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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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