The UN Council on Human Rights yesterday passed three resolutions condemning Israeli settlement activity on Occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and the Syrian Golan Heights. The United States was...

The Israeli government has criticised the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. Richard Falk has called for a boycott of all companies...

Israel’s Prime Minister is intending to enact the Levy Report to legalise settlements in the occupied West Bank under Israeli law, Likud member of Knesset Danny Danon said on...

The Mayor of Ma’ale Adumim has claimed that South Africa’s decision to boycott products produced in the illegal Israeli settlement will harm the Palestinian economy and workers. Israeli newspaper...

Sources close to the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, claim that he is angry with the failure of Arabic and Islamic states to support his plan to...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Israeli occupation authorities today handed over the remains of Palestinian fighters’ bodies to the Palestinian Authority. The bodies have been buried in secret military “numbered graves”...

Is Hamas Political Bureau chief Khaled Meshaal being lined up to lead a reformed Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO)? That’s the claim being made in a report in the London...

UN secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has repeated his call for Israeli officials to stop construction works in the E1 areas of the occupied West Bank, the Washington Post has...

The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan has announced plans to hold a big festival in support of Al-Aqsa Mosque next week. In a statement to the media, the movement said...

A report in Haaretz newspaper has revealed that Palestinians paid more than $3.6 million in fines to the Israeli occupation authorities in 2011 alone. This is the recorded value...

Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul met with Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Ankara on Tuesday at the start of a two-day visit. The two leaders discussed the current developments in...

EU officials in occupied East Jerusalem recommended that the 27 EU member states impose sanctions on trade with Israeli settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories and halt financial aid...

During a telephone call on Sunday, US president Barack Obama told Mahmoud Abbas not to apply for non-member status for Palestine at the UN. Palestinian President Abbas’s spokesman, Nabeel...

A group of Muslim dignitaries and heads of NGOs from Britain and France has just returned from a trip to Istanbul where they had gone to meet the Turkish...

Reports in the Israeli media have revealed growing tension in relations between Israel and Poland. Haaretz reported on Wednesday that Poland’s deputy foreign minister refused to meet with the...

Expressions of racial discrimination are multiple and widespread across Israeli society, and are particularly evident between Jews and Arabs. There is also evidence of racism between Jews themselves. May...

A visitor to this year’s Liberal Democrat Party conference might think that foreign policy has disappeared from the main agenda of this once internationalist party. With no references to...

The innocence of childhood is precious, to be cared for gently and nurtured, allowing the child, whose future we are building, to develop happily and safely in an atmosphere...

A leaked report commissioned by the European Union (EU) has concluded that Israeli settlement construction “remains the single biggest threat” to peace in the Middle East. The confidential, 15-page report...