Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described on Wednesday his government's strict measures against Palestinians in Jerusalem as part of a battle over the holy city. Speaking after a bloody...
Israel has imposed a curfew in the Ras Al-Amoud neighbourhood in the occupied city of Jerusalem, Arabi21 reported. Palestinians defied the Israeli decision and took to the streets of...
The head of Israel's security service Shin Bet, Yoram Cohen, has directly contradicted accusations by PM Netanyahu and other ministers regarding the role of Mahmoud Abbas in so-called 'incitement'....
A Palestinian human rights organisation announced on Tuesday that 475 Palestinians are currently serving life sentences inside Israeli jails, Anadolu news agency reported. The Palestinian Prisoners' Centre for Studies...
Israeli Minister of Internal Security Yitzhak Aharonovitch said on Tuesday that Israel will look into the possibility of easing restrictions on Israeli citizens carrying firearms, including settlers who volunteer...

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November 18, 2014 |
Sawsan Ramahi Recent events in Jerusalem, especially in Al-Aqsa Mosque, open the door to many possibilities, the most important of which is the outbreak of a third Intifada that will not...

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November 18, 2014 Baroness Warsi
For weeks now, tensions have been rising in Jerusalem, simmering since the kidnap and brutal murder of three Jewish teenagers in the occupied West Bank in June, the barbaric...
Sources close to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have said that the politician asked the German Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, to pass along a serious message to Israel about his...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday said that he is pushing forward a bill which makes Israel a state only for Jews, local media reported. Speaking during a meeting...

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November 18, 2014 |
Ramona Wadi Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, has once again utilised the platform offered by the imperialist organisation to incite against Palestinian resistance. His brief letter addressed to...
The chairman of The Jewish Home Party, Naftali Bennett, has said that his party would not remain in the coalition government if the bill stating that Israeli is a...
The Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Lilianne Ploumen stressed her country's rejection of the recent Israeli escalation in the occupied Palestinian territories. Speaking during her meeting...
As differences escalate among the members of Israel's coalition government, Israeli Prime Minister and Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu cancelled an emergency party meeting to discuss the possibility of...
Egyptian authorities have decided to expand a controversial buffer zone with the Gaza Strip from 500 to 1,000 metres, Arabs 48 news website reported on Monday. Egypt's official news...
The EU expressed deep concerns on Monday over the latest wave of tensions in occupied Jerusalem and called on Israel to respect Palestinian holy sites, Anadolu news agency reported....
Life in Shujaya, Gaza, is still very difficult. Residents are living between demolished houses, surrounded by rubble. They have nothing to protect them from the elements as winter approaches....
The crisis between the different factions of the Israeli coalition government has been exacerbated by those close to Benjamin Netanyahu accusing Yair Lapid of conspiring to form a separate...
Mohammad Shtayyeh, a member of the Central Committee of Fatah, has accused the Israeli government of seeking to reduce the Palestinian population in occupied Jerusalem in order to turn...
Israeli forces stationed at Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem prevented women of all ages from entering the mosque for the second day in a row, while settlers were permitted...
The Israeli occupation army revealed that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas made an effort to limit the celebrations commemorating the death of late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, in order...
"Achieving peace with the Palestinians becomes more and more elusive due to the continuous incitement carried out by the Palestinian Authority," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said. Netanyahu...
Israeli NGO B'Tselem has condemned the government's revival of punitive house demolitions, describing recent orders by PM Benjamin Netanyahu as "unlawful and immoral." According to the group, destroying or...

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November 17, 2014 |
Jessica Purkiss This November marked 60 years since the 1954 United Nations convention which first promised to tackle the issue of statelessness was adopted. Today however the problem is far from...
The European Union (EU) prepares a proposal for applying sanctions on Israel in case it commits actions that undermine the two-state solution with the Palestinians, an Israeli newspaper has...

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November 16, 2014 Shadan Jabareen
Hundreds of Palestinian students held demonstrations in Israeli universities last week to protest the murder of Kheir Al-deen Hamdan by Israeli police. Hamdan, a 22-year-old Palestinian citizen of Israel,...
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman asserted Sunday that his country will never stop building Jewish-only settlement units in East Jerusalem, dismissing international criticism of the Israeli policy in this...
Scores of Jewish settlers on Sunday stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem, a Palestinian official said. "As many as 59 settlers stormed the holy compound through...

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November 16, 2014 |
Yvonne Ridley Israel and its supporters are always keen to assert two points to the international community when defending the reputation of the Zionist state. First, they like to boast that...
Israeli police on Friday informed the family of a Palestinian youth who they had killed earlier following a vehicular attack on Israeli pedestrians that the family home in East...
A group of local and foreign activists succeeded on Friday in crossing the Israeli Separation Wall near Qalandia Airport in the occupied Palestinian city of Jerusalem, Palestinian local news...
Martin Schaefer, Spokesman of the German Foreign Ministry said on Friday that his country supports investigating the recent Israeli war on the Gaza Strip that left more than 2,260...
The US State Department has criticised the Israeli decision to demolish the houses of the Palestinians who carried out attacks against Israelis, reports said. Spokeswoman of the US State...