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A credible political source in Israel claims that Israel's Prime Minister has asked Egypt's President, Hosni Mubarak, to persuade the Palestinian Authority to take a "flexible position" in the...

Attempts to bring to justice the killers of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in Dubai are apparently no nearer to finding the truth, with accusations and counter-accusations flying between Hamas, the Palestinian...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESThe ships had been coming to ease their suffering after three years of an Israeli-imposed siege. Instead, they now lie in an Israeli port having been hijacked in...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Six people died and 14 others were injured on Saturday night when a car exploded in one of the underground tunnels on the border town of Rafah...

10 PM CST: Solidarity activists aboard one of six relief vessels traveling to Gaza with humanitarian report that they have been attacked by Israeli forces, with three of their...

Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon has claimed that the ships which participated in the Freedom Flotilla were carrying weapons and that the Israeli soldiers who took part in...

Concerns are growing over the fate of Shaikh Raed Salah who was wounded early on during the Israeli attack on the aid convoy ships. Initial reports suggested that he...

A lawsuit against Israel's Prime Minister and Minister of Defence has been filed in Jordan's State Security Court. Amman's Public Prosecutor, Hassan Alabdillat, transferred the lawsuit against Benjamin Netanyahu...

Jewish settlers are believed to be responsible for entering a mosque near Haifa and daubing racist graffiti on the walls. The Omar Ibn El-Khattab Mosque was broken into on...

The head of the Islamic Resistance Movement's political bureau is in Khartoum with a delegation of senior Hamas members. Khaled Meshaal arrived in the Sudanese capital on Wednesday 9...

Israel's Defence Minister has said that he did not apologise to Egypt for the killing of five Egyptian security personnel by the Israel Defence Forces last week. Speaking to...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES As Israel continues to bombard Gaza today, here are some of the pictures of relatives mourning their loved ones. Images include funerals of the Palestinian children killed...

The fifth Miles of Smiles Aid Convoy is due to enter the besieged Gaza Strip before the end of Ramadan after an epic journey across Africa from Cape Town....

The Israel Defence Forces have deployed unmanned drones to watch over offshore gas fields for fear of an attack by Lebanon's Hezbollah. Reports in the Jerusalem Post claim that...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip held a vigil in front of the office of the United Nations yesterday in support of the detained Al-Jazeera correspondent Samer...

A member of the Palestinian Legislative Council member has accused the Israeli government of trying to divert attention from its domestic crises at the expense of the Palestinian people....

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Hundreds of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip were forced to observe Eid of a different kind this year. Many spent the first day after their period of...

The Palestinian Authority's chief negotiator has denied media reports that the PA might delay its bid for United Nations recognition for an independent Palestinian state. According to Saeb Erekat,...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Palestinians throughout the occupied West Bank yesterday began celebrations to mark the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting. Most Muslim and Arab countries also began the...

The Ahrar Centre for Prisoners' Studies and Human Rights has stated that the Israeli Prisons Service has cut power to the tents and cement rooms of the Negev desert...

Israel's Prime Minister has expressed his cabinet's readiness to consider any Egyptian request to amend the Camp David accords to allow for an increase in the number of Egyptian...

On Saturday night, tens of thousands of Israelis took part in demonstrations across more than nine cities in the territories occupied in 1948. These protests demonstrate an escalating wave...

The head of Libya's National Transitional Council has confirmed that the Sudanese government provided medical support to the Libyan rebels in their fight against Muammar Gaddafi's regime. Mustafa Abdul...

The Central Committee of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) confirmed that the decision to expel Muhammad Dahlan from the movement was taken because of the excesses which he...

A Palestinian rights centre has called for an investigation into the high incidence of illness and disease among Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails. A significant number die very soon...

Hebrew press sources have unveiled a tourism project that urges Israeli citizens to visit the occupied West Bank and learn about its history and landmarks as "part of the...

Media sources in Israel have revealed the government's efforts to reach a rapprochement with Turkey and end the crisis between the two countries in a way that does not...

Reports from Israel claim that the Foreign Ministry is taking a series of punitive measures against Qatar because of the Gulf state's "anti-Israel activity" in the international arena. According...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Israel has further escalated tensions with the Gaza Strip and continued the sequence of violence by launching further rocket attacks against the beleaguered sector, despite agreeing to...

The Palestinian Institute for Communication and Development has condemned Israel's continued detention of Palestinian journalists and attacks on media organizations. In a press release, the PICD called on the...

Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni has said that the escalation in the Gaza Strip has had negative effects. This, she claims, necessitates the immediate restoration of Israel's deterrence capability....

The Israeli Minister for Home Front Defence has said he is pessimistic about the repercussions across the region of the situation in Libya. Speaking during an inspection of the...