Israel

The Israeli interior ministry yesterday announced that it destroyed 18 Arab houses in the Negev Desert last week, PLS48.net reported. In a statement, the ministry said that it supervised...

'A military court in the Gaza Strip sentenced a Palestinian man to 15 years in prison on charges of collaborating with Israel, a Palestinian judicial source said yesterday. The...

Israel's Supreme Court recommended that the Israeli government recognise the village of Dahmash, located between Lod and Ramle. The court held a hearing yesterday over a petition calling for...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed today to build thousands of new Jewish-only settlements in the occupied East Jerusalem if re-elected to the premiership. "We will build thousands of...

More than 200 academics have signed a statement in support of free speech at the University of Southampton, in response to pressure from pro-Israel groups to cancel a conference...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeated his accusations that foreign forces, in particular Scandinavian countries, are financing campaigns to prevent him from taking power again. Yedioth Ahronoth, the...

Google has decided to restore the Gaza Man game to its Play Store after removing it following Israeli pressure to remove it earlier this month, Palestinian newspaper Al-Resalah reported...

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has warned of the ramification of the ongoing Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip, saying it could open the way for a...

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Sunday that Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) decided to halt security coordination and reconsider the economic relationship with Israel, without setting an implementation date....

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ruled out the formation of a coalition government between his Likud party and its rival Zionist Union alliance following the parliamentary polls, due...

Protests by international solidarity activists against Israel's military occupation continue 12 years after the killing of Rachel Corrie. The young woman was crushed by an Israel Defence Forces armoured...

Renowned Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish performs his iconic piece "There is on this land that which makes life worth living".

Israel plans to build another "separation wall" on the border with Jordan to protect it from possible infiltration by global jihadists, Israeli media reported on Thursday. The plan has...

Around about the same time that Al-Jazeera started to publish the Spy Cables, another story about Israel broke in South Africa, and was covered a fair deal in that...

The EU representative in Jerusalem has issued a mild condemnation of Israel's destruction of two shelters intended to alleviate hardships for displaced Bedouin. The shelters were located in Area...

British ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould met last month with UK university heads in a meeting that discussed Israel and the limits of 'freedom of speech', it has been...

A deal to supply the Palestinian Energy Company (PPGC) with Israeli gas has been cancelled, companies working in the Leviathan gas field informed the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. The...

An extreme right-wing Jewish hate preacher has issued a ruling which urges Jews to hold their prayers inside Al-Aqsa Mosque. Rabbi Dov Lior is one of the most influential...

The Deputy Head of the Hamas political bureau, Dr Moussa Abu Marzouk, said yesterday that the movement "rejected" an Israeli proposal which would effectively separate the Gaza Strip from...

A spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General has renewed calls for Egypt and Israel to lift the siege imposed on the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. According to Anadolu, Stephane Dujarric...

On 17 March, Israelis will go to the polls to elect a new government. Here are 10 facts about the Knesset elections and the Palestinian vote. 1. One in...

The Islamic State yesterday published a video which purportedly shows a ten-year-old child using a pistol to execute a Palestinian man after he was accused of being an Israeli...

The Palestinian Authority said on Tuesday that it is awaiting instructions from President Mahmoud Abbas regarding the cessation of security coordination with the Israelis. In a statement issued after...

The head of the Palestinian Prisoners' Club claimed on Tuesday that almost all Palestinians who are detained by the Israelis, 95 per cent of men and women alike, are...

Over the weekend, seemingly contradictory statements have emerged from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud Party with regard to the two-state compromise – including the contradiction between...

Israeli authorities last night released all five journalists from the Q-Press news agency who were detained from their office in Umm al Fahem yesterday morning. The five were Hikmat...

When Israelis go to the polls next week, PM Benjamin Netanyahu's only serious challenger will be Labour's Isaac Herzog. The latter heads up the Zionist Union joint-ticket, an alliance...

Whether it's with friend or foe, Israel bears no cost for its extreme political brazenness. Such chutzpah is normally the privilege of superpowers, which are able to pursue national...

Switzerland reiterated its continued support for Palestinian reconciliation efforts between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas in accordance with the Swiss roadmap to promote integrating the PA in the West...

Last week Middle East Minister Tobias Ellwood described Israeli threats to demolish the Arab village of Um Al-Hiran in the Negev as "a planning matter that we have raised concerns...

Hamas yesterday denied Israeli reports that it had offered a truce in return for lifting the Israeli siege which has been imposed on Gaza since mid-2007. The Israeli news...

Organisers centralised the annual Women's Day protests this year in order to increase the number of participants into one collective event. The main demonstration was accompanied by smaller localised...