China can be a honest broker in pushing forward the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in light of its fair stance on the issue, a senior Palestinian official told Xinhua in a recent interview. Tayeb Abdul Rahim, [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities closed the Rafah crossing with the besieged Gaza Strip on Friday after an exceptional four-day opening made for the passage of Palestinian pilgrims traveling to perform the Muslim hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. [ More … ]
Gaza’s forces have tightened security in the besieged enclave on Thursday after a suicide bombing targeted Palestinian security forces near the Egyptian border earlier in the day, killing two, including the attacker, and injuring four [ More … ]
A Palestinian security officer in Gaza was killed and another was injured when an unidentified assailant blew himself up near the Egypt-Gaza border at dawn on Thursday. Spokesperson of the Gaza Ministry of Interior and [ More … ]
Israeli rights group Adalah released a statement on Wednesday, calling Israel’s ban on residents of the Palestinian majority town of Umm al-Fahm in Israel from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem “illegal” and “irrational.” [ More … ]
Israeli police detained Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the northern branch of the outlawed Islamic Movement in Israel, on Tuesday morning and transferred him for interrogation “over suspicions of his involvement and support of [ More … ]
Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah met with a delegation of Hamas deputies of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) on Monday to discuss ways to end the decade-long political rivalry between the Hamas movement, [ More … ]
Dozens of far-right Israelis toured the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound early on Monday under heavy police protection, official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. According to Wafa, the Israelis entered the compound through the Morrocans’ Gate while [ More … ]
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights office (OHCHR) expressed “deep concern” on Friday over the ever-deteriorating situation in the besieged Gaza Strip, three months after the electricity supply was severely cut by Israel [ More … ]
Four Palestinian children were injured with multiple wounds after they were run over by an Israeli settler in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan early Thursday evening. Local sources said that the settler fled [ More … ]
Accusing Palestinians in Jerusalem of law violation, Israel commits war crime by revoking their residency Israel revokes the residency status of the Palestinians accusing them of violating the laws, punishing them, as well as their [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities have decided to open the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the besieged Gaza Strip from Monday until Thursday next week to allow the passage of Muslim pilgrims traveling to Saudi Arabia for Hajj, [ More … ]
Four Palestinians were injured by Israeli airstrikes in the besieged Gaza Strip on Tuesday night. An Israeli army spokesperson said on Wednesday that the Israeli air force had targeted “two Hamas posts” in the northern [ More … ]
A Hamas delegation traveled to Iran on Monday and met with the country’s foreign minister, Muhammad Javad Zarif, in Tehran, Hamas’ public information office in Gaza said. The delegation reportedly included Hamas officials Izzat al-Rishq, [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed Jordanian King Abdullah II in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday. Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said that Abbas and Abdullah held a closed-door meeting at the [ More … ]
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