Palestinian Territories News

Israeli forces arrested ten Palestinians in the West Bank overnight Tuesday, locals and Israel's army said.

A rockets barrage was launched by militants from the Gaza Strip early Wednesday toward southern Israel, a military source told Xinhua.

A settler released his dogs on Palestinian villagers south of Hebron on Wednesday, a local committee said.

A 60-year-old man's body was found floating in the Yarkon river in Tel Aviv on Wednesday morning, Magen David Adom reported.

Police say 28 cars vandalized, houses sprayed with graffiti in Arab village in "price tag" attack; Vandalism contrary to values of democracy, says PM.

Two young men, 18 and 19, were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of attacking and causing severe injuries to Hassan Barhoush , an 80-year-old Palestinian shepherd.

An Erdogan aide says he is holding talks with Hamas chief Khalid Mashaal as well as the Gaza Strip's prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh.

Palestinian territory which was illegally seized by residents of the Itamar settlement was recently "converted" into a security trail by the IDF.

As Shimon Peres turns 90, the indefatigable Israeli president is doing what he has always done: looking ahead, preparing for the next challenge and believing that he will see Middle East peace in his lifetime.

A Palestinian takes a photo of the damage of her burned car by a "price tag" attack by Israeli settlers in Al Jalazoun, near Ramallah, West Bank, August 29, 2012.

Israel has frozen nearly all housing starts in settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, Housing Minister Uri Ariel said on Tuesday, in an apparent bid to help US efforts to revive peace talks with the Palestinians.

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.