Last week, in both print and broadcast English media, a story was picked up by many outlets such as the Independent, the Guardian and USA Today. The headline read:...

Israel refuses to release the fourth group of Palestinian prisoners arrested prior to the Oslo agreement. Mahmoud Abbas signed 15 agreements to join international organisations, and the Palestinian side...

Last week, Palestinian activist Muhammad Kanaaneh was due to address Tel Aviv University students at an event marking Land Day, a commemoration of the bloody state repression of anti-land...

A report in the Jewish Chronicle last week stated that a “secret conference” had been held in London whose aim was to combat the “delegitimization of Israel”. The three-day...

Direct negotiations between Israel and Palestine began on 29 July 2013. Backed by the US, the framework agreement for Middle East peace has been in the making for nine...

The shambolic US-led “peace process” between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is finally getting the kind of recognition it deserves. After nearly a dozen fruitless visits to the region,...

Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister has accused the Palestinian Authority of “incitement” against Israel. Speaking to Israel Radio, Ofir Akunis suggested that Israel’s chief negotiator, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, should...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has said an international tribunal is authorised to look into Israeli lawyer Mordechai Tzivin’s complaint against the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Tzivin filed...

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas expressed his government’s readiness to extend peace talks by an additional nine months to discuss core issues, informed Palestinian and Israeli sources said...

Approximately 5,000 Palestinians are currently being held in Israeli jails, including 20 women and 230 minors, figured released by the Palestinian Prisoners Club today showed. The figures were released...

The Israeli authorities allowed nearly 600 Christians from the Gaza Strip to pass through the northern Beit Hanoun crossing on Thursday in order to participate in the Easter celebrations...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blamed the Palestinian Authority (PA) for the attack on the Israeli intelligence officer in occupied Hebron which took place earlier this week, Israeli...

Israel’s Haaretz newspaper condemned Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon’s decision to seize Palestinian land in Bethlehem to expand the Gush Etzion settlement bloc. In its editorial today, Haaretz said: “With...

Syrian rebels have seized shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles from regime forces in spite of Israel and the Syrian regime’s best efforts to prevent such strategic developments from happening, an Israeli...

Tens of worshippers were wounded yesterday when the Israeli army and police broke into Al-Aqsa Mosque and attacked Palestinians inside, eyewitnesses reported According to locals “many worshipers suffocated from...

The Israeli Directorate of Military Intelligence (Aman) has predicted that the year 2015 will be a decisive one for the fate of the Egyptian regime and the coup that...

Israeli forces arrested two young men and closed the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque yesterday morning amid high tension. According to the Palestinian news agency‎ WAFA, occupation forces arrested Musbah...

Reuters has revealed Israeli efforts to rebuild strained ties with old allies Egypt and Turkey through natural gas deals. Israel, which has been looking for regional customers for its...

Hamas yesterday denounced Fatah and Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas’ decision to hold elections in parts of the occupied Palestinian territories. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoom said if elections...

Continuing the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks will achieve nothing because Israel insists on depriving the Palestinians from their rights and land, General Tawfiq Tirawi, a member of Fatah’s Central Committee,...

American and Arab sports activists in the United States have launched the Red Card Israeli Racism campaign calling for Israel to be expelled from the Fédération Internationale de Football...

The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) sub-delegation in the Gaza Strip, Christian Cardon, has said that the humanitarian and service situation in Gaza is...

A Palestinian woman died on Monday evening after Israeli occupation forces fired tear gas at Palestinian protesters in the Aida refugee camp northwest of the West Bank city of...

Kuwait’s Foreign Ministry has categorically denied the claims made by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman about holding secret talks with Israel. Kuwait’s state-run KUNA news agency quoted on Monday...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is facing a worsening crisis, as more of its main allies appear poised to leave the ruling coalition. The Jewish Home Party, led...

Israel has started the second phase of the Greater Jerusalem project, which aims to expand the borders of occupied Jerusalem to encompass 10 per cent of the total area...

Former Israeli deputy foreign minister Yossi Beilin said that Israel is satisfied with relations with Egypt after the July 3 coup because Hamas has become the common enemy of...

As the Jewish Passover holiday starts, the Likud Beiteinu-led coalition government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is experiencing a crisis because of internal differences over the stalemate in...

Fatah’s Commissioner for International Relations Nabil Shaath has said that Palestinians have several diplomatic options to choose from, stressing that Israeli sanctions will not stop the Palestinian people from...

Israeli occupation authorities announced on Sunday the largest confiscation of Palestinian land in recent years, totalling 984 dunams, for the purpose of expanding the settlements in the Gush Etzion...

Israel’s army chief of staff General Benny Gantz said an Israeli military operation in Lebanon is not only a realistic scenario but a necessary one. Gantz told Israel’s Channel...

Israel demolished this week a number of tin shacks funded by the European Union in the critical E1 zone which links the West Bank with eastern Jerusalem, EU diplomatic...