Since October 2017, the knot around the neck of the Gaza Strip has been tightening due to the strict Israeli-Egyptian siege and the punitive measures imposed by the Palestinian...

The Egyptian security forces shot dead a Palestinian fisherman on Saturday. Abdullah Zaidan, 33, was killed on board his boat while he was working off the Rafah coast in...

The two main Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, are behind the internal Palestinian division but together they signed a mutual reconciliation agreement brokered by Egypt on 12 October last...

After the US used its veto at the UN Security Council to block the adoption of a resolution condemning President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, the...

Hundreds of protesters made their way to the eastern border of Gaza to protest against Trump's decision

Dr Ibrahim Fares Al-Yazouri was born in the Palestinian village of Beit Daras in 1940. He fled from Zionist gangs to Ashdod with his family in 1948, and then...

American President Donald Trump announced yesterday that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and said he had directed the Department of State to start working on moving the US...

The dramatic recent Saudi-led hike of incitement against Iran and Hezbollah peaked when the government in Riyadh called for the Arab League to convene a meeting and issue a...

On 15 August, the Israeli occupation police raided Umm Al-Fahm, the second largest Arab city in Israel, broke into the house of Shaikh Raed Salah and detained him for...

On the 100th anniversary of the Balfour declaration, the British promise to help create a Jewish national homeland in Palestine, Motasem A Dalloul interviews 81-year-old Palestinian, Abdul-Hamid Ramadan Al-Aloul,...

The tide is turning on Israel's narrative and people are now able to see its atrocities

The Palestinian Islamic Movement Hamas and the Palestinian Secular Movement Fatah signed last week a landmark reconciliation agreement that ended an 11-year rift between the two factions. They agreed...

In an attempt to change Jerusalem's demographic balance in favour of the Jewish population, Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz and Knesset Member Yoav Kisch have proposed a bill seeking...

Despite the positive measures taken by Hamas and the positive remarks made by Fatah, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are still doubtful about Palestinian reconciliation. The Palestinian Authority (PA)...

As the leader of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Ismail Haniyeh, made his way back to the Gaza Strip after an 11-day trip to Cairo, during which he announced...

On 13 September 1993 the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Israel signed the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, or what has commonly become known as the Oslo...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has always claimed proudly that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. On Thursday, he decided to educate diplomats, academics and journalists...

The foundations of a democratic society are well-known and include personal freedoms, respect for law and order, equality for all citizens and controls to prevent the abuse of power....

Iranian journalist and blogger Neda Amin, 32, who fled her country to Turkey in 2014 over a series of articles critical of the government, arrived "safely in Israel" yesterday...

In the Fourth Youth Conference held in Alexandria on Monday, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi called on Egyptians not to have more than three children. He warned that the growth...

The President of the Palestinian Authority, the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Fatah, Mahmoud Abbas, declared a freeze on Friday on all contacts with Israel. His move was in protest...

Three days ago, a senior official Hamas delegation ended a meeting with senior Egyptian officials held in Cairo. The visit came about ten days after the conclusion of a...

On Tuesday 30 May I had a sudden severe pain in my left ear. It could not sleep as I felt the pain spread all over my body. I...

Last Friday, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) announced that it had discovered a tunnel beneath two of its schools in...

When Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas went to Washington and met with his US counterpart Donald Trump earlier this month, his aides described the visit as "historic" and a...

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh yesterday officially announced details surrounding the assassination of Mazen Fuqaha which took place two months ago. It was the first time that Hamas officially accused...

Ismail Haniyeh has been chosen to take over from Khaled Meshaal as the head of the Hamas Political Bureau. The new top man within Hamas was born in Al-Shati...

Generators have become the only lifeline for Gaza's hospitals and patients who are in need of urgent medical care. However, with limited amount of fuel entering the besieged Strip,...

Khaled Meshaal, the head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, announced yesterday evening a new document of principles that outline the movement's positons towards major...

Israel's use of numerous weapons to batter the besieged enclave has left a lasting damage to the lives of children.

The White House is waiting to host PLO leader and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting with his US counterpart Donald Trump. On the agenda will be...

On 4 May, around 23 million Algerians will vote for 462 members of the National Peoples' Assembly, the lower chamber of parliament. Around 11,000 candidates from 57 political parties...