Middle East

The bodyguard of the ousted Tunisian President Zen El Abedeen Ben Ali has said that Ben Ali and his wife Laila El Trabolsi are supporters of Israel. Abdel Rahman...

Fatah's Central Committee announced that it has begun investigating recent reports that two members of the movement's leadership are involved in smuggling Israeli weapons into Libya to support Mu'ammar...

Israel's Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee chairman in the Knesset has said that Israel must return to the policy of targeted assassinations in the Gaza Strip, stressing that "anyone...

A senior member of the Central Committee of Fatah has said that the proposed visit of PA President Mahmoud Abbas to Gaza is part of the practical process for...

More than 700,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israel since 1967, representing over 20 percent of the whole population living under Israeli occupation. This was one of many shocking...

The Egyptian authorities are releasing 12 Palestinians from Akrab Prison in Cairo. The freed prisoners are, it is claimed, now on their way to Gaza. According to Emad El...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Late Thursday evening (April 14), Twitter and Facebook pages were suddenly filled with news of the Italian human rights activist, Vittorio Utopia Arrigoni, being kidnapped by a...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On Wednesday, April 6, the Austrian Foreign Minister, Michael Spindelegger, arrived in the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing with Egypt. Mr Spindelegger is set to hold...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank is preparing to conduct student union elections in which all groups are expected to participate except the Islamic movements, namely...

The Palestinian government in Gaza has called on Arab and international bodies to intervene promptly to stop Israel's escalation of violence against the besieged territory. A spokesman for Prime...

Israeli sources have revealed that the Givati Brigade in the Israeli Army held the graduation ceremony of a training course for new recruits in the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron....

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On International Civil Defence Day, it is clear that civil defence in Gaza has a very different status and meaning than in most other parts of the...

The Islamic Resistance Movement has accused Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of being hostile to the Egyptian revolution and defending the regime of the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak....

Hebew language press reports claim that the Israeli Ministry of Education's plan for the new academic year focuses on "the promotion of Zionist and Jewish values and concepts" amongst...

The Islamic Resistance Movement has again denied any relationship with Dirar Abu Sisi, the director of Gaza's power station who was abducted by Israel's Mossad in Ukraine before being...

A European rights association filed a case for the arrest of Israeli President, Shimon Peres, upon his arrival in Switzerland on Monday (28.03.2011) on the grounds that he is...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES In a press interview today, the Palestinian government spokesman in Gaza, Tahir al-Nono, confirmed that that the government was in favour of national dialogue prior to the...

The Ministry of Prisoners and Former Prisoners in the Gaza Strip has praised the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, for calling on the Israeli occupation to release all Palestinian...

Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak has said that the Israeli Defence Forces on the borders with Egypt will continue to be on high alert until the security situation settles...

A senior member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has blamed the Israeli government for the collapse of the peace process. Saeb Erekat, who, as...

On Thursday 14 April, Israeli occupation forces confiscated a large area of land from the village of Anin in the Jenin governorate of the northern West Bank; they then...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS The Palestinian International Red Cross Foundation has funded the establishment of a water treatment plant in the Gaza Strip. Built in Rafah at the southern end of...

The Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza denounced the Israeli air strike that was launched on Sunday (March 27), killing two Palestinians and wounding three others.  "Today's crime at the...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The March 15th Group of protesters has continued its demonstrations and sit-ins in major urban centres of the West Bank for the fifth consecutive day demanding an...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Yesterday (08.03), the Rafidia Hospital in the West Bank city of Nablus received dozens of casualties from the south Nablus village of Qasra. The injured villagers were...

The number of Palestinian political prisoners held by Israel for more than 20 years continuously has reached 136, according to the Director of the Department of Statistics at the...

The spokesman for the Palestinian Authority in Gaza has said that his government is keen on having strong ties with Egypt. Taher El-Nunu described the relationship as "strategic". During...

The Israeli media has revealed that 1000 Christian Americans have submitted applications for Israeli citizenship and permission to settle in the occupied West Bank. In return, they have said...

The shooting and killing of peace activists on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla almost a year ago was inevitable claim two Israeli journalists who have revealed the contents of secret...

Diplomatic sources inside Egypt's Foreign Ministry have reported that the country's Foreign Minister has sent a strongly-worded letter to Rafi Barak, the Director-General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, warning...

The Palestinian Minister of the Interior in Gaza has ordered investigations into all complaints filed by journalists to his department. Fathi Hamad gave the order during a meeting with...

An Israeli organisation concerned with workers' rights has stressed that the conditions and circumstances that female migrant workers live under in Tel Aviv are "miserable" and totally incompatible with...