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An Israeli court has heard that the government of Ehud Olmert drafted a plan to starve Palestinians in Gaza. The details were revealed after a human rights group obtained...

The Israeli government is to launch a wide-ranging campaign to boost the global image of Jewish settlers and bolster its illegal settlement policy in the occupied Palestinian territories. The...

The Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has denounced a rabbinical ruling which incites people to kill Palestinians. In a press statement, the ministry said that it holds the...

The Ramallah-based Palestinian Foreign Ministry has requested international protection for the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas following threats made against him by Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman. The Ramallah-based...

Almost 1 million Israelis left the state to live in the US, Britain, Australia and Germany in 2011. The figure was revealed by researcher Michel Sharon, who added that...

A senior official at Israel's Defence Ministry has warned that the collapse of the Palestinian Authority will lead to the collapse of Israel's peace agreement with Jordan. Amos Gilad...

The Israeli government has backed the proposal to turn Ariel College into a university. The college is located in an illegal settlement built on occupied Palestinian territory. Supporting the...

Official government statistics show that spending by the Israeli government on illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories increased by 38 per cent in 2010 and 2011. The figures...

A recent referendum conducted in Israel has revealed a sharp increase in racism by Jews against Palestinians. The referendum was conducted in the run up to the new academic...

A report in Haaretz newspaper on Thursday claims that Egypt has sent troops and military equipment to Sinai without prior approval from Israel. This, notes Haaretz, is in contradiction...

The Palestinian Ministry of Health has warned of a real "health catastrophe" if the Rafah border crossing with Egypt remains closed. A spokesman for the ministry, Dr. Ashraf El-Kedra,...

The former head of Israeli National Security, Uzi Arad, has confirmed for the first time his country's responsibility for the assassination of the Lebanese Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh...

Media sources claim that the Israeli government is studying the possibility of "punishing" the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied West Bank by...

Reports in the Israeli media claim that the Israeli government intends to legalise the majority of the so-called outposts established across the occupied West Bank and encourage Jewish settlers...

After a five year freeze, the Israeli government is going to resume building the apartheid wall in the area of Gush Etzion settlement in the occupied West Bank. According...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has condemned Israel's aggression against the Gaza Strip and called for a permanent and comprehensive truce that would guarantee security and stability for the people...

Farmers in Jordan have hinted that they may escalate their protests against frequent fires started in occupied Palestinian territory and sue the Israeli government, which they hold responsible for...

Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that it has been unable to find a new location for its embassy in Cairo, describing the diplomatic staff there as "homeless"....

In a series of attacks against Palestinian-owned properties, illegal Jewish settlers torched and vandalised a West Bank mosque in the village of Jabaa, five miles from Jerusalem and Ramallah,...

A senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has said that the current ideological make-up of the Israeli government gives Israeli settlers the green light to attack Palestinians....

A senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation's Executive Committee, Dr. Saeb Erekat, has called upon the international community to stop dealing with Israel as if it is a...

A poll conducted by the BBC World Service has ranked Israel in third place among the worst countries in the world, keeping company with North Korea and only just...

Israel's civil administration in the occupied West Bank has ordered the closure of a Palestinian primary school in the village of Khirbit Jinba, in the hills south of Hebron....

The global investment credit rating agency, Moody's, has announced that it is reducing the rating for Israeli banks from "stable" to "negative". Moody's explained that the security challenges faced...

Mustafa Barghouthi MP, the secretary general of the Palestinian National Initiative movement, has described peace with the "settlers' government" of Benjamin Netanyahu as a "pipe dream". The solution, insists...

A senior member of the executive committee of the PLO has called a statement made by Israel's first Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz an "unfounded red herring". Saeb Erekat...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES A leading member of Hamas in the occupied West Bank has died just one week after his release from an Israeli prison. Zahir Libada, 38, was in...

Media sources in Israel have revealed that the government in Tel Aviv is opposed to any cut in aid from the US to Jordan, fearing that it could lead...

The Fifth Conference on the Development of the Negev and Galilee has been told that there are plans for 10 new settlements in the Negev Desert. This comes at...

An Arab member of the Knesset (Israeli parliament) has revealed that the government has approved the establishment of a special police unit of around 200 officers in the Negev...

Israel's Knesset (parliament) is due to hold a special session on Wednesday to discuss a bill which would authorise Jewish settlers to build on private Palestinian land, especially in...

The Israeli government has threatened to launch military operations in the Sinai Peninsula in order, it claims, to prevent attacks from the Egyptian territory. According to Haaretz newspaper, the...