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More than eighty Palestinian civil society organisations have handed a petition to the EU representatives in the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem and Ramallah complaining about Europe's expansion of trade and...

The Israeli occupation forces have turned the roofs of Palestinian homes in the ancient city of Hebron, south of the West Bank, into military barracks and control points under...

The Palestinian government in the Gaza Strip has called on the Egyptian authorities to provide greater support for the territory's electricity supply, which is still in crisis. Government spokesman...

Three groups of Israelis have visited Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City protected by soldiers from the Israel Defence Forces. Al-Aqsa Foundation for Heritage and Waqf (Islamic endowment)...

The Syrian army has attacked Al-Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, killing two refugees and a Syrian, and wounding a child. Abdul-Basit al-Bitar was killed when an artillery shell...

After concluding meetings between Palestinian and Egyptian senior security officials, Palestinian Prime Minster Ismail Haniyeh is scheduled to meet his Egyptian counterpart this week, the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper reported...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Mohammed Abu-Tir, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), was released on Wednesday after spending one year in administrative detention in an Israeli prison. The parliamentarian,...

The Council of Catholic churches in the occupied Palestinian territories has condemned the hostile graffiti scrawled on the main gate of a Franciscan monastery in Jerusalem yesterday. The attack...

The foreign ministers of Tunisia and Germany, Rafik Abdul Salam and Guido Westerwelle, have condemned acts which they say go beyond freedom of speech to incite hatred. In a...

In a long TV interview on Thursday, senior Israeli politician Yossi Beilin called on the Palestinian President to get rid of the Oslo agreement because "it destroyed Palestinians". Beilin...

Officials at Israel's national archive have refused requests from journalists to have access to documents relating to the 1982 massacre in the Palestine refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila...

EXCLUSIVE PICUTURES Demonstrations against massive price-hikes of fuel and other essential commodities which began last week in the occupied West Bank have accelerated following clashes which erupted between security...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Palestinian Supreme Court in Ramallah has ruled that teachers who were sacked for their political affiliation in the West Bank have to be reinstated. The ruling...

Syrian and Iranian media sources launched, on Monday, a severe defamation attack against Khalid Meshaal, the head of Hamas' political bureau, who left Syria after the revolution began. The...

Israel's Ashkelon Prison administrators have imposed a financial penalty on Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Khamis Brash after he asked to go to hospital for treatment, the Palestinian Prisoners Club (PPC)...

The World Bank has launched an appeal to its member states urging them to address the fiscal crisis afflicting the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank as a...

Gaza City is preparing to host an exhibition of manuscripts and historical documents prepared by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. Examples of Palestinian pounds and stamps dating back...

The Islamic Action Front political party in Jordan has denied that it has pledged to review its position on an election boycott. In a press statement, the party's secretary,...

Jewish vandals attacked and set fire to Al-Latrun Monastery in Jerusalem in the early hours of Tuesday morning, writing anti-Christian graffiti on its walls. Muslims and Christians have denounced...

An Israeli media reported on Monday that the country's foreign ministry has expressed concerns over the broadening of the Norwegian initiative to boycott Israeli settlement produce. The Norwegian Foreign...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES A delegation from Qatar has arrived in Gaza to begin projects which are part of the $300 million grant from the Gulf Emirate for the reconstruction of...

Official sources have reported that the Palestinian Authority embassy in Kuwait, which has been closed for twenty-two years, will be re-opened next month. According to PA Foreign Minister Riad...

Education was disrupted on Sunday in Ganba School near Hebron, by Israeli soldiers who detained the teachers and prevented them from getting into the building. The Director of the...

A senior Muslim Brotherhood official has been assigned to manage the Gaza free zone portfolio by Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi. Khairat Al-Shater is one of the prime movers behind...

An Israeli ministerial committee has decided to hand over Hebron's old vegetable market to the Hebron Settlement Council. The decision has been condemned by the Palestinian-run Hebron Rehabilitation Committee...

Al-Azhar, the oldest educational institute in the Sunni Muslim tradition, has warned of the consequences of extremist Jewish groups storming Al-Aqsa Mosque which it considered a criminal act that...

In his speech to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, King Abdullah II of Jordan warned Israel about its "religious transgressions" against Al-Aqsa Mosque. He stressed that attempts to...

Informed sources report that the leadership of the Hamas Political Bureau, headed by Khaled Meshaal, has held a senior-level meeting in Cairo over the past two days. The anonymous...

The head of the Civil Service Union in the occupied West Bank has said that employees of the Palestinian Authority will continue to protest against the economic policies adopted...

A spokesman for Hamas in Gaza has accused Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of provoking a crisis with the Islamic Resistance Movement in order to divert attention from anti-PA...

The Israeli occupation authorities have completed the apartheid wall around Jerusalem, cutting it off from its West Bank hinterland. The final 130km section brings the total length of the...

On the 43rd anniversary of the arson attack on Al-Aqsa Mosque by an Israeli extremist, Al-Quds International Institution has issued a report detailing the increasing number of Israeli assaults...