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50 Years of Israel’s Occupation: The Continued Expulsion of Palestinian Jerusalemites

This fact sheet focuses on the pretexts used by the Israeli occupying authorities in order to expel Palestinians from Jerusalem (Section I). However, it...

Tayseer Khaled: Dismantling the UNRWA depends on the return of Palestinian refugees to their homes

Tayseer Khaled , PLO Executive Committee member , member of the Politbureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine described the Israeli...

PLO welcomes Amnesty International campaign to ban Israeli settlement products

ban all Israeli settlement products from international markets. “This has been a longstanding Palestinian demand from the international community,”...

PLO Secretary-General Dr Saeb Erekat on Amnesty International Campaign to Ban Israeli Settlement Products

We welcome the campaign of Amnesty International to ban all Israeli settlement products from international markets. This has been a longstanding Palestinian...

PLO Secretary-General Dr. Saeb Erekat marking 50 years of Israeli Occupation: This is a shame for the International System

We are marking 50 years since a deliberate Israeli attack resulted in Israel occupying the 22% of historic Palestine that had been left since 1948. It...

From the Desk of PLO Secretary General By: Dr. Saeb Erekat

National commemorations form part of every society’s fabric and identity. Some are celebrations – of peace, of independence, of milestones in human...

A Message from H.E. President Mahmoud Abbas By: President Mahmoud Abbas

Our challenge as Palestinians is greater than ever. After 50 years, we are the only remaining people in the world who still live under occupation. And...

PLO Secretary General Dr. Saeb Erekat: Israeli government insists in sabotaging international efforts

We condemn in the strongest terms the latest provocation by the Israeli government, holding its weekly in the tunnels beneath Al Aqsa Mosque Compound in...

Serious health conditions for striking detainees and transferring them to civil hospitals

The Media Committee pointed out that the prisons' administration isolating the striking detainees from the outside world and putting obstacles in front...

Dr. Erakat on the 69th Nakba Anniversary: "The Nakba means an ongoing journey of pain, loss, and injustice."

Our nation marking 69 years of the Nakba, our national catastrophe, is symbolized in our exile and the systematic denial of our rights. The Nakba means...

Summary of the prominent events of the twentieth day of the "Freedom and Dignity Strike"

The Media Committee of the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners' society, present the summary of the twentieth...

Israel launch An Open War against Jerusalem on the 50th Anniversary of Its Occupation

The National Bureau warned of the risks of the settlement schemes that the Israeli government began to speak about as they are backed by Netanyahu and...