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Israel's prime minister has lashed out against the Goldstone report which criticises Israel for deliberately targeting civilians during its war on Gaza earlier this year. Opening the winter session...

The Acting Palestinian Authority chief says he will push for a vote on a recently released UN report about Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip. Mahmoud Abbas had...

The Palestinian Media Forum has called upon different Palestinian, Arab, and free institutions to set an urgent media plan to expose Israeli strategies to Judaize Jerusalem and Al Aqsa...

The Jerusalem Centre for Social and Economic Rights has warned of a scheme by the Occupation's Municipality of Jerusalem for the imminent demolition of about 150 homes in various...

The Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, Mustafa Al-Barghouthi, stated that "A strenuous efforts are being exerted to reach a national agreement on the Egyptian paper for reconciliation...

Quds Press: Hebrew sources revealed that the Israeli government is currently mulling the formation of a committee to investigate the war that Israel had launched on Gaza 9 months...

Quds Press: A Swiss rights association has considered the speech made by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas Sunday, 11 October, to be "at attempt to escape responsibility" for postponing the...

Israeli authorities are planning to demolish 150 Palestinian houses, home to about 1,000 people in East Jerusalem, according to a new report from the Jerusalem Center for Social and...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon supports a new Palestinian proposal to reopen debate on the Golstone report on the Gaza war in the Human Rights Council. Ban's spokesperson,...

Three suspected Israeli spy devices were blown up in south Lebanon on Sunday. Two were detonated remotely by the Israeli army while the other was destroyed by the Lebanese...

A Hungarian lawmaker has voiced worry over Israel's expansionist policies, saying Israel is trying to take over the world. "I'm a Hungarian nationalist. I love my homeland, love the...

The Israeli Occupation Forces have carried out several incursions, raids and arrests of Palestinian citizens in almost every part of the West Bank on a daily basis over the...

According to Israeli data, the volume of trade exchange between Turkey and the Jewish state has severely declined since the beginning of the year 2009. "A decline of 40...

Israel's former Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz, has threatened to launch a new war on Gaza Strip "if necessary" at a time when the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva...

The Muslim-Christian Committee in Support of Jerusalem has accused the U.S administration of giving the green light to the Israeli government, led by Netanyahu, to move forward with Judaizing...

The 'Human Rights for All' Swiss Foundation demanded the Egyptian authorities to "open an urgent and independent investigation" into the circumstances of Yousef Abu Zuhri's death, Hamas Palestinian movement...

The Palestinians and their allies have called for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to become involved in a row over Gaza war crimes investigations. The proposal was contained in a...

Two leading human rights groups in Israel have released a report that severely criticises Israel for detaining Palestinians for long periods of time without charges. The report says more...

Egyptian paper: Israeli experts visited south Sudan last week An Official source from the Sudanese Irrigation Ministry revealed that a number of Israeli experts visited South Sudan, in coordination...

The Israeli military said its warplanes bombed two smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip and a building that it alleged was used to produce weapons near Gaza City...

The President of the Popular Committee Against Siege (PCAS), MP Jamal El Khoudary, invited the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bernard Kouchner, to visit the besieged Gaza Strip via...

The Arab League is currently intensifying its efforts to prosecute the Israelis who committed war crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and a delegation from the League's General...

Israel's army, its U.S. counterpart and the Agency for anti-missile defense of the U.S. Department of Defense "Pentagon" started yesterday, Wednesday Oct. 21, a joint exercise of air defense,...

From Khalid Amayreh in al-Khalil, occupied West Bank21 October, 2009Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister, had an unpleasant experience Tuesday, October 20th, when during a visit to the...

A Palestinian child died of disease yesterday, Tuesday, October 20, after being prevented from travelling abroad for treatment due to the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip. "The Gazan,...

A Palestinian human rights official has accused the Israeli government of committing multiple crimes during its war on the Gaza Strip last winter, as it deliberately killed Palestinians after...

The Jewish broadcasting service revealed yesterday (19/10) that joint military exercises were conducted two weeks ago between the Israeli and Italian Air Forces. The radio station revealed that the...

The former National Unity cabinet's agriculture minister, Mohamed Al Agha, has called upon the member states of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to pay attention to the suffering...

Israel will not form any investigation committee on war crimes committed during the Israeli war on Gaza, asserted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Ehud Barak. "No...

Sheikh Mohammed Hussein, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine, and the preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque, has expressed outrage at the Israeli occupation forces' storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and...

The Secretary General of the League of Arab States, Amr Moussa, warned of the serious consequences of the raid carried out on Sunday morning (25/10) morning by the Israeli...

US congressional leaders at the weekend said they will vote on a bipartisan bill officially rejecting the findings of the Goldstone Report into the recent Gaza war, and calling...