EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Farmers in the Gaza Strip have begun this year’s harvest of dates. About 3,000 dunums (one dunum is equal 1,000 sq metres) are under date cultivation in...

The Palestinian Authority has welcomed the news that that Israel has failed in its bid for re-election to the Council of Administration of the Universal Postal Union (UPU); Israel...

The United Nations Fourth Committee has accused the Israeli authorities of obstructing efforts to reconstruct the Gaza Strip, which was devastated during the Israeli war in 2008/2009. Life in...

A group of illegal Israeli settlers have thrown the Abul-Hawa family out of their home in occupied East Jerusalem, forcing the seven family members onto the street with their...

The Speaker of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has expressed concern that Israel will face security and political obstacles over settlements if US President Barack Obama is re-elected. Reuben...

Sources in Israel have claimed that anger is spreading within the Likud Party following the Prime Minister’s declaration of the electoral alliance between his party and Yisrael Beiteinu, the...

Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister has confirmed that it is still supplying the Syrian regime with arms and ammunition, including air defence weapons. Dmitry Rogozin tried to justify this by saying...

Anger and worry prevails amongst the people of Umm Al-Hayran, a Palestinian village in the Negev Desert following a decision by the Israeli Building Council to expel villagers in...

Egypt’s Foreign Minister has insisted that Sinai is Egyptian land and his country is the only one with legal sovereignty over it. Speaking about the security situation in Sinai...

The Secretary General of the Tunisian Salafist Al-Asala Party, Dr Al-Mawlidi Ali Mujahid, arrived in Gaza on Monday evening at the invitation of Al-Mujahideen Brigades. He is the first...

The Islamic Action Front (IAF) in Jordan has denounced Israel’s bombing of a munitions factory in Sudan. In carrying out this attack, the organisation pointed out, “Israel has broken...

The Israeli government has criticised the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. Richard Falk has called for a boycott of all companies...

The internationally renowned thinker, critic and linguistics scholar Noam Chomsky has arrived in the Gaza Strip to participate in an international conference organised by the English Department at the...

Major-General (Res.) Amos Gilad has admitted that Israel cannot eradicate Hamas entirely. But, the Director of Policy and Political-Military Affairs and Chair of Security at the Israeli Ministry of...

A Palestinian farmer was injured in an Israeli drone attack in Gaza on Wednesday. The man was working on his land to the east of Al-Burij refugee camp in...

The Deputy Chief of the Hamas Political Bureau, Mousa Abu Marzouq, met the Russian Foreign Minister in Cairo on Monday. According to the Russian News Agency, Sergey Lavrov said...

The Israeli occupation authorities issued on Wednesday eviction notices to a number of Jerusalemite families telling them to leave their homes, which will be demolished shortly. Inhabitants in the...

It has been revealed that there has been a remarkable increase in the number of breast cancer cases in the Gaza Strip. Dr. Sawsan Hammad, the Director of the...

An Israeli court has heard that the government of Ehud Olmert drafted a plan to starve Palestinians in Gaza. The details were revealed after a human rights group obtained...

A meeting between the Islamic Action Front Party and the Jordanian Prime Minister-designate, Abdullah Al-Nesor, has been deemed to have failed. The discussion was intended to overcome the differences...

Egypt’s newly elected Patriarch of Alexandria, Pope Tawadros II, has announced that he will maintain the policy of his predecessor Pope Shenouda III of discouraging Coptic worshippers from visiting...

An Iraqi parliamentarian has accused the US forces of stealing the country’s Jewish Archive and handing it over to the Israelis. Talal Zobai, the chair of the Parliamentary Tourism...

Deputy Chief of Hamas’ political bureau, Mousa Abu-Marzouq, said on Wednesday that Egypt’s stance towards Palestinian political parties has become more balanced. Unlike the previous regime, Abu-Marzouq told the...

The Palestinian government in Gaza headed by Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has called on the Arab League to intervene immediately to put an end to “Israel’s crimes against the...

Israel’s Prime Minister has announced that his government will do everything it can to prevent Syria’s chemical weapons falling into the hands of “terrorists”. Speaking during a meeting with...

A large group of Palestinian lawyers have refused to appear before an Israeli court because they were ordered to be strip-searched before entering the courtroom. The details have been...

The Hamas-led Palestinian government in Gaza has made an unambiguous apology for the police attack on a women’s protest march on Tuesday. The demonstration had reached the Palestinian Legislative...

In the wake of his televised dismissal of the right of return for Palestinian refugees, a former close ally has accused PA President Mahmoud Abbas of compromising on national...

A Cairo court has thrown out a lawsuit calling for the abolition of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. The court ruled that the issue is a “matter...

The Palestinian Teachers’ Union has gone on strike in protest at the delay in the payment of salaries. Classes in all public schools and universities have been disrupted. The...

Israel’s Minister of Defence, Ehud Barak, has said that the Levy Report on the legalisation of settlements in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem will not boost settlement construction,...

Israeli plans for spying on Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi have been published by the Palestinian news agency Sama. The plans, it is claimed, were prepared by the Mossad and...