Middle East News

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel on Friday rejected a U.N. General Assembly resolution urging an investigation into a report saying war crimes were committed in Gaza, and condemned the world...

Hundreds of Gaza Palestinians set off for Makkah on Friday for the annual hajj pilgrimage, after bitter rivals Fatah and Hamas set aside their dispute to agree on a...

Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, director of Military Intelligence, announced Tuesday that Hamas launched a rocket some 60 kilometers into the sea, apparently as an experiment. Such a rocket, if...

The number of Palestinians who have died as a result of the Israeli siege on Gaza has passed 360, a statement released by the health ministry of the deposed...

According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights' Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, during the week of 05-11 Nov. 2009, 6 Palestinian...

Palestinian settlement monitoring authorities say a group of extremist Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinian olive farms in the north of the occupied West Bank. Residents from the notorious Yitzhar...

Israeli President, Shimon Peres, slammed Judge Richard Goldstone, who headed the Gaza war investigation team, and described him as "a small person who is out to hurt Israel". Israeli...

Palestinian figures and institutions have warned against a new Israeli new scheme aimed at the destruction of dozens of Palestinian homes in Occupied Jerusalem, in the context Israel's plans...

The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas confirmed that the late Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat, "gave his life to preserve the national constants and not to make any concessions, particularly with...

Bedouin gunmen ambushed an Egyptian patrol that had seized contraband cement destined for the Gaza Strip, triggering an hours-long standoff in the desert that left one officer and five...

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), ...

The Israel Broadcasting Authority claimed today (Tuesday, 10 November) that several key European leaders support Israel's military campaigns against the Palestinians. The authority disclosed that French President Nicola Sarkozy,...

Mustafa El-Barghouti, the Deputy Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative called for adopting a national strategy that combines the popular resistance and support for national steadfastness, mobilizes the broadest...

A Jewish rabbi has issued a book giving Jews permission to murder non-Jews, including babies and children, who may pose an actual or potential threat to Jews or Israel....

The Israeli occupation authorities released, on Sunday, Nov. 15, one of its longest serving prisoners, Younis Hussein, 45 years, from the Gaza Strip, after serving a 22-years sentence. Hundreds...

Several Israeli bulldozers and machinery infiltrated the Az-Zaitoun neighborhood in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Gaza police reported. In a telephone interview, a de facto police officer in Gaza...

Hebrew media outlets reported that the Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, personally supervised the preparation of a document titled the "higher goals", which drops the settlement process with the...

Official report An official report, received by Arab League from the minister of prisoners' affairs in the Palestinian Authority (Ramallah), revealed that the Israeli occupation forces have kidnapped about...

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned that the establishment of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders would "not end the conflict but shift it to inside Israel," he...

The Israel Defense Forces' chief rabbi told students in a pre-army yeshiva program last week that soldiers who "show mercy" toward the enemy in wartime will be "damned." Brig....

Doctors of the Orthopaedic department at Kamal Adwan hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, headed by Dr. Akram Abu-Odeh and Dr. Arafa Al-Khatib, carried out one of the rare...

A special survey carried out earlier this week on behalf of the Israeli daily Haaretz and Dialog, under the guidance of Professor Camil Fuchs of the Department of Statistics...

Shimon Peres, Israel's president, has said there has been "progress" in efforts to free Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier captured by Hamas three years ago. The disclosure by Peres,...

For the second consecutive year, Israeli President Shimon Peres has convened an imposing conference: Facing Tomorrow (Jerusalem, 20-22 October 2009) where 3,500 people were registered. Among the key speakers...

Hebrew media reported that the commander of NATO, Admiral James Stavridis, has paid an official visit to Tel Aviv, in response to an invitation addressed to him by Israel's...

The Arab League and the Egyptian Foreign Ministry condemned the newly announced Israeli plans for building 900 settlement units in the Gilo colony in Jerusalem. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry...

Israel's decision to push ahead with settlement expansion in East Jerusalem in defiance of international community opinion generated a rebuke from the EU on Wednesday (18 November). "The Presidency...

The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continued incursions, raids and abductions of Palestinians on a daily basis in most parts of the Occupied West Bank at the rate of more...

The French National Consultative Commission of Human Rights chose the Palestinian NGOs Network as a one of five global winners of France's human rights award. The Mezan Centre for Human...

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 Al Aqsa Foundation for Endowments and Heritage revealed that the Israeli occupation authorities began excavation works at Al Sharaf alley, tens of meters west of the Al Aqsa...

A Palestinian report unveiled that Israel exploited Palestinian prisoners as laboratory samples to test new drugs – produced in the laboratories of the Israeli Ministry of Health. Several years ago...