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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...

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...

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...

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...

Saleh Mahmoud, an 11-year old Palestinian from the Jerusalem village of Al-Issawiyeh lost his sight after he was targeted by an Israeli soldier on Thursday. The child's father, Samer...

Tensions have escalated between the Israeli army and the Shin Bet security service after it was revealed yesterday evening that former Shin Bet chief, Yoram Cohen, sent a letter...

An Arab-Israeli Knesset member on Friday accused Israel of committing "terrorism" over the deadly shooting of an Arab citizen in the northern Israeli town of Kafr Kanna last Saturday....

A group of Palestinian hackers known as Anonymous hacked into several Israeli government sites today to show their support for the Palestinian people and to "stand in opposition to...

The government of Bogota announced yesterday that Israel refused to allow the Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin to visit Ramallah in the occupied West Bank to meet with...

Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, made a statement yesterday saying it considered the failure to reconstruct the Gaza Strip a reason for "a new explosion" for Israel....

Mads Gilbert, a doctor who worked in the Gaza Strip during the latest Israeli assault, has been banned from re-entering the Strip by Israeli authorities who cited security reasons....

Hamas has described Israel's refusal to allow the committee formed by the UN Human Rights Council to enter the Gaza Strip to investigate violations of international and human rights...

US Secretary of State John Kerry stressed the Israeli and Palestinian's full commitment to calm the situation in Jerusalem which are threatening to escalate into a third Intifada. Speaking...

A new report issued by an Israeli human rights group has found that most of the complaints filed by Palestinians against the violations committed by Israeli occupation forces, including...

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation held an emergency meeting of the Quds Contact Group on Wednesday in the Moroccan capital of Rabat, during which the group urged the UN...

Mahmoud Al-Zahar, a senior member of Hamas's political bureau, said that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is hindering the work of the consensus government because he is preventing officials...

It is clear that what is happening now in the city of Jerusalem and the West Bank is the beginning of an explosion in the face of the Zionist...

A secret meeting was held on Tuesday between security officials from Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), Hebrew news website Walla reported. The meeting centred on their joint efforts...

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Wednesday that conditions in Jerusalem, or Al-Quds for Muslims, are worse than during the 1967 war. "The current situation in Al-Quds...

The Palestinian Prisoners Society said that the Israeli Prison Service had transferred Fatah's leading activist Marwan Barghouti to solitary confinement in the Hadarim prison in central Israel after he...

The United States expressed concern over Israel's decision to build 200 new housing units in East Jerusalem, it also condemned the burning of a mosque in the West Bank....

Last Saturday, Khair Hamdan, a 22-year-old Israeli-Arab construction worker, was shot by Israeli police in a town in Galilee. Officers said initially that Hamdan had attacked them, wielding a...