Middle East

Official statistics from the Ministry of Information in Ramallah have revealed that 1,518 Palestinian children were killed by Israel's occupation forces from the outbreak of the second Intifada in...

Official Israeli data has shown a 176 per cent increase in Israeli settlement during the first quarter of 2013 when compared with the same period last year, the Israeli...

A report by Israel's Ministry for Environmental Protection has revealed that 2.2 million cubic metres of raw sewage flows annually from the country's illegal settlements in the West Bank...

Member of the organisation for Palestinian Endowments and Religious Affairs in Gaza, Ismail Ridwan, revealed on Tuesday a $6m Israeli plan to judaise Jerusalem and alter its Arabic appearance....

A Palestinian farmer was seriously injured on Monday morning by live Israeli ammunition fired in Khan Younis which located in the east of the Gaza Strip, the Ministry of...

The Israeli occupation authorities have placed a 12 year old Palestinian boy under house arrest after his release on bail. Mahran Al-Jabari was detained in Jerusalem last Friday along...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticised the management of Superland Amusement Park for refusing to allow Arab students to enter on the same day as Jews. He described...

Palestinian groups have condemned the organisation of an international motor race, including a Ferrari team, under the umbrella of so-called Jerusalem of Peace events. The race is to be...

The Lebanese President, Michel Suleiman, on Sunday asked his Foreign Minister, Adnan Mansour, to file an urgent complaint with the United Nations over recent Israeli violations of Lebanon's airspace....

The new Palestinian government in Ramallah headed by academic Dr Rami Hamdallah was sworn in on Thursday. The new Prime Minister is very close to Fatah and has led...

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation announced on Sunday that it is to unveil a package of project proposals for the development of Jerusalem worth $500 million. The Jeddah-based OIC...

Lebanon's Energy Minister has announced the discovery of a huge natural gas field in his country's territorial waters. Gebran Bassil said that the field contains an estimated 30 trillion...

A leading Middle East commentator has claimed that the proximity of Quneitra to the border with Israel makes the battle for the town of great strategic importance for the...

Israeli occupation forces have claimed that they have prevented 27 kidnapping attempts of their soldiers since the beginning of this year Ha'aretz reported on Friday. The newspaper reports that...

Yemen's Minister of Planning and International Cooperation has apologised to the Kuwaiti government and people over his country's position on the Second Gulf War waged by former Iraqi president...

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal has told Britain's Channel 4 News that the Islamic Resistance Movement decided to leave its base in Damascus after failing to persuade the Syrian government...

A former Hezbollah MP has denied rumours suggesting that the Lebanese organisation has told Hamas representatives to close their Beirut office and leave the country. Hassan Hub-Allah stressed that...

The Secretary General of the Arab League has warned member states of Israel's threat to their national security. According to Nabil Al-Arabi, of particular concern is the threat to...

Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour has told Maariv newspaper that the lack of progress in US efforts for the resumption of Palestinian-Israeli negotiations will have a negative impact on...

An Israeli TV station has said that the number of Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank makes a two-state solution unrealistic and almost impossible to achieve. Israel's Channel...

The Egyptian opposition could not influence Egyptian public opinion even if all secular and liberal parties were united under a single umbrella, USA Today has said. The Salvation Front...

Thousands of illegal Jewish settlers have damaged property in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Kafl Haris near Salfit in the occupied West Bank. The settlers, who claimed that they were...

About 1,354 Palestinians, including 1,201 men and 153 women, have been killed by the Syrian regime since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution, Action Group for Palestinians in Syria...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Peace Club for the Disabled in Gaza have recently implemented new projects funded by UNDP international donors and other organisations including a project to convert wheelchairs...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS The Ministry of Agriculture in the Gaza Strip announced the start of the grape season on Tuesday. Palestinians farmers are trying to fulfil the demand for local...

Work started on Tuesday on the construction of a seven-storey building adjacent to the Noble Sanctuary of Al-Aqsa. The land next to the Magharbeh Gate into the sanctuary is...

An opinion poll conducted by the Smith Research Centre has revealed that the vast majority of Israelis are opposed to the release of Palestinian prisoners in return for the...

The Israeli Ministry of Justice has backed down on plans to build a courts complex on land which forms part of the historic Ma'man Allah Palestinian Cemetery in Jerusalem....

The Arab Index Poll for 2012/2013, conducted by the Arab Centre for Research and Political Studies, has shown that the majority of Arabs in the Middle East support the...

Bedouins in the Jordan Valley live under extremely difficult conditions because two thirds of villages suffer from complete water shortage, Al-Maleh Village Council has said. The head of the...

Contradicting statements by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior officials, Deputy Defence Minister Danny Danon has repeated his claim that Israel's ruling party and the governing coalition are strongly...

Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that he would never accept preconditions from the Palestinians for resuming talks, just a day after appearing to set his own condition that a...