August 29th, 2018 | 0 commentsJapan has announced plans to provide $5.4 million in emergency assistance to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), amid growing concerns about the agency’s financial crisis. Japan has long been considered a valued donor to UNRWA. Since 1973, Japan has been a member of the UNRWA Advisory Commission, whi...
July 25th, 2018 | 0 commentsThe Palestinian Authority thanked the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for providing $80 million to support its budget. The presidency said that the support offered by Saudi reflects the solid ties between the two governments and the close relationship between the two countries’ leaders; President Mahmoud Abbas and King Salman Bin Abdulaziz. The P...
June 20th, 2018 | 0 commentsThe Great March of Return protests have catapulted the legitimacy of the Palestinian right of return to their land back into public prominence. They have also been instrumental in harnessing international scrutiny as Gaza’s humanitarian catastrophe is exposed, alongside the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority’s premeditated actions to in...
May 29th, 2018 | 0 commentsPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was released from hospital on Monday after an eight-day stay and treatment for what officials said was a lung infection. “Thank God I am leaving the hospital in good health and I will return to work tomorrow,” the 82-year-old leader, dressed in a suit and smiling, told reporters before walking out of th...
May 23rd, 2018 | 0 commentsFor the first time, the Palestinian government has submitted a referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC) calling on prosecutors to open an immediate investigation into what it called Israeli crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories. Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki arrived on Tuesday at the independent...
May 21st, 2018 | 0 commentsThe U.S. State Department said Thursday that it would not presently deliver on a December pledge to provide $45 million in food aid to a United Nations emergency appeal for Gaza and the West Bank. State Department Comptroller Eric Hembree had originally told the U.N.Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), in a letter dated Dec. 15, that the U.S....
March 27th, 2018 | 0 commentsThe Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) passed a resolution in support of Palestinian rights yesterday, at its 138th session in Geneva. According to reports, the IPU voted in favour of a resolution introduced by Palestine, Kuwait and Bahrain, condemning US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The Jordanian re...
March 22nd, 2018 | 0 commentsLegislation to sharply reduce the annual $300 million in US aid to the Palestinian Authority unless it take steps to stop making what lawmakers described as payments that reward violent crime is set to be passed by the US Congress this week as part of a major spending bill unveiled on Wednesday, Reuters reports. The measure, known as the...
February 14th, 2018 | 0 commentsIsrael is violating the international Convention on the Rights of the Child by detaining a Palestinian teenager for slapping an Israeli soldier, UN human rights experts said on Tuesday. After an incident in which she slapped an Israeli soldier, Ahed Tamimi, 17, appeared before an Israeli military court on Tuesday. The UN experts called fo...
January 28th, 2018 | 0 commentsBritain renewed its “reinforced” support for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), a statement from its consulate in Jerusalem made clear on Friday. The statement was issued days after the US announced that it is cutting by half its financial support for the international organisation. Britain has given £214 milli...
