Palestine

Israeli police yesterday rejected the US State Department's annual global terrorism report which named Jewish extremists' attacks against Palestinians as terrorist acts saying such incidents cannot be compared with...

The Palestinian technocrat government will work to unify state institutions in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank but the security services in both areas will stay in place...

Israel withdrew the VIP passes of four senior Fatah officials and threatened to do the same to the cards of others, in retaliation for the Palestinian Authority's failure to...

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has reiterated that it believes Muslims should not visit Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque as long as they are under Israeli occupation. In a press...

Former US President Bill Clinton has revealed that during the Camp David negotiations, which took place in 2000 between then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and then-Palestinian President Yasser Arafat,...

US Senators Mark Kirk and Marco Rubio of the Republican Party on Thursday called on Secretary of State John Kerry to publically declare that the US will immediately cut...

Workers in the Gaza Strip did not know that today marks International Labour Day. Some of them expressed their misery and their need for work, others said it was...

The six children of Ahmad and Roqaya Al-Khateeb move between their parents houses throughout the week, spending some of their time with their mother in Jerusalem and the remainder...

A report on Terrorism published by the US State Department Wednesday hailed the performance of Palestinian security agencies as well as Egypt's efforts in countering smuggling of weapons to...

Palestinian and Israeli residents in nine Jerusalem neighbourhoods were warned by Israel's Ministry of Health and the Gihon Water Company on Wednesday to be cautious of drinking tap water...

Egypt's interim Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmi said on Wednesday that, despite its sensitive relations with Hamas, his country still supports the Palestinian national reconciliation if it reinforces the broader...

The head of Hamas's political bureau Khaled Meshaal has called for devising a unified national strategy involving all the different factions to agree upon a common ground that upholds...

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas should permanently join the International Labour Organisation and sign all its conventions, Secretary General of Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) Shaher...

Gaza's Ark, a boat docked at a fishing harbour in Gaza, exploded yesterday, the spokesperson for the ship Mahfouz Kabariti told AFP. "The guard received an anonymous call that...

US lawmakers warned yesterday that US might freeze its annual aid to the Palestinian Authority if the Islamic Resistance movement Hamas joined a national consensus government. Assistant Secretary for...

According to Al-Amat online news site, Saudi Arabia has intercepted communications between the office of Abu-Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed Bin-Zayed and former Palestinian national security advisor Mohamed Dahlan...

The reconciliation agreement between Hamas and Fatah will not lead Hamas to recognise Israel's right to exist or for armed groups to be controlled by Palestinian Authority (PA) President...

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas is to issue a presidential decree asking the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) to resume its work immediately after the formation of a national...

US Secretary of State John Kerry attempted to distance himself on Monday from his previous remarks describing Israel as being at risk of becoming "an apartheid state" during a...

In the early years of the Second Intifada, Nablus was under violent military closure with checkpoints surrounding the city largely impassable and long-term curfews regularly imposed. This was the...

Israeli government decided to deduct more money from the taxes it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (PA) as part of sanctions it imposed in the wake of...

New data released by Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics reveal that settlements are at the top of the list of Israeli government spending, according to the news site Arabs...

Hamas has not yet decided to nominate a candidate for the Palestinian Authority (PA) presidency in the upcoming elections, senior Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzouk said yesterday. Speaking to...

Philip Gordon, a senior advisor of US President Barack Obama, has said that Hamas-Fatah reconciliation "is not necessarily a bad thing," the Haaretz has reported. Gordon was, apparently, addressing...

Former US President Jimmy Carter has promised Ismail Haniyeh that he will lend his support to the Palestinian reconciliation agreement signed last week. Carter spoke with the elected prime...

Israeli army forces demolished three houses and a mosque in Khirbet Al-Taweel village near Nablus, North of West Bank; Palestinian official reported today. The official responsible for monitoring settlement...

The Palestinian Central Council (PCC) yesterday decided on the conditional resumption of peace talks with the Israeli occupation, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) withdrew and...

Palestinian administrative prisoners inside Israeli jails who have now been on hunger strike for five days announced on Sunday that they will continue the open-ended battle of the "empty...

Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh said on Sunday that his government rejects the resettlement of Palestinian refugees within Jordan, or any other country. Haniyeh's remarks came as...

The Palestinian Authority' security apparatus has not halted the campaign of arrests of Hamas supporters across the occupied West Bank, despite the signing the reconciliation agreement in Gaza four...

The European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton warned Israel of potential repercussions of suspending peace talks with the Palestinian Authority in the aftermath of the Fatah-Hamas...

An officer of Israel's occupation forces has revealed that political motivations are behind Israel's recent decision to freeze 19 Palestinian construction projects in the West Bank, saying that this...