The European Union (EU) is funding illegal Palestinian construction in Area C, a territory that is under full Israeli jurisdiction according to the Oslo Accords, The Daily Mail reported Thursday. The EU is acting illegally by funding unauthorised Palestinian building in areas placed under Israeli control by international law, say an...

Palestinian journalists operating in both Gaza and the West Bank are subject to high levels of intimidation, according to a report published Tuesday in Al-Monitor. The report cited a study by the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms from 2014, which “found that 80% of Palestinian journalists in the West Bank...

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) aim to enhance its control over two of its proxies in the Middle East, an Arabic magazine reported. The new strategic plan of the IRGC includes plans to transfer the decision-making from local figures in each area to the IRGC’s elite Quds Force. Al-Watan Al-Arabi reported (Arabic link)...

Egypt became on Sunday the first Arab country to designate the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, a faction of Hamas, as a terrorist group. The court that made the designation accused the Hamas branch of launching terrorist attacks to support the Muslim Brotherhood and executing a bombing that killed 33 security personnel in...

Prof. William Schabas, the controversial head of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) commission charged with investigating charges of war crimes alleged against Israel during Operation Protective Edge last summer, has resigned amid growing indications of bias. Reuters reports: In a letter to the commission, a copy of which was seen...

In a letter sent to Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday, a bipartisan majority of 75 senators pressed the administration to oppose the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) attempts to join the International Criminal Court (ICC). The senators declared that PA President Abbas’ “effort contravenes the spirit of earlier agreements between...