The Palestinian Presidency condemns and rejects the approval of a law by the Israeli Knesset which allows the execution of Palestinian prisoners, describing it as a blatant violation of international humanitarian law and a clear breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the State of Palestine strongly condemns this arbitrary prevention by the Israeli occupation authorities, which constitutes a dangerous precedent and criminal deprivation of the right to freedom of worship and targets the very presence of the indigenous Christian population in the Holy Land, calling for immediate and practical intervention by the international community and its institutions.
"For the first time in centuries, the Heads of the Church were prevented [by the Israeli Police] from celebrating the Palm Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre," said the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Custody of the Holy Land in a Joint Statement in which they "express their profound sorrow to the Christian faithful in the Holy Land and throughout the world that prayer on one of the most sacred days of the Christian calendar has thus been prevented."
NAD Media Brief documents significant and intensifying terror attacks carried out by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since the outbreak of the war on Iran. With the imposed comprehensive military closure on West Bank governorates, the observed patterns suggest that settlers are exploiting the "fog of war" and the occupation authorities’ strict restrictions on Palestinian movement to intensify their assaults on Palestinians, continue carrying out forced displacements, and expand their hegemony over Palestinian land, resulting in multiple civilian killings, injuries, and extensive property destruction.
Thematic reports highlighting the situation and realities of Palestinian women across key areas, issued by the Ministry of Women’s Affairs of the State of Palestine on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2026.
