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The World Association of Muslim Scholars has announced that it is sending a high-level delegation to the Gaza Strip. The group will be led by the association's Secretary-General Sheikh...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Two separate Israeli airstrikes killed four Palestinian civilians in northern and central Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning as both sides edge closer to a ceasefire agreement. Israeli...

The prominent scholar and president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, Dr Yousef al-Qaradawi, has called on Muslim and Arab nations to organize their ranks and unify their...

Seventy foreign ambassadors to Israel have expressed their anger over a meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister in which they feel that they were used to boost his election...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES At least four Palestinian civilians were killed on Saturday evening, and more were wounded, by Israeli tank fire. The incident took place after an incursion by an...

Israel has protested to the European Union about plans to consider the accurate labelling of products made in illegal Jewish settlements across the occupied Palestinian territories; such goods are...

The president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, has confirmed that he will go to the United Nations to seek an upgrade in the level of Palestine's diplomatic representation...

Twelve doctors from Sudan have crossed into Gaza with their own medical equipment to help their Palestinian colleagues to treat civilians wounded in Israel's offensive. The delegation is one...

Israeli technicians hacked into the programming at the Hamas-owned Al-Aqsa TV station this week and broadcast violent images in a warning to viewers about what might happen to them....

Iraq's permanent representative to the League of Arab States, Qais Al Azzawi, has today called for the use of oil as a weapon to pressure the United States and...

The Islamic Resistance Movement has confirmed that the second in command of its military wing has been assassinated by Israeli occupation forces. Ahmed Al-Jabari, said a Hamas spokesman, was in...

Informed sources in Palestine have revealed that disagreements have arisen between the Swiss and French, on one side, and Palestinian security and medical teams on the other, regarding the...

The Minister of Public Works and Housing in Gaza has announced that a memorandum of understanding will be signed next week to allow construction materials through the Rafah border...

Israel's Minister of War, Ehud Barak, has announced his decision to completely retire from politics following accusations by Israeli politicians, parliamentarians and the Hebrew media of defeat during 'Operation...

A delegation of 40 Libyan diplomats has arrived in the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing on a solidarity visit. Members of the group include the deputy head of...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, after his meeting with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, "First stop firing, then we'll talk." Half of Israel is under constant...

Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has said that he will be discussing the brutal Israeli attack on Gaza with President Mohamed Morsi during his visit to Egypt tomorrow,...

As the political and security leadership in Tel Aviv continue their assessment of the recent military escalation against the Gaza Strip, the Speaker of the Knesset has said that...

Dozens of foreign and Palestinian activists were wounded and suffered breathing problems on Friday after being targeted by Israeli tear gas canisters during the weekly protest against the Apartheid...

Former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh has described what is being said and done by some opposition forces in Egypt as the "settling of accounts" with the Muslim...

On Monday morning (26.11), the head of Hamas' Political Bureau, Khaled Meshaal, held a telephone conversation with Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, during which he confirmed that Hamas welcomed...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES As ceasefire talks continued into the night, so too did Israel's bombing offensive against the civilians of the Gaza Strip. Casualties increased inexorably throughout Tuesday and overnight;...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On the sixth day of Israel's brutal aggression on the civilian population of Gaza the death count has reached 100 with 750 wounded, most them women and...

Former Egyptian presidential candidate Dr Abdel Moneim Abul-Futouh has said that Arab leaders must not remain silent about what is happening in Gaza. However, he called on Arab countries...

A Hebrew-language newspaper has revealed that Egypt has threatened to recall its ambassador in Tel Aviv if Israel embarks on a massive military operation in the Gaza Strip. A...

Senior Hamas member Dr Salah Al-Bardaweel has praised Tunisia for hosting an international conference focusing on Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Al-Bardaweel described the sponsorship as a "natural outcome" of...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Representative to the European Union John Gatt-Rutter visited the Gaza Strip today to commend the outstanding work done by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for...

An Israeli economics magazine said on Sunday that the financial repercussions of Israel's "Operation Pillar of Cloud" are such that the deficit in the government's 2013 budget has been...

The Ministry of Endowment and Religious Affairs in Gaza has said that the Israeli military offensive has targeted mosques, other houses of worship and Islamic cemeteries. To-date, said a...

Israeli government websites have been subjected to "unprecedented" numbers of cyber attacks since the start of the military offensive against the people of Gaza. Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz told...

The military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement in Gaza has announced that it targeted an Israeli aircraft in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday. Al-Qassam Brigade claimed to have...

Tunisian President Mohamed Moncef Al-Marzouki has extended an invitation to his Egyptian counterpart, Mohammed Morsi, to take part in the second anniversary celebrations of the Tunisian revolution next month....