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...
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News 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,...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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News 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...
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