Embassy of the State of Palestine

PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi:

We strongly condemn the insistence of Netanyahu’s government to continue imposing its colonial enterprise throughout occupied Palestine, which aims at burying the two-state solution and to systematically deny the Palestinian people's right to self-determination. 

On South Africa's Freedom day, I am reminded of a time in which our friends in the African National Congress (ANC) told us: “Once Palestine is free, do not forget South Africa.”

This media brief focuses only on recent statements made by top Israeli officials with regard to Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise, Jerusalem, and the prospects for a two-state solution. It also includes several statements from the past week in which these Israeli officials incite against the lives of Palestinian political prisoners...

This media advisory highlights the Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike  launched on 17 April 2017 as one significant step on the long road towards freedom and human dignity and as an effective mean to confront discriminatory Israeli laws. The advisory includes key information on the Palestinian prisoners movement, the legitimate demands of the...

Dr. Saeb Erekat, the Secretary-General of the PLO Executive Committee, today saluted the Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli jails for their acts of heroism and steadfastness in resisting Israel's oppressive practices. Dr. Erekat said: “We call upon Palestinians everywhere to support the national movement of the Palestinian prisoners in their hunger...

RAMALLAH, PALESTINE (April 16, 2017) -- Marking Palestinian Prisoners’ Day (April 17) and the upcoming hunger-strike by Palestinian prisoners, PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi issued the following statement:

Hundreds of Palestinians who are currently being held in Israeli prisons will go on an open-ended hunger strike, beginning Monday 17 April, to mark Palestinian Prisoner’s Day.

RAMALLAH, PALESTINE (April 11, 2017) -- PLO Executive Committee Member Dr. Hanan Ashrawi said:

In the 50 years since Israel has occupied East Jerusalem (an integral part of the Occupied State Palestine along with the rest of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the almost 70 years since the expulsion of two-thirds of the Palestinian Muslim and Christian population from the rest...