Global Palestine

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF EDUCATION 2022 “Changing Course, Transforming Education-TVET as future career option for youth”
The office of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization "UNESCO" in Ramallah organized an interactive dialogue session entitled "Vocational and Technical Education and Training as a Future Option for Palestinian Youth". The dialogue session comes as a celebration of the International Day of Education 2022 and as part of the awareness campaign activities targeting the Palestinian community to raise ...
EU increases humanitarian assistance for Palestine to over €34 million
Today, the EU has increased its humanitarian assistance to the most vulnerable people in Palestine by €8 million, taking the total to €34.4 million this year. The additional funding will be dedicated to supporting victims of the recent violence. EU humanitarian funding for 2021 will help protect the most vulnerable Palestinians, provide life-saving assistance and uphold human dignity. Commissioner for Crisis ...
Bank of Palestine Group launches “Palestine in the Heart” campaign in support of Humanitarian Relief efforts in Gaza & West Bank while providing immediate in kind support on ground to UNRWA shelters
Ramallah, Palestine, May 23, 2021: Bank of Palestine Group Launched “Palestine in the Heart” campaign to raise donations locally and globally in support of humanitarian relief and recovery efforts in Gaza, West Bank and East Jerusalem. Proceeds from the campaign will go to support relief and humanitarian assistance by national and international relief agencies. The campaign was launched in partnership ...
Report on the Attacks of the Israeli Occupation Forces and Settlers on the Palestinian Agricultural Sector in December
The agriculture committees of the Union of Agriculture Work Committees (UAWC) monitored dozens of violations committed by the occupation forces and settlers against the Palestinian agricultural sector during December of 2020. Although international law states that intentional lethal force is only justified when there is a direct threat to life or serious injury, Israeli forces use lethal force against Palestinian minors ...
Norway, UNICEF, and the Palestinian Ministry of Health sign new partnership agreement to strengthen early childhood health care, protection, and development, and to support COVID-19 response activities in the State of Palestine
Ramallah, 17 December: Under the auspices of His Excellency Palestinian Prime Minister, Dr. Mohammed Shtayyeh, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and UNICEF today agreed on a partnership to strengthen early childhood health care, protection, and development, and to support UNICEF’s COVID-19 response activities in the State of Palestine. The US$ 6 million partnership agreement was signed by Ms. Torunn ...
Palestinian Prime Minister, UNICEF, UNFPA, and UNDP sign a memorandum of understanding to strengthen volunteering opportunities for young people in the State of Palestine.
Ramallah, State of Palestine - 10 December 2020: Under the auspices of His Excellency Palestinian Prime Minister, Dr. Mohammed Shtayyeh, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed for the establishment of a Palestinian National Volunteer Service Programme together with the Higher Council for Youth and Sports, UNICEF, UNDP and UNFPA. The signing of this MoU comes at an opportune moment, aligning with ...
Statement for immediate release Issued by Human Rights and Democracy Media Center “SHAMS”
  On the International Day Against the Death Penalty "The possible election of the Legislative Council should lead to the humanization of Palestinian legislation." “SHAMS” Center views with great concern the continuing de facto government in the Gaza Strip to issue and implement death sentences, as the number of death sentences issued by the Gaza Strip courts reached (9) sentences from the beginning ...
Elections in Conflict Zones-Holding General Elections…When and How?!
Since 2006, the Palestinians have not held general elections due to several factors mainly the sharp division between Fatah and Hamas, the two main rival factions on the Palestinian political landscape. Throughout the past years, the Palestinian public has been demanding according to reliable public opinion polls to hold general elections. The two main political rivals i.e. Fatah and Hamas ...
The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, and UNICEF sign a new partnership agreement
The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, and UNICEF sign a new partnership agreement providing children and their families with essential integrated child protection and mental health psychosocial support in the Gaza Strip. East Jerusalem, 18 September 2020: Today the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Italian Agency for Development ...
