Middle East

Media sources in Israel have claimed that "secret and sharp" diplomatic messages have been received by the government in Tel Aviv voicing protests about the Zionist state's use of...

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (formerly the Organization of the Islamic Conference) has warned that the Gaza Strip is witnessing a health crisis which is "the worst of its...

According to official statistics from Israel, the number of illegal Jewish settler-colonists in the Occupied West Bank has risen by 14,000 in the past 12 months. The statistics published...

EXCLUSIVE The Syrian Revolutionary Council in Daraa denounces the decision by the British Authorities to arrest the freedom campaigner Raed Salah; Sheikh of al-Aqsa and the Lion of Palestine,...

Ahmed Toubassi, a researcher at the International Solidarity Foundation for Human Rights, has said that the excavations and digging carried out by the Israeli authorities in the historic Al...

A report issued by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has shown that the unemployment rate in Gaza rose to 45.2% in the second half...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Gaza's Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya, has inaugurated a number of agricultural projects on land formerly occupied by Israeli settlers. The government is now taking advantage of the...

Israel's Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya'alon has said that the Turkish government has decided not to resume security coordination with Tel Aviv. Such coordination stopped in mid-2010 following Israel's...

Israel's parliament, the Knesset, has approved a bill dubbed the "Boycott Ban", which outlaws boycotting, or calling for boycotts against, Israel and Israel's illegal settlements. The bill was passed...

Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni has criticized Benyamin Netanyahu's government for "searching for superficial issues and ignoring the essence" while running Israel's affairs. According to the ex-Foreign Minister, the...

Officials of the Islamic Movement in Israel have sent a letter of complaint to the British ambassador in Tel Aviv about the arrest of their leader, Sheikh Raed Salah....

An Israeli military official has spoken about the challenges will face their armed forces stressing that in the coming years, there will be an increase in the numbers of...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The president of the European parliament, Jerzy Buzek crossed into the Gaza Strip today, via the Israeli Eretz crossing. He visited the Society for Deaf Children and...

Egypt's Petroleum Minister, Abdullah Ghorab, has affirmed that his government is not committed to paying Israel compensation after the export of natural gas to the country was halted for...

The Egyptian Supreme Council for the Armed Forces has given official approval to a Turkish request for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to visit the Gaza Strip via the...

A huge blast has rocked Egypt's Sinai Peninsula after unknown saboteurs bombed the pipeline feeding natural gas from Egypt to Jordan and Israel. This is the fourth time in...

Israel has reacted with fury to a UN report which holds the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) responsible for the deaths of a number of refugee protesters on Nakba Day...

Egypt's new Foreign Minister has said that his country won't be a tool for putting Palestinians under siege. After taking the oath of office before the military ruler, Field...

On Sunday, June 19th, The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) issued a report stating that, scattered across dozens of camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and the Palestinian territories...

A UN report has highlighted the escalation of Israeli aggression against Palestinian children in March and April this year. Issued by UNICEF, the report alleges that Israeli hostility against...

Israeli media sources have reported escalating differences between members of Israel's coalition cabinet over the apology demanded by Turkey following Israel's massacre of nine Turkish citizens aboard Freedom Flotilla...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip have continued to stage protests outside the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) in Gaza in response...

The Arab League has condemned strongly the British government's arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah, the prominent leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel. In a statement the League demanded...

Rabbi Meir Hirsh, Jerusalem – Arrest of Shaykh Raed Salah in London There are very few people in Jerusalem who have not heard of or do not know Shaykh...

Palestinian members of the Israeli parliament (Knesset) have denounced the arrest and threatened deportation of Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, by UK Border Agency...

Retired Israeli army colonel, Shmuel Gordon, has called on the Israeli government to begin direct talks with Hamas in order to reach a bilateral agreement on prisoner exchange and...

The deputy head of the Freedom and Justice Party, Dr. Essam El Erian, has said that the party does not seek a majority in the Egyptian parliament. Instead, he...

According to reports by a Kuwaiti daily made on Wednesday, July 27, King Abdullah II of Jordan recently declined a secret meeting with Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu. 'Well...

Media sources in Israel have warned about the escalation of international legal campaigns to pursue Israeli officers and officials on charges on war crimes against the Palestinian people. According...

The Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority in Gaza has met with a high-ranking Fatah delegation to discuss the finalisation of the recent reconciliation agreement. During the meeting, Ismail...

On Wednesday morning, an Arab delegation representing the Higher Follow-up Committee for the Arab community inside Israel, met with the British Ambassador to Israel, Mathew Gould, at the British...

Reports in Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth claim that a former Israeli Air Force commander is taking part in Freedom Flotilla 2 heading for Gaza. The newspaper noted that former...