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Palestinian reshuffled government to be sworn on Wednesday

A reshuffled Palestinian cabinet, headed by caretaking government Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, will take oath before ...

Fatah, Hamas unity meet ends without deal

A Cairo meeting between Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal and an official of the rival Fatah movement made no headway on the ...

OneVoice's Palestinian activists urge Israeli response to Arab Peace Initiative

-     From a village near Jenin that borders on the 1967 line, OneVoice Palestine youth activists ...

Israel backtracks on settlement demolition pledge

The Israeli government on Friday asked the Supreme Court for a three-month delay in the demolition of five apartment ...

UN chief "deeply troubled" by approval of israeli settlements in West Bank

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday said that he is "deeply troubled" by Israel`s announcement that it has ...

Jordan condemns Israeli settlement decision

Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh on Tuesday denounced Israel`s decision to legalise three settler outposts in ...

Israel: 1.200 Palestinian prisoners begin hunger strike

Some 1,200 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails have begun a hunger strike and another 2,300 are refusing food ...

Israeli troops kill Palestinian protester in Gaza: medics

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian man in northern Gaza on Friday after a day of protest which saw thousands ...

Civilian deaths up in 2011 Israeli-Palestinian fighting: NGO

The past year saw a sharp rise in the number of civilians killed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an Israeli human ...

Palestinians hurt by lack of access to water springs: UN report

Palestinians living in the West Bank have been losing access to water springs due to the actions of Israeli settlers ...

Israel should accept Palestinian unity bid: China`s mideast envoy

Chinese special envoy to the Middle East Wu Sike said that Israel should accept the reconciliation between Palestinian ...

Presence of RI`s representative office in Palestine urgent

The presence of an Indonesian representative office in Palestine is an urgent need, Chairman of the House of ...

Palestinian gov`t to be formed in mid-feb: Fatah

A Fatah official said here on Monday that the Palestinian transitional government will be formed in middle February ...

Israel arrests Hamas lawmaker in West Bank

Israeli forces arrested a Hamas lawmaker at his home in the West Bank city of Ramallah overnight, a source from the ...

UN expresses concern about settlement violence, Gaza border crossing

Valerie Amos, UN under- secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, said here ...