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 … ]
Member of Hamas Political Bureau, Mousa Abu Marzouq, revealed that his movement has rejected holding talks with the US due to its bias towards the Israeli occupation, Quds Press reported on Friday. According to Quds [ 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 … ]
US President Donald Trump finally unveiled his ‘Middle East Peace Plan’ on Tuesday, 28 January 2020, during a media conference in Washington, as the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stood by his side. The entire document, [ 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 … ]
According to documents released by the White House, the economic aspect of Donald Trump’s peace plan between Palestine and Israel includes granting $9 billion to Egypt, half of which is in the form of soft [ 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 … ]
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 … ]
The Palestinian group Islamic Jihad says an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire with Israel has been agreed after air attacks killed at least 34 people in Gaza. The truce was in force from 5:30 am local time (03:30 GMT), the group’s [ 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 … ]
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