Middle East

An organisation in Algeria which offers support for the Palestinian people has announced a series of projects and charity events to support the Holy City of Jerusalem and its...

The Archbishop of Sebastia from the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Atallah Hana, has expressed his sympathy and solidarity with Sheikh Raed Salah who is currently being detained in Britain....

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Islamic bloc deputies have held a protest in solidarity with the Jerusalem deputies and minister who continue to seek sanctuary at the headquarters of the International Red...

Yesterday, Wednesday June 22, Israeli army bulldozers and machinery razed to the ground some twenty facilities for the production of coal in the village of Barta'a which is situated...

The official spokesman for UNRWA has said that the Israeli-imposed blockade of the territory has not weakened the government in Gaza. Christopher Gunness added that over the 5 years...

The biggest demonstration seen by Tel Aviv for many years has called for Israel's Finance Minister to step down. More than 20,000 people took to the streets to demand...

The Israeli Minister of Infrastructure, Uzi Landau, has urged his government to activate the policy of "targeted killings" and assassinations against the leaders of Palestinian Resistance factions in the...

The Secretary General of the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has made contact with the British government on several levels regarding the release of the leader of the...

The Palestinian National Assembly for Jerusalem is the highest representative body for Palestinians in the Holy City, with members from all Palestinian political parties, Muslim and Christian religious denominations...

The Coalition of Independent Palestinian Figures has revealed that intensive correspondence is underway in an attempt to push for Palestinian national unity and ensure that the requirements of the...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Residents of Palestinian politicians detained in Israeli prisons yesterday staged a rally in Martyrs Square, Nablus, to demand their release. Several officials including parliamentarians joined the wives...

Israeli prison authorities have placed jailed Palestinian MP Marwan Barghouti into solitary confinement just one day after he called for "million-man marches" in Israel and the Palestinian diaspora. The...

The Israeli government has announced that it will hire foreign labour to work in the settlement construction industry and to cope with an expected increase in settlement expansion projects...

Thousands of Palestinians in Israel demonstrated in the northern city of Nazareth demanding the immediate release of Sheikh Raed Salah, who is detained, without charge, in a British high...

A senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation has said that the US Senate acts as if it is a "staff member of the Israeli government". Hanan Ashrawi, a...

A report issued by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has revealed that the Gaza Strip is currently facing a "severe water crisis which constitutes a cause for...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Germany's Development Minister, Dirk Niebel, today visited the Gaza Strip. He held a press conference at the beginning of his tour during which he stressed the need...

Political sources close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have said that a shift has occurred in Israel's position on the diplomatic crisis with Turkey as efforts continue to resolve...

Israeli Special Forces assassinated a student from the Najah National University in the city of Nablus yesterday. Medical sources have revealed that the young victim was 22 years Ibrahim...

The number of Palestinians who have spent more than twenty five years in Israeli prisons has now reached 43 out of a total of around 6,500 Palestinian prisoners held...

A member of the extreme right-wing Yisrael Beitenu Party is drafting a law to deny access to academic institutions for anyone "assisting 'terrorist' organisations". The move is intended to...

A Palestinian source close to the reconciliation talks in Cairo has revealed the true reasons behind the postponement of the meeting that was set to be held Tuesday (June...

The Egyptian authorities have arrested an Israeli citizen on suspicion of spying and attempting to incite a security vacuum in order to make the revolution fail. Ilan Chaim Grapel is...

Media sources in Israel have claimed that "secret and sharp" diplomatic messages have been received by the government in Tel Aviv voicing protests about the Zionist state's use of...

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (formerly the Organization of the Islamic Conference) has warned that the Gaza Strip is witnessing a health crisis which is "the worst of its...

According to official statistics from Israel, the number of illegal Jewish settler-colonists in the Occupied West Bank has risen by 14,000 in the past 12 months. The statistics published...

EXCLUSIVE The Syrian Revolutionary Council in Daraa denounces the decision by the British Authorities to arrest the freedom campaigner Raed Salah; Sheikh of al-Aqsa and the Lion of Palestine,...

Ahmed Toubassi, a researcher at the International Solidarity Foundation for Human Rights, has said that the excavations and digging carried out by the Israeli authorities in the historic Al...

A report issued by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has shown that the unemployment rate in Gaza rose to 45.2% in the second half...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Gaza's Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya, has inaugurated a number of agricultural projects on land formerly occupied by Israeli settlers. The government is now taking advantage of the...

Israel's Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya'alon has said that the Turkish government has decided not to resume security coordination with Tel Aviv. Such coordination stopped in mid-2010 following Israel's...

Israel's parliament, the Knesset, has approved a bill dubbed the "Boycott Ban", which outlaws boycotting, or calling for boycotts against, Israel and Israel's illegal settlements. The bill was passed...