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 … ]
The Israeli army detained 13 Palestinians, including two brothers, a father and his son and a man and his wife, during raids early today at their homes in various parts of the West Bank, according [ More … ]
Palestinians in ‘Israel’ observe a general strike to protest police apathy toward rise in crime Palestinians inside ‘Israel’ observed today a general strike called for by the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee to protest Israeli police [ More … ]
No clear winner has emerged from Israel’s election, leaving a question mark over who will be the coming prime minister. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s grip on power was hanging in the balance Wednesday after [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reaffirmed Wednesday the Palestinian position on the cessation of all agreements signed with Israeli if the later decides to impose sovereignty on any part of the occupied Palestinian territory. Abbas said [ More … ]
A cloud of mystery has been shadowing the death of Egyptian nuclear scientist Abu Bakr Abdel Moneim Ramadan who announced dead after attending an energy conference in Marrakech, Morocco. Ramadan was head of the National [ More … ]
The Israeli army detained early this morning 28 Palestinians during raids at their homes in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, reported the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS). In southern West Bank, the Israeli army demolished [ More … ]
No fighting overnight as Lebanon’s prime minister calls on US and France to ‘intervene’ to prevent escalation. A cautious calm has returned to the southern Lebanese border amid international calls for restraint after Hezbollah and [ More … ]
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