Israel-Palestine Relations

Israel has accelerated its settlement expansion across East al-Quds since Tel Aviv launched its military campaign in the besieged Gaza Strip in early October 2023, according to a report by the Guardian.

The United Nations human rights office has urged Israel to halt its support of attacks by settlers in the occupied West Bank.

One Palestinian was shot dead and dozens were wounded in a large-scale attack by Israeli settlers and soldiers on the village of al-Mughayyir in central West Bank.

Israel has so far in 2024 announced a record amount of West Bank as "state-owned" land, a move that could see a rapid expansion in settlement construction in the occupied territories.

More than 60,000 Palestinians offered Eid al-Fitr prayer at Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday, but there was no festive atmosphere, instead the whorshippers mourned the victims of Israel's ongoing war on the Gaza Strip.

The United Nations Security Council president has referred the Palestinian Authority's application to become a full member of the world body to the committee on the admission of new members.

Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqa, 62, died on Sunday, after 38 years in Israeli jails, due to cancer, Palestinian rights groups reported on Monday.

Millions of people in Iran are on the streets across the country to mark the International Quds Day on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan to express solidarity with Palestinians.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian stressed the importance of unity among Palestinians in countering Israel's crimes amid its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

Tehran has condemned Israel's move to seize 800 hectares of land belonging to the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, Jordan Valley region.

The European Union on Sunday condemned the Israeli seizure of 800 hectares of Palestinian land in the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank.

More young Americans have favourable views of Palestinians than they do of Israelis in the current war in the Gaza Strip, while about half of the US population doesn't know which side has a higher death toll, according to a new poll by Pew Research Center.

Israel publicly humiliated America’s top diplomat on Friday by launching a massive settler land grab in the occupied West Bank while US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv over the Gaza war.

The leaders of Spain, Ireland, Slovenia, and Malta released a joint statement on Friday announcing that they will recognize a Palestinian state.

More than a third of the US Senate's Democrats have called on the administration of President Joe Biden to take "bold" action toward establishing a Palestinian state, in the latest pushback against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The European Union foreign ministers have agreed at a meeting in Brussels to impose sanctions on violent Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.

A group of Senate Democrats led by Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) have demanded President Joe Biden comply with the Foreign Assistance Act and cut off military aid to Tel Aviv. More than 31,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli onslaught against Gaza.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has stated the resistance and steadfastness of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip will bring the Zionist regime to its knees.

Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian areas have expanded by a record amount and risk eliminating any practical possibility of a Palestinian state, the United Nations rights chief Volker Turk has warned. He added the growth of Israeli settlements amounts to the transfer by Israel of its own civilian population into occupied territories, which is a war crime.

Israeli military forces have arrested at least 7,335 Palestinians in the West Bank since the start of its relentless air and ground attacks against the Gaza Strip, which have killed more than 30,000 Palestinians.

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki stressed on Saturday that the European countries should recognize the Palestinian state to reach a solution to the ongoing conflict.

Israeli police have warned that imposing restrictions on the entry of Palestinians to Al-Aqsa Mosque during the holy month of Ramadan could inflame tensions in Jerusalem.

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has announced the resignation of his government, which rules parts of the occupied West Bank, due to the escalating violence in the occupied territories and the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has raised concern over Israel's announced plans to construct 3,300 new housing units in illegal settlements across the occupied West Bank.

Israel is waging a war against Palestine instead of the United States, Palestinian presidential spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudeineh has stated.