Palestinian Territories News

Israeli President Shimon Peres has thrown his weight behind U.S. plans to arm Syrian rebels, shrugging off fears the weapons could be turned on Israel and exacerbate the conflict.

UNRWA is trying to help the over 400,000 Palestine refugees from Syria in need of humanitarian assistance.

"Israel has officially declared the death of the two-state solution," chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Monday in response to Economy Minister Naftali Bennett's claim that the two-state solution had reached a "dead end."

In this Jan. 21, 2013 file photo, Naftali Bennett, head of the Jewish Home party, touches the stones of the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in Jerusalem's Old City.

I first had the opportunity to meet my colleague Rami Hamdallah in the context of his rectorship of An Najah University, a member of the Mediterranean Universities Union-UNIMED.

The revelation that the National Security Agency gathers information about our phone and Internet use has been frightening, if not exactly surprising.

Injured Hezbollah fighters listen to a speech by Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah on a screen via a video link during a rally to mark "wounded resistant's day," in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, June 14, 2013.

Last week the Catholic Herald reported that five Church Schools are under threat in Gaza because of the ruling party Hamas's intention to extend their Muslim Brotherhood-inspired version of Islam throughout their fiefdom.

Children's fairy tales often hinge on the simplest of dichotomies of good versus evil, or known versus unknown.

Firefighters are getting a better handle on the most destructive wildfire ever in Colorado, but they're still struggling against hot spots that could threaten homes that have been spared by the massive blaze.

Tensions between the two intensified after the Islamist group, Hamas, won legislative elections in 2006.

The exhibit, which features photographs by Palestinian Authority Arab photographer Ahlam Shibli, is entitled "Death."

A Palestinian delegation headed for China Sunday to participate in the UN International Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace in Beijing.

Israel approved new measures on Sunday against Jewish ultranationalists who vandalise Palestinian property in a drive to mire security forces in sectarian violence in the occupied West Bank.

Michael Freund claims the German government is joining other European Union members in their efforts to "apply special labels of origin to products manufactured by Jewish-owned factories in Judea and Samaria."

New Palestinian Prime Minster Hamdallah visits Temple Mount, hears list of alleged Israeli infringements of Al-Aqsa Mosque, informs Palestinians of plans to implement projects in Jerusalem "Jerusalem and its holy sites are of the highest priority to the Palestinian Authority's new government," Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said Sunday ... (more)

A young Palestinian man was killed Sunday evening in an ambiguous explosion in his own house in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

A PLO official says leaders in Ramallah decided to drop plans to seek UNESCO heritage status for Battir.

Three weeks after Israeli finance minister Yair Lapid stunned his liberal base by staking out a hardline stance on peace issues, his disappointed lieutenants are coming out in open rebellion.

Cleric is unlikely to alter Iran's strategic positions, but he could make tactical retreats to ward off international and domestic pressures.