Palestine News

Brazil's President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva is joining his Palestinian counterpart in calling on Israel to stop building new settlements in areas claimed by Palestinians.

Articles 21:18 11/18/2009 Frustration with Obama Increasing Hopes of Obama's 'change' are continuously raised but have yet to be fulfilled.

Community and staff, It is hard to fathom how close we are to the holidays. Just yesterday, or so it seems, we began the school year.

A condemned prisoner who volunteered for execution but in recent weeks changed his mind hoped a court would spare him from a trip to the Texas death chamber Wednesday evening.

A Gaza charity headed by the interior minister of the militant Hamas group on Wednesday offered $1.4 million to any Arab citizen of Israel who abducts a soldier.

Attorneys are studying state law to determine if the city of Palestine can buy Palestine Mall, operate part of it as a retail center, but turn the rest into quarters for a technical college, the city library and an early college high school program.

The European Union rejected requests Tuesday that it support a Palestinian plan for gaining recognition as an independent state at the U.N. Security Council without Israeli consent.

An update on construction projects is expected to be presented during Monday's meeting of the Palestine Independent School District's Board of Trustees.

The Palestinians say they are so fed up with the lack of progress in peace efforts that they are preparing to declare independence unilaterally.

Former President Bill Clinton, whose energetic efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal collapsed, urged both sides Saturday to end their decades-old conflict, saying they cannot escape their common future.

A 28-year-old Grapeland man was arrested on multiple charges Wednesday night, including assaulting a peace officer, after he allegedly stole $200 from another individual at a roadside park.

A female Palestinian student who says she was handcuffed, blindfolded and hauled off to the Gaza Strip by the Israeli army in the middle of the night late last month, asked Israel's supreme court Thursday to let her return to her studies in the West Bank.

A Jewish-American extremist has been charged with shooting to death two Palestinians and trying to kill others with explosive devices and poison.

Authorities have been examining whether Fort Hood massacre suspect Nidal Malik Hasan wired money to Pakistan in recent months, an action that one senior lawmaker said would raise serious questions about Hasan's possible connections to militant Islamic groups.

The tens of thousands of Palestinians who thronged Yasser Arafat's grave Wednesday to mark the fifth anniversary of his death had a lot more to mourn than just their late leader.

Israel's president on Saturday called on Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to rescind his decision to stand down, invoking the memory of Yitzhak Rabin at a public commemoration for the assassinated Israeli premier.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday called for an immediate resumption of peace talks with Palestinians and pledged more steps to improve economic conditions in Palestinian areas.

A senior U.N. official on Monday called on Israel to allow building materials into Gaza, warning that the thousands displaced by an Israeli offensive early this year face a cold winter without proper accommodations.

The family of the alleged Fort Hood shooter held his mother's funeral at the same Virginia mosque that two Sept.

PALESTINIAN relatives of accused Fort Hood gunman Nidal Malik Hasan grappled with his motives as some neighbours hailed the rampage as revenge for US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.