Middle East

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Look into any shop or restaurant in the Gaza Strip and you will be met by the same scene: Palestinians watching TV in awe as events unfold...

The resumption of direct meetings between the Palestinians and Israelis has been predicted by Israeli media sources. The talks will be held under American auspices, said Israel Radio. According...

Egyptian sources have revealed that Egypt has rejected an Israeli proposal for Cairo to supervise following the next military operation planned to topple the Hamas government. The government of...

Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister has declared that every Israeli appointed as one of the country's ambassadors will be required to visit the Ibrahimi Mosque and "Jewish heritage sites" in...

The Suez Canal Authority has denied reports that it refused to grant permission for two Iranian warships to use the canal to get from the Red Sea to the...

Jerusalem MPs threatened with deportation from their home city by Israel have accused the Palestinian Authority and what they call "Arab and international complicity" responsible for the increasing Judaisation...

Well-placed Israeli sources have disclosed that the Zionist state has offered to place "all its capabilities" at the disposal of General Omar Suleiman, the recently appointed Vice President of...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Fuel companies in the Gaza Strip have confirmed that most of the cooking gas filling stations in the territory have closed because of the significant reduction in...

On Wednesday (12.01.2011), Professor Essam al-Ashqar who is being held in the custody of the Palestinian Security Forces, was transferred to the Arab specialist hospital in the city of...

Israel's parliament, the Knesset, is looking at a draft bill which proposes the abolition of Arabic as an official language in the Zionist state. This would require the repeal...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES – Israeli gunboats, on Thursday 17 February, launched a violent attack on three fishermen on the beach of Beit...

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has said that the submission of a subpoena against former Egyptian interior minister, Habib Al-Adly, linking him to the bombing of the Coptic church...

Egypt has sent around 800 soldiers to the Sinai Peninsula in response to the popular demonstrations demanding the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. Israel gave its consent for the...

A magistrates' court in Jerusalem has given the legal go-ahead for the destruction of more than 200 graves in historic Ma'man Allah Cemetery in Jerusalem, considered to be the...

Israel's Deputy Prime Minister has said that the coming days will witness "massive" settlement construction activity in three of the largest Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and...

Israel's Defence Minister has called on the rest of the Israeli government to maintain strong ties with the US Administration. This is especially important, said Ehud Barak, due to...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Prices of basic food stuff have risen as bad economic and living conditions in the West Bank have become the new reality on the Palestinian street. Many...

The Deputy Chairman of Jordan's Council of Representatives, Atef al-Tarawneh al-Naqab, has revealed that a number Palestinian officials and members of the negotiating team have been granted Jordanian nationality...

The popular demonstrations demanding the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak and his regime have prompted the head of the Israeli parliament's Committee for Foreign Affairs and Security, Shaul Mofaz,...

The Ministry of Religious Endowments in the Gaza Strip has said that the completion of the Separation Wall in the vicinity of Jerusalem by the end of this year...

The Islamic Resistance Movement has criticized Israel's demolition of a school and seventeen houses belonging to Palestinians near Yatta in the Hebron region of the occupied West Bank. Hamas...

The wife of a Palestinian engineer has accused the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad of abducting her husband. Derar Abu Sisi went missing five days ago while visiting his Ukrainian...

According to the Hebrew edition of Haaretz newspaper, Israel's Jerusalem Municipality plans to approve a scheme to establish at least nineteen new synagogues in the illegal settlement of Har...

The Hebrew daily, Ma'ariv, today confirmed that Israel has rejected an Egyptian request to send additional Egyptian troops into the Sinai to deal with growing threats in the area...

An international human rights organisation has criticised the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority Security Forces for dispersing a protest in support of demonstrations by the Egyptian people. Human Rights Watch...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza has laid a foundation stone to mark the first phase of the extensive reconstruction required in the Gaza Strip. Ismail Haniyeh...

Members of the Palestinian Legislative Council representing Fatah and Hamas, Sharaf Juma'a and Ismail Al-Ashqar respectively, made a visit to Gaza Central Prison on Monday evening (10.01.2011) where they...

Lawyers from the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees' and Ex-Detainees' Affairs, have claimed that Israeli internal security officers from Shin Bet tried to rape a child prisoner at Etzion Prison,...

The Palestinian Authority President has called a halt to an aggressive PR attack that was launched against the State of Qatar three weeks ago. Mahmoud Abbas issued a presidential...

The Israeli embassy in Washington has been preoccupied with organising a number of meetings between the Israeli Minister of Defence, Ehud Barak, and several members of the US Congress....

Hebrew newspaper sources have revealed the existence of an "urgent" message sent by the Israeli government at the end of last week to a number of world leaders. Aimed...

The Director of Israel's internal intelligence service, Shin Bet, has said that he believes that several European countries will recognise an independent Palestinian state, joining seven Latin American countries...