"Immediately after the war Israel initiated a political and a propaganda campaign, including distributing false information about a coup d'état that was prepared in the West Bank, to divert...
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) said yesterday that rebuilding war-torn Syria, Iraq and Gaza will cost around $750 billion. The war in Syria...
It is the whistle-blower's dilemma: follow the official internal complaints' procedure and risk the truth being buried, or take it straight to the press, and risk improvised prosecution by...
A senior UN official has confirmed that the Israeli military turned a school in the Gaza Strip into a military base during July's ground offensive. The comments last week...
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki and his Kuwaiti counterpart Sabah Khalid Sabah yesterday signed two cooperation agreements during the latter's visit to the West Bank city of Ramallah. One...
Eighty per cent of the electricity grids damaged in Israel's war on Gaza have now been repaired, the Deputy Head of Palestinian Energy Fathi Al-Sheikh Khalil said yesterday. Khalil...
More than 99 percent of Area C has been confiscated by Israeli authorities to establish and expand Israeli settlements and closed military zones as well as nature reserves, the...
Palestinian human rights organisations have called on the Palestinian Public Prosecutor to open an investigation into the illegal emigration of families from Gaza. In a statement issued yesterday, Al-Dameer...
The only power plant in Gaza is now ready to work pending the delivery of fuel supply needed to operate it, CEO of Gaza Electricity Company Walid Sayel said...
Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset Moshe Feiglin forced his way into Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem on Sundayunder the protection of Israeli forces. "Feiglin accompanied by 20 settlers...
At least 15 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip have drowned near the coast of Egypt's Alexandria city after a boat boarding dozens of migrants sank en route to Italy,...
Around 9,600 students would not be able to start the new academic year in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, a United Nations agency has said. This is particularly so...
Al Jazeera this week revealed an explosive letter from the office of the top prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. In it, Fatou Bensouda recounted a meeting with Riad...
A senior member of Hamas's political bureau said on Saturday that his movement would not trade its arms for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip. Ismail Haniyeh, the deputy...
Chief of Hamas Political Bureau Khalid Mesh'al said on Friday that the Palestinians do not need mediators to unite them. Mesh'al, who is on a two-day visit to Tunis,...
A delegation of Kuwaiti doctors has set out for the embattled Gaza Strip to help treat thousands of Palestinians injured during Israel's recent military onslaught on the coastal enclave,...
After the Israeli war on Gaza and attempts by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to market his defeat as a victory on the Israelis, the political sphere in...
Israeli TV Channel 7 said on Friday that the rhetoric war from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas against Hamas is based on the latter's popularity rise after the Israeli...
The Australian government has asked the Israeli authorities to withdraw their decision to confiscate Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, particularly the latest appropriation of 4,000 dunams in...
Foreign Minister Riad Maliki could not be reached for comment regarding the publication of a letter revealing that the Palestinian Authority has so far prevented the launch of a...
42 Palestinian, Israeli, and international organizations have issued an urgent call to the international community to stop Israeli plans to "forcibly transfer" thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank...
The Hamas movement denied accusations that negotiating directly with Israel is one of its policies, stressing that it is not considered in the movement's deliberations. A statement issued by...
Israel's Unit 8200, known in Hebrew as Yehida Shmoneh-Matayim, is one of the country's most prestigious military intelligence units. Many who serve in it go on to high-flying jobs...
Senior Syrian opposition member Kamal Al-Labwani is in Israel to take part in a conference to combat terrorism. In the first visit by a Syrian politician to Israel, Al-Labwani...
During the 50 day long Israeli bombardment and massacre of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip 2146 Palestinians were killed according to the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights, of...
Palestine's many experiences with Israel, especially that of resistance and the steadfastness of our people, not least in facing up to "Operation Protective Edge", highlight the failure of the...
The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B'Tselem said Thursday that it does not hold out hope that an army investigation into the Gaza hostilities...
The Palestinian unity government has invited more than 80 countries to attend the Gaza reconstruction conference scheduled to be held in Cairo on October 12, Deputy Palestinian Prime Minister...
A monthly report on Israel's foreign trade, issued by the Central Bureau of Statistics Israel (CBS), on Thursday, said that the deficit in the Israeli trade balance during the...
Deputy Head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, called on the Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, on Thursday evening, to sign the Rome Statute and join the ICC...
A senior member of the PLO Executive Committee, Ahmed Qurei, received the Spanish consul general in Jerusalem in his office recently. The meeting coincided with the opening of the...
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has called for the accession to the International Criminal Court and Rome Statute to be hastened and urged Palestinian President...