Senior Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk has described the plans to go ahead with negotiations with the Israelis as "a farce". Talks about unity in Palestinian ranks, suggested the...

Prominent Hamas leader, Mahmoud al-Zahar, has said that his movement strongly opposes the Palestinian Authority's return to negotiations, describing the move as "absurd." In a press conference in Gaza,...

Palestinian human rights activists have pointed out that around one-third of the prisoners to be released by Israel today as part of the conditions for returning to negotiations would...

Chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, has warned that the Palestinians may not take part in the next round of peace talks with the Israelis in response to Israel's plans...

The senior member of Fatah's Central Committee in charge of the national reconciliation portfolio has noted that the August 14 deadline for Hamas to fulfil certain obligations has passed...

The Jordanian Prime Minister, Abdullah al-Nusour, announced on Monday that his country has decided to proceed with the first phase of constructing a canal linking the Dead Sea, where...

Ofer Shelah, member of the Yesh Atid party in Israel, estimates that a peaceful settlement with the Palestinians is only possible with East Jerusalem as the future capital of...

On Wednesday the Israeli Occupation expelled the Palestinian prisoner Ayman Abu-Daud to the Gaza Strip after he spent 40 days on hunger strike. Abu-Daud was released by the prisoner...

Israel's Minister of the Economy, and head of the Jewish Home Party, has claimed that the Oslo Accords and idea of a Palestinian State are both "dead". Writing on...

Likud Party MK and Israeli Deputy Transport Minister Tzipi Hotovely has suggested that the solution to the Israel-Palestine problem is the annexation of the West Bank and creation of...

According to Maariv newspaper, the Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations resumed yesterday evening despite the killing of three Palestinians in the Qalandiya refugee camp, north of Jerusalem. The paper confirmed that...

The Israeli government has lodged a complaint with the US in protest at what it described it as a "series of leaks made by senior Palestinian Authority officials revealing...

According to a senior Palestinian source, Israel has offered to establish a Palestinian state with provisional borders on 60 per cent of the West Bank, while the Israeli settlements...

PLO official Yasser Abed Rabbo has said that negotiations with the Israelis are "futile". The veteran Executive Committee member told local media that there is no progress in the...

Secretary of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Yasser Abed Rabbo said that the chances of the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations succeeding are "non-existent". He warned that if the negotiations continue as...

Dr. Nabil Shaath, a member of Fatah's Central Committee, has declared that the on going negotiations between the Palestinian Authority and Israel is not progressing and warns if the...

Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister appears to be waging a campaign against the creation of a Palestinian state on land occupied by Israel since 1967. Zeev Elkin has expressed his...

Differences are about to emerge between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, according to Israeli newspaper Maariv. Livni is currently leading the negotiations with Palestinian...

Official sources in Israel have denied reaching an agreement to release an additional 250 Palestinians prisoners along with the long-term 100+ pre-Oslo detainees. According to London-based Al-Hayat newspaper, Israel...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Israeli occupation forces detained more than 200 Palestinian citizens in pre-dawn campaigns on Monday, most of them from the West Bank city of Hebron where an Israeli...

Israel's illegal occupation of the Jordan Valley is worth $620 million per annum to the national economy. The figure was disclosed by Palestinian Chief Negotiator Saeb Erekat, who pointed...

In an op-ed for the New York Times, Israel's Deputy Defence Minister Danny Danon has called upon Israel to annul the Oslo Accords. Danon says that despite repeated rounds...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has announced that both the Palestinian and Israeli sides have agreed to accelerate the pace of current peace negotiations and to extend the...

Dozens of settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque again on Wednesday. The Muslim sanctuary in Jerusalem has now witnessed clashes with police officers protecting the Jewish extremists for several days. Eyewitnesses...

The Jerusalem Committee for the Arab Medical Union has called upon the Arab League to carry out an urgent information campaign in support of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and to...

The Al-Aqsa Association for Waqf and Islamic Heritage denounced on Sunday the defacement and destruction of tombstones at a Christian cemetery in occupied Jerusalem. Criticising the incident, which was...

On the 13th anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, it has been revealed that Israeli courts have issued 700 life sentences for Palestinian prisoners across occupied Palestine since 2000. Fuad...

Palestinian activists have announced that they reject any Jewish use of the Noble Sanctuary of Al-Aqsa Mosque. Sheikh Raed Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement inside Israel (the...

An Israeli professor has claimed that the Palestinian refugee problem could be solved within the framework of the current negotiations. Elisha Efrat from the University of Tel Aviv said...

Israel's Peace Now movement revealed on Monday that the Israeli authorities are planning to build a new settlement in the heart of the occupied Palestinian city of Hebron. It...

Israeli housing minister, Uri Ariel, has said that the West Bank will be under Israeli control forever. Ariel was addressing settlers near the Shilafim settlement in the occupied West...

The former head of Israel's secret service Shin Bet, Ami Ayalon, has expressed doubts over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's intention to achieve a two-state solution. "Chances of success...