Israel

It was hard to imagine that the latest meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and his former finance minister and chairman of the Yesh Atid Party, Yair Lapid, could have ended...

Does Jordan use security coordination with Israel in order to detect and detain activists? The similarities between those detained and how they were arrested suggests that there is indeed...

Israel has issued new military orders to confiscate and ban the use of tens of dunams of the Palestinian land west of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, Safa...

Work has begun to clear 140,000 tons of rubble in the Shuja'iyya neighbourhood of Gaza City, more than three months after the end of so-called 'Operation Protective Edge'. Described...

Israel issued 94 administrative detention orders against Palestinians in November, local newspapers reported yesterday. In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoners' Club said Israel issued 41 administrative detention orders against...

Second Deputy Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Hassan Khreisheh yesterday called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to clarify its position regarding freedoms violations and the banning of...

The United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling on Israel to renounce possession of nuclear weapons and put its nuclear facilities under international oversight. The resolution, which...

Right-wing Israeli political parties, including Likud, Jewish Home and Yisrael Beiteinu, are predicted to achieve 52 seats in next year's elections according to a recent poll. This represents a...

The Palestinian-Arab draft resolution, which would stipulate an end to the occupation of Palestinian land and set a time frame for the establishment of a Palestinian state, will be...

The sons of the former spiritual leader of the Shas party, late Rabbi Ovadia Yosef have said their father prayed for the acquittal of Hosni Mubarak prior to his...

Some 2,564 Palestinian refugees have been killed in Syria as of the end of November, the Action Group for the Palestinians of Syria announced yesterday. In a press release,...

When Sweden became the first EU member state in Western Europe to recognise the State of Palestine on 30 October, it brought the total number of UN member states...

The "dissolution" of the Israeli coalition government is proof of the "resistance's victory and the defeat of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu", Hamas announced yesterday. In a press...

Israel has refused a Turkish offer to send a floating power-generating ship to the Gaza coast to supply the coastal enclave with electricity, Arabs48 reported yesterday. In the wake...

Jordan will never accept the "dangerous" Israeli Jewish state bill, the country's Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Nosour said yesterday. The Anadolu Agency reported Al-Nosour saying, during a parliamentarian meeting, that...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sacked his finance and justice ministers and announced he wants to dissolve parliament triggering early general elections, the Anadolu Agency reported. The Israeli Knesset...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday sacked his finance and justice ministers, writing an end to his coalition government. Netanyahu directed Cabinet Secretary Avichai Mandelbit to issue a...

For all its bravado, Israel is terrified of bad publicity. So it should be, for neither the legions of public relations companies nor well-paid lobbyists have been able to...

Member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee Hanan Ashrawi has stressed that the Palestinian leadership is serious about stopping security coordination with Israel in the event that...

The developments in the West Bank are picking up pace and this raises questions about whether these are early indications of another intifada (uprising). How realistic are the chances...

The latest Israeli decision to apply Israeli law in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank "legalises occupation and reinforces Israeli racial and religious conditions", the Anadolu Agency...

Double standards proliferate everywhere, and nowhere more so when it comes to defining the elusive concept of "terrorism". On Friday, Ryan Mcgee, a 20-year-old British Army soldier, was sentenced...

The Palestinian Football Federation yesterday called on FIFA to show Israel "the red card" after Israeli soldiers stormed its offices in Ramallah last week, Arabs48.com reported. Palestinian Football Federation...

The Israeli foreign ministry said yesterday that it has opened an "immediate investigation" into reports that an Israeli citizen, who was fighting with the Kurdish People's Protection Units, has...

Libyan renegade general Khalifa Haftar, who leads the Libyan militias fighting against Islamists in eastern Libya, has said he does not mind "cooperating with Israel and receiving various forms...

Deputy Head of Hamas' political bureau Dr Mousa Abu-Marzouk said that his movement has never held secret negotiations with Israel and does not have a hidden agenda. Abu-Marzouk's remarks...

Cairo is to work on calling the different sides to resume ceasefire talks very soon, local Palestinian newspaper Al-Istiqlal reported yesterday. Egyptian Ambassador to the Palestinian Authority (PA) Wael...

The former head of Israel's Security Agency Shin Bet, Carmi Gillon, launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday, slamming him as an "egomaniac". Gillon's remarks...

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) opened fire on agricultural land at the edges of Khan Younes in the south of the Gaza Strip on Sunday, resulting in no injuries....

Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center formally requested the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor open an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The...

Last weekend the anti-virus company Symantec released details of a newly-detected piece of malware that it had intercepted and been decoding for some time. Several other anti-virus vendors released...

More than 200 Sunni and Shia religious scholars in Iran condemned the violation of Al-Aqsa Mosque's sanctity at the hands of Israeli settlers and security forces. The scholars issued...