Palestinian Government

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...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Gaza's Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya, has inaugurated a number of agricultural projects on land formerly occupied by Israeli settlers. The government is now taking advantage of the...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES As part of a week-long series of activities in solidarity with the four Arab Jerusalemite MPs currently seeking refuge at the international Red Cross Centre in Jerusalem,...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES In spite of the overwhelming odds, the Palestinian Government in Gaza is sparing no effort to challenge the blockade imposed on the sector by setting up public...

The Head of International Relations for Hamas has claimed that there have been "important breakthroughs" in the relationship between the Islamic Resistance Movement and "a number of Western countries"....

The spokesman for the Palestinian Authority in Gaza has said that his government is keen on having strong ties with Egypt. Taher El-Nunu described the relationship as "strategic". During...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On Wednesday, April 6, the Austrian Foreign Minister, Michael Spindelegger, arrived in the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing with Egypt. Mr Spindelegger is set to hold...

The Palestinian government in Gaza has called on Arab and international bodies to intervene promptly to stop Israel's escalation of violence against the besieged territory. A spokesman for Prime...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES In a press interview today, the Palestinian government spokesman in Gaza, Tahir al-Nono, confirmed that that the government was in favour of national dialogue prior to the...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Earlier today, Israel launched a deadly raid against the Palestinian government in Gaza targeting Hamas' Abu Jarad position in the south of the Strip. According to reports,...

The Palestinian government in Gaza, headed by Ismail Haniyeh, has filed a complaint to the United Nations General Assembly about Israeli attacks and crimes against the Palestinian people in...

The Palestinian government in Gaza considered the resignation of Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak to be new proof of the victory of the Palestinian resistance and Israel's failure to...

The Hamas-led Palestinian government in Gaza has made an unambiguous apology for the police attack on a women's protest march on Tuesday. The demonstration had reached the Palestinian Legislative...

It has been revealed that there has been a remarkable increase in the number of breast cancer cases in the Gaza Strip. Dr. Sawsan Hammad, the Director of the...

The Palestinian government in the Gaza Strip has called on the Egyptian authorities to provide greater support for the territory's electricity supply, which is still in crisis. Government spokesman...

The Palestinian government in Gaza has allocated some land to develop a free trade zone on the border with Egypt in Rafah. The move is seen as a contribution...

Taher Al-Nunu, the Palestinian government's spokesman in Gaza, has confirmed that Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has sent apologies to the convenors of the Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Tehran. The...

Recent claims by Palestinian Authority officials that there is a financial crisis contradict data published by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. Figures published by the PCBS show that...

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has condemned the Sinai attack and accused Israel's external intelligence agency, Mossad, of instigating it. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the MB said, "This...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Palestinian Government in the Gaza Strip on Monday condemned the terrorist attack on the Egyptian border station, which claimed the lives of 16 Egyptian soldiers and...

There were no economic, commercial, military or political ties between Turkey and the Gaza Strip before 2006. It seems that the ongoing humanitarian crisis has encouraged Turkey to put...

The Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority is acutely embarrassed by the State of Qatar's decision to begin reconstruction projects in the Gaza Strip by the end of August, Palestinian sources said...

Ismail Haniyeh, the elected head of the Palestinian government in Gaza, has said that Israel's concerns over the victory of President Morsi in Egypt is the strongest evidence that...

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...

Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the elected Palestinian government in Gaza, has called on the international community to read Israel's report on the Mavi Marmara attack carefully before prosecuting...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Students attending secondary schools in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip have started their end of year examinations. Out of consideration for the students sitting exams,...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Palestinian government in Gaza has overseen the unveiling of the largest map of historic Palestine in the world which, by all accounts, should be registered with...

The Palestinian Energy and Natural Resources Authority has announced that the power station in the Gaza Strip will be fully operational in May after the installation of four new...

The Palestinian government in Gaza has called the electricity and fuel shortages "totally fabricated political crises", and accused the Israeli occupation and its "tools" of trying to aggravate the...

The stifling Israeli-led blockade on the Gaza Strip, coupled with the non-implementation of Egypt-Gaza fuel import agreements, has led to a fresh fuel crisis in the besieged territory. According...

An Israeli court has agreed to release Khader Adnan after 66 days of his hunger strike, which he started in protest at his imprisonment under so-called "administrative detention". The...

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...