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A member of Fatah's Revolutionary Council has issued a statement claiming that the organisation is suffering from internal problems that are impacting the decisions of senior Fatah members. "Fatah is experiencing internal conflicts that have caused the dismissal of cadres; on the top of those dismissed comes Mohamed Dahlan,"...

Israeli television reported that the occupation authorities have opened a new museum beneath the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Islamic-Christian Committee to Support Jerusalem and the Holy Sites denounced on Monday the international silence on Israel's measures to Judaise the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem. The committee urged the world to speak...

Israeli occupation forces killed three more Palestinians in two separate incidents on Tuesday evening in the south of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. Although the killings took place in two separate incidents, the Israelis claimed that the victims were all "planning to carry out terror attacks inside...

The commander of the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) announced on Tuesday that his fighters will not join the Geneva II conference in January and will continue their battle to topple President Bashar Al-Assad regardless. General Salim Idris told Al-Jazeera that: "The conditions are not suitable for running the...

The Al-Aqsa Foundation for Religious Endowments and Heritage has warned of a recommendation by the chairperson of the Knesset's Interior Committee, Miri Regev, which aims to facilitate the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque during the festival of Hanukkah that starts on Thursday. The Foundation explained in a statement that...

Reports from America claim that Saudi Arabia has deployed army reinforcements along its border with Iraq. The World Tribune confirmed from Saudi officials that the Interior Ministry and the National Guard have sent troops to control the desert area. "The troops," it said, "were deployed after a mortar strike...

With tension mounting in cities across south-east Yemen, it has been reported that violent clashes have taken place near the country's presidential palace. A military official said that the capital Sanaa has witnessed a "bloody" day due to increasing lawlessness and an escalation of countermeasures by the security forces....

The Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad is estimated to have killed 10,000 women over the past 30 months, through "bombings, executions and torture". The claim has been made by the Syrian National Coalition opposition group, which added that women in Syria "continue to be the most damaged by the...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that his government has taken "good" steps in external policy, noting that uranium enrichment is a "clear right and red line". In a televised speech, Rouhani stated: "We broke the sanctions system. We will never stop enriching uranium." Last weekend, Iran and...

On Tuesday, the Palestinian civil defence crew in Gaza found on old cannon in the sea near Zawayda in central Gaza Strip that is believed to date back to before the First World War. The civil defence crew assisted the marine police in extracting the cannon from the middle...

Israeli radio has reported that the chief British negotiator for the Iran talks is scheduled to arrive in Israel on Wednesday to coordinate the UK's position on Iran with senior Israeli officials. According to the radio reports, the talks will focus on the interim agreement with Tehran and the...

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Richard Falk warned on Wednesday of an impending disaster in the Gaza Strip as a result of the ongoing Israeli siege. In a statement, Falk said: "The situation in Gaza is approaching disaster due to the breakdown...

The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly adopted five draft resolutions on the Question of Palestine. This year's number of countries to vote in favour of draft resolutions on the Question of Palestine has increased compared to last year. The draft resolutions are: A peaceful settlement of the Question...

Official data from the Israeli Knesset show that more than 400 Israelis commit suicide every year. According to the figures, the phenomenon has increased in recent years. On Tuesday the Israeli Knesset held a special plenary session to discuss the problem and approved a national plan for the prevention...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES In front of Palestinians wounded by Israel's repeated attacks on the Gaza Strip, activists called on Wednesday for urgent action to stop Israeli measures against the coastal enclave. Speaking to media from the scene, the independent Palestinian parliamentarian Jamal Al-Khodari called for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas...

Activists published a photo of residents of East Ghouta in Syria, which has been besieged for months by Assad's forces, as they cut a lion to eat it after shooting it. The Assad regime has for months been imposing a severe siege on Al Ghouta, preventing the entry of...

The Al-Aqsa Foundation for Religious Endowments and Heritage announced on Thursday that Israeli occupation forces protected at least 100 settlers who stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque while denying dozens of Palestinian students and senior clerics from entering the mosque, forcing them to wait outside its gates. Israeli forces have been...