Vuetel Italia chose Palestine as technological hub
Vuetel Italia and REACH, a Paltel group Company, will create the most innovative and high Tech hub to provide Technical Customer Support Reach for Telecommunication Services, a Paltel Group Company, and Vuetel Italia, a major telecommunication  company in Italy, in  the field of international wholesale voice and data services, have signed a strategic partnership that aims at providing Vuetel Italia with ...
How Palestinians Can Reunite Under a New Agenda to Counter Israel's Annexation
BY SALAM FAYYAD  Salam Fayyad is a visiting senior scholar and lecturer in public policy at Princeton University and was prime minister of the Palestinian Authority from 2007 to 2013.   In January, President Donald Trump rolled out his much-touted vision for Middle East peace. It sought to formalize Israel’s longstanding colonial settlement enterprise into what it considered a blueprint for a conflict-ending ...
Don't Call Us 'Israeli Arabs': Palestinians in Israel Speak Out
By: Sam Bahour Palestinian citizens of Israel are its Achilles’ heel; they refuse to become Zionists, refuse to leave Israel, and refuse to vanish into thin air. And, increasingly, they are refusing to remain silent. When Israel’s founding fathers removed by force the native Palestinian Arab population living where they intended to establish their state, they murdered or displaced more than 80% ...
Strip searches, escorts to gates of Arab passengers by Israeli airport security personnel are illegal
Humiliating practices commonly faced by Arab passengers have no basis in Israeli law; Adalah demands halt to all illegal practices, compensation for passengers harmed. [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf_vB2_dgT4[/video]The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel sent a letter on 16 August 2016 to Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit and Israel Airports Authority (IAA) Director General Yaakov Ganot calling on them to halt the ...
Raising Local Voices
In Gaza and across the West Bank, Wattan’s team of citizen journalists is currently challenging mainstream media by focusing on local communities, and raising public awareness of local issues and the need for government responsiveness and accountability. Since September 2015, the Wattan citizen journalism platform enabled local voices to be heard on a range of issues including: poor sanitation; environmental and ...
Raising Local Voices
In Gaza and across the West Bank, Wattan’s team of citizen journalists is currently challenging mainstream media by focusing on local communities, and raising public awareness of local issues and the need for government responsiveness and accountability. Since September 2015, the Wattan citizen journalism platform enabled local voices to be heard on a range of issues including: poor sanitation; environmental and ...
Raising Local Voices
In Gaza and across the West Bank, Wattan’s team of citizen journalists is currently challenging mainstream media by focusing on local communities, and raising public awareness of local issues and the need for government responsiveness and accountability. Since September 2015, the Wattan citizen journalism platform enabled local voices to be heard on a range of issues including: poor sanitation; environmental and ...
Raising Local Voices
In Gaza and across the West Bank, Wattan’s team of citizen journalists is currently challenging mainstream media by focusing on local communities, and raising public awareness of local issues and the need for government responsiveness and accountability. Since September 2015, the Wattan citizen journalism platform enabled local voices to be heard on a range of issues including: poor sanitation; environmental and ...
Raising Local Voices
In Gaza and across the West Bank, Wattan’s team of citizen journalists is currently challenging mainstream media by focusing on local communities, and raising public awareness of local issues and the need for government responsiveness and accountability. Since September 2015, the Wattan citizen journalism platform enabled local voices to be heard on a range of issues including: poor sanitation; environmental and ...
Raising Local Voices
In Gaza and across the West Bank, Wattan’s team of citizen journalists is currently challenging mainstream media by focusing on local communities, and raising public awareness of local issues and the need for government responsiveness and accountability. Since September 2015, the Wattan citizen journalism platform enabled local voices to be heard on a range of issues including: poor sanitation; environmental and ...
