Palestinian Prime Minister in Ramallah Rami Hamdallah is to head the upcoming Palestinian national unity government which was agreed among the Palestinian factions, an informed source told Al-Rai news...

America’s former peace envoy to the Palestine-Israel negotiations, George Mitchell, has said that the only solution to the conflict is through the two-state solution. Responding to a question from...

The former president of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, Moaz Al-Khatib, denied on Wednesday media reports claiming that several Syrian opposition figures are forming a...

The Tunisian authorities have detained 30 Palestinian refugees at Carthage Airport, including three children under ten years old and four women and young men persecuted by the Syrian regime...

A number of Fallujah neighbourhoods were targeted on Wednesday by artillery shelling and rockets that resulted in collateral damage across people’s properties; it is unknown if there was any...

The mission of US envoy Martin Indyk has come to an end, as he announced on Wednesday that he is planning, during the upcoming days, to dissolve his team...

Israel’s Foreign Ministry has strongly denied media reports claims the Israeli government had agreed to hand the Vatican control of the Cenacle, the room where Christians believe Jesus held...

The Israeli authorities issued another evacuation order against the residents of Al-Araqib village in the Negev Desert on Wednesday, Palestinian sources have reported. The sources said that the Israeli...

The Global March to Jerusalem (GMJ) has strongly condemned the escalating attacks on Palestinian Christians in Jerusalem in the lead up to Pope Francis’ visit on May 25th. On...

The head of the Iraqiyya opposition bloc, former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, raised questions on Wednesday about the integrity and fairness of Iraq’s parliamentary elections. Allawi issued a press...

The total budget of the different Israeli intelligence services has risen by 10 per cent in 2013 to reach NIS6.6 billion ($1.9 billion), according to data published by the...

Palestinians currently being held in Israeli jails as administrative detainees have been on continuous hunger strike for 29 days now, and thousands of other prisoners are joining them in...

Under the pretext of building without licence, the Israeli police demolished on Tuesday 18 Palestinian buildings in the occupied Palestinian territories. According to the Israeli radio, the Israeli police...

Paris Court of appeal on Tuesday found the French flag carrier Air France guilty of exercising “racial discrimination” for removing a pro- Palestinian activist from a Tel Aviv- bound...

Paris Court of appeal on Tuesday found the French flag carrier Air France guilty of exercising “racial discrimination” for removing a pro- Palestinian activist from a Tel Aviv- bound...

Amnesty International accused the international community of ignoring the needs of the Syrian refugees in Lebanon, and warned that the great deficient in international aid will mean that they...

The World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved a $40 million grant to support the Palestinian Authority’s strategic reform priorities. The Bank said in a statement on Wednesday...

A magistrate court in the occupied West Bank revealed that it had sentenced former senior Fatah leader Mohamed Dahlan to two years in prison, after being found guilty of...

Assistant UN Secretary-General for Political Affairs Oscar Fernández-Taranco called on Israel and Egypt to take immediate measures to improve livelihood situation for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and to...

After the broadcast of a video that showed Israeli soldiers shooting Palestinians, the US called for Israel to conduct a “thorough” investigation into the incident. Israeli human right organisation...

Head of Hamas political bureau Khaled Meshaal said on Tuesday that the era of Palestinian internal division has ended with no return and Palestinians are closer to a real...

Reporters Without Borders issued a statement on Tuesday condemning Israel’s increasing violence against Palestinian journalists, including the deliberate targeting of two journalists during clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli...

Occupation forces damage electricity and water networks in massive Jenin raidn a massive raid, Israeli occupation forces arrested on Tuesday at dawn a youth from the Jenin refugee camp,...

The following is a statement from UNRWA spokesperson Chris Gunness: Since the beginning of 2013, UNRWA has observed a sharp increase in the number of Palestine refugees killed and...

The Secretary General of the Islamic Jihad movement, Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, has said that his movement is willing to enter the Palestinian Liberation Organisation if there are new political...

PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ahsrawi said that the US has partially withdrawn from directly intervening in the negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis. According to Al-Araby Al-Jadid news...

A senior IDF officer has told a Knesset committee that military training in live-fire zones in the West Bank “is used as a way of reducing the number of...

Israeli media reported that Shabak assassinated a leader of the Hamas movement in West Bank by using poison ten years ago. According to the Voice of Israel, the two...

The Islamic Movement confirmed that a wiretapping device was concealed inside a telecommunication box installed by a Bezeq (Israeli telecommunications company) employee in the office of Sheikh Ra’ed Salah,...

The interior ministry in the Hamas government in Gaza Strip has accused “subversive parties” in the West Bank of hampering Palestinian reconciliation efforts by persisting with political arrests and...

Saudi Press Agency, SPA, reported that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Spain have signed on Monday a security cooperation agreement. The agency said that Saudi interior minister, Prince...

Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israeli government is facing a diplomatic crisis after failing to convince the world to reject the would-be Palestinian reconciliation government which is set to include Hamas. Israel...