Palestinian Prime Minister in the Gaza Strip Ismail Haniyeh proposed on Wednesday a clear vision for carrying out national reconciliation. Speaking in a closed meeting with Palestinian academics, politicians and activists in the Gaza Strip, Haniyeh said that his movement, Hamas, is unconditionally ready to enter into reconciliation talks....

Members of the Palestine Liberation Organisation have agreed that Palestine Authority President Mahmoud Abbas should abandon the current negotiations with Israel and work instead through the international institutions at the UN to hold the occupation accountable for its crimes. They have also stressed that the occupation is using the...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES The first documented mass use of the kufiyeh within Palestinian resistance was during the First Revolution in the late 1930's when peasants who led the struggle against Zionist colonisation and British imperial rule wore it to hide their faces. Soon, Palestinians across the country began to wear...

EU official: The 2005 agreement on the Rafah crossing has not been officially signed by the Palestinian Authority or Israel. The Head of the EU's Border Assistance Mission at the Rafah Crossing Point (EU BAM), Gerhard Schlaudraff, revealed that the Agreed Principles for the Rafah Crossing that were reached...

The foreign ministers of the Gulf States have said that the discussions about peace in Syria, slated to take place in January, need to result in deciding a specific time frame for forming the new Syrian government. They also reiterated that no opposition parties should take part in the...

A newspaper in the Gaza Strip has reported that Qatar is about to deliver around 40 million litres of fuel to the beleaguered territory. Shaikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani has ordered a ship carrying the oil to proceed to Ashdod, the nearest Israeli port to Gaza. The Israeli authorities...

Israel's Minister of Housing Uri Ariel has said that settlement construction in the occupied West Bank will continue at a rapid pace. The minister, who is himself a settler, was participating in laying the foundation of an educational complex in the Itamar settlement near Nablus, in the northern West...

Member of the Hamas political bureau Mousa Abu-Marzouq expressed surprise on Thursday after several parties called for severing relations between Cairo and Hamas. He wondered: "Is there a relationship between Hamas and Egypt in order to be cut?" Regarding the Rafah Crossing, which is the only window to the...

Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad, has told cabinet ministers that the president of the Palestinian Authority benefits too much from the current negotiations, making him "incapable of signing a historic agreement that ends the conflict". According to Yedioth Ahronoth, this doubt is coupled with the assessment by Mossad that the...

Palestinian Minister for Prisoners Affairs Isa Qaraqe warned on Thursday that Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails "face slow death because of intentional medical neglect." "Israeli prison services do not offer proper medicines or care for the prisoners," Qaraqe told the local Palestinian news network Quds.net. "It is a continuous...

The Israeli occupation authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a four year-old Palestinian boy from Jerusalem, the Wadi Hilweh Information Centre has reported. According to the Centre, the Israeli authorities raided the house of Zine al-Majid in old Jerusalem to arrest his four year-old son Mohammed as part...

Israeli intelligence reports have revealed that agents believe that it will be difficult for Israel to reach a final peace agreement with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas because he does not represent all Palestinians. The Israeli cabinet discussed the reports on Wednesday. Israeli media reported officials saying that the...

A working group for Palestinians refugees in Syria has strongly condemned what it describes as the "flagrant violations of human and legal values in Egypt's treatment of Palestinian refugee women who fled with their families from the war in Syria and have been placed in Egyptian prisons." In its...

Three Israeli soldiers of Druze-Arab heritage were denied access to the Dimona nuclear site when their unit was posted there on guard duty. The officer and two men were "humiliated" in the incident several weeks ago, reported Yedioth Ahronoth. "When the soldiers arrived to the centre," claimed the newspaper,...

Eliezer Rabinovici, an Israeli professor of physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the chairperson of the High Energy Physics Group, has been appointed Vice-President of Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME), a project that he co-founded. The SESAME project aims to build...

Palestinian sources reported on Thursday that a Palestinian child has died at an Israeli occupation checkpoint that is known as "the Container" and which separates the central West Bank from the south. The sources said that the Israeli soldiers stationed at the checkpoint had stopped Palestinian vehicles for three...

Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics has revealed that the number of illegal settlements constructed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem this year has increased by 130 per cent in comparison to last year. According to the Centre's report, "at least 32,000 housing units have been built since...

The Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) has revealed that an undersea gas field off the coast of Gaza contains an estimated 33 billion cubic metres of natural gas. This, reports Turkey's Anadolu news agency, is sufficient to fulfil Palestinians' needs in Gaza and the West Bank for around 25 years....

The Federation of the Palestinian Teachers (FPT) announced on Friday the start of a three-day working strike in all schools, directorates and related ministries in the occupied West Bank. FPT Secretary General Isam Dababseh said: "FPT decided to carry out the strike from 8 to 11am." He announced that...

Head of the Syrian National Coalition, Ahmed al-Jarba, said that they would not go to Geneva II unless the conditions proposed by the revolution are accepted and the Coalition are held with authority in Syria. In a speech read by Nasser al-Hariri in Horan Conference in Istanbul, Al-Jarba refuted...

Despite it being a great danger to the region, the UAE has announced its support of the Iranian deal, along with the great world powers, on its nuclear programme. The deal also gave a large push to the Iranian policy to dominate over the states of the Arabian Gulf....

Senior member of Hamas political bureau Mousa Abu-Marzouk warned on Friday "any new Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip will not be similar to previous attacks." Posting on his Facebook page, Abu-Marzouk wrote: "Occupation leaders will regret any battle they go into in Gaza." Abu-Marzouk posted his remarks commenting...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES The global 'Day of Rage' against the Prawer Plan included demonstrations and other solidarity actions in more than 24 cities around the world. According to Adalah: the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights, who are challenging the Prawer Plan within the Israeli courts, the Prawer Plan will...

Haaretz has reported that the World Zionist Organisation's Settlement Division, a branch of the Israeli government, is preparing a new-old plan to Judaise Galilee in order to achieve a demographic balance with the Palestinians. The newspaper noted that the WZO is approaching various ministries suggesting that they bid on...

Official statistics have revealed that over 900 people were killed last month in the daily acts of violence plaguing Iraq. Waves of violent acts have taken place increasingly over the past 7 months. Obtained by Agence France-Presse, the data was received from the Iraqi ministries of defence, interior and...

Israeli President Shimon Peres addressed a conference held in Abu-Dhabi about two weeks ago that was attended by 29 Arab and Islamic foreign ministers, Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Monday. The newspaper described the speech as "historic", pointing out that ministers of Arab countries that have no relations...

The Foreign Press Association (FPA) has charged the Israeli military of "deliberately targeting" journalists following clashes Friday at Qalandia checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah in the Occupied West Bank. In a statement dated 1 December, the FPA Board said that "Israeli forces threw stun grenades at FPA photojournalists" even...

Several Palestinian human rights sources have reported that the Israel Prison Service has been organising military training for its Masada unit, the elite unit that is specialised in suppressing Palestinian prisoners inside the patients section of the Ramla prison infirmary. The Palestinian Prisoners Club said on Sunday that: "the...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES Independent Palestinian MP Jamal Al-Khoudary has ignited a symbolic flame to break the siege of the Gaza Strip. The head of the Popular Committee against the Siege stressed the need to confront the Israelis and bring them to account for it. "It will only end when sufficient...

Israel's Minister of Economy Naftali Bennett has said that he is against the establishment of a Palestinian state, or even giving the Palestinians any land. During an interview with Israel's Channel 2 television Bennett, who is the leader of the right-wing "The Jewish Home" party, was confronted for his...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES Schoolchildren in the Gaza Strip have organised their own unique protest against the naval blockade of the territory. With the support of international activists, the children made and floated hundreds of model boats as a symbol of being able to break free from the stifling blockade of...

A delegation from the Islamic Resistance Movement, led by its political bureau head Khaled Meshaal, has arrived in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur for an official visit. The Hamas delegation was invited by the ruling United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), Malaysia's largest political party. According to the Palestinian Information...

Palestinian employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) are due to begin a strike on Tuesday morning unless the agency answers to their demands, their union has announced. "The union's decision to go on an indefinite strike is the last resort to achieve our rights and an...