Palestine

Egyptian and Israeli navy vessels have been continuously targeting a fishing boat in the waters near Rafah in the south of Gaza with heavy gunfire. Security sources have told...

Data issued by the Palestinian Monetary Authority (PMA), which carries out the work of the Central Bank, indicate that the total amount of domestic personal transfers made by Palestinians...

On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered "that sovereignty be enforced in all parts of Jerusalem by positioning additional forces throughout" the holy city, which both Palestinians...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed, on Thursday, that Israeli occupation authorities would order the "strongest possible response" to any future Palestinian civil protests, what he referred to as...

An Israeli parliamentary committee will on Monday look into recommendations regarding securing the entry of settlers to Al-Aqsa Mosque, despite the ongoing protests. According to the Knesset's website, on...

The Islamic resistance movement Hamas announced on Thursday that the Palestinian who slammed his car into Israeli settlers on Wednesday was indeed one of its members, but did not...

Ten days before he drove his car on passengers descending from the light train in Jerusalem, killing a three months old baby and wounding four others, Abdel Rahman al-Shaludi,...

At last, it appears that the United Nations General Assembly's (UNGA) 138-9 majority vote in November 2012 to accord Palestine observer state status might finally be bearing fruit. Sweden's...

The International Committee of the Red Cross began removing rubble from agricultural land in south-eastern Gaza yesterday. Large areas of agricultural land were heavily shelled and bombarded in the...

Extremist settlers set fire on Wednesday to agricultural lands in the town of Huwara, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, Al-Resalah newspaper reported. According to Al-Resalah,...

"The international community cannot be expected to continually pick up the pieces of another war and then pick up the bill." Uttered by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during...

Hamas' military commander Mohamed Al-Deif is still alive and the tunnels from Gaza to Israel are defensive weapons, the head of the movement's political bureau Khaled Meshaal has said....

One of the conundrums about Israel is that the country's media often carries far more robust stories about the state than the many pro-Israel media outlets in the West....

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is to blame for the car accident that took place earlier in the day in...

The Upper House of Ireland's parliament yesterday passed a non-binding motion calling on the Dublin government to recognise the State of Palestine, making it the third European country to...

Eight Palestinian women have gone on trial in Israel after being detained yesterday while they left Al-Aqsa Mosque. According to an Alresalah correspondent, Israel held a session this morning...

Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip over the summer prompted an unprecedented outpouring of solidarity for Palestinians in the West, from street protests to expressions of outrage by mainstream...

As usual, whatever Israel fails to impose by war, it tries to achieve by means of the subsequent agreements, and the reconstruction of Gaza agreement under the supervision of...

Hamas' West Bank Spokesperson Saed Abu Bahaa has accused the Palestinian Authority (PA) of "targeting" its members during rallies called for by the group's leadership to defend the Al-Aqsa...

Palestinian artist Eyad Sabbah has erected clay-covered fibreglass statues in Shuja'iyya, depicting Palestinians who fled their houses from Israeli shelling during Operation Protective Edge. The statues stand amidst the...

The Palestinian Ministry of Trade and Industry has opened a legal investigation to determine which companies deal with Israel in the occupied territories at the request of the Ministry...

Israeli Minister of Security Moshe Ya'alon yesterday accused the Turkish authorities of supporting Hamas. He said: "The movement has two command centres; one in Gaza and the other in...

The Revolutionary Council of the Fatah movement warned Israel on Monday against issuing any law that would divide Al-Aqsa Mosque, threatening that "this would blow up the whole region...

A cemetery in Haifa where the body of the martyr Sheikh Izz Ad-Din Al-Qassam is buried has been sold to a private construction company, sparking fears of the outbreak...

The Fatah Revolutionary Council said that the Palestinian decision to seek membership into the UN via the Security Council is a "Palestinian right" and that the outcome of this...

The decisions made in the conference on reconstructing Gaza in Cairo remain completely under Israel's control, Palestinian Minister Jamal Al-Kadri, who currently serves as the President of the Public...

Algeria dispatched on Monday 20 tons of school supplies to the children of Gaza, with the aid carried on a military cargo plane that was headed towards Al-Ismailia airport...

Talk of "full rights" and "international legitimacy" by Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat was once again prominent within its usual inconsistency. Speaking at a meeting with various diplomatic representatives,...

80 foreign activists finished their work on Monday in Palestinian farms that are threatened with expropriation by the Israeli occupation authorities, Palestinian Al-Quds newspaper reported. A statement issued by...

The University of Bar Ilan yesterday condemned Professor Hillel Weiss' calls for the extermination of Palestinians. After a speech by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the United Nations in...

An Arab Knesset member has revealed that there will be a vote in the next month on a law drafted by an Israeli committee regarding the partition of Al-Aqsa...

Members of the UN Human Rights Committee quizzed an Israeli delegation on Monday about Israel's human rights violations against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip,...