Israel and Palestine

'Heritage as a weapon': How West Bank digs became a tool of dispossession - opinion

How archaeology in the West Bank has become a battleground over sovereignty, heritage, and international law

A Palestinian archaeologist works on a lead sarcophagus discovered in Gaza City in early 2022. A common Israeli claim is that Palestinians have ‘no interest’ in antiquities.
Palestinian children play in a Roman-era fountain in Battir, a village in the West Bank, south of Jerusalem.

Palestinian Authority accelerates heritage campaign as West Bank tensions rise

Israeli-Arab journalist Mohammad Magadli bridges the divide between Israeli and Arab media in Israel.

Between two worlds: Mohammad Magadli, an Arab voice in Israeli media

Husam Zomlot, head of the Palestinian mission to the United Kingdom, gestures during a ceremony after Britain announced on Sunday its recognition of a Palestinian state at the mission's headquarters in London, Britain, September 22, 2025.

WATCH: 'Palestine on British soil': Palestinian embassy in London officially inaugurated


Abbas says Palestinians to seek full United Nations membership

“The US has chosen not to be a mediator for the peace process. We reject it as mediator. The US is with Israel and supports and backs it.”

The United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, US

Palestinian shot after stabbing Israeli Border Police officer

Police says officer in moderate condition, investigating whether assailant wore an explosive vest while posing as a journalist.

Israeli border policemen stand away after shooting a Palestinian man with a knife and what looks like an explosive belt near Ramallah

Smuts and Weizmann

My great-grandfather’s love of Israel and South African Jews

Chaim Weizmann and Jan Smuts, circa 1915

How much money is Qatar spending on a facelift for Gaza?

Inside the quiet Qatari transformation of former Israeli settlements into snazzy new apartments for Gazans

Hamas official Ismail Haniyeh (R) and the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani arrive at a cornerstone laying ceremony in the southern Gaza Strip

UN special envoy: No peace for Israel with Arabs while ignoring Palestinian statehood

Nickolay Mladenov talks to the ‘Post’ about a wide range of regional issues

Nickolay Mladenov, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General.

70 years of conflict later

While territorial division remains the focus of the peace process, some believe that the core issue of the conflict is a rejection of any Jewish sovereignty

DAVID BEN-GURION reads the declaration of Israel’s independence in Tel Aviv in 1948

Before any talks, the Palestinians must move from rejection to recognition

A fatal flaw meant that they were doomed to failure.

Participants run past Israeli barrier during Palestine Marathon in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.

Left-wing MK encounters hostile audience at Israeli-Palestinian debate

“Allah has given this land to the Jewish people. Allah has given us the State of Israel,” said Rabbi Fleischer of Hebron.

A YOUNG Jewish settler in Hebron looks out of a window in a disputed building.

Could you imagine the fact that someone tells that you have no right on your country?

The Jerusalem Post

Palestinian leaders need to have ‘that’ Santa conversation with their people

I’m not comparing the Palestinian population to children, but certainly their leadership is selling their own version of the Santa story to them.

 Introductory Poster, UN Nakba Exhibit, Palais des Nations, Geneva, 2014