Palestinians

A Palestinian computer engineer, who has been hailed on Turkish social media for his efforts to recover a couple's lost camera, said he felt gratitude to Turks for returning his lost wallet twice. 

Not far from his destroyed home in Syria's Yarmuk camp for Palestinian refugees, 21-year-old Abdallah al-Harith dabs bright red paint onto a canvas standing amid the grey ruins.

Turkish President Erdoğan has congratulated Palestinian protest icon Ahed Tamimi in a phone call, hours after her release from Israeli prison.

The Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency (TİKA) has been carrying out several projects in Palestine with the aim to cater to the needs of Palestinians.

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on May 22 that Israel will "give an account" over the killing of more than 60 Palestinians in Gaza last week, vowing that Turkey supports Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki's taking of the issue to the International Criminal Court.

Ambassadors and members of the Palestinian community of Romania on Tuesday signed a condolence book opened at the Embassy of Palestine in Bucharest, in memory of the Palestinians killed on May 14 in the Gaza Strip by Israeli forces.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on May 15 called on the world's more than 1.5 billion Muslims to "band together" over the Palestinian cause after more than 60 people were killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

Turkey has condemned the Israeli intervention against protesters at the Gaza Strip, which led to the death of 29 people, including Palestinian journalist Yaser Murtaja, who was wearing body armor clearly marked "Press."

The US has reduced funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East by almost 33 percent, according to multiple published reports.

Palestinian Christians pummeled the car of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem on Jan. 6 during a visit to the occupied West Bank in protest against the church’s decision to sell land to Jewish groups.