Though rarely acknowledged in the mainstream media and academia, the Middle East has been playing an outsized role in determining contemporary Canadian elections. Less than two years into his...

An Egyptian engineering delegation arrived in the occupied Gaza Strip yesterday to follow up on the enclave's reconstruction process. An official source told Safa that the Egyptian delegation would...

The Israeli army announced today that it had stopped an attempt to smuggle weapons across the border with Jordan, Arab48 reports. Army spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, said: "The army forces thwarted an attempt...

The head of Egypt's General Intelligence Directorate delivered an invitation from President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi last month for Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to visit his country. This was...

Israeli soldiers assaulted a 46-year-old Palestinian physician from the town of Arraba southwest of Jenin following his detention last week and broke his arm. According to the Wafa news agency, Nidal...

The Palestinian resistance factions announced yesterday the formation of "a joint operations room" in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, Anadolu has reported. The military wings...

A Jerusalemite bus driver was injured this morning after a group of Jewish Israelis stabbed him in the occupied Holy City, the Palestinian Information Centre reported. According to local sources, the settlers...

Israeli soldiers have abused two Palestinian children before arresting one of them in the occupied city of Hebron in the southern West Bank, their father said. Walid Sabarneh, from...

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh yesterday called on Norway to pressure Israel to release withheld Palestinian tax revenues. This came during a videoconference with Norway's Foreign Minister, Ine Marie...

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement, Fatah, yesterday said that the Sabra and Shatila massacre is a "war crime" for which Israel bears full responsibility as the occupying power controlling...

Hamas is holding internal consultations regarding possible municipal elections announced by Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Mohammad Shtayyeh, the movement's spokesperson said. "We are holding consultations within the movement's framework...

The mere thought of having a colonial enterprise enjoying red carpet treatment within an anticolonial setting beggars belief. Even more so when that setting is the African Union, because...

Palestine is still the cradle of the world's free people. The Palestinians are still the source of inspiration and hope for the Arab people who are oppressed and held...

A group of international lawyers, researchers and activists today filed a complaint with the African Commission on Human and People's Rights seeking the revocation of Israel's observer status at...

Reading the reflections of one of Israel's most celebrated contemporary public intellectuals on the apparently never-ending occupation of Palestine, I was reminded of an old saying about the nature...

The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is spearheading an initiative ahead of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly, urging governments and diplomats to reject the so-called anti-Israel bias at an international...

The UAE Ambassador to Washington, Yousef Al-Otaiba, said the normalisation agreement signed between his country and Israel has saved the two-state solution. Speaking at an event organised by the...

Last week marked 22 years since the African Union (AU) replaced the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) which was created in 1963 with only 32 members. The other 22...

Time magazine has named Palestinian twins and activists, Muna and Mohammed El-Kurd of Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem in its annual list of the 100 most influential...

Palestinian prisoner Yaqoub Qadri, who was among the four Gilboa Prison escapees to be recaptured, pledged to seek freedom again, Safa news agency reported on Tuesday. According to lawyer Hanan Al Khatib, Qadri...

Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army, Aviv Kochavi, yesterday warned that raiding the West Bank city of Jenin could become an inevitable choice, Israeli TV Channel 12 reported. Al Maydan...

Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz has said that Israel will not be removing any illegal Jewish settlements from the occupied West Bank and will maintain them in the long...

Germany yesterday signed a joint cooperation agreement with the Palestinian Authority (PA), pledging support €100 million ($117.8 million) in support for the government over the next two years, Wafa news agency...

The first question asked of you in Turkey is often "Where are you from?" When you say, "Palestine", Turkish eyes light up, because the people love Palestine and the...

Secretary-General of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Ziyad Al Nakhala, said yesterday that his movement "is ready to be part of the prisoners' action aimed at confronting oppressive Israeli measures" inside...

Qatari envoy to the region and head of Qatari Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza, Mohammad Al Emadi, said on Tuesday that his country laid down mechanism to deliver...

Bahrain's first-ever ambassador to Israel, Khaled Yousef Al-Jalahma, said yesterday that it was a "great honour" to present his credentials to President Isaac Herzog, the Times of Israel has...

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails today called off a hunger strike they were planning to start on Friday after the Israel Prison Services (IPS) agreed to their demands that...

The Crown Prince of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has been awarded the "prestigious" Scholar-Statesman Award by the pro-Israel think tank, the Washington Institute...

Two thirds of the Palestinian detainees in an Israeli detention facility at the illegal Etzion settlement bloc, south of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, are minors, the Detainees and...

The US state of New Jersey warned yesterday that it will consider divesting funds Ben & Jerry's, along with its parent company, Unilever, as a result of the ice-cream...

Saudi Arabia has reached out to Israel over the possibility of procuring missile defence systems, according to trade-specific news and analysis magazine Breaking Defence. The Iron Dome manufactured by...