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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 United Nations has asked the Israeli government to prepare and submit a detailed report on the status of Palestinian Bedouin citizens in the Negev Desert. This is in...

A report issued by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) has claimed that Palestinians in the West Bank are not able to build on...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Secretary-General of the United Nations has condemned the "unacceptable suffering" caused by the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip during a visit to the beleaguered territory....

A senior United Nations official has called on the Israeli government to lift the siege that has been imposed on the Gaza Strip for five years. Under-Secretary-General for Political...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli prisons have embarked on a hunger strike in protest over poor conditions of detention and ill-treatment. Yesterday, Israeli prison authorities took...

Israel's Minister of Finance has called for the elimination of the Palestinian Authority headed by Mahmoud Abbas in response to the bid for full membership of the United Nations...

Israel's Foreign Minister has warned Benjamin Netanyahu that the governing coalition will fall part if the Prime Minister doesn't take punitive measures against the Palestinian Authority for its decision...

The Arab League has criticized the United Nations for issuing a report which claims that Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip is legitimate. Such a position, said the League's...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip held a vigil in front of the office of the United Nations yesterday in support of the detained Al-Jazeera correspondent Samer...

An high-levelled Israeli political source has said that the Palestinian Authority's decision to go to the UN this September to gain recognition of a state within the 4th June...

Member of Fatah's Central Committee and its Commissioner of international relations, Dr Nabil Shaath, has confirmed Palestinian intentions to go to the United Nations to gain recognition of a...

Any attempts to undermine the mandate of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, known commonly by its acronym UNRWA, or change its...

A leading member of the PLO's executive Committee has said that the Palestinian Authority's plan to go to the United Nations in September is more about seeking UN membership...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Palestinian prime minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, has unveiled a memorial at Gaza City's Port to the victims of Freedom Flotilla 1. The monument is inscribed...

Israel's Prime Minister has accused the Palestinian President of "blatantly distorting known historical facts" about the Nakba and the 1948 war in an op-ed in the New York Times...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The staff union at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Gaza have called for a series of agency wide strikes, the first of which...

A Palestinian specialist in settlement affairs has claimed that America's use of its veto in the UN Security Council last month has led to a rise in the rate...

An Israeli official has claimed that the US administration will exert all necessary efforts to suppress any Palestinian attempt to have a UN resolution condemning Israeli settlement activities in...

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...

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 Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has condemned strongly the Israeli government's decision to accelerate the construction of hundreds of illegal settlement units in...

The president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, has confirmed that he will go to the United Nations to seek an upgrade in the level of Palestine's diplomatic representation...

A senior member of the PLO Executive Committee has said that that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is to start an international tour to garner support for the proposal...

The United Nations Fourth Committee has accused the Israeli authorities of obstructing efforts to reconstruct the Gaza Strip, which was devastated during the Israeli war in 2008/2009. Life in...

Qatar's permanent representative to the United Nations has said that the Palestine question is central for Arabs and Muslims, and noted that it will not be resolved through the...

The Chairman of the National Resistance Front and member of the Islamic Action Front in Lebanon, Sheikh Zuhair Juaid, has called upon the government in Beirut and the Lebanese...

King Abdullah of Jordan has said that the challenges facing the city of Jerusalem, including Israel's attempts to impose a new demographic reality, require an active and firm Islamic...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has condemned Israel's aggression against the Gaza Strip and called for a permanent and comprehensive truce that would guarantee security and stability for the people...

Israel destroyed dozens of EU-funded development projects across the occupied West Bank in 2011. The details of the extent of Israeli destruction have been given in a report issued...

Palestine's Ambassador to the United Nations, Dr Riyad Mansour, has warned of a grave threat to the lives of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails. He made...

The General Secretariat of the Arab League has expressed its alarm over the aggravated situation between the Republic of Sudan and the newly formed Republic of South Sudan. The...