Middle East

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza Ismail Haniyyeh has received three international solidarity delegations, including Miles of Smiles 22 headed by Isam Yousif. The members of the delegations...

Hamas has put the blame for the rise in Israel's arrest of activists across the occupied West Bank on the visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry last...

The Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Gaza has announced the suspension of its school construction programme. Work on 39 new schools has been stopped due to the...

Five Palestinian journalists were wounded when Israeli occupation forces attacked them at Qalandya military checkpoint as they tried to enter Jerusalem. Ironically, the journalists were launching a campaign for...

The Palestinian Bar Association (PBA) has announced that industrial action will take place on Monday and Tuesday in protest against an attack on one of their colleagues in Bethlehem....

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS EU foreign policy Chief Catharine Ashton visited the Gaza Strip on Thursday. During a press conference, she said that she had planned to make her visit on...

The head of Israel's National Democratic Alliance has called for the regional director of the Education Ministry's northern branch to be sacked after she banned the use of Arabic...

Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister, Prince Saud Al-Faisal, said on Tuesday that the Kingdom considers Iran and Lebanese group Hezbollah's interference in the conflict in Syria to be dangerous, adding...

Israeli occupation forces have arrested parliamentarian Mohammed Abu Tair at his home in Ramallah. He is a Palestinian Jerusalemite who was deported to Ramallah by the Israelis in October...

An Arabic website has revealed details of the links between the man nominated to be the Deputy Interim President of Egypt and an Israeli leader alleged to be a...

A UN organisation has highlighted the plight of small Palestinian farming communities in the hills to the east of Jerusalem which are at risk of forced displacement due to...

Israel's Housing Minister said on Thursday that the idea of the two-state solution has reached a dead-end and the search for an alternative is a "must". Uri Ariel, a...

Jordanian Trade Unions have introduced a campaign to boycott Israeli products, especially agricultural produce. In a statement, the High Executive Committee against normalising ties with Israel and the Committee...

McDonald's Israel has refused to open a branch in the settlement of Ariel which is built on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. The company was offered space...

A court in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has convicted 69 Islamists of plotting to overthrow the ruling regime. Ten of the accused were convicted in absentia. Al-Itihadiyya Court,...

Ramallah – Walid Awad The Islamic Resistance Movement has confirmed its belief that it is the subject of a systematic campaign by international, Arab and Palestinian entities to destroy...

The Israeli cabinet decided on Sunday not to designate as terrorists the extremist "Price Tag" settlers' group, reported Haaretz. The group is responsible for many attacks against Palestinians, their...

The Free Syrian Army (FSA) has accused Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Assad regime of using chemical weapons in a town on the outskirts of Damascus, it has been reported....

A UN committee has accused Israel of torturing Palestinian children in the occupied territories. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child says that thousands of Palestinian children...

Sources in the prime minister's office say that Benjamin Netanyahu denies that he has agreed to freeze construction in settlements and release Palestinian prisoners in order to enter into...

The deputy head of the Palestinian Legislative Council Ahmed Bahar stressed that behind the Israeli campaign of arresting Palestinian MPs and leaders Israel aims to isolate them from their...

PICTURES The Palestinian Ministry of the Interior in Gaza released 65 prisoners on Wednesday morning to commemorate the first day of the holy month of Ramadan. The prisoners chosen...

King Abdullah of Jordan said on Sunday that there will be no confederation between his country and Palestine until and unless an independent Palestinian state is established. Such a...

A senior officer in the Israeli police force has admitted that he and his colleagues are unable to prevent the attacks carried out by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in...

The Palestinian Prime Minister in the West Bank has resigned from his post just two weeks after being sworn into office. The reason for Rami Al-Hamadallah's departure has been...

The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics expects Israel's population to reach 11.4 million in 2035, of which 73 per cent will be Jews. That is slightly lower than the...

The Government of Israel has refused to comment officially one way or the other on the ousting of Egypt's elected President Mohammed Morsi. A Likud member of the parliament...

Dissatisfaction is growing in Gaza at the shortages of basic essentials and the high prices caused by the Egyptian army's closure of the tunnels under the Rafah border of...

Haaretz believes that Israel has lost its most important "media trumpet" of the past eight years with the departure of Iran's President Ahmadinejad. According to the newspaper, a number...

Human rights organisation B'Tselem has sent a letter to the legal adviser of the Israeli army's civil administration in the occupied West Bank asking for an end to the...

Two days ahead of John Kerry's visit to the Middle East in an attempt to jumpstart peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis, a member of Israel's ruling coalition has...

Israel's Prime Minister is ready to compromise and evacuate most settlements in the occupied West Bank for peace, a senior Likud official told Haaretz newspaper on Wednesday. Speaking on...