Middle East

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Gaza's Ministry of Health has warned that the blockaded territory will run out of essential dialysis solutions and insulin within the next few days. There are hundreds...

During a visit to Gaza on Wednesday (05.01.2011), former US Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, met with Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh, to discuss the latest political developments within the...

The national Security Adviser to the Israeli Prime Minister visited Egypt on 28 December in preparation for a meeting between Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Benjamin Netanyahu. That meeting...

An Egyptian journalist has claimed that Palestinian MP Mohamed Dahlan asked "his European friends to mediate between himself and President Mahmoud Abbas". Ibrahim Al-Darrawy, a specialist in Palestinian Affairs...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESGaza has been hit by a cold air mass, which has caused severe storms in the region. The high speed winds have destroyed buildings, uprooted trees and caused...

Israeli Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer has said that the US Administration is not pushing Israel to freeze building in settlements because it is focusing its efforts on controlling the damage...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESA group of clowns from Britain have been on a tour of the Gaza Strip over the last few days in an effort to paint smiles on the...

A report by Israel's Peace Now movement revealed that since the settlement construction freeze expired – more than two and a half months ago – the authorities have laid...

The head of Hamas' political bureau, Khaled Meshaal, made a phone call to Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, on Wednesday (05.01.20111) to offer his condolences over the death of...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Police officers in Gaza have gathered to remember fallen colleagues who were among the first victims of Israeli bombs during Operation Cast Lead two years ago. The...

Peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians have not stopped and US efforts to get them started again are "deceptive". This claim has been made by the Professor of...

Hamas claims that hundreds of journalists and dozens of media organisations are preparing to cover the Islamic Resistance Movement's 23rd anniversary of its founding. In a press release, the...

Twenty-seven Palestinians have now served more than 25 years in Israeli jails. This figure was released by the High National Committee for Prisoners after a prisoner from Gaza passed...

An Israeli court yesterday deferred its hearing into the case of Shaikh Muhammad Abu Tayr, the elected member of the Palestinian legislature for Jerusalem. The next hearing will be...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESPrime Minister Ismail Haniyeh yesterday thanked the Arab Republic of Egypt for granting the rite of passage to Gazan pilgrims to go perform Hajj. Speaking after the evening...

A conference of ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jews in West Jerusalem has called for the destruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the building of the "third temple" on its ruins. In response,...

An Israeli newspaper has claimed that the racism prevalent between Israeli Jews extends to Ethiopian Jews even after their death. According to Maariv, graves in a Jewish cemetery are...

Egypt's top prosecutor has revealed the existence of a spy cell in Egypt for which two Israelis and an Egyptian have been charged with spying for Israel and harming...

A report issued by the Arab League says that the Israeli occupation forces have increased the restrictions placed on Palestinians in the Jordan Valley. The Palestine and Arab Territories...

A group of Old Acre residents have warned against action taken by some Israeli governmental institutions to expel the Arab residents of the old city. The latest action has...

The Israeli parliament looks likely to approve a bill which would require the government to hold a national referendum before any withdrawal could be made from occupied Jerusalem or...

The Israeli government stated that plans for settlement construction and projects in Jerusalem are on-going and will continue, adding that this is in complete harmony with the policies of...

Israel's Defence Minister has called on the Israeli government to work on improving its relations with the United States to protect Israel's legitimacy and fight attempts to "de-legitimise" the...

Israel's Foreign Minister has launched a strong attack on the Palestinian Authority in a speech to the annual conference of Israeli ambassadors. Avigdor Lieberman said that the PA has...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Yesterday, the Council for Educational Counselling in the West Bank sponsored a day of recreation for former female inmates of prisons run by the Israeli occupation as...

The National Committee for the Heads of the Arab Local Authorities in Israel has called for the prosecution of all who incite racism or the promotion of "racial hostility"...

A group of twenty-one aid and human rights organizations have called for serious international action to bring about "an immediate, unconditional and complete" lifting of the blockade imposed on...

A human rights agency has criticised an Israeli court's sentence passed on two soldiers who used a nine-year old Palestinian boy as a human shield in Gaza. Defence for...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Asia 1 convoy finally set foot in the Gaza Strip after an epic journey starting in New Delhi, India in early December 2010. They had hoped...

Israel has announced that it will boycott a 2011 UN summit commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Durban declaration against racism on the grounds that the Durban conference has...

Israeli sources claim that the Netanyahu government is trying to suppress a draft UN Security Council resolution denouncing construction in Israel's illegal settlements across the occupied West Bank and...

The Secretary-General of the United Nations has blamed Israel for the "current impasse" in the Middle East peace process. Ban Ki-moon expressed his regret in a statement "for the...