Posts Tagged: Palestinian Territories
Trump Expands US Travel Ban to Include Syria, Palestinian Territories Due to Security Concerns
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced sweeping new restrictions that will bar individuals with Palestinian Authority–issued travel documents along with all Syrian nationals from...
Rhode Island School of Design Rejects BDS
The Rhode Island School of Design, which shares the College Hill section of Providence, Rhode Island, with Brown University, has rejected a proposal to adopt...
UNRWA Admits It Employed Hamas Leader in Lebanon Killed by Israeli Airstrike
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees and their descendants has acknowledged that the top Hamas commander in Lebanon, whom the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)...
‘Waste of Money’: Israel Bashes UN Probe Blaming ‘Occupation’ of Palestinian Areas for Continued Conflict
Israel has dismissed the findings of a United Nations commission report which blamed the country’s “perpetual occupation” of Palestinian territory as the “key root” of...
Palestinians Vote in Second Phase of Municipal Elections
i24 News - Polls opened on Saturday in cities across the West Bank in a rare democratic exercise following over 15 years of delays to...
US State Department Removes ‘Palestinian Territories’ Listing From Website
JNS.org - The US State Department website has dropped “Palestinian Territories” from its list of countries and areas in the Middle East. It is unknown when...
India’s Modi Heads to Palestinian Territories to Balance Warming Ties With Israel
After a public embrace of Israel as a strategic partner, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is heading to the Palestinian territories and the Gulf on...
UN Secretary-General Guterres to Make First Visit to Israel, Palestinian Territories at End of Month
JNS.org - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will visit Israel and the disputed territories in late August for his first Holy Land trip since becoming...
Guardian Article Claims Golan Heights Was ‘Palestinian’
A Guardian article by Sian Cain ("Michael Chabon witnesses ‘grievous injustice’ in occupied territories," May 6) included the following paragraph, with background on the “Palestinian territories” that Israel “entered” during...
Kuwaiti Analyst Says Israel Not the Enemy, Calls on Arab Countries to Make ‘Individual Decisions’ About Jewish State
An op-ed in the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Anbaa questions whether Israel should actually be considered an enemy, according to an English translation in the Kuwait Times provided by pro-Israel...
Palestinians Publish Pictures of Israeli Undercover Counter-Terror Agents
Online activists posted an image allegedly featuring the pictures of several undercover Israeli counter-terror agents who have been tasked with arresting Palestinian rioters amid ongoing...
Public Funding for Swiss ‘Breaking the Silence’ Event Stuns Local Jewish Community
The Swiss Foreign Ministry and Zurich municipality's decision to sponsor a traveling exhibition by Israeli nongovernmental organization Breaking the Silence has raised eyebrows in the...
Israel Ranks as 11th-Happiest Country in the World
JNS.org - Israel was ranked the 11th-happiest country in the world in 2014, according to the annual World Happiness Report, released on Friday. Among 158...
Dozens of Palestinians Scale Security Barrier to Infiltrate Israel From the Territories (VIDEO)
Dozens of Palestinians living in areas under the control of the Palestinian Authority infiltrated into Israel this week after successfully climbing over the security barrier...
