Female Palestinian detainee Muna Qa’dan, 51, was sentenced today to 18 months in Israeli jails and a fine of 7,000 shekels ($2,000), the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said in a statement. Qa’dan, from the town of Arraba in the north of the West Bank, has been in prison without trial since 10 April 2021. She has been arrested by the Israeli occupation several times, and has served a total of

Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Jolie affirmed today her country’s support for the two-state solution and its readiness to continue its diplomatic efforts to achieve this goal. Speaking over the telephone with Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Riyad Al-Maliki, Jolie expressed her country’s rejection of the continued Israeli settlement expansion on Palestinian land and its concerns over the escalation of violence in the past few months, especially in Jerusalem.

UN human rights experts today denounced Israel for abusing counter-terrorism laws to target and silence human rights defenders, after an Israeli court accused Palestinian aid worker Mohammed el-Halabi of “financing terrorism”. Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Palestine, and Fionnuala Ni Aolain, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights, said, “The conviction of the former program director of World Vision’s Gaza office

Palestinian-American supermodel Bella Hadid has shared photos for Palestinian refugee children on Instagram with the message “I wish I could go back in time to when I was a child, so that I could start fighting for Palestine sooner”. Hadid wrote on her account, “Tears in my eyes watching this scene on my way to work this morning…..Everyday I wish I could go back in time, to when I was