Palestine has welcomed a report of Amnesty International in which the rights body has called Israel an apartheid state in terms of its laws, policies and practices against Palestinians.

In a statement, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said it was a "detailed affirmation of the cruel reality of entrenched racism, exclusion, oppression, colonialism, apartheid, and attempted erasure that the Palestinian people have endured.

Earlier, the Amnesty International in its report had stated that the Israeli state maintains an institutionalized regime of oppression and domination of the Palestinian population for the benefit of Jewish Israelis.