Israeli paramedics left a wounded asylum seeker bleeding for 18 minutes without treatment because he thought he was Arab, video footage has revealed. Eritrean Habtom Zerhom was shot by...

Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem have been brought to a close with the marking by the Armenian Orthodox Church of Jerusalem of Christmas Day on January 19th. In the 18th...

While the Tunisian political scene has recently garnered praise and attention for winning the Nobel Peace Prize, it has yet to win any prizes for establishing a thriving and...

More than 1,060 new apartments were handed over to those most in need in the Gaza Strip in the presence of the Qatari ambassador. The properties, constructed as part...

As the Palestinian death toll continues to rise on an almost daily basis, Palestinians across the West Bank are holding memorials and solidarity events alongside ongoing protests. Israel’s policy...

It is now five years since the ouster of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia’s long-time dictator and the first of the Arab despots to be successfully challenged and toppled...

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Orphans held a protest in front of the Egyptian Embassy in the Gaza Strip yesterday demanding Cairo open the Rafah crossing which links the besieged enclave to the world...

Dozens of journalists from press agencies and human rights organisations gathered today in a march that started from the Palestinian Legislative Council’s offices in Gaza to the Red Cross...

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A video showing clips of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit while in Hamas captivity was released on Sunday by the Izz Eddin Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, who...

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A cold weather front has hit Palestine for the past three days, although it is expected to end on Saturday, forecasters have reported. Heavy rainfall has affected all of...

Egyptian authorities opened the tightly controlled Rafah Crossing to let the corpse of the Palestinian man killed by Egyptian soldiers into the Gaza Strip, Anadolu reported on Wednesday. Sources...

Palestinian factions have called on Egypt to open an investigation into the killing of a mentally-ill Palestinian at its borders last week, Quds Press reported on Monday. During a...

The head of the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s Department for Links with the Christian World has described Egypt’s killing of a mentally-ill Palestinian from Gaza as a “dirty act”, Al-Resalah...

Thousands of Palestinians attended a funeral procession Saturday for a 38-year-old Palestinian mother who was shot and killed by Israeli gunfire a day earlier. Mahdia Hammad, a mother of...

Israeli forces killed two Palestinians on Friday and wounded more than 30 others in the besieged Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank A spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of...

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Saudi Arabia’s Jarir Bookstore has removed publications by US presidential candidate Donald Trump from its shelves, Alkhaleejonline.com reported yesterday. Saudi activists had taken to Twitter to express their dismay...

Israeli naval forces have arrested 14 Palestinian fishermen off the Gaza coast and seized their boats, MEMO’s correspondent in Gaza has reported. Witnesses said that Israeli gunboats opened fire...

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The Palestinian Red Crescent wheelchair basketball team won the 2015 championship tournament in Gaza yesterday evening. Organised by the Paralympics Committee and sponsored by the International Red Cross Association...

Russia launched a series of indiscriminate airstrikes against the opposition-held Syrian city of Douma, on the outskirts of Damascus, yesterday. The aerial assault consisted of 12 cluster bombs, 53...

Gaza farmers have succeeded in growing hanging strawberries for the first time. The first successful crops of the season were harvested this week, sources in Gaza confirmed. Hanging strawberries...

As many as 50 civilians were killed in airstrikes carried by Russian warplanes on the city Duma, Damascus, yesterday. Civil defence officials in the opposition-held region said Russian aircrafts...

At the Al-Shati refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, the streets and walls of many of the homes have been splashed with color by 30 painters in an...

Late on Thursday night the first 163 of a planned 25,000 Syrian refugees arrived in Canada, and were greeted and given winter coats by prime minister Justin Trudeau. The...

Egypt’s tourism authorities launched a new promotional ad campaign, featuring this whimsical video above that depicts the country’s rich diversity. It ends encouraging viewers to share the hashtag #ThisIsEgypt....

When the third of Israel’s recent major military offensives against my besieged country was over last year, I wrote a memoir about surviving three wars through the brutal black...

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Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza took part in marches to celebrate the 28 years since Hamas was founded. During the march in northern Gaza, Deputy Chief of...