H.E. Dr. Husam Zomlot has urged British parties to follow the example of the Labour Party's support for international law and justice on the issue of Palestine.The Labour Party Manifesto ahead of the 12 December UK general election committed a

The US has shifted its position on the status of Israel's settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.On 18 November, Mike Pompeo, the US Secretary of State, announced that Washington no longer considered settlements "inconsistent with international law."This

A ceasefire was agreed on 14 November between Israel and the Islamic Jihad group in Gaza after the assassination of an Islamic Jihad leader and his wife at their home in Gaza and a subsequent 48-hour spike in violence across

 Israeli police on 3 November arrested Fadi al-Hidmi, the Palestinian Authority's minister for Jerusalem Affairs.It is the third time al-Hidmi has been arrested since he took office last April and it marks another violation of Palestinian rights in occupied East

The Balfour Declaration was issued on 2 November, 1917. It announced the British government’s support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine. The consequences are still felt by Palestinians today.The Declaration foreshadowed the 1948

Nabil Anani, Noura Erakat, Isabella Hammad, Andrew Ross and Samuel Wilder took away the prizes at the seventh Middle East Monitor Palestine Book Awards on 1 November.The awards have been taking place annually since 2012 and honours authors who have

H.E. Dr. Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian ambassador to the UK, on 20 September visited the All Saints Catholic School in Dagenham, London. The visit came as part of the Rivers of the World Project, in which students at All Saints

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the right-wing Likud party, on 15 September announced his intention to annex the Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea, if elected again. Netanyahu said he had received a green light from the US