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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...

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...

The Arab League has warned of a "dangerous" Israeli plan to expel prominent Palestinians from Jerusalem in the context of escalating Israeli activities in the Occupied Territories. In a...

Google has conducted an online poll asking its users whether the search engine should label the Occupied Palestinian Territories as "Palestine" or "Israel" on its website and other services....

In a statement to mark International Children's Day, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) said Israel is tangible breach of the UN Convention on the Rights of...

A group of Israeli settlers have set fire to an Arab restaurant in central Jaffa. Eyewitnesses to the arson attack said that the settlers sprayed racist and anti-Arab graffiti...

The head of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Israel has called on Palestinians of all factions in the Occupied Territories and in the Diaspora to protest en masse...

Al-Azhar, the oldest educational institute in the Sunni Muslim tradition, has warned of the consequences of extremist Jewish groups storming Al-Aqsa Mosque which it considered a criminal act that...

The Israeli Defence Minister has called for unilateral disengagement from the West Bank excluding the major settlement blocs, which will be annexed to the Zionist state. Ehud Barak's proposal...

The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in Britain (AOHR) has revealed that illegal Jewish settlers and the Israeli occupation forces let loose wild pigs on Palestinians in the occupied...

Reports from Israel claim that more than 40 Palestinian prisoners were injured on Tuesday morning in Israel's Eshel prison, with 16 placed in solitary confinement, after Israeli soldiers with...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On Friday 27 April, Nablus' Chamber of Commerce and Industry opened a four-day Palestinian furniture exhibition in collaboration with 30 specialist Palestinian furniture companies from Nablus city....

Senior officers in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have issued a warning about the growth of what they describe as "Jewish terror" in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The IDF...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Osama Hamdan, a member of the Hamas' political bureau and the official responsible for its foreign affairs, has visited the Gaza Strip where he is due to...

A further 12 Palestinians have been arrested by Israeli occupation forces in the latest military sweeps through several West Bank cities and refugee camps. Soldiers broke into homes and...

The Council of the Arab League has condemned strongly the ongoing Israeli settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territories. In a statement issued at the end of the council's...

The academic boycott of Israel has widened, it has been reported, with an Australian research institute rejecting a proposal on the grounds that it involves Israelis. According to the...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Palestinian prisoners are refusing food for the day in solidarity with the four prisoners on hunger-strike. The most prominent of the four, Samer Issawi, has been on...

The United Nations on Monday called for an independent inquiry into the deaths of Palestinian prisoners who have died in Israeli custody. It also warned that mounting tensions could...

As today marks the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords between the Israeli occupation and a group of Palestinians, pro-justice rights activists have assembled some...

World-renowned author Alice Walker has refused to give permission to an Israeli company, Yediot Books, to publish her award-winning novel, The Color Purple. Citing Israel's "apartheid policies", Ms Walker...

The EU foreign policy chief, Catharine Ashton, has said that the EU desires to see Palestine granted the status of a full-member state at the UN. "Achieving this is...

It was in 2003 that I realised something fundamental had changed. The door to the room in which I was sitting flew open. In stalked a figure still dressed...

Israel has finally done what it has waited almost a year and a half to do; in a raid contravening international law it arrested two members of the Palestinian...

President Mahmoud Abbas has warned that if all attempts to return to the negotiating table fail then the Palestinian Authority will approach the UN General Assembly seeking recognition as...