Palestine

Lebanese authorities denied on Tuesday having issued a decision preventing Syrian and Palestinian refugees from entering Lebanon. The announcement comes after Human Rights Watch had accused the Lebanese authorities...

Gulf States have been putting pressure on the UAE to expel former Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan, who is a security and political advisor for the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince,...

Egypt's former army chief and presidential candidate Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi hinted that he will not receive an Israeli prime minister if Israel does not provide concessions to the Palestinians...

Israeli President Shimon Peres said yesterday that he had reached a peace deal with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stopped the agreement. In an...

A day after Palestinians reached a national unity government, Israel announced the suspension of the never ending peace talks. The Israeli position was echoed instantly in Washington by one...

Representative of the Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mikhail Bogdanov met yesterday with the head of Hamas' political bureau Khalid Meshaal in Doha, they discussed Israeli aggressions and...

  The Palestinian prime minister of the Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip, Ismail Haniyeh, signed a decree on Monday providing for the release of all prisoners affiliated with...

According to Badil Resource Center for Refugee Rights, there are approximately 4.8 million UNRWA-registered Palestinian refugees (*Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons – Volume VII – 2010-2012)....

The foreign ministers of Italy, Ireland and Luxembourg, along with the EU's top diplomat, announced yesterday their strong and distinct support for the Palestinian reconciliation agreement, Secretary-General of the...

The Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday that it expects a drop in the wheat harvest this year. General Manager of Guidance and Rural Development in the Ministry of...

Senior US officials are planning to visit Israel in the near future after the collapse of peace talks with the Palestinians, US State Department announced yesterday. The department denied...

A number of Arab countries are ready to pay the wages of government employees in Gaza when the national unity government is formed, Hamas representative in Lebanon Ali Baraka...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held talks with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in the Qatari capital, Doha, on Monday. The two leaders discussed the implementation of the national reconciliation agreement,...

Israel might battle Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israeli Chief of Staff Benny Gantz said yesterday. Gantz visited training camps in the north of...

An informed American official told the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth that US Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to replace most of his team members who work on...

A monthly report by the Palestinian Youth Media Assembly revealed that Israeli violations of press freedom continued in April, documenting at least 10 cases of assaults on journalists and...

Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni called on Sunday for classifying attacks by Jewish settlers against Palestinians as "terrorist acts," Israeli army radio reported. "We must recognise that there are...

Hamas will not recognise Israel's right to exist or the international Quartet's terms, a top Hamas official said. Deputy Head of Hamas political bureau Mousa Abu Marzouk told reporters...

Israel's daily newspaper Haaretz has published an article strongly criticising the Israeli occupation army's treatment of detained Palestinian children. "What kind of country throws a teen out of an...

The award-winning Israeli historian and scholar on Fascism, Zeev Sternhell, has said that calling for the Palestinians to recognise Israel as a Jewish state is like asking them to...

The 12th Palestinians in Europe conference has called for the restructuring of the Palestine Liberation Organisation by establishing an elected Palestinian national council that would give rise to a...

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeated his belief that, while Israel "gives full equal rights to all its citizens , it is the nation-state of one people –...

The Secretary General of the Palestinian Ministerial Council in the Gaza Strip, Abdul-Salam Syam, said on Sunday that administrative arrangements are being made for the return of 3,000 members...

Senior Fatah official Marwan Barghouti has joined Hamas members and other Palestinian prisoners on an open-ended hunger strike in Israeli jails. According to the former Minister of Palestinian Prisoners...

Turkey was the first Muslim state to recognise Israel after its inception in 1948, and later established full diplomatic relations with it. The strict secular regime supported by the...

The new activism of a young generation in the US has largely come out of the multiplicity and consistency of a new media narrative confidently mushrooming from a new...

The head of Lebanon's Maronite church will make history this month when he becomes the first such figure to visit Israel since its foundation in 1948. The announcement that...

It is time for the Palestinian leadership to reconsider its losing bet on the United States, which oscillates from being an opponent that is biased towards Israeli strategy and...

Like previous agreements, the Palestinian reconciliation deal has been described as "historic". Officially, the damaging political split between Palestinians is over, but will this latest agreement be any better...

Soon after the signing of the Wye River Agreement in 1998 Israel's minister of infrastructure in the first Netanyahu government, the late, unlamented Ariel Sharon, urged settlers to "seize...

There is nothing imaginary about Israel's threat to attack Gaza. It is real; both the Hamas-led administration and civilian population in the enclave have had to live with it...

Has the Israeli government crossed a red line in its dealings with the US? It is a reasonable assumption after Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon's recent derisory comments about Secretary...