Gaza May Already Be ‘unlivable’
The Gaza Strip may already be "unlivable", a United Nations official warned Tuesday, after a decade of Hamas rule and a crippling Israeli blockade. Robert Piper, the UN's top humanitarian official in...
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Israeli Minister Backs Annexing Settlements Into Jerusalem
Israel's intelligence minister proposed on Monday to annex five settlements into the Jerusalem municipality, while also removing around 100,000 Palestinians from the city's census. Yisrael Katz said...
Israel Minister In Rare West Bank Visit For Electricity Deal
Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz made a rare appearance by a high-ranking Israeli official in the occupied West Bank on Monday to sign an agreement on electricity with the Palestinian Authority....
Power Hit In Hamas-Run Gaza As Rivals ‘stop’ Payments
Power supplies haven taken a fresh hit in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, with authorities Saturday accusing the rival Palestinian Authority of blocking fuel payments to Egypt from going through banks. The...
US Reviews Ties With UNESCO Over Hebron Decision
The United States said on Friday it was reviewing ties with UNESCO after the UN cultural agency declared the Old City of Hebron to be Palestinian territory and a world heritage site. US Ambassador...
UNESCO Puts Hebron On Endangered Heritage List, Outraging Israel
UNESCO on Friday declared the Old City of Hebron an endangered world heritage site, sparking outrage from Israel in a new spat at the international body. Meeting in Poland, the UN's cultural arm...
Palestinians Hail UNESCO Hebron Vote Slammed By Israel
The Palestinians hailed a UNESCO decision Friday to label the heart of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron a protected heritage site, but Israel called it a "moral blot". "This vote is a success...
Palestinians, Israelis Square Off On UNESCO Vote On Hebron
The United Nations' cultural arm will decide whether to declare the Old City of Hebron a protected zone this week, the latest Israeli-Palestinian spat at the international body. Hebron in the...
Hamas Says Egypt Ready To Help Gaza
Hamas leader Ismail Haniya said Wednesday recent talks in Egypt could lead to improving the humanitarian suffering in the impoverished Gaza Strip. The head of the Palestinian Islamist movement said...
US Envoy Haley Leading Anti-Palestinian ‘crusade’
A senior Palestinian official on Wednesday blasted US President Donald Trump's United Nations envoy, accusing her of carrying out a "crusade" against the Palestinian people. Hanan Ashrawi, an senior...
From Promise To Prison
Ehud Olmert was once described as "probably the best" politician Israel ever produced, but the debonair ex-premier who was released from prison on Sunday has seen a humiliating fall from grace....
Stigma Keeps Drug Addicts Quiet In Gaza Strip
After Umm Mazen found her husband shivering in his bed and complaining of a migraine, he confessed he was addicted to painkillers and could no longer provide for the family. In the Gaza Strip, the...
Hamas Building Gaza Buffer Zone As It Seeks Improved Egypt Ties
Gaza's rulers Hamas said they had begun building a new buffer zone along the southern border with Egypt on Wednesday, as the Islamist movement seeks to improve ties with Cairo. The 100-metre wide...
Hamas Says PA, Israel Refusing Travel Documents For Sick Gazans
Hamas on Tuesday accused the Palestinian Authority and Israel of refusing to grant documents to Gazans in need of permission to seek medical treatment outside the blockaded coastal enclave. The...
Israel Strikes Hamas Bases In Gaza After Rocket
Israeli airstrikes hit a series of targets in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip overnight, officials said, hours after a rocket from the Palestinian enclave landed in the Jewish state. Strikes were recorded...
Chants Against Saudi Arabia As Iran Marks Jerusalem Day
Chants against the Saudi royal family and the Islamic State group mingled with the traditional cries of "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" at Jerusalem Day rallies across Iran on Friday. The...
Gaza Restarts Power Station As Egypt Fuel Eases Crisis
The Gaza Strip's sole power station has been fired up again, the energy authority in the Palestinian enclave said Thursday, after fuel supplies from Egypt helped to ease an energy crisis. The...
Defence Minister Accuses Abbas of Wanting Israel-Hamas War
Israel's defence minister on Thursday accused Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas of trying to spark a fresh conflict between the Jewish state and Abbas's longtime rivals Hamas. Avigdor Lieberman said...
Egypt Delivers Fuel To Ease Gaza Electricity Crisis
Egypt began on Wednesday to deliver a million litres of fuel to Gaza, a Palestinian official said, in an attempt to ease the Palestinian enclave's desperate electricity crisis. The fuel, trucked in...
Palestinians Greatly Troubled By Gulf Crisis, Fear Consequences
Following the declaration of Gulf and Arab states to boycott Qatar, which broke out two weeks ago, and the decision to take measures against the emirate, the Palestinians decided to be neutral to...