#Palestine

Palestinian officials welcomed UNESCO’s designation of Sebastia in the occupied West Bank as a World Heritage site, hoping it will prevent Israel extending its control at the ancient village, ...

Cyprus was one of 11 European countries which, alongside the European Union, pledged a total of €41.7 million worth of what was described by the European Commission as “new contribution agreements” for ...

The Palestinian technocratic committee expected to assume a role in the post-war administration of Gaza announced late on Wednesday that it had completed its two-day meetings in Cyprus, which focused ...

Over 150 people gathered outside the presidential palace on Monday evening to protest the start of a multi-day meeting of the Gaza Board of Peace in Cyprus. The protest was organized ...

There were two judgments of general interest from the English courts two weeks ago about Palestine Action, a direct-action protest group based in UK that campaigned against the UK government’...

Dozens of Palestinians carried the body of Hamas’ armed wing chief through the streets of Gaza City in a funeral procession on Wednesday, a day after Israel killed him as ...

Israel’s cabinet on Sunday approved a plan to build a defence compound on the site of the recently demolished premises of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in ...

Loyalists of President Mahmoud Abbas won most races in Palestinian municipal elections, officials said on Sunday, in a vote that included a Gaza Strip city for the first time in ...

Renowned Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad is to visit Cyprus next month and give a talk at Famagusta’s Eastern Mediterranean University, where she studied. Alaqad shot to fame in 2023 with ...

The U.N. expert on the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, denounced on Thursday what she described as “toxic” attacks impacting her personal life and work, after a number of European ...

GENEVA, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Friday it will not submit lists of staff demanded by Israel to maintain access to Gaza and the West Bank ...

Turkey’s foreign minister met Hamas officials in Ankara on Monday and discussed the second phase of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza and humanitarian conditions in the enclave, a Turkish ...

As Israel moved the blocks marking its armistice line with Hamas deeper into one Gaza neighbourhood in December, it destroyed dozens of buildings and displaced Palestinians in violation of a ...

An Israeli airstrike killed at least two Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday, local health authorities said, in what the military said was a retaliatory attack on a Hamas militant that ...

An Israeli settler shot dead a 16-year-old Palestinian in Tuqu’ on Tuesday after the funeral of another teenager, the town’s mayor said. Violence has escalated in the West Bank ...

Cyprus has voted in favour of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination after a resolution was put to the United Nations’ general assembly’s third committee in New ...

The Palestinian ambassador here on Thursday appealed to the Cypriot state to “immediately react” to the alleged beating up of a prominent Palestinian figure by his Israeli jailers. In a ...

Cyprus is committed to implementing its six-point proposal for Gaza aid, prioritising action over public relations, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday, but did not provide further details on the ...

Israel’s military said it opened fire on Tuesday to remove a threat posed by suspects who approached its forces in the northern Gaza Strip, and health authorities in the ...

A peaceful protest in support of Palestine took place on Sunday afternoon in Paphos, as in Nicosia, Limassol, and Larnaca, organised by the activist group United for Palestine CY. In ...

When Norway recognised Palestine as a state, Palestinian engineer Adam was thrilled by the show of support, little knowing the move would ultimately derail his family’s dream of winning ...

The UN children’s charity UNICEF called on Friday for all crossings for food aid into war-shattered Gaza to be opened, saying children in the territory were especially vulnerable because ...

 President Donald Trump secured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s backing on Monday for a U.S.-sponsored peace proposal to end a nearly two-year-old war in Gaza, but questions ...

The ambassador of Palestine to Cyprus, Abdallah Attari, responding to a controversy involving Disy, expressed his appreciation for the friendship and solidarity between Palestine and Cyprus, reaffirming his “unwavering respect ...