Four recent cases of women slain allegedly at the hand of either a husband or father have prompted women and human rights groups to demand tougher Palestinian laws against domestic violence.
Several f...
MP Rawya Shawa has called on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to explain to the Palestinians in detail what exactly he would request from the United Nations in September.
She added that A...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Banished Jerusalem MP Muhammad Abu Tir has been sentenced Monday to six months in administrative detention in a ruling by an Israeli military court.
According to the Gaza P...
HEBRON (Ma'an) -- The Israeli army detained five Palestinians in the Hebron district overnight Tuesday, witnesses and the army said.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said three people were detained in ...
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Hamas leader Aziz Dweik said Tuesday that the party would not attend the PLO central council meeting in Ramallah on Wednesday.
Dweik told Ma'an he had sent a letter of thanks to c...
Israeli forces have arrested a member of parliament affiliated with the Palestinian movement of Hamas at his home in the West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron). Hamas legislator Samir al-Qadi was detain...
NABLUS (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces detained two members of the Palestinian Legislative Council from the Hamas and Fatah blocs overnight on Wednesday, following raids on their homes in Nablus and Tulkare...
Deputy Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council Hassan Khreisheh criticized Wednesday what he called the "marginalization" of the legislative body during unity talks in Cairo.
PLC members, who ...
HEBRON (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces detained Palestinian legislator Issa Khairy Aj-Ja’bari from his home in the Namra neighborhood of Hebron overnight.
The detention of the Hamas leader, elected in 2006,...
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