12-year Netanyahu consecutive tenure comes to an end as new coalition achieves 60 vote threshold required to form government Israel’s longest-serving leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been ousted from office by a loose coalition of rivals [ More … ]
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has informed the country’s president that he can form a coalition government, a move that would bring an end to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12 years in power. Lapid, leader [ More … ]
Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza and the Palestinian territories poured onto the streets to celebrate the ceasefire, waving flags and flashing ‘V’ signs for victory. ‘This is the first time the Sword of Jerusalem [Palestinian [ More … ]
Several Palestinians killed in new wave of Israeli raids on Gaza as Benjamin Netanyahu vows to continue attacks ‘as long as necessary’!! Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip entered its seventh consecutive day with air [ More … ]
Thousands of Israelis have protested across the country for the 15th week in a row, flouting a new law meant to curb anti-government demonstrations during a coronavirus lockdown. The street protests on Saturday and into [ More … ]
Hundreds of Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank gathered on a hilltop to voice rejection of Israel’s annexation plan About 1,000 Jewish settlers took to a hilltop on the outskirts of the illegal Gush [ More … ]
While the Zionist project fulfilled its dream of a homeland in Palestine, Palestinian displacement has never stopped. Column By: Ali YOUNES at Aljazeera News May 15, 1948, is a date inked in infamy for generations [ More … ]
Scores of Sudanese people yesterday protested outside the government’s headquarters in the capital, Khartoum, after revelations that a secret meeting was held between Chairman of the Sovereignty Council of Sudan, General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, and [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will speak in the United Nations Security Council in the next two weeks about the U.S. Middle East peace plan, Palestinian U.N. envoy Riyad Mansour said on Wednesday. Mansour told reporters [ More … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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