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The Israeli security service expects fighting to break out in Syria near the ceasefire line in the Golan Heights warning battles could spill over to the occupied Golan Heights,...
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The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini yesterday called on Israel to release the Palestinian Authority's tax revenues as an immediate measure to address the...
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The South African Ambassador to Palestine has made an official visit to the Gaza Strip. Receiving the ambassador in Gaza City on Wednesday, Mayor Nizar Hihazi briefed His Excellency...
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The Palestinian president's advisor on religious affairs and Islamic relations, Mahmoud Al-Habash yesterday called on UNESCO to immediately intervene and stop Israel from distorting facts and destroying heritage in...
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Article
Very few enduring historical conflicts have involved such a polarisation of discourse and a reliance on racialised constructions of the other than that between Israel and the Palestinians. Even...
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Palestinian faction Hamas on Wednesday denied reports that a commander of its armed wing, the Ezzeddin al-Qassam Brigades, had been killed in an Egyptian airstrike in the northern Sinai...
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US President Barack Obama said on Monday there are differences in opinion between him and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the Iranian nuclear issue, warning him against souring...
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A meeting of Fatah senior leaders head by Fatah, PLO, and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas failed to set date for the seventh Fatah conference, Today's Opinion online newspaper...
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The spokesman of the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Ashraf Al-Qidra, said on Tuesday that the IMF is to pay $2 million to support the needs of the healthcare sector...
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Israel's former Foreign Minister Yossi Beilin said yesterday that he is currently developing the idea of a confederation between the Palestinians and the State of Israel. Beilin's remarks came...
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The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticised a recent statement issued by the Quartet saying the group's statement "did not live up to expectations" and "ignored Israel's apparent violation...
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Blog
February 11, 2015
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Jessica Purkiss
In the northern Jordan Valley last week, Israeli forces destroyed a 1,000 metre pipeline built to provide water to Palestinian communities. In East Jerusalem, tens of thousands of Palestinians have...
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The main post office in occupied East Jerusalem has not delivered mail for two weeks, Haaretz has reported. Those affected include residents who have been expecting travel documents, bank...
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Israel believes that the European Union is preparing to impose severe sanctions on settlements built on occupied Palestinian land. Officials who have visited European foreign ministries and the EU...
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Israeli officials, who recently visited European foreign ministries and the headquarters of the European Union (EU) in Brussels, said that the EU is preparing to impose severe sanctions on...
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Article
February 10, 2015
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Nasim Ahmed
With the appalling rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes across Europe, arguably as a consequence of political decisions being implemented elsewhere, there is an urgent need to separate Jews and...
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Blog
February 10, 2015
Hani Al Masri
The Palestinian president issued a presidential decree providing for the formation of a national committee to follow-up with the ICC, calling it the Supreme National Committee for Coordination with...
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During the 51st Munich Security Conference last Sunday, the Middle East Quartet urged for a resumption of negotiations between Israel and Palestine and expressed concern about the impediments that...
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James Rowley, the UN's coordinator for humanitarian affairs in the Palestinian Territories, called on Tuesday for lifting the years-long siege of the Gaza Strip and for rebuilding areas damaged...
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A team of volunteers from the Palestine Trauma Centre toured the area where ten children from Al-Shati Refugee Camp were martyred on the first day of Eid Al-Fitr during...
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Turkey today condemned Israel's approval for the construction of new settlements in East Jerusalem. "We condemn Israel's activities which affect the region's stability and expect Israel to cease as...
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The Israeli army arrested a Palestinian official on Monday as he was taking part in a ceremony to plant 300 olive trees in the town of Silwad in the...
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"The Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon had failed in his position and caused harm to Israel on more than one occasion," pls48.net reported Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman saying yesterday....
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The Palestinian Authority yesterday announced that starting Wednesday it will ban the sale of products from six major Israeli companies in response to Israel's withholding of Palestinian tax revenues,...
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Qatar's Foreign Minister Khalid Bin Mohammad Al-Attiyah defended his country's support of Hamas saying the group is not a terrorist organisation but merely fights the Israeli occupation. Al-Attiyah stressed,...
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Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Sebastia Atallah Hanna yesterday said that he absolutely rejects any activity that would fuel sectarianism and intolerance in Palestine. Bishop Hanna's remarks came after a...
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Article
February 9, 2015
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Samira Shackle
Israel and the US have a longstanding alliance; political leaders from both countries regularly visit the other for talks and to make speeches. But a speech by Israeli Prime...
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The Palestinian tribunal for corruption yesterday asked Hussein Al-Araj, the head of the Palestinian Authority (PA) president's office, to testify in Mohamed Dahlan's corruption case, Arabs48.com reported. In an...
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February 9, 2015
Salih Al-Nuami
Israel's political elite have expressed extreme anxiety toward signs of rapprochement between Turkey and Saudi Arabia, considering such a rapprochement to be detrimental for Israel's strategic environment. Within 48...
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An interfaith charity has dropped a controversial rabbi as patron, following an expose in Middle East Monitor. Yitzchak Schochet's appointment as patron was announced by Faith Matters on 26...
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The Palestinian Authority has criticised the Israeli government's decision to demolish Palestinian buildings funded by the EU in so-called area 'C' of the occupied West Bank. According to Anadolu...
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Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar said on Sunday that the Palestinian unity government has not achieved any of its missions and called for new elections to solve the current...