The Prime Minister of the Palestinian government in Gaza has said that he and his colleagues back the establishment of a Palestinian state on "liberated land". However, said Ismail...

An expert in international law has expressed fears over what he described as a "political deal" being prepared the UN headquarters in New York which aims to get international...

Strategic analysts have said that Cairo's role as mediator in the Israel-Hamas prisoner exchange deal puts Egypt back on centre stage of Middle East affairs. According to Major-General Abdel-Moneim...

The Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) has called on Denmark to support the Palestinian Authority's decision to go the UN this month in order to obtain full membership as a...

The Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, Dr Mustafa Al Barghouthi, has said that despite being prevented from setting sail from Greece, Freedom Flotilla II managed to achieve...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES A delegation accompanying the Libyan Jerusalem 5 convoy has said it is ready to supply the health sector in Gaza with all the essential medicines and medical...

The Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, the oldest university in the world, has warned against the "state of hatred and hopelessness created by American bias towards Israel. Speaking to the...

The Mufti of Egypt has condemned the "regular and continuous abusive practices" of the Israeli occupation authorities "which violate the sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque" in occupied Jerusalem. The mosque...

A specialist in Israeli affairs has ruled out a major Israeli military operation against the Gaza Strip similar to Operation Cast Lead in 2008-9. Barhoum Gracie said that through...

A conference in Beirut has heard that the state of Palestine will be "the fruit of liberation". Hamas Political Bureau head Khaled Meshaal addressed the conference by satellite link...

A delegation of 40 Libyan diplomats has arrived in the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing on a solidarity visit. Members of the group include the deputy head of...

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...

As post-revolution Tunisia's politicians try to draft a new constitution, a clause on normalising relations with Israel has created controversy. Article 2.27 of the latest draft reads: "All forms...

Syrian and Iranian media sources launched, on Monday, a severe defamation attack against Khalid Meshaal, the head of Hamas' political bureau, who left Syria after the revolution began. The...

Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has appealed to the Turkish opposition party, CHP (Republican People's Party), to change its stances and to refrain from siding with Israel which...

President Mohammed Morsi has used his maiden speech at the UN General Assembly to speak out on behalf of Arab and Muslim issues. Mr. Morsi also told world leaders...

Dr. Moussa Abu Marzouk, the deputy head of the political bureau of Hamas, has said that relations between the Islamic Resistance Movement and the Iranian administration have soured due...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES A conference on Pluralism and Difference from an Islamic Perspective has concluded at An-Najah University in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank. The organising committee said that...

The head of Hamas political bureau, Khaled Meshaal, met with Jordan's King Abdullah II and senior officials on Thursday for discussions on Palestine. King Abdullah reassured Mr Meshaal of...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Ismail Haniyeh, the elected head of the Palestinian government in Gaza, has congratulated Egypt's new president on his victory. Haniyeh called Dr. Mohammed Morsi as thousands of...

The permanent Palestinian representative to the Arab League and Palestinian ambassador to Egypt, Barakat El-Farra, has announced a decision by the Arab League to hold an emergency council meeting...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES To mark World Heritage Day, which falls on 18th April each year, the Islamic University in Gaza has organised a heritage exhibition on the Palestinian Cause, which...

The leader of the Tunisian Al-Nahda (Renaissance) movement, Sheikh Rashid Al-Ghannouchi, has said that the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, "is compatible with Israel's aggressive nature". He...

Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, has affirmed that his country stands by the Palestinian people in their pursuit to "regain their legitimate...

Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party, having won more than 46 per cent of the seats in the next parliament, has confirmed that it will lend its full support to...

The Palestinian Authority has expressed its readiness to deal with any Israeli government which is committed to the legitimate international resolutions related to the Palestinian cause. Hamas and the...

The head of the Islamic Movement in the parts of Palestine occupied in 1948 – now called Israel – has told Palestinians not to pin too many hopes on...

The Palestinian Minister of Religious Endowments in Gaza has warned of Israeli threats to Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. Ismail Radwan said that this is...

The Minister of Public Works and Housing in Gaza, Youssef Al-Gharez, has revealed that the United Arab Emirates has donated $50 million to build a housing complex for released...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Palestinian photographers and journalists have captured the suffering experienced by the people of the Gaza Strip during the recent eight day Israeli aggression. The war claimed the...

The South African ambassador to Palestine visited Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza on Tuesday. His Excellency Professor M. W. Makalima congratulated Mr. Haniyeh on the Palestinians' victory in...

Mahmoud Abbas has suggested that Palestine could approach the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the issue of Israel's plans to build 3,000 settlement housing units in the occupied West...