Middle East

The government in Gaza has given notice that a delegation of scholars from the Egyptian Ministry of Religious Endowments is due to visit the beleaguered Strip on Wednesday. The...

The Palestinian Authority has asked Egypt to use all of its resources to mobilise international support for its bid for recognition at the United Nations. The PA aims to...

The Palestinian Ministry for Prisoners' Affairs has revealed that Israel has stopped family visits for Palestinians from Gaza who are being held in Israeli jails. "Those visits which were...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Farmers in the Gaza Strip have begun this year's harvest of dates. About 3,000 dunums (one dunum is equal 1,000 sq metres) are under date cultivation in...

The Palestinian Authority has welcomed the news that that Israel has failed in its bid for re-election to the Council of Administration of the Universal Postal Union (UPU); Israel...

The United Nations Fourth Committee has accused the Israeli authorities of obstructing efforts to reconstruct the Gaza Strip, which was devastated during the Israeli war in 2008/2009. Life in...

A group of illegal Israeli settlers have thrown the Abul-Hawa family out of their home in occupied East Jerusalem, forcing the seven family members onto the street with their...

The Speaker of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has expressed concern that Israel will face security and political obstacles over settlements if US President Barack Obama is re-elected. Reuben...

Sources in Israel have claimed that anger is spreading within the Likud Party following the Prime Minister's declaration of the electoral alliance between his party and Yisrael Beiteinu, the...

Russia's Deputy Prime Minister has confirmed that it is still supplying the Syrian regime with arms and ammunition, including air defence weapons. Dmitry Rogozin tried to justify this by saying...

Anger and worry prevails amongst the people of Umm Al-Hayran, a Palestinian village in the Negev Desert following a decision by the Israeli Building Council to expel villagers in...

Egypt's Foreign Minister has insisted that Sinai is Egyptian land and his country is the only one with legal sovereignty over it. Speaking about the security situation in Sinai...

The Secretary General of the Tunisian Salafist Al-Asala Party, Dr Al-Mawlidi Ali Mujahid, arrived in Gaza on Monday evening at the invitation of Al-Mujahideen Brigades. He is the first...

The Islamic Action Front (IAF) in Jordan has denounced Israel's bombing of a munitions factory in Sudan. In carrying out this attack, the organisation pointed out, "Israel has broken...

The Israeli government has criticised the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. Richard Falk has called for a boycott of all companies...

The internationally renowned thinker, critic and linguistics scholar Noam Chomsky has arrived in the Gaza Strip to participate in an international conference organised by the English Department at the...

Major-General (Res.) Amos Gilad has admitted that Israel cannot eradicate Hamas entirely. But, the Director of Policy and Political-Military Affairs and Chair of Security at the Israeli Ministry of...

Syrian and Iranian media sources launched, on Monday, a severe defamation attack against Khalid Meshaal, the head of Hamas' political bureau, who left Syria after the revolution began. The...

Israel's Ashkelon Prison administrators have imposed a financial penalty on Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Khamis Brash after he asked to go to hospital for treatment, the Palestinian Prisoners Club (PPC)...

The World Bank has launched an appeal to its member states urging them to address the fiscal crisis afflicting the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank as a...

Gaza City is preparing to host an exhibition of manuscripts and historical documents prepared by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. Examples of Palestinian pounds and stamps dating back...

The Islamic Action Front political party in Jordan has denied that it has pledged to review its position on an election boycott. In a press statement, the party's secretary,...

Jewish vandals attacked and set fire to Al-Latrun Monastery in Jerusalem in the early hours of Tuesday morning, writing anti-Christian graffiti on its walls. Muslims and Christians have denounced...

An Israeli media reported on Monday that the country's foreign ministry has expressed concerns over the broadening of the Norwegian initiative to boycott Israeli settlement produce. The Norwegian Foreign...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES A delegation from Qatar has arrived in Gaza to begin projects which are part of the $300 million grant from the Gulf Emirate for the reconstruction of...

Official sources have reported that the Palestinian Authority embassy in Kuwait, which has been closed for twenty-two years, will be re-opened next month. According to PA Foreign Minister Riad...

Education was disrupted on Sunday in Ganba School near Hebron, by Israeli soldiers who detained the teachers and prevented them from getting into the building. The Director of the...

A senior Muslim Brotherhood official has been assigned to manage the Gaza free zone portfolio by Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi. Khairat Al-Shater is one of the prime movers behind...

An Israeli ministerial committee has decided to hand over Hebron's old vegetable market to the Hebron Settlement Council. The decision has been condemned by the Palestinian-run Hebron Rehabilitation Committee...

Al-Azhar, the oldest educational institute in the Sunni Muslim tradition, has warned of the consequences of extremist Jewish groups storming Al-Aqsa Mosque which it considered a criminal act that...

In his speech to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, King Abdullah II of Jordan warned Israel about its "religious transgressions" against Al-Aqsa Mosque. He stressed that attempts to...

Informed sources report that the leadership of the Hamas Political Bureau, headed by Khaled Meshaal, has held a senior-level meeting in Cairo over the past two days. The anonymous...