Irsraeli police tackle a protester outside the Jewish settlement of Bet El, near Ramallah.
Reuters/Mohamad Torokman
With its ever harsher measures against Palestinian protests, Israel is blowing past all acceptable standards.
Damage to Al Quds campus in the Abu Deis suburb of Jerusalem following an October raid.
Mojama'a Alanshita
Classes at Al-Quds University have been disrupted by violence, but students are still struggling to learn.
Reuters/Amir Cohen
Violence has become a daily occurrence in Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank and the body count is rising.
Despondent: Mahmoud Abbas addresses the UN.
EPA/Andrew Gombert
In a grim week at the UN General Assembly, the key partners in the Middle East peace process made it clear they’ve lost patience.
Reuters/Mussa Qawasma
Israel’s extreme response to Palestinian protests is simply prolonging the cycle of violence.
Mohammed Saber/EPA
Journalists can go where diplomats can’t: but that doesn’t make it easy.
Residents of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip watch a parade by the military wing of Hamas to mark the anniversary of the war with Israel.
AAP/Newzulu/Mhmed Ali
Although Hamas also wants a return to normalcy in the Gaza Strip, it is potentially a double-edged sword for the movement.
Palestinian workers on the West Bank.
Reuters/Ammar Awad
Israeli employers have always had a complicated relationship with Palestinian workers – and it’s getting worse.
Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan would have been force-fed under new laws.
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By legalising the controversial measure, even practices at Guantanamo might soon be able to come in from the cold.
Labor leader Bill Shorten addresses delegates during the final day of the ALP national conference.
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Bill Shorten has emerged from the ALP’s national conference looking more like an alternative prime minister than he did before.
Not much of a weapons system.
EPA/Abed Al Haslhamoun
Israel’s official policy treats stone throwing as ‘a real mortal threat’. The question is, who to?
A different perspective: Birzeit University.
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To Palestinian students fed up with Fatah and imprisoned by politics, Africa’s maturing democracies are a source of inspiration.
BDS protesters on the West Bank in May 2015.
EPA/Abed Al Haslhamoun
Israel’s prime minister is using boycott fears to distract attention from his government’s increasingly right-wing agenda.
Time to reflect.
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Blair’s time as peace envoy left a lot to be desired.
“You’re offside Sepp.”
EPA/Amos Ben Gershom
Palestine is spearheading an international effort to get Israel booted out of FIFA – but the organisation just wants to stay out of politics.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas signs ICC Rome Statute last December.
EPA
With the peace process derailed and the incoming Netanyahu administration promising zero tolerance to Palestine, joining the ICC sets a major cat among the pigeons.
Streetfighting man.
EPA/Jim Hollander
The crucial ballot will take place against a rapidly moving international situation.
At the Israeli separation barrier in Bethlehem, Palestinians watch a projection of Mahmoud Abbas speaking at the UN General Assembly before a November 2012 vote that paved the way for ICC membership.
EPA/Abed al Hashlamoun
2015 began with Palestinian leaders having submitted the paperwork to become signatories to the Rome Statute, the document that governs the International Criminal Court (ICC). Last week, United Nations…
The Israeli government continues to undermine a two-state solution by expanding settlements in occupied East Jerusalem.
EPA/Jim Hollander
Escalating confrontations in Jerusalem centred on the al-Aqsa Mosque, 1500 more homes to be built in settlements in occupied East Jerusalem and a sharp deterioration in Israel’s relations with Jordan have…
The bodies of Aryeh Kopinsky (C), Calman Levine (L) and Avraham Shmuel Goldberg lie in vehicles during their funeral.
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The attack on a Jerusalem synagogue in which four Jewish worshippers were killed and eight were injured has sparked new fears that fighting between Israel and Palestinian could flare up once more. The…