Samer Issawi faces essentially a life sentence after his arrest in a Jerusalem-area village, which Israel says is outside the city municipality and therefore violates a prisoner swap agreement that won Isaswi’s release last year.
After the brutal murder of a Palestinian woman by her husband, local human rights groups are pushing for stronger reforms to stem violence against women in Palestine.
The only power plant in Gaza is currently operating at about a third of its capacity, or has been completely shut down by severe fuel shortages since February.
A three-member United Nations committee has lambasted Israel for the harsh treatment of Palestinian children held in custody, amongst other rights violations.
Major politicians in the UK are increasingly unafraid to talk critically of Israeli policies, and some are even advocating a national ban on products made in illegal Israeli settlements.
The violence of the Palestinian Authority police is not unexpected, yet it was still shocking to see such unfettered brutality on the streets of Ramallah in the middle of the afternoon.
A nine-month investigation by Al Jazeera into the death of Yasser Arafat has revealed that that there was a high level of polonium, a highly radioactive element, inside his body when he died.
