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Tehran on Thursday accused German Chancellor Angela Merkel of being influenced by "Zionist circles" in a reference to Israel after her remarks that a nuclear bomb in Iran's hands...

For nearly six weeks now Mohammed Othman, a prominent Palestinian activist and an outspoken advocate of the nonviolent boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, has been held in an...

The Egyptian Journalists Syndicate's investigation committee decided, at its meeting on Tuesday, to refer Dr. Hala Mustafa, the editor of the Democracy magazine (part of the  Al Ahram institution), ...

Ministers in the Israeli cabinet threatened to take unilateral steps in response to the Palestinian plan to declare a Palestinian state without reaching a political agreement with Tel Aviv. The...

The South African government urged Israel on Tuesday to end practices toward Palestinians that it said were reminiscent of its own history of apartheid. "We call upon the Israeli...

Israel has recently approved the building of 900 additional housing units in the settlement of Gilo, in the southern part of Jerusalem, near the Palestinian town of Beit Jala....

Israeli press sources reported yesterday that the government have decided to build a security fence along the border between Egypt and Israel, on the pretext of preventing thousands of...

Heavily armed Israeli forces started, in the early hours of Sunday (December 20), to demolish a house belonging to a Palestinian citizen under the pretext that it had been...

Israeli occupation forces have prevented Palestinians in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of occupied Jerusalem from celebrating the birthdays of two children, Iyad Algoj and Rani Arashq....

Any reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah must not entail security coordination with Israel, according to Ismail Haniyeh. The Prime Minister of Gaza made this announcement during a ceremony to...

The illegal settlement of Ariel, south of Nablus and well inside the occupied West Bank, will be part of Israel in any agreement reached with the Palestinians. This claim...

Reports from Israel claim that the authorities have disciplined two army officers for their role in last year's "Operation Cast Lead" in Gaza. According to Haaretz newspaper, the news...

Sources in the West Bank and Gaza have confirmed that six Palestinian men in their early twenties were killed this morning by Israeli occupation forces. Three of the killings...

By: Adil Al-Dargali and Mahmoud Gawish A report published on Thursday 7th January by "Almasri Alyoum", on the Egyptian government policy to import natural gas in order to meet...

An Egyptian journalist and expert on Palestinian affairs has confirmed that the prisoner exchange deal between the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and the Israeli side is going through an...

MP Mustafa Barghouti, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, called for the indictment of Israeli officials before international courts, "because they have committed war crimes during the aggression...

An Egyptian specialist in Palestinian affairs has said that the last few days of 2009 will be crucial in determining the fate of the prisoner swap deal between the...

The exhumed bones of dead Muslims   The Aqsa Heritage and Endowment Foundation has confirmed that the Israeli "local committee for planning and construction" in the...

A human rights report published by the Palestinian 'Prisoner's Forum' has reported that since the beginning of 2010, Israeli Occupation Forces have 'detained approximately 468 Palestinian citizens from the...

The head of the Popular Committee Against the Siege has urged the European Union to decide on steps to end the siege imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip...

The Follow-up Committee on Arab Education in the 1948-Occupied Territories (Israel) has rejected the Israeli Ministry of Education's plan for the school year 2011-2012; the plan emphasises the "Jewish...

The number of Palestinian political prisoners held by Israel for more than 20 years continuously has reached 136, according to the Director of the Department of Statistics at the...

Israel's parliament, the Knesset, is looking at a draft bill which proposes the abolition of Arabic as an official language in the Zionist state. This would require the repeal...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Israel's occupation forces have raided the home of a member of the Palestinian parliament and former Minister of Finance. Local eyewitnesses say that Israeli soldiers broke into...

Google has conducted an online poll asking its users whether the search engine should label the Occupied Palestinian Territories as "Palestine" or "Israel" on its website and other services....

An official report issued by the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) has stated that in 2010, the Israeli authorities stepped up measures aimed at the judaisation of the Occupied Palestinian...

The Change and Reform bloc of parliamentarians, which represents Hamas in the Palestinian Legislative Council, is holding the Palestinian Authority led by Mahmoud Abbas responsible for any consequences resulting...

An Arab member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has called the authorities' destruction of hundreds of graves in the Muslim Ma'aman Allah Cemetery in Jerusalem "a declaration of...

The Deputy Leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel ("1948-occupied Palestines") has issued a warning of an Israeli plot to kill the movement's leader, Shaikh Raed Salah, while the...

Sheikh Kamal al-Khatib has confirmed that the trial of Sheikh Raed Salah is a political trial unrelated to the judgement or to justice. He also stressed that in the...

A member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has condemned as "unethical and inhumane" the methods used by Israeli soldiers to investigate Palestinians, particularly children. Dr. Afu Agbaria MK...

The Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano, is in Tel Aviv for his first visit to Israel since assuming office last September. According to Israel's...