Raising Local Voices
In Gaza and across the West Bank, Wattan’s team of citizen journalists is currently challenging mainstream media by focusing on local communities, and raising public awareness of local issues and the need for government responsiveness and accountability. Since September 2015, the Wattan citizen journalism platform enabled local voices to be heard on a range of issues including: poor sanitation; environmental and ...
Raising Local Voices
In Gaza and across the West Bank, Wattan’s team of citizen journalists is currently challenging mainstream media by focusing on local communities, and raising public awareness of local issues and the need for government responsiveness and accountability. Since September 2015, the Wattan citizen journalism platform enabled local voices to be heard on a range of issues including: poor sanitation; environmental and ...
Raising Local Voices
In Gaza and across the West Bank, Wattan’s team of citizen journalists is currently challenging mainstream media by focusing on local communities, and raising public awareness of local issues and the need for government responsiveness and accountability. Since September 2015, the Wattan citizen journalism platform enabled local voices to be heard on a range of issues including: poor sanitation; environmental and ...
Raising Local Voices
In Gaza and across the West Bank, Wattan’s team of citizen journalists is currently challenging mainstream media by focusing on local communities, and raising public awareness of local issues and the need for government responsiveness and accountability. Since September 2015, the Wattan citizen journalism platform enabled local voices to be heard on a range of issues including: poor sanitation; environmental and ...
Raising Local Voices
In Gaza and across the West Bank, Wattan’s team of citizen journalists is currently challenging mainstream media by focusing on local communities, and raising public awareness of local issues and the need for government responsiveness and accountability. Since September 2015, the Wattan citizen journalism platform enabled local voices to be heard on a range of issues including: poor sanitation; environmental and ...
Raising Local Voices
In Gaza and across the West Bank, Wattan’s team of citizen journalists is currently challenging mainstream media by focusing on local communities, and raising public awareness of local issues and the need for government responsiveness and accountability. Since September 2015, the Wattan citizen journalism platform enabled local voices to be heard on a range of issues including: poor sanitation; environmental and ...
Raising Local Voices
In Gaza and across the West Bank, Wattan’s team of citizen journalists is currently challenging mainstream media by focusing on local communities, and raising public awareness of local issues and the need for government responsiveness and accountability. Since September 2015, the Wattan citizen journalism platform enabled local voices to be heard on a range of issues including: poor sanitation; environmental and ...
Raising Local Voices
In Gaza and across the West Bank, Wattan’s team of citizen journalists is currently challenging mainstream media by focusing on local communities, and raising public awareness of local issues and the need for government responsiveness and accountability. Since September 2015, the Wattan citizen journalism platform enabled local voices to be heard on a range of issues including: poor sanitation; environmental and ...
Survivors Speak Out: Raising Voices of the Affected Population in Gaza
The Crucial Role of Free and Independent Media On 7 July 2014, a humanitarian emergency began in the Gaza Strip, following a severe escalation in hostilities involving intense Israeli aerial and navy bombardment and Palestinian rocket firing. The Israeli army launched a large military operation in the Gaza Strip, codenamed ‘Protective Edge’, with the stated objective of stopping Palestinian rocket firing ...
Survivors Speak Out: Raising Voices of the Affected Population in Gaza
The Crucial Role of Free and Independent Media On 7 July 2014, a humanitarian emergency began in the Gaza Strip, following a severe escalation in hostilities involving intense Israeli aerial and navy bombardment and Palestinian rocket firing. The Israeli army launched a large military operation in the Gaza Strip, codenamed ‘Protective Edge’, with the stated objective of stopping Palestinian rocket firing ...
Survivors Speak Out: Raising Voices of the Affected Population in Gaza
The Crucial Role of Free and Independent Media On 7 July 2014, a humanitarian emergency began in the Gaza Strip, following a severe escalation in hostilities involving intense Israeli aerial and navy bombardment and Palestinian rocket firing. The Israeli army launched a large military operation in the Gaza Strip, codenamed ‘Protective Edge’, with the stated objective of stopping Palestinian rocket firing ...