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Israeli occupation forces have blocked repairs to power lines near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Technicians from the Palestinian Electricity Distribution Company (PEDC) were fired at...

Qatar University's professor of political science, Dr Mohammed Al-Mesfer, has stated that the Qatari Emir, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani's visit to the Gaza Strip represents a turning point...

The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process has condemned attacks on olive trees by Israeli settlers. Robert Serry called on Israel to pursue those responsible for...

The Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has denounced a rabbinical ruling which incites people to kill Palestinians. In a press statement, the ministry said that it holds the...

Tunisia's Minister of the Interior Minister has insisted that militant groups in the country cannot expect any compromise or truce from the government. Ali El-Areed said that this stance...

Israeli security forces have detained 11 Palestinians in three West Bank cities in raids on Monday morning. Three of those detained are minors. Local sources said that the soldiers...

The Deputy Head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, Zaki Bin Irshaid, has called for the government to withdraw its ambassador from Syria and give more freedom to Syrian...

As post-revolution Tunisia's politicians try to draft a new constitution, a clause on normalising relations with Israel has created controversy. Article 2.27 of the latest draft reads: "All forms...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Islamic University of Gaza yesterday awarded an honorary doctorate to the American linguist and thinker Noam Chomsky. The world renowned figure has been attending a linguistic...

The Secretary General of the Islamic Action Front has condemned the presence of US troops in Jordan, saying that it "violates Jordanian sovereignty". Hamza Mansour made his comments after...

A delegation from the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, led by its leader Hammam Said, is heading for Cairo to discuss the possibility of Egyptian natural gas being pumped to...

An eleven year old boy was killed on Thursday evening by live fire from an Israeli tank. The incident took place to the east of Al-Faraheen village, near Khan...

A massive explosion was heard in south-east Gaza in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Israeli sources said that three soldiers were wounded in the blast, which was caused...

Fierce criticism of the incumbent Prime Minister has marked the beginning of serious campaigning in Israel's general election. According to reports in newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, the Kadima Party's campaign...

The Israeli authorities have freed Hasan al-Safadi after a total of 166 days on hunger strike amid extremely harsh prison conditions. Al-Safadi ended a 93-day hunger strike on September...

Rachid Ghannoushi, the head of Tunisia's ruling Al-Nahda Party, has said that his movement has not yet decided whether it will run in the upcoming elections on its own...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture opened the annual olive harvest season in the Gaza Strip on Monday. Ministry officials also watched the olive pressing process as part...

A group of Jewish settlers have destroyed 120 olive trees belonging to Palestinian farmers in the village of Qaryut, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. The latest...

The Israeli occupation authorities have issued eviction notices to five more families in Wadi al-Maleh in the North of the Jordan Valley. The head of the village council, Aref...

A report published by the Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B'Tselem) has stated clearly that the Separation Wall built by the Israeli government has...

Over the past few weeks, British diplomats have stated that they are doing all they can to discourage Palestine's bid for "observer state" status in the UN General Assembly....

A report commission by European NGOs has condemned the EU's "inconsistency" of regarding Israeli settlements as illegal while importing goods made on the same settlements. European countries buy 15...

Haaretz has reported that an Israeli Council for Higher Education report reveals that only around 11 per cent of undergraduate students are Arab citizens of the state, a figure...

The Turkish government has banned all Syrian aircraft from its airspace in response to its own aircraft being banned from Syrian airspace. A foreign ministry official said that the...

An Israeli military court has extended the detention of human rights researcher Ayman Nasser for a further seven days. Nasser, 42, is a researcher for Al-Dameer Association for Human...

An adviser to the Egyptian president has said that the blame for the current tension and unrest in Sinai has to rest with the terms of the peace treaty...

The Kadima Party in Israel is planning a "shocking" election campaign. A report in newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth claims that the party is going to release scandalous photographs of Benjamin...

Israeli helicopters fired into several of southern Gaza's residential areas on Tuesday morning. No casualties were reported. The firing occurred following bombing sweeps by Israeli jets on Monday evening...

The London-based newspaper Al Hayat has reported that the Qatari government has reached an agreement with Egypt for building materials to enter Gaza through the Rafah border crossing. Journalist...

Egypt's Minister of Defence has said that the Egyptian armed forces will not allow any danger to threaten Sinai. Commander-in-Chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pointed out that his troops...

A US court acquitted on Tuesday the Arab Bank of charges of aiding and abetting Hamas gunfire from Gaza into an occupied area where an Israeli-American was injured in...

The government in Gaza has given notice that a delegation of scholars from the Egyptian Ministry of Religious Endowments is due to visit the beleaguered Strip on Wednesday. The...