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 … ]
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 … ]
The two biggest warnings came in January when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that unless Israel reduces cooperation with China, the U.S. might reduce “intelligence sharing and co-location of security facilities.” Opinion Column By [ More … ]
After many years, the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) is back to the occupied West Bank despite efforts exerted by the Israeli and cooperating Palestinian security agencies to thwart any armed Palestinian group that [ More … ]
Raid latest in series of cross-border Israeli attacks in Syrian and Lebanese territory Israeli air strikes targeted a Palestinian faction in eastern Lebanon before dawn on Monday, Lebanese state media and the group said. “Three [ More … ]
Two business jets, an offshore company, millions in cash, wealthy Gulf royals, one Israeli businessman – and Iran. Leaked documents reveal the secrets behind the United Arab Emirates’ newest spy planes, reports Haaretz. For the [ More … ]
Move slammed as ‘affront to the American people’ and’ assault on Palestinians’ right ‘to reach out to decision-makers’. Israel has decided to bar United Statescongresswomen Congress Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from entering the country ahead of [ More … ]
Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Sunday defended the economic boycott of Israel as a freedom of speech movement that’s “pushing back against racist policies in Israel.” Last week, 398 House members overwhelmingly passed a resolution to [ More … ]
The Egyptian 2019 movie “The Passage” value 100 million Egyptian kilos ($6 million) to provide – the most expensive manufacturing within the historical past of Egyptian cinema, and apparently additionally probably the most worthwhile. In solely [ More … ]
Israel has been rocked by widespread demonstrations decrying the fatal shooting of an Ethiopian-Israeli teenager at the hands of an off-duty police officer. Protests erupted after Solomon Teka, 18, who was unarmed, was shot by [ More … ]
Ahead of the Trump administration’s “economic workshop” in Bahrain, Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt recently acknowledged what many had already surmised: that the full unveiling of the US “peace plan” would be postponed once more, [ More … ]
Officials to gather for so-called ‘Peace to Prosperity’ workshop, the economic part of Trump’s ‘deal of the century’. Bahrain is set to host the so-called “Peace to Prosperity” workshop to discuss what the US described [ More … ]
Touted by its architects as the ‘deal of the century’, US president Donald Trump’s plan for Palestine and Israel has had to again be kept hidden as Israel heads back to elections after a failure [ More … ]
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