Middle East

Israeli settlers arrogated the home of the Al-Kurd family in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem on Tuesday, residents of the area said. About 30 settlers were seen...

Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has said he will not seek re-election when elections are held in January, Palestinian officials said. "The president insists on not running in the...

Tehran on Thursday accused German Chancellor Angela Merkel of being influenced by "Zionist circles" in a reference to Israel after her remarks that a nuclear bomb in Iran's hands...

Israeli forces closed the main southern road to village of Qaryout south of the city of Nablus at dawn on Thursday. Israeli bulldozers arrived to the place accompanied by...

There have been disturbing violations of media freedoms in the occupied Palestinian territories during October 2009. The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) monitored many of the...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon implored Israel to bring an end to "provocative" actions in East Jerusalem following the eviction of a third Palestinian family from their home in...

Israel's navy said special forces they discovered a weapons cargo after they boarded a ship 100 miles off the coast of Israel on the Mediterranean on Wednesday. Israeli authorities...

Hamas says remarks about its possessing weapons is a mere 'fabrication' to mobilize world opinion against the movement ahead of the UN General Assembly's vote on a Gaza war...

The Hamas-run de facto government in Gaza must take effective steps to protect workers in the territory's tunnel trade, the Al-Mezan Centre for Human Rights said on Monday The...

According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights' Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, during the week of 05-11 Nov. 2009, 6 Palestinian...

Doctors of the Orthopaedic department at Kamal Adwan hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, headed by Dr. Akram Abu-Odeh and Dr. Arafa Al-Khatib, carried out one of the rare...

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, expressed its hopes that its indirect prisoner exchange negotiations with Israel, via Egyptian and German mediation, achieve the desired results, but it warned against...

Palestinian settlement monitoring authorities say a group of extremist Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinian olive farms in the north of the occupied West Bank. Residents from the notorious Yitzhar...

Quds Press correspondent reported that "Miles of Smiles" convoy was eventually able to enter Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing. The convoy's trucks, which exceeded one hundred, entered Gaza...

Israeli warplanes early yesterday morning (24/11), launched two air strikes on the Gaza Strip, leading to a number of injuries among Palestinian citizens. Palestinian sources reported that the first...

Israeli President, Shimon Peres, slammed Judge Richard Goldstone, who headed the Gaza war investigation team, and described him as "a small person who is out to hurt Israel". Israeli...

A special survey carried out earlier this week on behalf of the Israeli daily Haaretz and Dialog, under the guidance of Professor Camil Fuchs of the Department of Statistics...

Tel Aviv has officially announced that it will not release Marwan Al Barghouti, Fatah's Secretary General in the West Bank, and Ahmed Saadat, the Secretary General of the Popular...

Palestinian figures and institutions have warned against a new Israeli new scheme aimed at the destruction of dozens of Palestinian homes in Occupied Jerusalem, in the context Israel's plans...

A Jewish-American, who settled in the occupied West Bank, has been charged with killing two Palestinians and attempting to murder more people. Jack Teitel told reporters at a Jerusalem...

De facto Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh announced on Tuesday that his Gaza administration will release 100 prisoners ahead of the Eid Al-Adha holiday which begins on Thursday. In a...

The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas confirmed that the late Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat, "gave his life to preserve the national constants and not to make any concessions, particularly with...

Shimon Peres, Israel's president, has said there has been "progress" in efforts to free Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier captured by Hamas three years ago. The disclosure by Peres,...

Legal experts from South Africa, Spain and Palestine have reviewed samples of "racial discrimination" which is being practiced by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people and compared it...

Bedouin gunmen ambushed an Egyptian patrol that had seized contraband cement destined for the Gaza Strip, triggering an hours-long standoff in the desert that left one officer and five...

For the second consecutive year, Israeli President Shimon Peres has convened an imposing conference: Facing Tomorrow (Jerusalem, 20-22 October 2009) where 3,500 people were registered. Among the key speakers...

A Palestinian prisoner Ahmed Yellowish, from Nubani farms near Ramallah, who is serving a 13 year sentence has reported that, "Raymon Prison management is imposing sanctions on the prisoners...

For nearly six weeks now Mohammed Othman, a prominent Palestinian activist and an outspoken advocate of the nonviolent boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, has been held in an...

The Egyptian Journalists Syndicate's investigation committee decided, at its meeting on Tuesday, to refer Dr. Hala Mustafa, the editor of the Democracy magazine (part of the  Al Ahram institution), ...

Hebrew media reported that the commander of NATO, Admiral James Stavridis, has paid an official visit to Tel Aviv, in response to an invitation addressed to him by Israel's...

Tel Aviv announced officially, on behalf of its Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, that it rejects that Turkey plays the intermediary role which it has been performing to push for...

When it comes to Israel the buck stops in Washington, having enabled and continued to support its worst excesses, writes Jeff Gates* Israel's "legitimacy" will not last. Of course,...