Ariel Sharon

Israeli police imposed strict restrictions over Muslim worshippers coming to pray Friday at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Israeli sources said that men holding Jerusalemite or Israeli identity cards (blue cards)...

The Finance Committee of the Israel's Parliament, the Knesset, has approved a decision for the family of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to pay half of his medical care...

Former Israeli security chief Binyamin Ben-Eliezer has called former Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Ariel Sharon "murderers" during a television interview. Speaking on Channel 10, Ben-Eliezer said that the...

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...

The Israeli government has backed the proposal to turn Ariel College into a university. The college is located in an illegal settlement built on occupied Palestinian territory. Supporting the...

Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, the Imam of Al-Aqsa Mosque and chairman of the Supreme Islamic Council in Jerusalem, has described Israel's decision to prevent him from entering the Noble Sanctuary...

Israeli occupation forces detained Palestinian students from the Sharia schools inside the Noble Sanctuary of Al-Aqsa Mosque on Tuesday. Seven female students were arrested in the wake if the...

After observing a moratorium of 30 years, Israel released on Thursday records and minutes of secret meetings held on the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre. The documents show that...

An Arabic website has revealed details of the links between the man nominated to be the Deputy Interim President of Egypt and an Israeli leader alleged to be a...

The Israeli media reported on Wednesday that Israel's former Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, has undergone a surgical procedure in the abdomen on Tuesday whilst still at "a minimum level...

Swiss scientists have discovered radioactive polonium in the remains of deceased Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, amid claims that he was intentionally poisoned. The scientists tasked with examining samples from...

Human Rights Watch has issued a statement on Saturday saying it regrets that Israel's former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has died "without facing justice for his role in the...

Dr Azmi Bishara Jerusalem has changed drastically in recent decades. There is no doubt that anyone who was born there before 1967 and went to visit today would find...

By Khalid Amayreh in occupied PalestineA few weeks ago, a supposedly religious activist, probably from one of the Gulf States, suggested to me that Muslims shouldn't confine our attacks...

President Barack Obama has done us all a favour with his speech to the United Nations; rarely, if ever, has a US president made it so obvious what many...

Once again Muhammad Rashid has returned to the forefront of the political scene, first through programmes on satellite television under the title "political memory", and second through the Palestinian...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks to impose a long-term ceasefire on Hamas and the Palestinian resistance in Gaza, one that lasts for fifteen years at least. This is...

The outgoing Israeli government has stepped up the racism inherent in the system and is on the verge of passing distinctly apartheid laws. The law relating to so-called "admissions...

WESTERN media is obsessed with presenting a positive spin on everything related to Israel, while trivialising good and accentuating negative news on Palestine. It's admirably free in many aspects,...

Despite their ferocity, last Friday's clashes in the Noble Sanctuary of Al-Aqsa failed to make international headlines. The virtual news black-out was indicative of prevailing attitudes towards Jerusalem as...

By Mahmoud al-Mubarak The British Foreign Secretary, William Hague, began his most recent visit to Israel with the great confidence and cold boldness that matches the history of his...

There are three countries in the world that possess the radioactive polonium used to assassinate the Palestinian president Yasser Arafat; the United States, Russia and Israel. The two superpowers...

At a packed conference in Ramallah today, the retired general Tawfik Tirawi, once head of the Palestinian Authority's feared West Bank intelligence, squarely pointed the finger at Israel for...

The shadow of the ex-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has died aged 85, has always had a peculiar place in my life. He was in part the trigger...