MPs have voted by 274 to 12 in favour of recognising Palestine as a state alongside Israel. The House of Commons backed the move “as a contribution to securing a negotiated two-state solution”. The vote…
In majority of 274-12, Parliament decides to support the motion calling for the recognition of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. The British parliament voted 274 to 12 in a non-binding motion to recognize the state…
MPs are on the verge of backing a historic parliamentary vote that would call on the British government to unilaterally recognise the state of Palestine. Politicians on both sides of the deeply divisive issue believe…
The alternative is further violence, injustice and discrimination. When the UK parliament votes on Monday we must break this impasse. Last week the prime minister of Israel announced yet more illegal settlements in the West…
The UK parliament will be voting on a motion to recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel on 13 October. The application proposed by parliamentary backbenchers was originally presented to the Backbench Business…
Palestinian president accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza conflict and declares US-brokered peace process dead. The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has called on the United Nations security council to support a resolution setting a clear…
Fatah and Hamas delegations will meet for mediation before indirect negotiations with Israel commence. Egypt will host talks between rival Palestinian factions within days, followed by indirect negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis on the ceasefire…
A new United Nations assessment published this week lays out the massive scope of the needs facing the nearly 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza following the “unprecedented” destruction wreaked by 51 days of Israeli bombing…
Yehuda Shaul writes of how he and his friends learned to glorify power, and lost their ability to see Palestinians as people whose lives are no less valuable. Now, he and hundreds of others are…
Israeli settlements and a cycle of violence mean time is running out to resolve the issue The recent announcement by the Israeli government that it is expropriating another 1,000 acres of the West Bank has…
President Mahmoud Abbas will ask his French counterpart Francois Hollande for official recognition of Palestine in an upcoming meeting this week, the Palestinian foreign minister said Sunday. Riyad al-Maliki told Ma’an that Abbas is due…
As hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children returned to school in Gaza on Sunday, Azhar recited a poem eulogizing her father, killed by Israeli shelling in the enclave’s recent conflict. “Daddy, what can I tell…
Human-rights advocate gives `a voice to victims’ and demands accountability, award’s sponsors say. B’Tselem, the prominent Israeli human-rights advocate, was awarded the 2014 Stockholm Human Rights Award, the International Legal Assistance Consortium and two major…
Israel should embrace Palestinian unity for its own security. A further land grab will only inflame tensions Israel has a habit of justifying its actions in the occupied Palestinian territories, however illegal and indecent, in…
Elbit Systems is Israel’s largest publicly listed arms company, and one of the world’s leading exporters of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) – drones. Elbit’s leading product is the Hermes 450 drone, “a mature and combat…