Palestine

Gaza has no connection to the attack that killed 30 Egyptian soldiers in Sinai last week, senior Hamas leader and member of its political bureau Khalil Al-Hayyah said yesterday....

Israeli occupation forces yesterday arrested Hamas Spokesman Sa'ed Abul-Bahaa from his home in Bitunia, near to the West Bank city of Ramallah, the Anadolu Agency reported. A family member...

Israel will not accept a Palestinian state unless the Palestinians recognise Israel as a Jewish state, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday. Speaking at the start of the winter...

The US expressed deep concerns on Monday over Israel's announcement of a new wave of illegal settlements in occupied Jerusalem, while the EU condemned the move and Jordan's parliament...

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas requested on Monday for the UN Security Council to urgently convene to discuss the latest wave of illegal Israeli settlements and Israel's increasing...

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki yesterday called for the Pope to refuse an award from Israel's Bar-Ilan University. In a letter to the Vatican, Al-Maliki expressed his "deep...

Ambulance and civil defence crews recovered the body of a Palestinian on Monday from underneath the rubble of a mosque in the central Gaza Strip, 78 days after Israeli...

Saudi Arabia has warned of the danger of Israeli plan to Judaise and divide Al-Aqsa Mosque, calling it a flagrant violation of the sanctity of the mosque, the principles...

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip has stated that hundreds of critical patients are paying a high price as a result of Egypt's complete closure of...

Born in Jerusalem on February 25, 1929, during the British Mandate of Palestine, the author, Issa Boullata, a prominent Palestinian scholar, writer and translator of Arabic literature living in...

The above clip taken from a Fox News broadcast aired last week shows the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) spokesperson Christopher Gunness and anti-Palestinian activist David Bedein debating...

Mousa Abu-Marzouk, deputy of the Hamas political bureau, offered his condolences to the families who lost members in the terrorist attack in Abu Zeid, Sinai, on Friday. Abu-Marzouk said:...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned of the "seriousness of Zionist actions regarding the spatial division of Jerusalem". In an urgent letter sent to the US administration yesterday, Abbas warned:...

The buffer zone which the Egyptian army is planning to implement along the borders between Sinai and the Gaza Strip reinforces the Israeli siege on the coastal enclave which...

The Jordanian government warned Israel that the peace agreement that was signed by both countries more than 20 years ago is currently under threat due to the continued expansion...

After a day's work in the café, Mohammed Al-Zamr uses his spare time to draw and write on fragments of missiles left behind follow Israel's latest offensive on the...

Israel has stolen 80,000 Palestinian books and manuscripts and kept them in its national libraries since 1948, Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Al-Arabi said. Al-Arabi was speaking at a celebration...

South Africa's increasing interest in Palestine and its woes is beginning to manifest in ways that's likely to attract more antagonism from Israel and her lobbyists. Currently a number...

Despite myriad successes the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, and its academic counterpart 'PACBI', the case for boycott against Israel's occupation is under attack once again. This time...

December 2008. The deadly Israeli assault on Gaza, lasting three weeks as the Strip was invaded by land, sea and air known as Operation Cast Lead sets the theme...

Israeli authorities have bowed to pressure from Jewish settlers and ordered a ban on Palestinians from using Israeli-run buses in the West Bank, Israeli daily Haaretz reported Sunday. According...

Egypt has notified Palestinian resistance movement Hamas that indirect talks with Israel on a permanent cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, which were due to resume Monday, have been delayed,...

Israel's intelligence and strategic affairs minister Yuval Steinitz has accused British MPs of "encouraging terrorist attacks", following the parliamentary vote in support of Palestinian statehood. Steinitz, a senior cabinet...

Morocco denounced on Friday the latest Israeli escalation in the city of Jerusalem, and the remarks of some Israeli officials, as an attempt to "undermine the legal status of...

Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas warned the Israeli occupation that it would "pay a high price" for its "crimes" in the Palestinian city of Jerusalem, promising to take "strong" and...

The Israeli army killed on Friday evening a Palestinian boy in the West Bank village of Silwad, near Ramallah, Palestinian Safa news agency said. Witnesses said that Orwa Hamed,...

Israeli army forces opened fire on Palestinian farmlands in southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, eyewitnesses said. "Israeli forces stationed at the Kisovim military post opened fire on farmlands [in...

Uri Ariel, Minister of Housing and Construction from the Jewish Home party, has announced his intention to move to the Silwan neighbourhood of East Jerusalem. He made the announcement...

Watch the BBC's coverage and it may have you believing that Israel is a small, embattled outpost of modern "civilisation" in the war-ravaged Middle East. A "villa in the...

Twice as many British adults blame Israel for the failure to achieve a final settlement as they do the Palestinians, according to a new poll commissioned by Israel advocacy...

Are there similarities between the so-called "Islamic State" in Iraq and Syria and the self-styled "Jewish State" in Palestine? Quite a few. For a start, both thrive on religious...

Kuwait's former Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah finished giving his statement to the state's prosecutor general yesterday evening in the case brought against him and the country's...