occupied West Bank and ongoing displacement of...

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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) 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) The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate announced Monday it had recorded 55 separate Israeli violations targeting its members throughout the month of May, painting a stark picture of systematic suppression of press freedom on the ground....

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(MENAFN) The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate has said it recorded dozens of alleged violations against journalists by Israeli forces during the month of May. According to reports, the syndicate stated in a Monday announcement that it documented...

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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) Israeli forces have demolished a Palestinian home in an area located between Bir Nabala and Beit Hanina, northwest of occupied East Jerusalem, according to a rights organization.

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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 Palestinian Authority has strongly condemned Israel’s approval of new settlement construction in the occupied West Bank, urging the United States to intervene and halt what it described as escalating Israeli actions.

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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) Palestinian women’s football player Rand al-Halawani has been released after nearly a week in detention and placed under a five-day house arrest order, according to reports.

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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....