Middle East Quartet

The Egyptian Foreign Minister has condemned Israel's latest settlement plans and blamed the Middle East Quartet for "encouraging" the Israelis. Speaking in Washington, Muhammad Amr said that the settlements...

A UN official has said that the UN and the other members of the Middle East Quartet are looking at the possibility of holding a high-level meeting to discuss...

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 Palestinian Authority has warned the deadlock in peace talks with the Israelis will result in a single state governed by the system of apartheid. In a document circulated...

The Palestinian Fatah movement has called for an international boycott of Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman. His presence in such a role, claims Fatah, is a threat to international...

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...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Palestinian Authority has called on the international Middle East Quartet mediators to adopt a more serious position which holds the Israeli government...

Israel's latest missile strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip have been described as "more extrajudicial executions" by a leading member of the PLO Executive Committee. Dr. Hanan Ashrawi said...

The Palestinian Authority has demanded that the Israeli occupation authorities should hand over a detailed map showing where Israel's army has laid land mines in the occupied West Bank....

Israel's Minister of Defence, Ehud Barak, has claimed that the security situation in the occupied West Bank is relatively stable at the moment. He attributed this to the security...

The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has condemned the Israeli occupation authority's approval of 130 new housing units in the settlement of Gilo...

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command has criticized the meeting held in Amman on Tuesday between officials from the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli...

The Secretary General of the League of Arab States has said that "Israel's disregard for international law, public opinion and human rights conventions is far beyond all limits." Speaking...

A senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation's Executive Committee has warned of plans to create "Greater Israel" at the expense of the Palestinian people and their rights. Hanan...

The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has said that national reconciliation will remove one of the excuses used by opponents of Palestine's membership of the UN....

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Israel has agreed to allow the export of some Gaza manufactured cabinet works and home furniture to Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and some European countries. Timber...

The Arab League has accused Israel of pursuing a systematic policy to control most of the West Bank for future annexation and settlements. The lands in question belong mainly...

The Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has said that peace cannot be achieved in either Palestine or the region without the involvement of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas....

The Russian representative at the recent Middle East Quartet meeting objected to calling Israel a "Jewish state"; a demand the Israeli side insists on for the resumption of the...

Russia's permanent delegate at the United Nations has called the continued construction of illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories "the biggest obstacle to the two-state solution". Vitaly...