Fatah veteran dies after lengthy illness
Veteran Fatah politician Abdul Aziz Shahin, known by his kunya of Abu Ali, has passed away, aged 80. He died on Tuesday morning after spending weeks in Al-Shifa Hospital...
February 14, 2014
Veteran Fatah politician Abdul Aziz Shahin, known by his kunya of Abu Ali, has passed away, aged 80. He died on Tuesday morning after spending weeks in Al-Shifa Hospital...
February 14, 2014
The Yesh Atid Party in Israel has said that the coalition government is in danger following a freeze in the debate over the recruitment of religious students into the...
February 14, 2014
An Israeli TV station has said that the number of Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank makes a two-state solution unrealistic and almost impossible to achieve. Israel’s Channel...
February 14, 2014
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal has told Britain’s Channel 4 News that the Islamic Resistance Movement decided to leave its base in Damascus after failing to persuade the Syrian government...
February 14, 2014
Lebanon’s Energy Minister has announced the discovery of a huge natural gas field in his country’s territorial waters. Gebran Bassil said that the field contains an estimated 30 trillion...
February 14, 2014
The Lebanese President, Michel Suleiman, on Sunday asked his Foreign Minister, Adnan Mansour, to file an urgent complaint with the United Nations over recent Israeli violations of Lebanon’s airspace....
February 14, 2014
The Palestine Festival of Literature (Palfest) has been holding a series of events across historic Palestine. On Tuesday, a programme in Haifa was arranged in cooperation with the Arabic...
February 14, 2014
Iranian support for Hamas has been affected because of the Islamic Resistance Movement’s position towards Syria, prominent Hamas official Khalil Al-Hayya said on Thursday. The head of the Hamas...
February 14, 2014
The chief of Israel’s secret service (Shabak), Yoram Cohen, has expressed his pessimism about the latest US moves aimed at reviving Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, Israeli radio reported on Tuesday. Cohen...
February 14, 2014
A leading international think-tank claims that Israel possesses 80 nuclear warheads. According to the Stockholm International Peace research Institute (SIPRI), 50 of the warheads are for medium-range ballistic missiles...