RAMALLAH  - Israeli plans for 1,000 new settler homes in annexed east Jerusalem are “destroying” efforts by Washington’s top diplomat to revive the peace process, a Palestinian official charged on Thursday.But Israel said the construction plans were not new and accused the ...

JERUSALEM : Suspected Jewish extremists carried out a string of attacks against about 20 Palestinian cars in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, Israeli police and witnesses said on Wednesday.The attacks appeared to be linked to the stabbing of a Jewish settler called Eviatar Borovsky who was killed ...

GAZA CITY: Eyes glued to big screens in cafes and restaurants across Gaza and the West Bank, adoring fans cheer on Mohammed Assaf as he sings his way closer to winning this year’s Arab Idol song contest.Since March, the handsome, immaculately dressed 22-year-old Gazan’s powerful voice ...

JERUSALEM : Palestinian activists tried to derail an ambitious European documentary shot in Jerusalem this week, complaining that the film would reinforce an image of Israeli sovereignty over the deeply divided city. Producers of the Franco-German "24h Jerusalem", which sets out to depict a ...

SILWAD - Scores of Palestinian youths clashed with Israeli soldiers for a second day in the occupied West Bank on Friday, after locals accused Jewish settlers of beating a man with steel pipes. Youths heaved rocks at Israeli army jeeps as smoke from blazing tyres mixed with tear gas a few hundred ...

URI AVNERYObama in Israel: Every word right. Every gesture genuine. Every detail in its place. Perfect.Obama in Palestine: Every word wrong. Every gesture inappropriate. Every single detail misplaced. Perfect.It started from the first moment. The president of the United States came to Ramallah. He ...

HEBRON (AFP) - Clashes rocked the West Bank on Thursday as thousands attended the funerals of a prisoner and two teenagers shot dead by Israeli troops and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said the killings jeopardised US efforts to rekindle peace talks.Israeli soldiers fired rubber bullets in the ...

JERUSALEM (AFP/Reuters) - Clashes broke out between Israeli security forces and Palestinian protesters in the occupied West Bank and at a holy site in Jerusalem on Friday as tensions rose just weeks before a visit by US President Barack Obama.Trouble broke out after the funeral in the West Bank of ...

JERUSALEM - Palestinians demanding the release of hunger-striking prisoners clashed with Israelis in the West Bank and east Jerusalem on Friday, as three fasting inmates were taken to hospitals. Around 2,000 Palestinians marched in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, while protesting worshippers ...

President Asif Ali Zardari has reiterated that Pakistan would continue to render its unwavering support to Palestinian people till the establishment of an independent Palestinian State with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.The President said this in a statement, read by him, at the luncheon he ...

BURIN (AFP) - Palestinians and activists were on Saturday forcefully removed from a new camp near a West Bank village, after a third attempt at the novel form of protest against Jewish settlement.An AFP correspondent said the army used tear gas and violence to remove hundreds of people who had set ...

BEIT IKSA (AFP) - Some 200 Palestinians gathered on Saturday at a new encampment in a West Bank village, protesting for the second consecutive day Israel’s intention to confiscate land.“We have settled on the lands of the Beit Iksa village to prevent its confiscation by the Israeli ...

RAMALLAH  - Palestinians set up tents and began work on a permanent structure in a West Bank village on Friday to protest Israel’s intention to confiscate land, an activist said.“We pitched two tents and began building a new structure using concrete and stones in an area in Beit ...

JERUSALEM  - Most Palestinians support both rocket fire into Israel and their people’s enhanced UN status while still viewing peaceful negotiation as the best way to achieve statehood, a poll showed on Thursday. The survey, carried out by the Jerusalem Media and Communications Centre, ...

DAMASCUS - Syrian rebels made advances on Tuesday in fierce fighting for a Palestinian refugee camp in south Damascus that sent tens of thousands of residents fleeing as the army prepared a counter-attack and carried out fresh air raids.The United Nations Relief and Works Agency said at least half ...

ANKARA/RAMALLAH  - Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas said Tuesday that Palestine could pursue Israel at the International Criminal Court if it pushes ahead with plans to build thousands of new settlement homes in East Jerusalem.Abbas told reporters in Ankara that such a move was unlikely and ...

RAMALLAH/BRUSSELS  - The Palestinians are looking to reactivate peace talks with Israel with the aim of resolving all final status issues within six months, a senior official said on Monday.Speaking to the official Voice of Palestine radio, negotiator Saeb Erakat said “a new stage” ...

GAZA CITY  - Six people were killed and 32 injured by Israeli strikes on Gaza after Palestinian fighters fired on an Israeli jeep, wounding four soldiers, medics and witnesses said on Sunday.The flare-up, which began on Saturday, was one of the most serious since Israel’s devastating ...

UNITED NATIONS - Palestinian diplomats have circulated a draft resolution  among UN member states that calls for recognition of Palestine as an observer state.No date has been set for a vote in the General Assembly, but Palestinian diplomats said the 193-nation body could take action later ...

JERICHO  - The Palestinian leadership will launch a campaign to upgrade their status at the United Nations this month, seeking support from at least 150 nations, an official said Thursday.Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said the campaign to upgrade their status from observer entity to that ...

WASHINGTON - Mitt Romney told donors the Palestinians “have no interest whatsoever” in peace with Israel and if elected president he would just kick the issue down the road, a leaked video showed Tuesday.Trailing in the polls, the Republican candidate could have done without the ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The Palestinians will next month renew a bid to upgrade their status at the United Nations, their foreign minister said on Saturday, a move which could strengthen their statehood claims after talks with Israel stalled.Palestinians are listed as a UN observer ...

RAMALLAH  - The Palestinians called on Wednesday for an international probe into veteran leader Yasser Arafat's death after reports he may have been poisoned, raising the possibility of an exhumation.The comments came a day after Al-Jazeera broadcast the results of a nine-month investigation ...

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories - The Palestinians hailed Friday’s granting by UNESCO of world heritage status to the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank city of Bethlehem as a “historic day for justice.”“This global recognition of the rights of the Palestinian people ...

A one-state solution in Palestine/Israel is a subject being increasingly discussed and debated. One way in which the conversation has emerged is through an analysis of the current situation as a de facto one state, a regime which privileges Jews above Palestinians (the latter being granted or ...

No matter how truthful and brilliant a message can be, its success always depends on the messenger who transmits it. And so are causes in our world which have utterly failed in spite of their validity because the transmitters were not up to the task to creatively project to others their ...

JERUSALEM  - Clashes briefly broke out Friday between Israeli police and “hundreds” of Palestinian stone-throwers at the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City, police said.“They threw stones towards the Maghrebi Gate and police went onto the ...

UNITED NATIONS - Almost 1,100 Palestinians, over half of them children, were displaced due to home demolitions in the West Bank by Israeli forces in 2011 – over 80 per cent more than in the previous year – according to a UN report released Thursday.“Demolitions and Forced ...

AMMAN  - Israeli and Palestinian negotiators gathered in the Jordanian capital on Tuesday for their first face-to-face meeting in more than 15 months, but both sides insisted full-blown talks remained some way off.Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh met in Amman with Quartet envoy Tony ...

JERUSALEM  - A top Israeli cabinet minister on Monday said that a planned meeting with Palestinian negotiators after a near 16-month pause was a positive step but should not be seen as renewal of negotiations.“This is a positive development,” Intelligence Minister and Deputy Prime ...