A new generation of Palestinians is rising under Netanyahu’s nose and it is saying ‘enough is enough’, says David Hearst, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye, in a recent article. “Ten years ago, [ More … ]
Hamas has said it fired more than 100 rockets at the Israeli city of Tel Aviv after an Israeli air strike destroyed a tower block in the besieged Gaza Strip. The 13-storey residential tower in [ More … ]
More than 200 Palestinian worshippers wounded in Al-Aqsa amid growing anger over Israeli plans to evict Palestinian families from occupied East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah. Tens of thousands of worshippers had earlier packed Islam’s third-holiest site [ More … ]
Agreement includes a $1.65bn contract for the establishment and operation of a training center for the Greek air force. Greece and Israel have signed their biggest ever defense procurement deal, which Israel said would strengthen [ More … ]
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has taken part in selling properties in East Jerusalem, the Palestinian website Al-Qastal reported on Thursday. “The UAE is involved in selling three properties to settlers in Batn al-Hawa neighborhood in the [ More … ]
The recognition of Israel, even by “the once arch-enemies of Israel”, will exacerbate the impossibility of restoring the 1967 borders and further weaken the Palestinian position As the relationship between the Persian Gulf riparian Arab [ More … ]
Israeli soldiers reportedly deliver Shin Bet message to Palestinian doorsteps, while others asked to report at stations for interrogation Israel’s internal intelligence agency Shin Bet is intimidating members and supporters of the Hamas movement in the occupied West [ More … ]
Jordan is ready to play part in relaunching peace negotiations with Palestinian leadership, monarch says Jordan’s King Abdullah II has warned that continued unilateral actions will kill any chance for peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, [ More … ]
With elections looming in both states, and hardliners out to ensure the collapse of the 2015 deal, time is running short for the US president to save it, states a report by the Guardian. For [ More … ]
Israeli woman freed by Syria while Israel returned two shepherds to the Syria-controlled side of the Golan Heights. Syria released an Israeli woman after Israel returned two shepherds to the Syrian-controlled side of the Golan [ More … ]
Chevron Corp. and other companies helping to develop Israel’s natural gas fields will invest around $235 million in pipelines to export the fuel to Egypt. Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation. One of the [ More … ]
David Schenker’s visit comes ahead of the expected opening of provisional US consulate in the contested desert region. A top United States envoy has visited contested Western Sahara after Washington recognized Morocco’s sovereignty there in [ More … ]
According to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, Israeli warplanes fired a series of missiles on Saturday in the eastern, northwestern and central parts of the Gaza Strip, including open farmland, wounding a six-year-old girl [ More … ]
Israeli top rabbi Yitzhak Yosef expressed his appreciation to the Emirati royal family and the government Israel’s top Jewish rabbi inaugurated a Jewish nursery school in Dubai on Sunday and made a special Jewish ritual [ More … ]
Under the agreement, Morocco will establish full diplomatic relations and resume official contacts with Israel. Israel and Morocco agreed on Thursday to normalise relations in a deal brokered with the help of the United States, [ More … ]
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