Israel’s government promoted on Sunday a plan for hundreds of new settlement homes in a sensitive area near East Jerusalem. In a tender issued on its website, the Israel Land Authority invited contractors to bid […]
Israel warned that it will launch a heavy attack if rocket fire from the Gaza Strip continues. Speaking at the start of Israel’s weekly cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that his country “will […]
Fatah and Hamas delegations will head to Cairo to continue their negotiations on internal reconciliation, senior Palestinian officials said on Sunday. “The Fatah delegation is headed by its Central Committee Secretary-General Jibril Rajoub, and two […]
The Israeli army said on Sunday it strikes Hamas positions in Gaza on Sunday morning in response to a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip earlier Saturday night. “Two rockets were fired from Gaza into […]
Palestinian officials slammed on Friday U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s reported decision to visit Israeli settlement in the West Bank, calling the planned visit “a challenge to the international consensus.” “The visit will be […]
The Palestinians marked on Monday 103rd anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, and called on Britain to recognize an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital on the 1967 borders. The declaration was a […]
Palestine agreed on Monday to pay financial aid to Palestinian workers, who had been economically affected by COVID-19 in the Palestinian territories, an official press statement said. At the end of a weekly online meeting […]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron denounced on Monday all kinds of violence, extremism, and terrorism in the world, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Abbas told Macron on the telephone […]
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Ishtaye on Monday called on Britain to recognize the Palestinian state on the borders of 1967 with East Jerusalem as its capital as compensation for the Palestinians’ suffering resulted from the […]
Palestine urged on Monday the UN Security Council (UNSC) to rescue the stalled peace process in the Middle East by holding an international conference for the purpose. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki made the appeal […]
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