Middle East

Israel's occupation forces stormed into Walja village in the Bethlehem governorate (south of the occupied West Bank) on Tuesday, July 26. Several bulldozers were used to raze Walja's agricultural...

Member of Fatah's Central Committee and its Commissioner of international relations, Dr Nabil Shaath, has confirmed Palestinian intentions to go to the United Nations to gain recognition of a...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Palestinians in Gaza take every possible opportunity to enjoy the simple things in life that are available to them in their blockaded homeland. Every summer, thousands flock...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES In spite of the overwhelming odds, the Palestinian Government in Gaza is sparing no effort to challenge the blockade imposed on the sector by setting up public...

A Saudi newspaper has claimed that the military government in Cairo is communicating with Fatah and Hamas in an effort to save the reconciliation agreement that was signed between...

A human rights center concerned with prisoners' issues stated that the Israeli Occupation Authorities are currently detaining 17 members of the Palestinian Legislative Council. The center noted that the Israelis,...

The Israeli parliament has approved the extension of a ban on granting residency to Palestinians or Arabs married to Israeli women. Israeli media outlets have reported that parliamentarians from...

In response to the demands of the Tahrir Square protesters, Egyptian TV has started live broadcasts of the trials of officials belonging to former President Hosni Mubarak's ousted regime....

The Israeli ambassador to Egypt has expressed his resentment after the Egyptian authorities tightened security measures at the Taba border crossing between the two countries. Ambassador Yitzhak Levanon filed...

The Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Dr Muhammad Bade'e has called on the British authorities to respect international conventions, especially human rights, and to immediately expedite...

A human rights centre concerned with the Occupied Palestinian Territories has stated that Israeli forces use more than one hundred mental and physical torture techniques against Palestinian detainees in...

The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has denied reports in the Israeli press of a meeting between foreign minister, Dr Nabil El Arabi, and Israel's deputy foreign minister, Danny...

Israel's Supreme Court is scheduled to hold a special session this week to examine the case of the Jerusalemite parliamentarians and former minister threatened with expulsion from the city....

The Israeli Ministry of Construction and Housing has approved the building of hundreds of new settlement units in the large illegal colonies built in the north and south of...

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has launched a new report, "Seven years after the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the...

Egypt's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Menha Bakhoum, has stated that Egyptian Foreign Minister, Mohamed Al Orabi, has received a verbal message from Palestinian Authority leader, Mahmoud Abbas, regarding...

Bulldozers and machinery belonging to Israel's Jerusalem Municipality have exhumed and razed dozens of tombs in the historic Ma'man Allah Cemetery in Jerusalem. Israeli authorities have previously announced their...

16 June 2011This statement was issued by the Office of Shaikh Raed Salah, Um al Faham People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones The vicious political harassment of Sh....

Saeb Erekat, former Palestinian chief negotiator and member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization's Central Committee, has said that in seeking UN recognition of an independent Palestinian state along the...

Any attempts to undermine the mandate of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, known commonly by its acronym UNRWA, or change its...

The semi-final results of elections for Egypt's Pharmacists' Syndicate revealed that the Muslim Brotherhood has won the post of Secretary General; the leadership of eight sub-syndicates, and 13 out...

The Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, Dr Mustafa Al Barghouthi, has said that despite being prevented from setting sail from Greece, Freedom Flotilla II managed to achieve...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Demonstrators carrying Palestinian flags and waving placards with slogans condemning the blockade of Gaza have staged protests outside the headquarters of UNWRA in Gaza demanding international intervention...

A leading member of the PLO's executive Committee has said that the Palestinian Authority's plan to go to the United Nations in September is more about seeking UN membership...

The Palestinian government in Gaza has released 63 prisoners in the run-up to the blessed month of Ramadan. A spokesperson for the Ministry of the Interior, Ehab Al Ghossein,...

The Israeli cabinet has extended orders banning the reunification of Palestinians living inside the Green Line, with their families from the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Radio Israel...

A leading Egyptian journalist, Ibrahim Al Darrawy, has told Quds Press that Turkey's Prime Minister, Tayyip Erdogan, is due to pay a visit to Egypt on 21st July. According...

The speaker of the Knesset (Israel's parliament) has disqualified a bill submitted by Arab Member of Knesset, Ahmed Al Tibi, proposing that state funding be revoked from NGOs denying...

The Supreme State Security Court in Egypt sentenced on Thursday, June 23, an Egyptian citizen and two Israelis to 25 years in prison on charges of spying and espionage...

An Israeli government report has revealed that the cost of crime in the country is more than $4 billion a year. The report by the Ministry of Public Security...

The Organisation of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has called for Gaza's land crossing with Egypt to be fully opened to both individuals and goods. Currently only the movement...

Palestinian sources in occupied Jerusalem reported that the Israeli forces detained on Sunday, July 17, the wife of the Jerusalemite prisoner, Moneir Atoun, while she was visiting her husband...