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The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has highlighted the plight of the growing number of orphans in the Gaza Strip. The situation has been noted in the OIC's latest...

A Palestinian expert in international law has revealed that the number of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is now 469, of which 29 are in Jerusalem. The...

The District Court in East Jerusalem has convicted an Israeli businessman of fraud. Benno Zussman was found guilty of fabricating documents relating to land owned by the Greek Orthodox...

The German government will not support a unilateral Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has told Haaretz newspaper. Speaking during a visit to Israel, Westerwelle...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES More than one million Palestinian students started the academic year in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip on Sunday. Almost quarter of a million attend government...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) is giving serious consideration to suing Israel's Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, through American, Israeli and European lawyers. A spokesperson for the PA and PLO announced...

EXCLSUIVE PICTURES Renowned UAE ear specialist, Dr Mazen al-Hajri, announced in Gaza on Sunday the manufacture of a newly developed cochlea implant. Al Hajri who was awarded the 2011...

Egypt has told the Israeli and US defence ministries, as well as the leadership of the multinational UN forces in Sinai, that its army will respond immediately and without...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On Tuesday, Gaza's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities opened an exhibition of historic Palestinian records and manuscripts at the Pasha Palace. The records represent a substantial historic...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Palestinian Minister for Prisoners' Affairs in the Ramallah Authority has taken the lead in popular protests in solidarity with prisoners who are serving long-term sentences in...

Deputy Israeli Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said on Monday that Israel would not accept any modification of the Paris Economic Protocol (PEP), Israeli sources have reported. Speaking on Voice...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Palestinian Legislative Council has approved the new cabinet in the Gaza government. As before, the government will be led by Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, who confirmed...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed his government's willingness to adopt a number of measures suggested by Israel's Ministry of Finance to cut the general budget. These include a...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) ended its bureau meeting in the Gaza Strip yesterday, 30 September, with a declaration affirming that Israeli actions in the...

Member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) have deplored Israel's ongoing violations against Palestinians and called for an immediate halt to Israeli disregard for human rights...

The head of the Islamic Action Front in Jordan, Hamza Mansour, has said that his country is going through a "complicated crisis" but Islamists "haven't given up on dialogue"....

A delegation of professors from Constantine and Khenchela Universities in Algeria along with scientists from the Centre of Astronomical Research, have arrived in the Gaza Strip for a solidarity...

The Israeli government has backed the proposal to turn Ariel College into a university. The college is located in an illegal settlement built on occupied Palestinian territory. Supporting the...

Jordan's Islamic Action Front has expressed its concern about Israel's violations of international laws, resolutions and conventions, not least its violations against the sanctity of Al Aqsa Mosque and...

The International Crisis Group (ICG) has urged the West to open up to Hamas by pointing out the important role the movement can play in Palestine's future during the...

The Israeli Defence Minister has called for unilateral disengagement from the West Bank excluding the major settlement blocs, which will be annexed to the Zionist state. Ehud Barak's proposal...

The pro-Hamas bloc won an overwhelming victory in elections for workers' unions at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza on Monday. The process was monitored...

The Israeli occupation forces have blocked the preparatory work on an agricultural wells project funded by Norwegian People's Aid in the occupied West Bank. The project was being implemented...

Beirut – Oliver Holmes Oposition activists have reported that Syrian government forces stormed into Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp and raided a hospital after a four-day artillery assault on the...

Media sources have reported that although Israel's defence establishment has refrained from revealing details of the drone shot down in the north of the Negev Desert, it is believed...

A large delegation of businessmen from various fields accompanied Egyptian President, Mohammed Morsi, on Sunday, September 30, on his official visit to Turkey. The visit is part of on-going...

The Palestinian Authority has warned the deadlock in peace talks with the Israelis will result in a single state governed by the system of apartheid. In a document circulated...

Four men have been sentenced to between 1 year and life in prison for the kidnap and murder of pro-Palestine activist Vittorio Arrigoni in 2011. The sentences were handed down...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Palestinian government in Gaza has given the enclave's fishermen new equipment which has been donated by the Qatar Charity. The new net-pulling motors and other essential...

Palestinian Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad, has stated that the Palestinian National Authority is waiting on the receipt of external money transfers in order to pay its public sector employees...

A Palestinian educational institution in Israel has called for a demonstration on Thursday in front of Sheikh Mo'nes Cemetery in Tel-Aviv to protest at what it says is "the...

The headquarters of the Yaffa Islamic Club has been attacked by Jewish settlers who set fire to the inside of the building on Shivtei Israel Street in Jaffa. The...