Israel

December 2008. The deadly Israeli assault on Gaza, lasting three weeks as the Strip was invaded by land, sea and air known as Operation Cast Lead sets the theme...

Israeli authorities have bowed to pressure from Jewish settlers and ordered a ban on Palestinians from using Israeli-run buses in the West Bank, Israeli daily Haaretz reported Sunday. According...

Egypt has notified Palestinian resistance movement Hamas that indirect talks with Israel on a permanent cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, which were due to resume Monday, have been delayed,...

Five and a half years before Jordan signed its peace treaty with Israel at Wadi Araba in October 1994, the country saw the eruption of its first major revolution...

Israel's intelligence and strategic affairs minister Yuval Steinitz has accused British MPs of "encouraging terrorist attacks", following the parliamentary vote in support of Palestinian statehood. Steinitz, a senior cabinet...

Morocco denounced on Friday the latest Israeli escalation in the city of Jerusalem, and the remarks of some Israeli officials, as an attempt to "undermine the legal status of...

Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas warned the Israeli occupation that it would "pay a high price" for its "crimes" in the Palestinian city of Jerusalem, promising to take "strong" and...

The Israeli army killed on Friday evening a Palestinian boy in the West Bank village of Silwad, near Ramallah, Palestinian Safa news agency said. Witnesses said that Orwa Hamed,...

Israeli army forces opened fire on Palestinian farmlands in southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, eyewitnesses said. "Israeli forces stationed at the Kisovim military post opened fire on farmlands [in...

Uri Ariel, Minister of Housing and Construction from the Jewish Home party, has announced his intention to move to the Silwan neighbourhood of East Jerusalem. He made the announcement...

Watch the BBC's coverage and it may have you believing that Israel is a small, embattled outpost of modern "civilisation" in the war-ravaged Middle East. A "villa in the...

Are there similarities between the so-called "Islamic State" in Iraq and Syria and the self-styled "Jewish State" in Palestine? Quite a few. For a start, both thrive on religious...

Kuwait's former Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah finished giving his statement to the state's prosecutor general yesterday evening in the case brought against him and the country's...

The Supreme Palestinian Fatwa Bureau, lead by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian Territories, Sheikh Mohammad Hussein, issued an official fatwa forbidding the sale of land and...

Yesterday morning while crossing the Qalandiya checkpoint to my way to work in Ramallah I "earned" a traffic ticket. The police officer informed me that I had violated the...

Egyptian and Israeli navy vessels have been continuously targeting a fishing boat in the waters near Rafah in the south of Gaza with heavy gunfire. Security sources have told...

Data issued by the Palestinian Monetary Authority (PMA), which carries out the work of the Central Bank, indicate that the total amount of domestic personal transfers made by Palestinians...

On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered "that sovereignty be enforced in all parts of Jerusalem by positioning additional forces throughout" the holy city, which both Palestinians...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed, on Thursday, that Israeli occupation authorities would order the "strongest possible response" to any future Palestinian civil protests, what he referred to as...

An Israeli parliamentary committee will on Monday look into recommendations regarding securing the entry of settlers to Al-Aqsa Mosque, despite the ongoing protests. According to the Knesset's website, on...

The Islamic resistance movement Hamas announced on Thursday that the Palestinian who slammed his car into Israeli settlers on Wednesday was indeed one of its members, but did not...

Ten days before he drove his car on passengers descending from the light train in Jerusalem, killing a three months old baby and wounding four others, Abdel Rahman al-Shaludi,...

At last, it appears that the United Nations General Assembly's (UNGA) 138-9 majority vote in November 2012 to accord Palestine observer state status might finally be bearing fruit. Sweden's...

Extremist settlers set fire on Wednesday to agricultural lands in the town of Huwara, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, Al-Resalah newspaper reported. According to Al-Resalah,...

The Palestine solidarity and human rights organisation Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel in South Africa (BDS South Africa) will be taking part in this month's National Day of...

One of the conundrums about Israel is that the country's media often carries far more robust stories about the state than the many pro-Israel media outlets in the West....

Naftali Bennett, leader of the Jewish Home party, yesterday warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that his party will destabalise the coalition government if the premier doesn't expedite settlement construction...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is to blame for the car accident that took place earlier in the day in...

The Israeli ambassador to Jordan, Daniel Nevo, has said that "Israel couldn't dream of a better neighbour than Jordan," noting that the strategic relationship between the two countries is...

Eight Palestinian women have gone on trial in Israel after being detained yesterday while they left Al-Aqsa Mosque. According to an Alresalah correspondent, Israel held a session this morning...

Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip over the summer prompted an unprecedented outpouring of solidarity for Palestinians in the West, from street protests to expressions of outrage by mainstream...

As usual, whatever Israel fails to impose by war, it tries to achieve by means of the subsequent agreements, and the reconstruction of Gaza agreement under the supervision of...