Palestinian

Israel approves 22 West Bank settlements amid war with Hamas, pressure for Palestinian state

Legal Affairs correspondent Sarah Ben-Nun explains the context of settlement approval, touching on expansion during the Israel-Hamas War, IDF operations in the West Bank, and more.

A general view of houses in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the West Bank
 JPost Asks Anything: How has the Gaza War impacted Palestinians and Israeli Arabs?

JPost Asks Anything: How has the Gaza war impacted Palestinians and Israeli Arabs?

 THE PALESTINIAN flag flies at Providence City Hall. The Palestinian flag represents October 7; it represents a desire to wipe out the Jewish people and erase the Jewish state, the writer argues

For Jews, the Palestinian flag doesn't symbolize peace - only October 7 - opinion

New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jagmeet Singh is joined by his wife Gurkiran Kaur Sidhu at election night headquarters in Burnaby, British Columbia, last month. NDP has been wiped out as a party for the first time in more than 50 years, states the writer.

Canada's election proves the pro-Palestine vote is a bluff - opinion


Pulitzer Prize goes to Gazan poet who discredited hostages, disputed murder of Bibas family

In his social media posts, Abu Toha "specifically disparaged female Israeli hostages, questioned their hostage status and implicitly justified their abduction."

 Mosab Abu Toha denying that Emily Damari should be classified as a hostage.

Illinois man sentenced to 53 years for hate crime that killed Palestinian child

Joseph Czuba was found guilty by an Illinois jury in early February.

Wadea Al-Fayoume, 6, a Muslim boy who according to police was stabbed to death in an attack that targeted him and his mother for their religion and as a response to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, poses in an undated family photograph obtained by Reuters on October 15, 2023

The case for chaos: Why Israel must avoid another Gaza containment policy - opinion

Israel needs to get used to the idea that, in the absence of an entity willing to take Gaza under its wing, chaos will prevail there.

PA HEAD Mahmoud Abbas holds a leadership meeting in Ramallah last week. One possibility for ‘the day after’ is to bring the PA into Gaza; it is not the ideal solution, but such solutions are not always available, the writer maintains.

Almost all Canadian candidates who signed pro-Palestinian pledge lost

Only 10% of the incoming Liberal Party MPs endorsed the platform, which called for a two-way arms embargo against Israel, and Canadian recognition of a Palestinian state.

PRO-PALESTINIAN protesters demonstrate outside the Liberal Party of Canada holiday party in Ottawa in December. There are people in this world, even among the educated elite, who hate Jews so much that they can justify any act, no matter how cruel, against Jews and Israel, the writer asserts.

Palestinians establish vice presidency post, no candidate named yet

According to the statement, Abbas has the right to assign tasks to the deputy, relieve him of his post, or accept his resignation.

 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas adjusts his glasses as he listens during a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (not pictured), in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 25, 2021.

Mahmoud Khalil criticizes ICE detention in op-ed on Palestinian rights

Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent pro-Palestinian activist at Columbia University, reflects on his ICE detention and critiques America’s approach to free speech and justice in a Washington Post op-ed.

 Demonstrators attend a protest in Timers Square, following the arrest by US immigration agents of Palestinian student protester Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia University, in New York City, March 15, 2025.

Macron says France could recognize Palestinian state in June

French President said that France could recognize a Palestinian state in June, adding that in turn some countries in the Middle East could recognize Israel.

France's President Emmanuel Macron holds a press conference at the 19th Summit of the Francophonie at the Grand Palais, Paris, Oct. 5, 2024.

Crowd of masked men set Duma houses alight, injure several Palestinians

IDF, Israel Police, and Border Police personnel arrived at the scene, causing the masked men to flee.

 View of cars and a house of Palestinians that was burned during the night by unknown attackers, in the village of Duma, in the West Bank, May 12, 2024; illustrative.

Trump administration to review nearly $9 billion in Harvard funding over campus antisemitism

The review will include over $255 million in contracts between Washington and Harvard, as well as over $8.7 billion in "multi-year grant commitments."

 Dozens of Harvard Medical School faculty and students protested outside of the school on March 15, 2024. They were protesting an event featuring the president of the American Medical Association, over the powerful physicians' group's repeated refusal to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Authorities arrest Hamas terrorist threatening to murder Samaria Regional Council head

Khiradi Hassan is the sixth terrorist who has been arrested for threatening to assassinate the Samaria Regional Council Head, Yossi Dagan.

 Yossi Dagan (L) standing with IDF Central Command chief Maj.-Gen. Avi Bluth (R).

Red Cross 'outraged' at deaths of eight medics, killed on duty in Gaza

This incident represents the "single most deadly attack on Red Cross Red Crescent workers anywhere in the world since 2017," IFRC reported.

 Palestine Red Crescent Society first responders console each other at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis during the return of the bodies of killed colleagues, March 30, 2025.