The Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas has condemned the murder of an Italian activist in the Gaza Strip, describing the killing as a "heinous crime." Vittorio Arrigoni, a pro-Palestinian activist, was found hanged in an […]

Hamas officials have said they found the body of an Italian peace activist based in Gaza who was kidnapped by armed assailants. The officials said Hamas police stormed an apartment in Gaza Strip belonging to […]

Hamas officials say the body of an Italian pro-Palestinian activist kidnapped a few hours earlier has been found. The officials said Hamas police stormed an apartment in Gaza City belonging to a member of the […]

A radical group has kidnapped an Italian activist in Gaza and threatened to kill him within hours, unless Hamas government releases its detained members. Foreign aid workers in the enclave named the man as Vittorio […]

Three authors of a United Nations report which criticized Israel over its 2008-2009 offensive on Gaza have rejected calls for it to be retracted after its chief author, Richard Goldstone, expressed doubts over its conclusions. […]

Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian prime minister, has said that a United Nations endorsement of his administration’s readiness to govern amounts to "a birth certificate" for Palestinian statehood. Fayyad”s comments on Wednesday came as diplomats and […]

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has been charged with fraud, money laundering and breach of trust, which could force the rightist Israeli politician to step down. Israel’s Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein said on Wednesday that […]

A new United Nations report highlights progress made by the Palestinian Authority in building institutions necessary for a functioning State, while stressing the need for Israel to roll back “measures of occupation” and for an […]

The UN says Israel has kept a commercial crossing into the besieged Gaza Strip shut for the seventh straight day, raising serious concerns over shortage of essential supplies in the besieged coastal enclave. The UN […]

The Palestinian Authority (PA) is ready to run an independent state but will struggle to make further institutional progress due to the restrictions of the Israeli occupation, the UN has said. Tuesday’s report followed equally […]

Israel’s military is on a daily basis raiding a Palestinian town in the north of the occupied West Bank, humiliating residents and damaging property in an attempt to expand nearby settlements, according to residents and […]

A top Israeli official has said the Tel Aviv regime is troubled by the perception that the United States is an "empire of the past" and wants a resurgent America to lead a decisive role […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says European states should stop the next humanitarian aid convoy bound for the Gaza Strip. "I think it’s something that you should transmit to your governments, that this flotilla must […]

Hamas says it has captured informants who had helped Israel in the latest attacks on the Gaza Strip, which killed 19 Palestinians and injured over 70 others. Hamas’s Interior Ministry spokesman, Ihab al-Ghussein, said that […]

Hamas and Israel have signaled that both are looking to end a flare-up in violence that began four days ago. Ghazi Hamad, Hamas’ deputy foreign minister, delivered a rare appeal to the Israeli public on […]

Amid successive deadly attacks by Israel on the Gaza Strip, the Arab League plans to press the United Nations to impose a no-fly zone over the coastal sliver. The organization’s Secretary General Amr Moussa said […]

Israeli troops have stormed Awarta village in the northern West Bank, arresting more than 100 women as they hunted the killers of an Israeli family from the illegal settlement of Itamar, officials said. The military […]

Ukraine’s Security Service has been criticized for the February abduction of a Palestinian engineer by Israeli agents in the European country and his subsequent transfer to Israel. Critics say the Ukrainian Security Service was notified […]