Middle East

Palestinian Minister for Prisoners Affairs Isa Qaraqe warned on Thursday that Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails "face slow death because of intentional medical neglect." "Israeli prison services do not...

Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad, has told cabinet ministers that the president of the Palestinian Authority benefits too much from the current negotiations, making him "incapable of signing a historic...

Member of the Hamas political bureau Mousa Abu-Marzouq expressed surprise on Thursday after several parties called for severing relations between Cairo and Hamas. He wondered: "Is there a relationship...

Israel's Minister of Housing Uri Ariel has said that settlement construction in the occupied West Bank will continue at a rapid pace. The minister, who is himself a settler,...

A newspaper in the Gaza Strip has reported that Qatar is about to deliver around 40 million litres of fuel to the beleaguered territory. Shaikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani...

The foreign ministers of the Gulf States have said that the discussions about peace in Syria, slated to take place in January, need to result in deciding a specific...

EU official: The 2005 agreement on the Rafah crossing has not been officially signed by the Palestinian Authority or Israel. The Head of the EU's Border Assistance Mission at...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES The first documented mass use of the kufiyeh within Palestinian resistance was during the First Revolution in the late 1930's when peasants who led the struggle against...

Eliezer Rabinovici, an Israeli professor of physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the chairperson of the High Energy Physics Group, has been appointed Vice-President of Synchrotron-Light for...

Three Israeli soldiers of Druze-Arab heritage were denied access to the Dimona nuclear site when their unit was posted there on guard duty. The officer and two men were...

A working group for Palestinians refugees in Syria has strongly condemned what it describes as the "flagrant violations of human and legal values in Egypt's treatment of Palestinian refugee...

Senior member of Hamas political bureau Mousa Abu-Marzouk warned on Friday "any new Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip will not be similar to previous attacks." Posting on his...

Despite it being a great danger to the region, the UAE has announced its support of the Iranian deal, along with the great world powers, on its nuclear programme....

Head of the Syrian National Coalition, Ahmed al-Jarba, said that they would not go to Geneva II unless the conditions proposed by the revolution are accepted and the Coalition...

The Federation of the Palestinian Teachers (FPT) announced on Friday the start of a three-day working strike in all schools, directorates and related ministries in the occupied West Bank....

The Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) has revealed that an undersea gas field off the coast of Gaza contains an estimated 33 billion cubic metres of natural gas. This, reports...

Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics has revealed that the number of illegal settlements constructed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem this year has increased by 130 per...

Palestinian sources reported on Thursday that a Palestinian child has died at an Israeli occupation checkpoint that is known as "the Container" and which separates the central West Bank...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES Schoolchildren in the Gaza Strip have organised their own unique protest against the naval blockade of the territory. With the support of international activists, the children made...

Israel's Minister of Economy Naftali Bennett has said that he is against the establishment of a Palestinian state, or even giving the Palestinians any land. During an interview with...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES Independent Palestinian MP Jamal Al-Khoudary has ignited a symbolic flame to break the siege of the Gaza Strip. The head of the Popular Committee against the Siege...

Several Palestinian human rights sources have reported that the Israel Prison Service has been organising military training for its Masada unit, the elite unit that is specialised in suppressing...

The Foreign Press Association (FPA) has charged the Israeli military of "deliberately targeting" journalists following clashes Friday at Qalandia checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah in the Occupied West Bank....

Israeli President Shimon Peres addressed a conference held in Abu-Dhabi about two weeks ago that was attended by 29 Arab and Islamic foreign ministers, Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported...

Official statistics have revealed that over 900 people were killed last month in the daily acts of violence plaguing Iraq. Waves of violent acts have taken place increasingly over...

Haaretz has reported that the World Zionist Organisation's Settlement Division, a branch of the Israeli government, is preparing a new-old plan to Judaise Galilee in order to achieve a...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES The global 'Day of Rage' against the Prawer Plan included demonstrations and other solidarity actions in more than 24 cities around the world. According to Adalah: the...

A delegation from the Islamic Resistance Movement, led by its political bureau head Khaled Meshaal, has arrived in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur for an official visit. The Hamas...

EXCLUSIVE IMAGES About 200 Palestinian and foreign activists launched a protest flotilla in the Gaza Sea on Monday, sending a message to the world about the continuing Israeli siege...

Israel's Labour and Shas parties have agreed to work together in the Knesset to help topple Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, according to Israeli newspaper Maariv. The new alliance...

Just as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed his intention to proceed with the Prawer Plan and the displacement of Arabs from their villages in the Negev, his government...

On 1 November, Gaza's only power plant, which normally provides around 30 per cent of the Gaza Strip's electricity supply, ran out of fuel. For the past month, Gaza's...