Embassy of the State of Palestine

The top Roman Catholic cleric in the Holy Land said on Sunday a spate of attacks against the Church had poisoned the atmosphere ahead of this month's visit by Pope Francis, and urged Israel to crack down on the perpetrators.
Fourteen attacks by suspected far-right Israelis have been reported in the past year. Several have been carried out over the last month, including a death threat daubed in Hebrew at the Assembly of Bishops at the Notre Dame Centre in East Jerusalem.
The attacks have become known as "price tags" - a reference by ultranationalist Jews to making the Israeli government "pay" for any curbs on Jewish settlement on Palestinian land.

BRUSSELS--The European Union, largely relegated to the sidelines during recent Middle East peace talks, sought to pressure Israelis and Palestinians to resume negotiations by deploying a combination of threats and incentives Monday.

EU foreign ministers gathered in Brussels warned Israel of potential consequences if it continues to expand settlements in the territories it captured in 1967.

According to (PCBS) Palestinian population has increased 8-fold since the Nakba. The Palestinian population was 1.4 million in 1948 but by the end of 2013, the estimated world population of Palestinians totaled 11.8 million. This indicates that the number of Palestinians worldwide has multiplied more than eight-fold in the 66 years since the Nakba. According to statistics, the total number of Palestinians living in historic Palestine (between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean) by the end of 2013 was 5.9 million and this number is expected to rise to 7.2 million by the end of 2020 based on current growth rates. Statistical data also show that refugees constitute 44.2% of the total Palestinian population in Palestine. UNRWA records showed that there were 5.35 million Palestinian refugees registered in mid-2013. Around 29.0% of Palestinian registered refugees live in 58 refugee camps, of which 10 are in Jordan, 9 in Syria, 12 in Lebanon, 19 in the West Bank, and 8 in Gaza Strip.

Brussels, May 12, 2014 (WAFA) - The EU foreign affairs ministers’ meeting, held in Brussels on Monday, adopted Conclusions on the Middle East Peace process, stressing that all sides must exercise maximum restraint and avoid any unilateral action which may further undermine peace efforts and the viability of a two-state-solution.

In a letter sent to foreign ministers and leaders, Palestinian Authority says so-called 'hilltop youth' and 'price tag' activists breed a culture of hate and racism. The Palestinian Authority has officially asked the United States, Canada, Russia, and the European Union to declare "price tag" perpetrators and "hilltop youth" activists as terrorist organizations, and include them on those countries' list of terror groups.

Before leaving palestine, Senator Xenophon had a message for any Australian politician who argued Israel’s settlements were not ­illegal. “I would urge Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten to have a good look at the International Court of Justice’s statement on Israeli settlements,” he said. “The ICJ statement is crystal clear — all settlements are illegal under international law.”

GENEVA (8 May 2014) – The outgoing United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, Richard Falk, today urged more businesses and civil society “to join the growing global solidarity movement to resist the prolonged Israeli occupation and creeping annexation of Palestine.”

His appeal comes in the wake of the collapsed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks brokered by the United States over the past nine months.

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said in an interview on Thursday that the Palestinians are ready to resume negotiations under the condition that Israel releases the fourth batch of veteran Palestinian prisoners and halts settlement construction for three months.

Shimon Peres says two-state solution was agreed before it was ‘ended’ by Netanyahu

ISRAELI president Shimon Peres said on Tuesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deliberately destroyed a peace deal that had been reached covertly with the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in 2011.

Some 120 Palestinians serving administrative detention time in Israeli prisons launched open-ended hunger strike on April 24 to protest the conditions of their detention.