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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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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....

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...