Middle East War

US congressional leaders at the weekend said they will vote on a bipartisan bill officially rejecting the findings of the Goldstone Report into the recent Gaza war, and calling...

The Islamic Resistance Movement "Hamas" held the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, fully responsible for the consequences of his issuance of a decree setting the election date to early next...

Worshippers in Al-Aqsa Mosque made distress calls via loudspeakers after Jewish extremists stormed into the mosque through the Maghrabi Gate, with the protection of the Occupation forces. Eyewitnesses told...

The Israeli Attorney General gave the green light to Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers to continue their attacks on Palestinian citizens as long as they are not cause direct...

A study by Save the Children International Foundation (SCF) reveals that thousands of Palestinian families are threatened with eviction from their homes and places of residence as a result...

An Israeli politician criticized the ill-treatment meted out to Palestinians in the country noting that there is no dignity and freedom except for Jews. Shulamit Aloni, a former Education...

Israeli police raided and dismantled on Wednesday a sidewalk tent set up by a Palestinian family that was evicted from their East Jerusalem home in July by Israel. According...

The Hamas-run interior ministry in the Gaza Strip has ordered Palestinians in the territory not to take part in elections called by Mahmoud Abbas, the West Bank-based president. Abbas...

By Khalid Amayreh in Ramallah1 November, 2009 Anyone listening to Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas these days would think the man is a paragon of democracy and liberty. ...

Efforts to prosecute those who may have committed war crimes in Israel's war on Gaza have spread beyond the Middle East. A lawyer in South Africa has identified 75...

The dream of Samir Murtaja, a Palestinian prisoner now entering his seventeenth year in captivity, is to see his elderly mother – whom he hasn't seen of even heard...

An Israeli report published this week warned that Palestinians will make up the majority of the Jerusalem's population within 20 years despite the Occupation policies in the city which...

  Israeli authorities have torn down several Palestinian houses in occupied east Jerusalem, defying international calls to halt the demolitions in the disputed city. Gidi Schmerling, a Jerusalem municipality...

Aggressive orthodox Israeli settlers attacked the Salah family on their way to Friday prayers in a bid to take over their home in the East Jerusalem community of Beit Safafa....

Ten Palestinians including a 70-year-old woman, seven women and two journalists were attacked by Israeli forces south of Hebron on Thursday, local sources said. The incident began when Israeli...

The United Nations called on Israel to "stop the policy of forced eviction and demolition of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem" warning that there are 60,000 people whose homes...

The Israeli Fruit Growers' Association revealed that farm owners have suffered huge losses this year due to the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip. The association noted that its...

The Hamas-run de facto government in Gaza must take effective steps to protect workers in the territory's tunnel trade, the Al-Mezan Centre for Human Rights said on Monday The...

BEIT IJZA, West Bank — Sabri Mohammed Ghraieb has seen the olive groves that once fringed his West Bank home turn into a Jewish settlement and prison-like walls but...

Israeli settlers arrogated the home of the Al-Kurd family in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem on Tuesday, residents of the area said. About 30 settlers were seen...

Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has said he will not seek re-election when elections are held in January, Palestinian officials said. "The president insists on not running in the...

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...

Israeli forces closed the main southern road to village of Qaryout south of the city of Nablus at dawn on Thursday. Israeli bulldozers arrived to the place accompanied by...

There have been disturbing violations of media freedoms in the occupied Palestinian territories during October 2009. The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) monitored many of the...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon implored Israel to bring an end to "provocative" actions in East Jerusalem following the eviction of a third Palestinian family from their home in...

Israel's navy said special forces they discovered a weapons cargo after they boarded a ship 100 miles off the coast of Israel on the Mediterranean on Wednesday. Israeli authorities...

Hamas says remarks about its possessing weapons is a mere 'fabrication' to mobilize world opinion against the movement ahead of the UN General Assembly's vote on a Gaza war...

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...

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...

There are reports of a deal to exchange hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for captured Israeli Sgt. Gilad Shalit. This is welcome news because the Islamic militant group Hamas has...

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...

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...