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The proposed rail network across the Middle East will not include Israel unless the Palestinian issue is resolved, according to Jordan's Minister of Transport. Muhannad Al Qudah said that...

More than 700,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israel since 1967, representing over 20 percent of the whole population living under Israeli occupation. This was one of many shocking...

A human rights centre has revealed that the Israeli occupation authorities have detained more than 80 Jerusalemite children in the past two months. The Research and Documentation Unit in...

The Egyptian authorities are releasing 12 Palestinians from Akrab Prison in Cairo. The freed prisoners are, it is claimed, now on their way to Gaza. According to Emad El...

The Islamic Resistance Movement has accused Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of being hostile to the Egyptian revolution and defending the regime of the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak....

A senior member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has blamed the Israeli government for the collapse of the peace process. Saeb Erekat, who, as...

The spokesman for the Palestinian Authority in Gaza has said that his government is keen on having strong ties with Egypt. Taher El-Nunu described the relationship as "strategic". During...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On the 17th of April, popular and official activities were held across the occupied Palestinian territories to mark Palestinian Prisoners Day which is commemorated annually after it...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Late Thursday evening (April 14), Twitter and Facebook pages were suddenly filled with news of the Italian human rights activist, Vittorio Utopia Arrigoni, being kidnapped by a...

Hebew language press reports claim that the Israeli Ministry of Education's plan for the new academic year focuses on "the promotion of Zionist and Jewish values and concepts" amongst...

On Thursday 14 April, Israeli occupation forces confiscated a large area of land from the village of Anin in the Jenin governorate of the northern West Bank; they then...

The Israeli media has revealed that 1000 Christian Americans have submitted applications for Israeli citizenship and permission to settle in the occupied West Bank. In return, they have said...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Israeli aircraft carried out a number of air raids on the Gaza Strip early on Wednesday 9 February, destroying a medical aid warehouse in Gaza City. The...

Illegal Jewish settlers in the Old Town of Hebron (Al-Khalil) hurled verbal abuse at the Spanish Foreign Minister this week when he tried to visit the area to assess...

Jerusalem MPs threatened with deportation from their home city by Israel have accused the Palestinian Authority and what they call "Arab and international complicity" responsible for the increasing Judaisation...

Media ReleaseFor immediate use Unprecedented interference in Al-Jazeera's broadcast signal across the Arab World                                Al-Jazeera has stated that their broadcast signal across the Arab region is facing interference on a...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Fuel companies in the Gaza Strip have confirmed that most of the cooking gas filling stations in the territory have closed because of the significant reduction in...

Dozens of Israeli academics have declared a boycott against a university study centre in the illegal West Bank settlement of Ariel which, they say, is built on occupied land....

Israeli bulldozers have started to demolish the historic Shepherd Hotel in occupied East Jerusalem. The hotel, originally owned by the then Mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin Husseini, is in...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The elected Prime Minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, yesterday (9 January) called on Arab leaders and the President of the Arab League, Colonel Muammar Al Gaddafi, to...

The International Commission for the Protection of Journalists has expressed concern over the aggression journalists are being exposed to while covering anti-government demonstrations in the Middle East and has...

Israel's parliament has passed the first reading of a bill which will allow the government to impose fines or sanctions on individuals, groups or states which take part in...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Palestinians in the Gaza Strip reacted to the fall of the Mubarak regime with spontaneous expressions of joy. They distributed sweets, released fireworks and carried the flags...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The spokesman for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) has called on the leaders of European countries to work collectively to bring an...

The Palestinian Media Forum (PMF) has expressed its concern about the campaign of "arrests and detention of journalists and media professionals" by the Palestinian Authority's security forces in the...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESThe Charitable Organization for the Relief of the Palestinian People in Gaza staged a mass wedding of 100 couples in the second phase of its project to build...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Malta's Foreign Minister, Tonio Borg, has issued a call for serious and tangible efforts to lift the blockade on the Gaza Strip. During a short visit to...

The National Committee for the Heads of the Arab Local Authorities in Israel has called for the prosecution of all who incite racism or the promotion of "racial hostility"...

A conference of ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jews in West Jerusalem has called for the destruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the building of the "third temple" on its ruins. In response,...

The Secretary-General of the United Nations has blamed Israel for the "current impasse" in the Middle East peace process. Ban Ki-moon expressed his regret in a statement "for the...

Israel's Defence Minister has called on the Israeli government to work on improving its relations with the United States to protect Israel's legitimacy and fight attempts to "de-legitimise" the...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESThe International Day of Persons with Disabilities, celebrated on 3 December, was established by the UN General Assembly following the 1976 declaration that 1981 would be International Year...