Palestinian elections appear headed for delay amid Jerusalem dispute, Fatah infighting
The first Palestinian elections in 15 years appeared to be headed for a delay on Tuesday amid a dispute over voting in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem and...
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Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of ‘apartheid’ crimes against Palestinians
An international rights watchdog accused Israel on Tuesday of pursuing policies of apartheid and persecution against Palestinians – and against its own Arab minority – that amount...
Netanyahu orders advancement of West Bank settler housing projects
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered on Monday that plans be advanced to construct some 800 homes for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, an official...
Palestinian teen allegedly killed by Israeli forces in protest
Israeli soldiers fatally shot a 15-year-old Palestinian on Friday during stone-throwing clashes in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said, although the Israeli military said...
Israel approves first new settler homes since suspending annexation, NGO says
Israel approved more than 1,300 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the Peace Now settlement-monitoring group said, in the first such...
Palestinians warn Israel-UAE deal imperils Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque
Angry Palestinians in Jerusalem accused the United Arab Emirates of collaborating with Israel and endangering Al-Aqsa mosque – Islam’s third-holiest site – as they gathered...
Pompeo announces softer U.S. stance on Israel’s Jewish settlements
The United States on Monday effectively backed Israel’s right to build Jewish settlements on the occupied West Bank by abandoning its four-decade position that they...
Israeli troops kill man in Gaza protests: Palestinian health ministry
Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian during protests along the fortified Gaza-Israel border on Friday, the Palestinian health ministry said. They named the dead as...
Cyprus-Greece-Palestine summit planned for this year
A trilateral summit between Cyprus, Greece and Palestine will be held before the end of the year, Palestinian officials said on Wednesday. The announcement came...
Trilateral summit with Greece and Jordan in Amman on April 14
The second trilateral summit among between Cyprus, Greece and Jordan will take place on April 14, in Amman just over a year following the first...
Three Gaza boys killed in Israeli strike on tinderbox border
Three Palestinian boys were killed in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip frontier on Sunday, medical officials in the Hamas-run enclave said, while Israel said...
Israeli forces kill four Palestinians in Gaza border protest- medics
Israeli forces shot and killed four Palestinians and wounded 232, 180 of them from live fire, during protests along the border with Gaza on Friday,...
Israeli troops kill 3 Palestinians in Gaza protests -medics
Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinians and wounded at least 30 others taking part on Friday in weekly protests at the fortified Gaza Strip border, Palestinian...
UNRWA chief defends refugee criteria for millions of Palestinians
Millions of Palestinian refugees “cannot simply be wished away”, the head of a UN support agency said on Monday, hitting back at a US aid...
Jeremy Corbyn, Palestinians and Brexit
By Gwynne Dyer It sounds like a tempest in a teapot, but it could bring down Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain’s Labour Party –...
Egypt ‘finalising details of long-term Hamas-Israel truce’
Egypt is finalising details of a long-term truce deal between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, an Egyptian security source said on Thursday, amid easing tensions...
Gaza ceasefire holds after two-day flare-up, protests expected
The Israel-Gaza border was quiet on Friday after an Egyptian-brokered truce ended a surge in violence that had shaken southern Israel and the Gaza Strip for two days....
Israeli troops kill 3 Palestinians as Gaza protest resumes
Israeli troops shot dead three Palestinians and wounded at least 618 others on Friday with live fire or tear gas used against protesters at the Gaza Strip...
Palestinian leader Abbas offers apology for remarks on Jews
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday offered an apology after he was accused of anti-Semitism for suggesting that historic persecution of European Jews had been...
US ‘open to two-party solution’ for Israeli-Palestinian conflict
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo suggested on Monday he was open to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, saying a “two-party solution” was likely in...