Peace activist Rachel Corrie, 23, is a student at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She died Sunday, March 16, 2003, in the southern Gaza city of Rafah while trying to stop an ...

PNA (Palestinian National Authority, Wataniyya Al-Filastiniyya): The PNA was established through the Palestinian-Israeli Declaration of Principles on Interim Self Government (DoP) signed between the ...

Over the last two decades, the idea of a two-state solution has become a persistent theme in the discourse on the Palestinians-Israeli conflict. In 1993, when the Oslo Accords were signed, there was a ...

Herbicides pose a direct threat to the lives of creatures (human beings and livestock) if the latter eat plants that were sprayed with these chemicals. For example, these substances can cause an ...

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is vital inproviding humanitarian aid, education, and health services to Palestinian refugees across Jordan, ...

(2) Israel approves 3,500 new housing units in the illegal West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Adumim (3) Also in March, the World Bank announces a controversial plan to provide money to Israel to “enhance ...

The following overview has been compiled from various sources and has primarily made use of a number of Issue Briefs prepared by the Congressional Research Service. All sources are listed below.

Some 14,500 children in East Jerusalem are not recognized by educational authorities in East Jerusalem and it is not clear where - or even if - they are studying, according to a report prepared by the ...

Palestinian Jerusalemites face a myriad of challenges in the occupied city, one of which is education. The Israeli occupation interferes in every detail of life in Jerusalem, in a bid to stifle ...

According to B’Tselem, by the end of January 2017, there were 98 fixed checkpoints in the West Bank. Fifty-nine are internal checkpoints, situated well within the West Bank. These checkpoints include ...

The following is an interview with Professor Martin van Creveld of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel's most prominent military historian, on Austrian TV with Jennifer Byrne. Byrne: How has it ...

"We must remember that the enemy's strength is naught compared with Allah's grace." Confined to a wheelchair as a result of a childhood accident at the age of 12, and nearly blind and deaf from ...