Palestine

President of the International Union of Muslim Scholars Dr Youssef al-Qaradawi denied remarks attributed to him in which he allegedly downplayed the importance of armed struggle against occupation in...

A senior foreign affairs official in Hamas, Osama Hamdan, vowed that Gaza resistance fighters will cross into Israel in the next round of fighting and that his movement has...

Tens of thousands of protestors from across Britain have protested outside the BBC's headquarters in London to protest against Israel's onslaught on Gaza and the corporation's coverage of it....

Nine year-old Mohamed Badran was looking forward to hugging his parents and playing with his six brothers during the three-day annual holiday that follows the holy month of Ramadan....

Palestinian Islamic Movement Hamas called on Cairo on Friday evening to respond to Israeli remarks about an "Israeli-Egyptian partnership" which has increased Palestinian suffering in Gaza. Israeli Justice Minister...

Amos Yadlin, former head of Israeli Military Intelligence, said on Friday that Israel has not achieved the goals it set for itself in the war on Gaza, Israeli TV...

A lasting ceasefire between Israeli and Palestinian factions is elusive due to the huge disagreements between the two sides, Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Friday. In statements to...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Turkey is prepared to receive all Palestinian casualties of the Gaza offensive, "irrespective of their numbers." "We can accommodate...

Palestinian Justice Minister Salim Al-Saqqa affirmed that the Palestinian complaint to the ICC against Israeli war crimes had not been withdrawn, Palestinian newspaper Al-Resalah reported on Saturday. Several sources...

Head of Palestinian delegation to Cairo Azzam Al-Ahmad said on Friday that "we as Palestinians do not desire to resume escalation, but we have the right to defend ourselves."...

Israeli warplanes attacked on Friday night several civilian targets, including three mosques, killing five and wounding around 20 others, a Palestinian medical source has said. According to witnesses the...

It is all too easy for Western commentators, and those in the pay of the West across the Middle East, to criticise the Palestinian resistance movements. Worse, such movements...

"Carnage" in Gaza – "the killing of children and the slaughter of civilians". Not the words of a Palestinian spokesperson but rather French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. Australia's FM...

Palestinian experts interpret Israel's political intransigence as an attempt to cover up its military defeat before resistance forces in Gaza. In a report by the Anadolu news agency, Palestinian...

International opinion is changing on the siege of Gaza. More leaders are publicly questioning the wisdom of squeezing Gaza to the point where it explodes. This much can be...

The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood called on Arab and Muslim nations to pressure their governments to carry out their role in supporting the inalienable rights of Palestinians, a statement by...

The Palestinian health ministry said on Wednesday that 4,500 births were recorded in Gaza during the 29 days Israel was continuously attacking Palestinians in the Strip. Arabs 21 news...

Washington says it will not directly engage in the mediation efforts in Cairo between Palestinian resistance factions and Israel, because Hamas is designated as a foreign terrorist organisation by...

The Food Industry Association in Gaza said the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip has caused widespread destruction of food plants inflicting a loss of $150 million. The association...

A number of activists and international non-governmental organisations have lodged a complaint with the human rights committee at the African Union against Egypt's closure of the Rafah border crossing...

Palestinians have been under Israeli occupation; they have been frequent targets of destructive Israeli wars and massacres. If common sense can be our guide in this situation than the...

The United States, Egypt and other countries all support making Gaza a demilitarised zone, PLS48 news site reported an Israeli minister as saying. Israel's Minister of Communication, Gilad Erdan,...

Jordan deports and refuses entry to Palestinian refugees escaping the crisis in Syria, in clear breach of its international obligations, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released...

Informed sources told Arabi 21 news site that the Egyptian side is stalling the agreement of a permanent truce between the Palestinian resistance and Israel because it is rejecting...

As Palestinian bodies are still being dug out of the rubble, it is too soon to tell the final death toll of Israel's brutal assault on the Gaza Strip...

The announcement made by the Zionist occupation's army on Tuesday morning regarding the withdrawal of the last of its troops from the Gaza Strip and moving them outside the...

Everyone has the right to recognise Gaza's honour and pride and praise its people for their heroism, which has written a new chapter in the Arab-Zionist conflict. Due to...

In a report on the UK's development work in the occupied territories (OPTs), the international development committee (IDC) argues that Israel's policies – which include restrictions on building, access...

Some 40 Turkish TV channels and more than 40 local radio stations joined a donation campaign which started yesterday evening and lasted until the early hours of the morning...

The Kurdish leadership has started to "pay the price for the negative positions it took against Baghdad", Amer Al-Khozai, adviser of the outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, said...

Thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip took to the streets of Gaza in a show of support for the Palestinian team in Cairo discussing terms of a prospective...

Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry yesterday called on Israel to open the six border crossings with the Gaza Strip to provide for the humanitarian needs of the Palestinian people...