Palestine

We spoke to Ohad Zemet, who is a spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in London. We asked him – given that international law prohibits moving people in occupied territory against their will – why Israel is carrying out these removals?

Israel has been demolishing a Palestinian Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank, bulldozing tents on land where people have lived for a generation. Israel claims that residents were living there illegally, but human rights groups say it’s an attempt to drive an entire Palestinian community from the area. And the international community is speaking…

Three days of mourning have been declared after the death of the Palestinian peace negotiator Dr Saeb Erekat. The 65 year old died from Covid-19. He was a witty and popular figure, credited with helping to negotiate the 1993 Oslo Accords that gave Palestinians the right to govern the Gaza Strip and parts of the…

A 21-year-old Palestinian medic has been killed in Gaza today near the Israeli border. She is reported to have been shot in the chest, with dozens of other people injured by live fire. In recent weeks more than a hundred Palestinians were killed by Israeli troops, including two journalists. Despite the dangers, one woman has…

While hundreds of Palestinians are mourning their dead, life for most Israelis has largely been unaffected by the Gaza protests. And support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hardline stance against unrest in the enclave remains strong.

Hamas official Ghazi Hamad discusses Gaza.

Palestinian authorities reported that two more people died under the fire of the Israeli military on the Gaza border with Israel, bringing the total number of fatalities to 62 since yesterday. Many more remain critically injured in hospital. There is mounting international condemnation of Israel’s use of force, with the United Nations calling it an…

Israel’s UK Ambassador Mark Regev discusses Gaza.

Tensions on the Gaza-Israel border are high ahead of a planned major demonstration next week to mark what Palestinians refer to as “the Nakba” or “catastrophe” – a reference to Israel’s establishment in 1948 and what happened to the Palestinians who lived on that land. Today, Gaza health officials said one Palestinian has been killed…

In Gaza, over 40 Palestinians have been killed and thousands injured by Israeli gunfire in the last few weeks as protesters demanded the right to return to the lands many were forced to leave 70 years ago. The UN says Gaza will be “unliveable” by 2020, or sooner. And such are the declining levels of…

Israel has declared that soldiers heard in video footage cheering as a sniper shot a Palestinian near the Gaza border will be disciplined, although their preliminary inquiry has cleared the sniper himself, saying he had acted appropriately. The Israeli army says the incident happened in December, adding that the unapproved filming was not “the level of…

Following Friday prayers, Muslims around the world came out in protest today in response to President Trump’s controversial recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Speaking from Ramallah is Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian politician and member of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation’s executive committee and from New York, Sohrab Ahamri, a senior writer at Commentary Magazine.

The leader of the Hamas militant group called today for a new Palestinian uprising to protest President Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has begun a visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories.