Palestinian Territories News

In this photo released by Mehr News Agency, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, accompanied by his Vice-President Parviz Davoudi, as they attend a meeting in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, July 4, 2009.

Last month, both at Cairo University and from the Oval Office, President Barack Obama has called on the Israeli government to stop the expansion of settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The Western Wall, with the Dome of the Rock behind it, in Jerusalem, May 27, 2009.

The creation of a viable, independent Palestinian state living alongside the Jewish state has long been the bedrock principle of internationally backed efforts to end the decades-long Middle East conflict.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - " A local fundraiser for Palestinian refugees in Gaza is catching criticism.

British nationals have told Sky News they are being held in "atrocious conditions" in an Israeli prison after their boat was seized as they tried to take aid in to the Gaza Strip.

In a first Israeli reaction to North korea's belligerent test-launching of missiles over the weekend, Industry and Trade Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer said Saturday he was "very troubled by the American reaction to North Korea's actions," adding he was "not at all calm regarding the American appeasement towards Iran." Ben Eliezer was speaking in a ...

Whether a just resolution of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is close at hand or close to impossible is today -- as so often over the past two decades -- in the eye of the beholder.

The High Court ordered the Military Advocate General on Wednesday to file harsher charges against an Israel Defense Forces officer who ordered a soldier to shoot a rubber-coated metal bullet at a bound Palestinian.

In his speech at Bar Ilan University on June 14, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposed a new Israeli "peace plan," with preconditions that a Palestinian negotiator must first meet before he would "promptly" engage in "unconditional" bilateral talks to meet an international consensus demanding the creation of a Palestinian state ...

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Thursday responded to remarks made earlier by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said that Israel's construction in West Bank settlements jeopardized the two-state solution, and said that the world has blown the settlements issue entirely out of proportion.

Most members of a group of foreign peace activists seized at sea by the Israeli navy remained in custody Friday, three days after their failed attempt to run Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, relatives and supporters said.

Rafah crossing on the Gaza-Egypt border opened briefly on 25, 26 and 27 June allowing Gaza patients in need of emergency care, students, and foreign visa holders to exit.

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

Foreign Affairs Minister Micheal Martin has called for the immediate release of a Nobel laureate and former Irish soldier detained by Israel on board a boat load of humanitarian aid.

OCCUPIED RAMALLAH: 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 and Hamas are both denouncing an Amnesty International report on the recent war in Gaza as unbalanced.

Fatah prisoners, detained by Hamas members in the Gaza Strip, have been asked to supply their own food and water.

Israel's Supreme Court on Wednesday said the army must file stiffer charges against soldiers who were filmed abusing a bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoner last year.

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