Hamas chief in Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar said ‘there is a possibility for an initiative to move forward with the file’ of exchanging prisoners. Israeli officials and Palestinian leaders of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) [ More … ]
European Union High Representative, Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell warned that Israeli settlement announcements would be detrimental to two-state solution. “The Israeli authorities have announced an imminent decision regarding settlement construction in the Givat Hamatos [ More … ]
For the first time, an Israeli plane has flown through the Sudanese airspace, Ynet News reported Sunday. The plane had first taken off last Monday from Israel’s Tel Aviv for Congo’s capital city of Kinshasa, [ More … ]
The European Union said the new U.S. peace plan for the Middle East broke with “internationally agreed parameters”, and any Israeli annexation of Palestinian land would be subject to challenge. Meanwhile, the Organization of Islamic [ More … ]
Former US president, Jimmy Carter, announced on Friday that current US President Donald Trump’s “deal of the century” breaches international law, CNN and other international agencies reported. According to Carter, Trump’s deal “breaches international law [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will speak in the United Nations Security Council in the next two weeks about the U.S. Middle East peace plan, Palestinian U.N. envoy Riyad Mansour said on Wednesday. Mansour told reporters [ More … ]
Israel has announced that it would allow Israeli citizens to travel to Saudi Arabia for the first time, under certain conditions, according to Reuters. Israel today, Sunday, 26 January 2020, announced that it would permit [ More … ]
A new poll shows that Israelis are increasingly blaming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the ongoing political paralysis likely to thrust the country into a third election. According to a report in The Times of [ More … ]
The United States Congress has advanced a new resolution supporting a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians, which can be brought to the floor for a vote. According to a report in The Hill, lawmakers [ More … ]
The UN General Assembly yesterday officially asked Israel to leave the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. The request was made after the resolution was adopted after 91 UN member states voted in favor, nine rejected and [ More … ]
Netanyahu says charges of breach of trust, fraud, and bribery are ‘attempted coup’ and decries them all. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday became the first Israeli prime minister to be indicted while in [ More … ]
Tel Aviv said it carried out dozens of strikes against the Iranian elite Quds’ Force and the Syrian military near Damascus, allegedly in response to four rockets fired at Israel on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Israeli defense [ More … ]
The declaration puts the United States at odds with virtually all countries and UN Security Council resolutions The United States no longer believes that Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories are illegal, Secretary of State [ More … ]
Dozens of Palestinian journalists rallied on Sunday – protesting with one eye covered in solidarity, while hundreds more, including celebrities, imitated the move online. On the other hand, Palestinians buried their dead as ceasefire entered [ More … ]
Israel has killed Islamic Jihad Commander Bahaa Abu al-Atta in Gaza and the Palestinian group says one of its political leaders was also targeted in Damascus Palestinian group Islamic Jihad has said one of its [ More … ]
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