Palestine News

The Bill and Victoria Strong family of Santa Barbara, Calif. will be in Palestine on Tuesday as part of their campaign to drive 5,000 miles with their 20-month-old daughter Gwendolyn who has Spinal Muscular Atrophy , a paralyzing and fatal disease, across the country in an RV armed with banners, corporate sponsors and a call to action to end SMA.

Palestine High School's Class of 1999 will celebrate its 10th Class Reunion on Aug.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' security forces have significantly widened a crackdown on Hamas in the West Bank in the past month.

The Dead Sea will be eliminated next week from a contest to choose the seven natural wonders of the world, because of a Palestinian boycott over the participation of an Israeli settler council.

Her back to the camera, a Gaza woman ashamedly unbuttons her dress before a female Israeli soldier, revealing that her breasts were removed in a failed attempt to halt cancer.

Israel is considering what it can do to enable a full-fledged Mideast peace process and Palestinian-Israeli negotiations to take off, including instituting a temporary freeze on settlements, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Tuesday.

Israel's prison service says it is freeing the Hamas-affiliated speaker of the Palestinian parliament after nearly three years in jail.

Rusty Stewart Israel has floated a plan to seize nearly 54 miles of land in the West Bank , between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, including land recently exposed from receding waters.

Personally, I feel touched by the story of 20-month-old Gwendolyn Strong and of her parents' amazing courage and strength to campaign for awareness to end Spinal Muscular Atrophy .

For the 17th year in a row, Israeli and Palestinian teenagers have come together at a summer camp in the western Maine woods to make new friendships, understand each other's dreams and fears, and possibly lay a groundwork for peace in the Middle East.

Though not yet a regular weekly actions, the Anarchists against the Wall activists were invited by grass roots Palestinian activists to actions and meetings for organizing at Nahalin, Beit Jala, and Bidu.

Top Story Headlines Two-year-old girl drowns in family pool in Central El Paso A family in Central El Paso is mourning the loss of a little girl after she drowned in a family pool Friday evening.

A broad international coalition urged Israel on Friday to freeze all settlement activity in the West Bank and lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip, backing U.S. President Barack Obama's Mideast policy.

Bestselling author Naomi Klein on Friday took her call for a boycott of Israel to the occupied West Bank village of Bilin, where she witnessed Israeli forces clashing with protesters.

MONTREAL a ' Two Canadian companies that are building condominiums for Israeli settlers in the West Bank are committing a war crime, a lawyer representing a tiny Palestinian farming village that is trying to sue the firms by using Canada's War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity Act argued Thursday.

Fulfilling the call of Christ to serve, the UM Army has taken that mantle this week in Palestine as they work to make the lives of area people better.

A Palestinian man who helped plan the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship during which an American passenger was killed has died in an Italian jail.

Click here to watch the British Soccer Camp Video taken Friday on the YMCA soccer field in Palestine.

In this photo taken Monday, June 22, 2009, a worker of the Palestinian ministry of Tourism looks at pieces of pottery that were from the early Bronze age and were found recently in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.

Reporting from Jerusalem -- Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said Monday that Palestinians can make a stronger case for ending Israel's occupation by building up self-governing institutions that would strengthen global support for a Palestinian state.