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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel on Friday rejected a U.N. General Assembly resolution urging an investigation into a report saying war crimes were committed in Gaza, and condemned the world...

Hundreds of Gaza Palestinians set off for Makkah on Friday for the annual hajj pilgrimage, after bitter rivals Fatah and Hamas set aside their dispute to agree on a...

Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, director of Military Intelligence, announced Tuesday that Hamas launched a rocket some 60 kilometers into the sea, apparently as an experiment. Such a rocket, if...

The number of Palestinians who have died as a result of the Israeli siege on Gaza has passed 360, a statement released by the health ministry of the deposed...

The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas confirmed that the late Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat, "gave his life to preserve the national constants and not to make any concessions, particularly with...

Bedouin gunmen ambushed an Egyptian patrol that had seized contraband cement destined for the Gaza Strip, triggering an hours-long standoff in the desert that left one officer and five...

The Egyptian Journalists Syndicate's investigation committee decided, at its meeting on Tuesday, to refer Dr. Hala Mustafa, the editor of the Democracy magazine (part of the  Al Ahram institution), ...

The Israel Broadcasting Authority claimed today (Tuesday, 10 November) that several key European leaders support Israel's military campaigns against the Palestinians. The authority disclosed that French President Nicola Sarkozy,...

Mustafa El-Barghouti, the Deputy Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative called for adopting a national strategy that combines the popular resistance and support for national steadfastness, mobilizes the broadest...

"Our Sons are not terrorists, the real terrorists are the Zionist child-killers" From Khalid Amayreh in al-KhalilAbu Yasser is an elderly Palestinian farmer living in the southern part of...

The Israeli Occupation authorities banned the Muslim call to prayer (Adhan) at Hebron's Al-Ibrahimi Mosque 54 times in the month of October. Palestinian sources said that the Occupation banned the...

The U.S president Barak Obama renewed his commitment to Israel's security in a recorded speech transmitted to a conference in Tel Aviv over the weekend to commemorate the 14th...

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defended the U.S stance toward Israeli settlement building to worried Arab allies on Wednesday, saying Washington does not accept the legitimacy of the...

Dozens of nations at the UN have backed a non-binding resolution calling for independent inquiries by Israel and the Palestinians into war crimes in Gaza. The UN General Assembly...

NEW YORK – October 30 – The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) calls on the United States not to block Security Council action on the Goldstone Report concerning war...

Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has said that Israel must make greater efforts to ensure peace with the Palestinians, a day after supporting Israel on the contentious...

The US pledged on Tuesday to help Israel combat the Goldstone report documents alleged war crimes committed during the attack on Gaza last winter. This offer to "fight the...

The United States sent a message to Egypt stating it does not support the proposed reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas as it would undermine negotiations with Israel, Haaretz...

Turkey has decided to cancel air force military exercises that were scheduled for next week, Israeli media reports revealed Sunday. According to sources in the Israeli security ministry, Ankara...

Pro-Palestine Supporters picketed the start of a 5 day Israeli Tourism event held in Spitalfields market, East London. Despite efforts by Israeli security to get demonstrators to move, police...

A member of the Palestinian Parliament and leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, Mushir Al-Masri, regards the insistence of French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner to visit Gaza as...

A conference of foreign ministers of the Mediterranean Union due to take place in Istanbul in November has been cancelled after Egypt and several other Arab countries objected to...

Israeli political sources accused the British government of putting obstacles in the Jewish state's path to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).  A vote will be...

Turkish police detained around 20 students on Wednesday after they pelted Israel's ambassador with eggs to protest the Jewish state's treatment of Palestinians, forcing him to cancel a university...

A man humiliated The decision by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, not to run for re-election next year looks like the act of a man who has reached the...

Turkey's Prime Minister Rajab Tayeb Erdogan criticised the Zionist government led by Benyamin Netanyaho saying he prefers to meet with the Sudanese president to discuss the crisis in Dar...

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner expressed his fear that Israel no longer appears prepared to pursue negotiations in the Middle East, adding that Paris remains fervently opposed to settlement...

By Dr Daud Abdullah No war has tarnished the image of Israel and damaged its vital international relationships as the "Operation Cast Lead" it waged on Gaza last winter....

Address by Ronnie Kasrils to NADEL (National Association of Democratic Lawyers of South Africa): Topic "Goldstone Report & The Struggle of the Palestinian People" Cape Town 24.10.09 Justice Richard...

By Senussi Bsaikri George Mitchell's last visit to the region ended without the announcement of any tangible development. This was the case with all his previous visits. On October...

By Bilal Al-Hasan Al-Sharq Al-Awsat18 October 2009 The popular Palestinian and Arab campaign against the PA's decision to defer the Goldstone report and not refer it to the Security...

Foreign Policy (US). . Saree Makdisi 06/11/2009. Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, was no good for Palestine. And his exit will make a peaceful solution more likely....