Palestinian Territories News

In this Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 file photo, Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh waves to his supporters during a Hamas rally marking the 24th anniversary since the group's founding, in Gaza City.

UNITED NATIONS: Israel's foreign minister told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday that a new Palestinian unity government including Hamas was a setback to peace attempts, diplomats said.

Located between Jerusalem and Jericho, the Judean Desert provided an inspiration to thousands of hermits who lived here in the early Middle Ages.

In December, Randa Adnan said, her husband weighed just over 200 pounds. Visiting him in an Israeli hospital this week, Randa said, she found her 33-year-old spouse, Khader Adnan, now weighs no more than 121 pounds.

Arabic news sites, from InLightPress to Al-Hayat , are reporting that Palestinian Finance Minister Hassan Abu Libdeh will go to court after being indicted on charges of corruption.

The Arab Spring's message of freedom through nonviolence has isolated Iran and Syria, helped elevate moderate Islamists, and pushed radical groups to weigh alternatives.

Here's a "sign of the times" factoid: In recent commentary on Israel's settlement policy, the number of Jewish settlers beyond the Green Line has ballooned from 350,000 or so to 600,000. It is as if there had suddenly been a mass immigration to the West Bank.

It was during the First Intifada, in the spring of 1988, that I took a bus from Jerusalem to Bethlehem to find my real dad.

Some years ago, a daughter of the wealthy Jewish Castro family from Egypt heard Anwar Sadat's widow Jehan deliver a talk in New York.

Hamas's Gaza-based leadership challenged on Wednesday a Palestinian reconciliation deal signed by the Islamist group's political chief in exile and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of the rival Fatah movement.

A UN seminar in Cairo heard on Tuesday that the Palestinian economy would be double the size it is now if it was not subjected to Israel's occupation.

Is Ben Gurion Airport on "occupied" land? That is what Deltas Airlines said - until activists gave Delta a lesson in geography - and law.

First, you have to be invited. Then you have to promise complete discretion. On the appointed evening, you arrive and the list is checked.

Israeli forces detained six Palestinians in the northern West Bank early Tuesday, locals told Ma'an. Ahmad Beitawi, from the Human Rights Solidarity group, said soldiers raided the Rafidia district of Nablus city and detained Alaa Hamdan Abu Khader, 36, a researcher in prisoners' affairs and a former prisoner.

Ariel Sharon was a man who knew how to seize an opportunity. A brilliant general and a skilled politician, Sharon had no qualms about reversing previously-held positions when opportunity knocked.

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Gaza's ruling Islamic militant Hamas is ready to cede power to an interim unity government led by its longtime rival, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a spokesman said Tuesday, but problems loomed over government policy and international recognition.

ZIONISM is a national liberation movement, identical in most ways to other liberation movements that leftists and progressives the world over -- and in virtually every case but this one -- fervently support.

A Jerusalem monastery, built on the spot where tradition holds the tree from which Jesus's cross was made, was defaced with graffiti bearing the hallmarks of Jewish extremists, police said on Tuesday.

Longtime US Mideast envoy Dennis Ross said Monday he did not believe the time was ripe for a permanent deal between Israelis and Palestinians and suggested regarding the region now from a position of "humility." "Right now I don't think the context lends itself very well to producing a permanent status deal," said Ross, who recently left the Obama ... (more)