Palestinian Territories News

In this May 6, 2013 file phot, China's President Xi Jinping, shakes hands with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas, unseen, during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China.

NGO Monitor report meant to inform US lawmakers of recent grants bestowed to Palestinian organizations by the National Endowment for Democracy and USAID.

Muhammad al-Dura's father, Jamal, said on Monday that he was ready to have the remains of his son exhumed "to prove that he was killed by Israeli soldiers' bullets." The 50-year-old father of 10 dismissed as "lies and fabrications" the findings of the government report , claiming Israel was seeking to "whitewash" its image in front of the world.

Law professor sends episode of Larry David's show to Netanyahu, hoping he will invite Abbas over to watch it together.

Experts say the officer who killed a Long Island college student and a home invasion suspect on Friday was confronted with a split-second choice.

A tragic love story between two Palestinians living under Israeli occupation received a standing ovation at the Cannes film festival on Monday and broke new ground as the first film fully funded by the Palestinian cinema industry.

A NATO Parliamentary Assembly Science and Technology Committee delegation led by US Congressman David Scott and UK Baroness Margaret Ramsay will visit Israel for the first time in October.

Foreign Minister Murray McCully will tomorrow offer the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, New Zealand's assistance in the event that he can broker a breakthrough agreement between Israel and Palestine on a two-state solution.

An Egyptian border policeman shouts at the closed Rafah, Sinai border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza strip to protest the abduction of his colleagues last Thursday in northern Sinai, in Rafah, Egypt, Sunday, May 19, 2013.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's senior coalition partner says that reaching a final peace agreement with the Palestinians is unrealistic at the current time and the sides should instead pursue an interim arrangement.

What they meant was that "Made in Israel" should be reserved for goods produced inside the Green Line so European consumers can tell the difference.

Netanyahu presented with gov't report finding that France 2 footage shows 12-year-old icon of second intifada was not hit with IDF bullets; claims French TV station edited footage to give misleading impression.

When the 19-year-old Israeli war resister Noam Gur attends weekly demonstrations against the occupation of Palestine, the soldiers who suppress the protestors - with tear gas, stun grenades, and occasionally live fire - aren't just strangers in uniform.

Israel, a tiny nation, is preventing the collapse of Western civilization in the Middle East.

That story, which is what is actually going on, is one of brutal Israeli repression of a largely defenseless population and Israeli denial of the most basic of human rights.

The Justice Ministry notifies the High Court of its decision in response to a 2010 petition by the Palestinian owners.

First create a Palestinian state, and then make peace, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday in Washington, in a reversal of the conventional wisdom regarding what is needed to achieve an Israeli- Palestinian agreement.

A Palestinian was killed on Saturday when a tunnel between Egypt and the Gaza Strip collapsed, AFP reported citing Palestinian medical sources.

In past week Palestinian Authority security forces interrogated, detained two journalists, despite promises to honor freedom of media; interrogators forced reporter to provide them with email and Facebook passwords.

John Kerry is so far not having a good run at Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. It's not for a lack of effort: he's about to make his fourth trip of his young tenure as Secretary of State to Israel and the Palestinian territories to try to jumpstart talks.