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 … ]
Israel is facing international condemnation after 16 protesters were killed by Israeli fire Israel’s defence minister rejected on Sunday calls for an inquiry into the killing of 16 Palestinians by the military during a Palestinian [ More … ]
After Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan invited the members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to attend an urgent meeting to discuss the status of Jerusalem, only 16 out of 57 heads of state [ More … ]
On the occasion of a United Nations forum, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Thursday for an end to the half-century Israeli occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza, and the Golan Heights as [ More … ]
A number of far-right Israeli parliamentarians called for the permanent annexation of the occupied Palestinian territory during a Knesset plenary session on Tuesday to mark the 50-year anniversary of the Six-Day War. Since June 5, [ More … ]
As Monday marked 50 years of Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials and rights groups denounced half a century of “oppression and subjugation” of the Palestinian people [ More … ]
After reports emerged that the US Congress and the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, would celebrate the 50 years of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territory during a joint video event on June 6, Palestine Liberation Organization [ More … ]
Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir has said that he has remained patient with Egypt even though it has illegally occupied a disputed region near the Red Sea. Sudan’s president has said that he has remained patient [ More … ]
Islamic Movement President Raed Salah Abu Shakra says Israel accelerated occupation of Palestine following Trump inauguration, adding that US embassy move to Jerusalem would be ‘illegal’ The Leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel Raed [ More … ]
Head of Hamas’s political bureau Khaled Mishaal has said that the Palestinian people will uphold the path of resistance and struggle against the Israeli occupation until they liberate Jerusalem, the Aqsa Mosque and the prisoners, [ More … ]
The Hamas Movement has categorically denied that head of its political bureau Khaled Mishaal had made remarks about its readiness to recognize the Israeli occupation state, according to Palestinian local media. In a statement on [ More … ]
The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said internal consultations have been underway over the construction of a seaport on Gaza’s coast. Talks have been underway over the construction of a seaport on condition [ More … ]
Israeli forces detained five Palestinians from the Hebron district in overnight and predawn raids Saturday. Palestinian security sources said that Israeli soldiers raided the towns of Sair north of Hebron and Dura to the west [ More … ]
A Palestinian man was attempting to stop work by an Israeli bulldozer during a protest outside the village of Deir Qaddis, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, while activists and residents prevented Israeli bulldozers [ More … ]
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has strongly denounced Israel’s persistence in its violations against the Palestinian people, their holy sites and land and criticized the Middle East Quartet’s report on Palestine. A new Middle [ More … ]
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