The US government has cut off tens of millions of dollars in annual funding to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) after it voted to admit Palestine as a full member. Victoria Nuland, […]

Two fighter were killed overnight Sunday as Israeli forces targeted the Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll in the coastal enclave to 12 since Saturday. Palestinian medical sources identified the victims as Yousif Rawhi Mahmoud […]

Israeli warplanes attacked areas in the southern and northern Gaza Strip on Saturday and Sunday, killing ten Palestinians and injuring several others. One Palestinian was killed and another injured in an Israeli airstrike on the […]

An Israeli court has sentenced a former soldier to four and a half years in prison for leaking classified military documents to a newspaper, which later reported allegations of a policy to assassinate Palestinian fighters. […]

Israeli airstrikes have killed seven Islamic Jihad fighters in the Gaza Strip, prompting a massive barrage of retaliatory rocket fire, officials have said. Adham Abu Selmiya, a spokesman for Gaza’s emergency services, said on Saturday […]

The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement has declared victory against the Alstom group after it lost a nearly $10-billion bid for part of a railway project in Saudi Arabia. On Wednesday, authorities announced that several […]

Israel has released 25 Egyptian prisoners in an exchange deal for a US-Israeli man accused of spying by Egypt and held in custody there since June. The 25 prisoners, who had all been convicted of […]

The United States has threatened to cut off its funds to UNESCO, if the UN organization recognizes Palestine as a full member of the United Nations. US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland gave the warning […]

In response to a growing housing crisis in the Gaza Strip in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), several new building projects have been initiated by the Hamas-led government, and thousands of families have begun purchasing […]

Finland’s foreign minister has described Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territories as “apartheid,” warning that time for the two-state solution was running out. “If you are occupying areas inhabited by … Palestinians who do not […]

The United Nations and its diplomatic partners in the search for peace in the Middle East met separately today with Israeli and Palestinian officials in Jerusalem, with both sides agreeing to come forward with comprehensive […]

Israel’s cabinet has approved the release of 25 Egyptian prisoners in exchange for a man with dual US-Israeli nationality who has been held in Egypt on espionage suspicions since June. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s special […]

The "surreptitious and unscientific" removal of hundreds of bodies from ancient Muslim graves in Jerusalem violates international and Israeli law, a group of archaeologists warned Friday. Some 84 archaeologists and and professors of archaeology from […]

Israel has closed down two offices in East Jerusalem which were allegedly being used by the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Israeli police officials said the […]

Palestinian officials are preparing for an intense diplomatic battle as UNESCO opens its General Conference on Tuesday. UNESCO’s board decided on Oct. 5 to let 193 member states vote on a Palestinian application to upgrade […]

Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas Political Bureau Chief Khaled Meshaal will meet in Egypt next month, a Hamas official says. Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah had agreed to hold a meeting in […]

The United Nations political chief today called on Israel and the Palestinians to show the kind of resolve to take the kind of difficult decisions seen in the recent prisoner exchange in their search for […]