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With the arrival of the Hebrew New Year, the Israeli security and military forums have been busy monitoring the main challenges facing the country, as it continues to suffer...

Israelis are concerned about the shameful American withdrawal from Afghanistan and think that their government now needs to reassert its ability to protect its own interests in the region...

The escape of six Palestinian prisoners from Israel's high-security Gilboa Prison has shed some light on the great suffering of prisoners and detainees held by the occupation state. Almost...

Israeli circles have been deliberating numerous analyses of the presidential summit held between Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and US President Joe Biden, who refrained from meeting with former...

It is no secret that growing economic relations between Israel and China are raising concerns in Washington, despite internal warnings in the occupation state that Beijing is exploiting these...

It is known in Israel that there is a trend among young American Jews not to support the self-styled Jewish state. Moreover, such young US citizens are urging Washington...

Israel faces security challenges and military threats and there is an ongoing domestic political crisis which affects its relations with its neighbours and the international community. The occupation authorities...

Recent statements by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett about the freedom of Jews to pray inside Al-Aqsa Mosque have once again highlighted the debate about Jerusalemites and Sheikh Jarrah...

Two months after the end of the last Israeli aggression on Gaza, Israel admitted that there is no simple solution to the situation in the strip. The instability of...

As Israel celebrates the 15th anniversary of the Second Lebanon War, more shortcomings of the Israeli military are surfacing and seem to be centred on the lack of readiness...

The lengthy-term of office of Benjamin Netanyahu was marked by strained relations with Jordan. The new Israeli government is now seeking to restore relations with the Hashemite Kingdom, which...

The Palestinian Authority's murder of opposition figure and political activist Nizar Banat in the occupied West Bank is still reverberating around the local political, security, and media arenas. The...

Over the past few hours, the Palestinian Authority (PA) announced the formation of three teams, composed mostly of its ministers with a partial representation from Gaza, to rebuild the...

Israel's 36th government has been sworn in and ministers have to start work immediately. After four elections in two years, they have some urgent tasks to focus on. Thorny...

It is important to stress at the very beginning that those once close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are the same people who now want to see the...

When the latest Israeli aggression against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip came to an end last Friday morning, the various shortcomings and errors of the occupation army and...

As the Israeli aggression on Gaza continues for the third consecutive day, there is a conviction within the ranks of the occupation army that unless it strengthens its deterrence...

At a time when the confrontations in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied Jerusalem persist, Israeli security and military circles have expressed concerns over the continuation of the uprising...

President Mahmoud Abbas's decision to postpone the Palestinian legislative elections is clearly in line with the demands of the occupation authorities who rejected these elections from the very beginning...

Regardless of the side that carried out the missile attack on the area surrounding the Dimona nuclear reactor, south of Israel, be it Iran, Syria, or another party, the...

Israeli security, political and military circles are agitated amid increasing military tension with Iran, highlighted by the recent attack on the Natanz nuclear facility and the announcement by Prime...

After being absent from Hamas's leadership during the 2017-2021 term, the movement announced electing Khaled Meshaal, the former head of its political bureau, to lead the Palestinian Islamist group's...

The Central Elections Commission has completed the first phase of preparations for holding the legislative elections, by formally registering the 36 competing electoral lists that will compete for the...

Hamas has revealed that it has met with the ambassadors of Russia, Turkey, Iran, and South Africa in Qatar — Nur Muhammad Khulov, Mustafa Goksu, Hamid Reza Dehghani, and...

The results of the recent elections within Hamas in the Gaza Strip are significant because, for the first time since it was founded in 1987, two women have joined...

Hamas surprised us all by announcing the results of its leadership election in the Gaza Strip, which was won by the current leader in the territory, Yahya Sinwar. He...

In recent weeks, Israel has circulated reports that tens of thousands of Palestinians residing in occupied Jerusalem may obtain Israeli citizenship, even though there are 330,000 of them in...

The visit of Egyptian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tarek El-Molla to Israel carried many political and economic implications. The visit resulted in the signing of an agreement between...

A heated debate between Palestinian and Israeli circles surfaced during the past few days after the Jewish National Fund (JNF) announced new plans to expand its settlement projects in...

Immediately after US President Joe Biden's inauguration, Israel started "scrutinising" his ministers and political envoys. It began by categorising each as close or hostile to the Zionist entity, expressing...

With the a new US president in the White House, it is clear that Joe Biden's predecessor targeted occupied Jerusalem by giving Israel the green light to weaken the...

An important development has occurred recently in the Palestinian arena and it is related to the increasing talk of holding internal elections, which may take place in the coming...