The 1993 Oslo Accords were only ever a “Declaration of Principles”; a timetable for the peace process which was supposed to be the starting point for reaching a “comprehensive...

In 1994, still rejoicing in the apparent success of the Oslo Accords of the previous year, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) embarked upon another set of deals...

For the past few months, Israelis have been given the chance to visit the living quarters and see the home life of Palestinian families – through virtual reality. The...

An open letter to Jason Greenblatt, Assistant to the US President and Special Representative for International Negotiations

An Egyptian government agency has released historical documents related to the Camp David Accords for the first time since they were signed by Egypt and Israel in 1978. The...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is believed to be preparing to cut all funding to the Gaza Strip in an effort to end the power struggle between his Fatah...

The US House of Representatives passed two separate Israel related bills this week, endorsing what is being described as the largest aid package in American history and the appointment...

Human rights are universal. Or so we were taught. But the simplistic notion has been overturned, mutilated and manipulated to the point that the only universal aspect about human...

In the first ruling of its kind, an Israeli judge has issued a verdict based on the recently-passed Jewish nation-state law, reported Haaretz. At Jerusalem District Court on Monday,...

A Palestinian activists, Bassem Abu Rahmeh, was killed on 17 April 2009 by when an Israeli soldier fired a tear-gas canister directly at his chest

A new report by Palestinian prisoners’ rights group Addameer claims that Israeli officials “routinely” carry out the “practice of torture” at a key interrogation facility in occupied East Jerusalem....

Family and friends mourn during the funerals of those killed by Israeli occupation forces

Egyptian Professor of Political Sciences at Cairo University Hassan Nafaa warned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might drag the US to start a war with Iran, Almesryoon reported...

A delegation led by Israeli Air Force (IAF) Commander Amikan Norkan will visit Moscow later today to discuss the downing earlier this week of a Russian military plane by...

Pierre Krahenbuhl, the Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said yesterday that the agency “we will not sit idle regarding the US...

Israeli forces opened fire during a demonstration in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing a Palestinian youth, the Palestinian health ministry said, Reuters reports. An Israeli military spokeswoman said...

Israel’s air force chief will on Thursday present findings in Moscow related to an incident in which a Russian military plane was downed off Syria’s coast, Israel’s military said, Reuters...

US National Security Advisor John Bolton is at it again. He recently issued a blistering rebuke of the International Criminal Court (ICC): “We will let the ICC die on...

Michael Berdine’s succinct analysis of his subject Sykes’s political involvement in the Middle East is also a reflection that can be extended to the present-day turmoil in the region....

A new Russian aerospace incident in Syrian skies has caused a complicated crisis, but this time, it is with Israel. Almost two years ago, Turkey shot down a Russian...

Last month, the US State Department said Washington would “no longer commit funding” to the UNRWA

Schools in the US state of Texas will be required to teach students that “Arab rejection of the State of Israel has led to ongoing conflict” in the Middle...

The talk in Jordanian political and media circles about a Jordan-Palestine confederation goes beyond the limits of Amman’s official rejection of the idea to take such a step before...

A 24-year-old Palestinian has died after Israeli occupation forces stormed his home and beat him “severely” in the occupied West Bank. Muhammad Zaghloul Al-Khatib Al-Rimawi was beaten by Israeli...

Saudi Arabia issued new directives banning up to 300,000 Palestinian refugees in Lebanon from performing pilgrimage, Alarab.qa reported yesterday. Reporting the Palestinian Institution for Human Rights (Shahed), the Qatari...

Qatar’s Ambassador to Palestine has visited the field hospitals established in the Gaza Strip by the Jordanian and Moroccan authorities, Alarab.qa reported on Tuesday. Mohammed Al-Emadi met with officials...

Fatah’s conditions “make reaching reconciliation very impossible”, the head of Hamas’ Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh said yesterday. Speaking at a conference to mark 30 years since the movement was...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a ministerial committee that he would allow 1,000 Ethiopian Jews from the Falash Mura tribe to move to Israel, Israeli media reported on...

A Palestinian man was shot by Israeli occupation forces yesterday outside Damascus Gate in occupied East Jerusalem

Two Palestinian protesters were killed by Israeli army gunfire on the rally

Israel on Tuesday denied a European Parliament (EP) delegation access to the blockaded Gaza Strip, according to an official EP statement. “The Israeli authorities have once again refused the...

Israel approved plans to construct 220 illegal settlement units in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabal Al-Mukabbir, a settlement activist has revealed yesterday. Aryeh King, a right-wing candidate...