Palestine

Heather Shroud introduces us to a whole host of characters in her novel Abraham's Children. We first meet the affected young Fida as she embarks on a trip to...

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman described Sweden's decision on Thursday to recognise a Palestinian state as "very unfortunate", Anadolu news agency reported. Responding to the move on his Facebook...

A UN panel of independent experts in Geneva has urged Israel to end a host of practices violating Palestinian human rights. The UN Human Rights Committee, which monitors implementation...

With a growing list of US military interventions around the world, and their accompanying human rights abuses including the ongoing shame of Guantanamo Bay in the background, it is...

A senior official at the United Nations has said that Israel's commitment to build 1,060 settler homes in East Jerusalem raises serious doubts about the country's commitment to peace...

Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai is to donate $50,000 towards rebuilding schools in Gaza, she announced Wednesday. Malala was speaking in Stockholm where she received the World's Children's Prize....

Interior Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch today ordered the closure Al-Aqsa Mosque in the wake of an assassination attempt on the extremist Rabbi Yehuda Glick. Police shut the compound to all...

Israeli politicians and spokespersons sound like roosters who think they are peacocks when they boast of "the most moral army in the world," its "surgical strikes," their wonderful "Iron...

Israel has permitted the first shipment of only 400 tonnes of cement to enter the Gaza Strip and be distributed to a select number of traders under the supervision...

The Palestinian Authority is holding the Israeli government responsible for what it described as "a dangerous" escalation in occupied Jerusalem, considering this move "a declaration of war on the...

Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas today denounced Israel's closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Felesteen newspaper said. Member of Hamas' political bureau Mousa Abu-Marzouk said: "The closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque in the...

Minister for the Middle East Tobias Ellwood today condemned the Israeli government's announcement that it plans to build 1,060 new housing units in East Jerusalem. A statement issued by...

The Palestinian Prisoners Club announced that an Israeli court in occupied Jerusalem has extended the detention of six Jerusalemites and arrested two minors, while two others were conditionally released,...

The departure of settler families from the areas surrounding the Gaza Strip to the Galilee is ongoing since the recent assault on the Strip, Israeli newspaper Maariv said. The...

A UN body has estimated that at least 7,000 explosive items remain to be secured or destroyed in the Gaza Strip, following Israel's attack over the summer. The figure...

Sweden's newly elected center-left government has officially recognized Palestine as a state on Thursday, making it the first EU member to do so. "Today the government takes the decision...

Hundreds of torture methods used against Palestinian prisoners during interrogations conducted in Israeli prisoners have been observed by human rights organisations and prisoners' rights associations. A report by the...

"Winter here in Tel Aviv is wonderful," Shlomo Sand tells me, before adding: "I think it's the only thing here that is wonderful." A Professor of Contemporary History at...

The Spanish Foreign Ministry expressed regret on Wednesday over the Israeli authorities' approval announced on Monday of building 1,000 new housing units in two settlements in East Jerusalem, stressing...

Representatives of more than 60 charities from 27 countries have gathered in Doha to raise funds for the redevelopment of the Gaza Strip and other aid for Palestinians. Delegates...

Gaza Writes Back, a collection of short stories from young writers in Gaza, provides us with a vibrant heartrending and poignant narration of the lives of the Palestinian people,...

When reading Susan Abulhawa's collection of poetry titled My Voice Sought the Wind, I made the mistake of going in with traditional Arabic poetry in mind, as some have...

I would first like to begin by expressing my deepest condolences to the families of the Egyptian soldiers that were killed in the Sinai Peninsula. I would also like...

Bahrain condemned the Israeli government's approval of hundreds of new settlement units in occupied Jerusalem, demanding an "immediate and decisive international intervention to stop the expansion of Israeli settlements",...

Bahrain condemned the Israeli government's approval of hundreds of new settlement units in occupied Jerusalem, demanding an "immediate and decisive international intervention to stop the expansion of Israeli settlements",...

Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, said on Tuesday that Israeli settlement activity is against international law. Replying to a question during a press conference...

Responding to remarks made earlier in the day, Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas said on Tuesday that Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah "is personally to blame for the closure of...

Gazans are facing a hard winter without adequate shelter after a summer of destruction. Gaza emerged from the recent assault over July and August in tatters: over 2,000 Gazans...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has renewed his intention to continue building in occupied Jerusalem, rejecting the international criticism of illegal settlements. In a ceremony held on Tuesday morning...

The Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM), the UK's biggest Israel advocacy organisation, has appointed as its new communications director a Christian fundamentalist who believes the West Bank...

The United Arab Emirates is played a big role in selling the houses of Arabs in Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque, to Israeli settlement construction companies, a senior member...

The northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel has affirmed that its legitimacy stems from "true Islam" and its popularity stems from the people inside Palestine, after a...