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The designations authorise Israeli authorities to close the groups' offices, seize their assets, arrest their staff in the occupied West Bank and ban supporting their activities

"After six years, I only felt freedom when I heard the word 'Mama' from my little son, who I left when he was only eight months old," says mother...

Ask any Palestinian about their connection with Palestine, wherever they live, and the olive tree would figure prominently in what Palestine means to them. This would be alongside the...

Saudi authorities must stop the arbitrary detention of Palestinians "immediately", the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said yesterday. The Working Group finds that Mohammed Al Khoudary and...

Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at his residence Bocharov Ruchey in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi today. This is the first time the...

Ahmed Aboul Gheit, secretary-general of the Arab League, found nothing else to occupy his time other than to declare his support and understanding of the coup carried out by...

Turkish intelligence services have dismantled an Israeli Mossad network that was gathering information on Palestinians living in the country, the Turkish Sabah newspaper reported yesterday. Fifteen people were arrested earlier this...

A shocking account of the rape of a Palestinian woman by an Israeli officer seven years ago has emerged after the military's appeals court cleared the details of the...

Israel's Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday that "conflict" was the only way to stop Iran from reaching nuclear capability, claiming that "a confrontation with Iran is only...

One of the gains from the much talked about American "pivot" towards Asia is the genuine prospect for geopolitical recalibration. As implausible as this may sound, amongst the shifting...

Israel is set to advance the construction of more than 3,000 settlement units in the occupied West Bank including East Jerusalem, local media reported. The weekly schedule published by...

When the news circulated that Morocco's leading political group, the Development and Justice Party (PJD), had been trounced in the latest elections held in September, official media mouthpieces in...

Israel is a "colony" controlled by the "settler power's representatives" who disregard the rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel and those in the occupied territories, a leading Middle East...

Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed an agreement yesterday to cooperate on multiple space projects, including the launch of the "Beresheet 2" mission to the moon scheduled...

The news of the arrival of 235 displaced Jews to Israel via Ben Gurion Airport on 13 October went straight over our heads. These immigrants arrived from the city...

Palestinian activists have accused PayPal Holdings Inc. of discrimination for not allowing Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip to link their bank accounts to its...

Meeting 12-year-old schoolgirl Maram Al-Amawi and her mother Ezdihar, 31, was an emotional moment. I was with them to hear about their treatment for the severe burns that they...

The city of Umm Al-Fahm has announced a general strike for tomorrow, in protest of the rising violence and murders in the city based to the north of Israel,...

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It is important to build on UN resolutions and to support the perceptions and working mechanisms of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to consider the possibility of conducting a...

As Israel continues to approve illegal settlement construction in the occupied West Bank, Irish politician Chris MacManus, a member of the European Parliament for Sinn Féin, has criticised the...

Thirteen people have been tried on drug trafficking offenses, one was handed a death sentence, while three others have been given life terms.

The Israeli occupation authorities have expelled the head of the Islamic Cemeteries Care Committee, Haj Mustafa Abu Zahra, from Jerusalem, Safa news agency has reported. The expulsion order is...

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement hailed on Wednesday Malaysia's rejection of normalisation of ties with Israel. Hamas thanked Malaysia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Saifuddin Abdullah, for "refuting Israel claims"...

The United States has been trying to drag more Arab and Muslim states to normalise ties with the occupation state of Israel, Palestinian Authority (PA) Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki...

An Arab-Israeli man was gunned down by armed men in a passing vehicle in the town of Umm al-Fahm, north of Israel, on Tuesday morning. Local authorities reported that...

The Palestinian Authority is suffering from a financial crisis which is close to a "breaking point", the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process has warned. "Donor...

Every foreign agricultural worker was sexually assaulted in Israel, according to a new report presented to the Knesset's Special Committee on Foreign Workers yesterday. Shocking levels of abuse were...

Saudi Arabia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Abdullah Bin Yahya Al-Mouallimi, yesterday slammed Israel, saying that it has "robbed the Palestinian people of their most basic rights". Speaking at the Economic...

A slim majority, 53 per cent of Israelis, believe that Israel should seek assistance from the countries it has normalised relations with to advance peace with the Palestinians, a...

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The Palestinian Authority prime minister accused Israel on Tuesday of using the Palestinian territories as a landfill site for "solid, chemical and electronic waste", Anadolu has reported. Muhammad Shtayyeh...