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Palestine's Ambassador to the United Nations has condemned John Kerry's criticism of the UN Council for Human Rights. Speaking to Anadolu, Ibrahim Khreisheh said that the US Secretary of...

Five pro-Palestinian protesters from the anti-war women's group CODEPINK were arrested on Sunday outside the annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington DC. The...

A new opinion poll suggests that a quarter of all American citizens have no idea who Benjamin Netanyahu is, have never heard of his name and don't know what...

In its annual report entitled "Children in Israeli Military Detention Observations and Recommendations", UNICEF has said that Israeli treatment of Palestinian children is "in violation of international law". "Since...

A wine-spattered copy of the parliamentary guest list for the Conservative Friends of Israel's "Annual Business Lunch", which took place in December last year, has made it onto my...

Israeli occupation forces called up thousands of soldiers in a "surprise" training drill in the occupied West Bank, news reports said yesterday. Israel said the exercise was to train...

The Palestinian corruption crimes tribunal yesterday postponed judgment in the corruption case against the former leader of the Fatah movement in the Gaza Strip Mohammed Dahlan pending a decision...

Texas A&M University's plan to open a branch in Nazareth has been hampered by its inability to find a suitable investor. University representatives met with the mayor of Nazareth...

Khadra Ibrahim, shakes her head at the mention of her current home – a cramped, but well-kept, refugee tent in Baharka Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp, near Erbil in...

In the years before the establishment of the State of Israel, caravans and traders from neighbouring Arab states crossed open borders bringing hides from Damascus, Beirut and Cairo that...

The European Union's diplomatic missions in Jerusalem and Ramallah have denounced recent attacks by extremist Jewish settlers on Muslim and Christian religious sites in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, it...

SOAS students and staff have endorsed an academic boycott of Israel, after the results of a week-long referendum were released Friday evening. The vote, open to students, academics, and...

The relationship between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) has never been an easy one, but has been in a particularly bad state since last April, when Mahmoud Abbas's...

The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Madani, has said that the United States has so far failed to be an effective mediator in the Israeli-Palestinian...

The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Madani, has said that the United States has so far failed to be an effective mediator in the Israeli-Palestinian...

Western diplomatic sources revealed that last September the Palestinian Authority (PA) rejected a US-European draft resolution at the UN Security Council that would have extended its authority to the...

The full implications of the latest scoop from Al Jazeera's investigative unit are still being digested, and the story is not over quite yet. But the leaked documents published...

The issue of settlements and the confiscation of land in the occupied Palestinian territories is at the heart of the debate and controversy over the decades-long negotiations. This position...

Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is drawing to an end. This is an international series of events that seeks to raise awareness about Israel's apartheid policies towards the Palestinians and...

Even after the recent Copenhagen and Charlie Hebdo attacks, Benjamin Netanyahu's calls for European Jews to migrate en masse to Israel failed to garner much enthusiasm. Yet over the...

The Palestinian presidency held the Israeli government responsible for settler attacks against Islamic and Christian places of worship in the West Bank and Jerusalem. Palestinian state-run news agency Wafa...

We have learnt a major lesson from professional training sessions and that is the importance of concisely defining the target that we ultimately want to reach, how to set...

Israeli occupation forces this morning distributed demolition orders to a school, some buildings, and tents in the city of Yatta, south of Hebron, the coordinator of the Popular Committee...

The Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and all Palestine, Theophilos III, denounced on Thursday what he called "repeated" attacks on Christian and Muslim places of worship in...

Reconstructing the Gaza Strip will take more than a century if the Israeli siege on the Strip is not lifted, the London-based charity Oxfam warned today. "At current rates...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday accused the six world powers (the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany) of giving up on their commitment to prevent...

British graffiti artist Banksy released a short video on his website yesterday showing his recent trip to the Gaza Strip. In the video, Banksy outlines the hardships faced by...

US Secretary of State John Kerry and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas discussed on Wednesday in a telephone conversation Israel's withholding of Palestinian tax revenues, a senior Palestinian official...

UNICEF's latest bulletin has confirmed the systematic violation of children's rights while they are in Israeli detention. The findings of "Children in Israeli Military Detention" support evidence collected in...

The Israeli Supreme Court yesterday allowed Yisrael Beiteinu, headed by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, to distribute the special issue of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo which contains a cartoon...

A group of Jewish settlers on Wednesday morning torched a mosque near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, Anadolu news agency reported. The news agency also reported that the Jewish settlers...

The American administration previously warned against the possibility of the PA collapsing if Israel continues to withhold its tax returns for the second month in a row. The withholding...