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Yesterday, The Tower published an exclusive story about the peace deal that Ehud Olmert offered Mahmoud Abbas in 2008 but that Abbas never accepted.

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Friday called on the Egyptian government to reconsider or cancel the Camp David peace accords with Israel, Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported.

In March, a Palestinian resident of the West Bank appeared before an Israeli military court and was charged with attempting to set up a Hamas terrorism cell, after being recruited for the mission by Hamas in Gaza.

Egyptians are angry at attacks on their army and dignity in the peninsula, but Morsi is ideologically close to the terrorists and does not want to open a new front while trying to defuse the opposition to his gov't. There was a happy ending for the six policemen and the soldier kidnapped last week in the Sinai Peninsula .

The Shamrak Report produced by Steven Shamrak is a 'Pro-Israel' report that brings together various pieces of news from a variety of sources to demonstrate the inherent racism involved in the politics of the Middle East.

Preliminary Appeal Occupied Palestinian Territory Support for Gaza and the West Bank PSE131 Preliminary Appeal Target: US$ 1,001,913 Geneva, 22 May 2013 During 2012, life in the occupied Palestinian territory continued to be characterized by poverty, unemployment, forced displacement, lack of access to basic goods and services, impeded freedom of ... (more)

Rachel Corrie is helped by colleagues after she was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in 2003 in the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.

Both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes and other violations of international humanitarian law during Operation Pillar of Defense in Gaza in November of last year, Amnesty International concluded Thursday.

Commenting on the raid, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas told reporters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday 'we strongly condemn these criminal acts, either in Gaza or the West Bank.

A new bank is set to be inaugurated in the Gaza Strip next week, although it has not yet received the necessary licence from the Ramallah-based Palestinian Monetary Authority , Kuna has reported.

Palestinians believe the U.S. effort to restart peace talks is doomed, and they're preparing instead to resume their campaign of seeking membership in key international organizations as soon as next month, officials told The arrives on another peace mission, Israel and the Palestinians appear to be as divided as ever over the issue of Israeli ... (more)

The Hamas government in Gaza is willing to close down all smuggling tunnels under the Egyptian border once a commercial crossing opens, the undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Tuesday.

On May 20, the Ibn Taymiyyah Media Center , a jihadist media unit tied to the Gaza-based Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem , released a video from Abu Talha al Libi, the sharia official of the Muhajireen Brigade in the Levant, to jihadist forums and their Facebook and Tumblr pages.

Hamas security forces in the Gaza Strip have been instructed to uphold standards of manliness, Interior Minister Fathi Hammad said Tuesday.

Israel's newfound natural gas reserves will boost its regional clout and could help it improve ties with neighboring states in need of new energy sources, Energy Minister Silvan Shalom said.

An Egyptian Army vehicle with a tank heads to the closed Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza strip, in Sheikh Zuweyid, northern Sinai, Egypt, Monday, May 20, 2013.

Finland announced on Tuesday the allocation of an additional 1.5 million euros to the General Fund of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees.

Hamas has begun preparing new school textbooks that teach children about "plans to liberate Palestine and the legitimacy and various forms of resistance [against Israel]." Jamal Abu Hashem, advisor to the Hamas-controlled education ministry, said new books would be introduced as part of National Education Studies for grades 8-10. Abu Hashem was ... (more)

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz unleashed his most explicit warning to date against Syrian President Basher Assad, following cross-border fire overnight on the Golan Heights.

According to a report released by the Palestinian Independent Commission For Human Rights, last year saw a 10% increase in the number of complaints over human rights abuses by Palestinian Authority, Hamas.