Islamic Jihad

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESOn Friday 12 March, thousands of residents of Gaza City came out in mass peaceful demonstration against the continued Israeli Judaisation of Islamic religious places and heritage sites...

Hamas' representative in Lebanon, Ali Baraka, confirmed that Cairo has extended an invitation to their movement's political bureau chief, Khaled Meshaal, and the Secretary General of Islamic Jihad, Ramadan...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank is preparing to conduct student union elections in which all groups are expected to participate except the Islamic movements, namely...

Sources in Palestine say that the Islamic Jihad faction has claimed that the resignation of the Palestinian Authority's Chief Negotiator Saeb Erekat's "proves the failure of the negotiations approach...

A conference in Beirut has heard that the state of Palestine will be "the fruit of liberation". Hamas Political Bureau head Khaled Meshaal addressed the conference by satellite link...

Egypt has brokered a truce between Palestinians in Gaza and Israel, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported on Sunday night. In the latest round of violence to hit the besieged territory,...

Israeli forces have detained eight Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including three minors and a mother with her 20-year-old son. The arrests took place in Bethlehem and Hebron....

Reliable Palestinian sources have revealed that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is ready to drop the Oslo Accord, the Paris Protocol and security coordination with Israel. He made this...

Palestinian footballer Mohammed Al-Sarsak has ended his 95-day hunger strike after signing a written agreement with the Israeli prison service to be freed on 10 July. The news was...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Ismail Haniyeh, the elected head of the Palestinian government in Gaza, has congratulated Egypt's new president on his victory. Haniyeh called Dr. Mohammed Morsi as thousands of...

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has revealed that the Israeli army has deployed tanks on the border with Egypt following clashes near the Kadesh Barnea settlement. The move breaches the...

Israel's Hebrew-language Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said yesterday that the country's parliament, the Knesset, is to look into an unprecedented proposal submitted by extreme right-wing parliamentarian Danny Danon. The Likud...

The dominant group in the Palestinian Liberation Organisation has refused to participate with eight other Palestinian factions in the national dialogue sessions taking place in Cairo. A press release...

The rival Palestinian factions of Hamas and Fatah agreed on Wednesday to form a new committee to follow up on all the reconciliation issues and accelerate the work of...

Israel has complained to the United States about what it alleges is "weak" security coordination with the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. This vulnerability is, claim the Israelis,...

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Islamic Jihad in Palestine today rejected a proposal by Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that he would "accept a future demilitarized Palestinian state."...

Israeli occupation forces have claimed that they have prevented 27 kidnapping attempts of their soldiers since the beginning of this year Ha'aretz reported on Friday. The newspaper reports that...

Israeli jets bombed targets in the Gaza Strip overnight after rockets were fired from the besieged territory. Witnesses said that most of the targets were open spaces used as...

On Thursday Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas pledged to Israeli leaders that Palestinians would never file legal cases demanding their return to cities such as Jaffa, Acre and...

In light of the latest developments in the region, Palestinian Islamic movements Hamas and Islamic Jihad have announced that they are forming a joint body to cooperate on political,...

Israeli occupation authorities fear that Palestinian fighters in Gaza now own ground to air missiles that are a threat to Israel's air forces, Israeli radio reported on Wednesday morning....

From a strategic point of view, the reform of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) is the most important issue for the parties to Palestinian reconciliation. However, it is the...

An analysis of the experience of the Palestine Liberation Organisation The existence of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) is an achievement to be proud of. It expressed the Palestines'...

The Gaza Ceasefire, unlike a similar ceasefire achieved after Operation Cast Lead four years ago, is an event that has a likely significance far beyond ending the violence after...

Israel has been sending messages confirming its intentions to undermine the merit of Palestinian elections and derail their national reconciliation efforts. The most prominent of these messages have been...

The internal split within Palestinian ranks has damaged the national cause and has been foremost in its negative impact on the resistance in occupied Palestine post-first and second intifadas....