Middle East

A former Lebanese Prime Minister has called US President Barack Obama's call for a Palestinian state along pre-1967 borders "stillborn due to Israel's swift rejection". Selim El-Hoss said that...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Minister of Agriculture in the Gaza Strip, Dr Mohammad Ramadan al-Agha, has announced government plans to supply 50 fishermen with fishing boats free of charge. Forty...

The leader of Hamas' Political Bureau, Khaled Meshaal, met on Monday, May 9th, with representatives of Egypt's Coordinating Committee of the Revolution; The Free Egypt Coalition, The Coalition of...

The Palestinian Liberation Organization's Executive Committee has condemned Israeli attempts to 'blackmail' the Palestinian Authority into aborting the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation. It also called for international condemnation of Israeli practices....

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On Sunday, Palestinians commemorated the 44th anniversary of the June 1967 War which resulted in the Israeli occupation of vast swathes of Palestinian and Arab territory including...

A newly published report has uncovered tensions in the relationship between Israeli soldiers and their leaders. The Israeli daily, Ha'aretz, published on Sunday, May 29, the final annual report...

The head of Fatah's dialogue delegation and member of the movement's Central Committee has expressed his optimism about the successful implementation of the recent reconciliation agreement. Azzam Al-Ahmad said...

In the first Israeli reaction to the appointment of Egypt's Foreign Minister, Dr Nabil El Arabi, as a replacement for Amr Mussa as the new Secretary General of the...

The Palestinian Arab community in Israel has been invited to take part in a march to commemorate the Nakba (Catastrophe) as the 63rd anniversary of the founding of the...

The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has rejected assassination as a tactic in a response to the killing of Osama Bin Laden by US troops. The group also confirmed that...

Yemeni media outlets have reported that a number of officials in the regime are trying to flee the country following the departure of President Ali Abdallah Saleh. The reports...

Egypt's foreign minister, Dr Nabil El Arabi, has affirmed that the detention of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and the torture and killing of some, "represents a flagrant violation...

Minister for the Middle East and North Africa Alistair Burt comments following Israel's announcement that 1500 additional settlements will be built in East Jerusalem. UK Foreign Minister Alistair Burt...

The Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza has stressed the importance of implementing the reconciliation agreement with assiduousness and honesty. Ismail Haniyeh called on all Arab states to provide political,...

The President of Israel has claimed that a move by the Palestinian Authority to seek UN recognition of an independent Palestinian state will "continue, not bring an end to,...

The Deputy Chairman of the Political Bureau of Hamas has announced that Hamas and Fatah have agreed a reconciliation deal. Dr. Mousa Abu Marzouk said that it is now...

The final declaration of the Non-Aligned Movements' Ministerial Conference and Commemorative Meeting on Arab and Palestinian prisoners, which was held in Indonesia and attended by 120 countries, emphasised the...

The head of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation's culture and media section has said that ending Israel's 44-year occupation of the Palestinian territories is the only way to guarantee the...

The Palestinian National Economy Ministry in Ramallah has seized and destroyed consumer goods and produce from illegal Israeli settlements worth more than $140,000. The products were seized from the...

An opinion poll conducted by Israel's Dahaf Institute has revealed that just over half of Israelis do not reject the release of any number of Palestinian detainees, including those...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On Saturday, 7th March, a group representing the families of political prisoners in the West Bank held a demonstration in front of the Juneid Central Prison in...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On Tuesday (26.04.2011), the Sri Lankan ambassador in the Palestinian territories, Jaya Singh, met with the head of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Dr Aziz Duweik, along with...

The Ahrar Centre for Prisoner Studies and Human Rights has reported claims that Palestinian female detainees have been strip-searched by Israeli special forces. The invasive tactic took place in...

Meir Dagan, the former chief of Israel's external intelligence body, Mossad, urged the Netanyahu government to launch a new political initiative with the aim of ensuring Israel's existence in...

A Jewish settlement movement has said that it plans to speed up construction of settlements in East Jerusalem in such a way that it will not be feasible to...

The Secretary General-elect of the Arab League has said that the Palestinian and Arab people "no longer accept provisional notions or partial solutions and proposals which aim to prolong...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On Thursday 12.05.2011 and in a first of its kind event in the West Bank, 22 special needs couples celebrated their wedding in a collective ceremony in...

A spokesman for Fatah has described as "political terrorism" the incitement by Israel against the Palestinian reconciliation agreement and national unity. In a press statement, Fayez Abu Eita said:...

A leading Israeli rabbi has called on his government to "encourage Bedouins to return to their native land in Saudi Arabia and Libya". Rabbi Dov Lior made his statement during...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES A ship carrying a number of international peace activists set sail from Gaza on Wednesday to monitor maritime aggression by the Israeli navy against Palestinian fishermen, who...

Israeli media outlets have unveiled a government plan to displace 30,000 Palestinians from their villages in the Negev, which the authorities refuse to recognise. They would be forced to...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Gaza's fishermen have staged a sit-in demanding that the ban and naval blockade imposed on the sector be lifted. They also demanded international protection and an increase...