Palestine

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.

The Walled Off Hotel is a few metres from a stretch of the controversial West Bank barrier which has been heavily decorated by artists.

The story of a stabbing. Channel 4 News speaks to the mother of a 13-year old Israeli victim and the uncomprehending father of the 15-year old Palestinian boy who stabbed him before being shot dead.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh called on Palestinians to step up their fight against Israel following a wave of attacks and reprisal attacks in the past 10 days.

Footage has emerged of a confrontation between Palestinian activists and an Israeli soldier attempting to detain a 12-year-old boy.

A Palestinian toddler has died in an arson attack by suspected Israeli extremist settlers in the occupied West Bank.

Human rights group Amnesty International says there is evidence Israel committed war crimes by bombarding the Palestinian town of Rafah in August 2014 after a ceasefire had been announced.

Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn explains why he described the Islamist militant organisations Hamas and Hezbollah as “friends” and says he does not agree with them.