Israel-Palestine Relations

US sanctioning Israeli settler group over violence against Palestinians

The US Treasury Department has announced that it is imposing sanctions on an Israeli settler group accused of 'perpetrating violence' in the occupied West Bank, where violence against Palestinians has increased over the past several years

Iran strongly condemns Israeli official West Bank annexation comment 

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman has strongly condemned an Israeli cabinet minister’s statement regarding the annexation of the West Bank by the regime, calling it part of the regime's genocidal act.

Israel’s finance minister tells authorities to prepare for West Bank annexation

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has told his department to prepare for the annexation of the occupied West Bank in the wake of Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential elections.

Holding referendum sole democratic solution to Palestinian issue: Iran

Holding a referendum involving all Palestinians is the sole lasting democratic solution to the Palestinian issue, Iran's First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref has stated at the Extraordinary Joint Summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Arab League in the Saudi capital Riyadh.

Zarif: Resistance a result of Israeli regime occupation

Iranian Vice President for Strategic Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif has said resistance in Lebanon and Palestine is the result of the Zionist regime’s occupation and the resistance will remain as long as the occupation persists.

Israeli Parliament passes law to deport families of Palestinians involved in attacks against settlers

The Knesset (Israel’s parliament) passed a new controversial law Thursday that allows the deportation of family members of Palestinians involved in attacks against Israelis.

UN chief pens letter to Israel’s PM protesting UNRWA ban

United Nations Secretary General António Guterres sent a letter to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, protesting a new Israeli law that could effectively cripple the UN agency responsible for aiding Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).

Palestine says Israel’s UNRWA ban ‘new level in war against UN’

Israel’s move to ban the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) marks a “new level” in its war with the global body, the Palestinian envoy to the UN has stated.

Poverty rate in Palestine rockets as war knocks Gaza development back to 1955: Report

The poverty rate across the Palestinian territories will almost double in 2024 to 74.3% after months of relentless attacks by Israel on the Gaza Strip, according to a new report by the United Nations development agency that announced the impacts of the war have set back development in the enclave by as much as 69 years.

UN experts warn countries aiding Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands may be ‘complicit’

Third countries that enable Israel’s “unlawful occupation” of Palestinian territory and assist it despite warnings of war crimes and possible genocide in the Gaza Strip should be considered “complicit”, United Nations experts have warned.

UN warns of Israeli settler violence in West Bank

The United Nations has highlighted escalating tensions in the occupied West Bank, warning that illegal Israeli settler violence threatens the safety of Palestinians.

American officials attend meetings at Israeli prison accused of ‘horrific’ torture: Report

Officials from the US main humanitarian agency attend daily meetings on an Israeli military site that also hosts a notorious prison for Palestinians where torture reportedly runs rampant, the Guardian has reported.

EU joins criticism of Israel’s attempts to ban UNRWA

The European Union has announced it is deeply concerned about draft Israeli legislation that would ban the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees from operating in the occupied territories and likely scale back aid distribution across the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.

Hamas military operation against Israel a turning point in history of Palestine: Iran

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has described the unprecedented military operation that the Palestinian resistance movements carried out against Israel in early October 2023 as a turning point in the history of the Palestinian people.

Israel targets West Bank in rare jet attack, at least 18 killed

A rare Israeli air attack by warplanes on the occupied West Bank has killed 18 Palestinians in the Tulkarem refugee camp.

IRGC Quds Force commander says Iran to stand by Resistance Front till liberation of Palestine

Commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), Brigadier General Esmayeel Qa'ani, has promised that Iran will remain alongside the Resistance Front until the full liberation of Palestine and the holy al-Quds.

Iran FM Says Ending Occupation Only Way to Peace in Palestine

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi called for the termination of the occupation of Palestinian territories and the restoration of Palestinian people’s rights, including the right to self-determination as the only way to peace and security. 

Footage of Israeli soldiers pushing bodies of Palestinians off roof ‘deeply disturbing’: US

The White House has announced it has seen “deeply disturbing” footage of Israeli soldiers pushing three apparently lifeless bodies of Palestinians from a rooftop during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Thursday.

UN General Assembly overwhelmingly supports Palestinian resolution to end Israeli occupation

A majority of the 193-member United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday voted in favour of a Palestinian resolution demanding an end to Israel's occupation of the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank within a year.

More details emerge from autopsy of dual national activist killed by Israel in West Bank

An autopsy of the body of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish American activist who was killed by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank, has revealed a bullet entry from a firearm in the lower ear area, sources familiar with her case said on Saturday.

Turkey says will seek international arrest warrants over Israeli shooting of activist

Ankara announced on Thursday it has opened an investigation into the death of a Turkish-American activist by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank and will request international arrest warrants.

At least 50 people killed in Israeli military onslaught in West Bank since late August

At least 50 people have been killed in raids and strikes by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during its large-scale military operation in the West Bank launched in late August, Al Jazeera reported.

Israeli raid kills 5 Palestinians in West Bank

The Israeli military on Wednesday killed five Palestinians in an airstrike in the city of Tubas in the occupied West Bank, as the army started an incursion into the city.

Israeli mistreatment of Palestinian detainees could amount to ‘sexualized torture’: UN

United Nations’ secretary-general special representative on sexual violence in conflict Pramila Patten has stated that “disturbing reports of sexual violence and other inhuman and degrading treatment” being perpetrated against Palestinian prisoners, “could amount to sexualized torture”.

Israeli soldiers ‘kill a Palestinian child every two days’ in West Bank: Report

A new report has detailed how more than 140 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers in the occupied West Bank since the 7 October Hamas-led attack and the ensuing war on Gaza began.

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