Palestine News

Israel's defense minister is expanding his force of West Bank construction inspectors to enforce a settlement freeze declared by the government.

The countryside around Montalba, north of Palestine in Anderson County, is among the most beautiful in East Texas with its small mountains, winding roads and scenic streams.

Articles 23:02 11/23/2009 The conduct of this president in practice is no better than the actions of his predecessor.

A Palestine couple remained in the Anderson County Jail Tuesday following their arrests last week for allegedly having methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia accessible to young children inside their local residence.

Eight men have pleaded guilty to federal charges for selling stolen goods at five St.

Israel's prime minister is trying to temper expectations that a deal to free a long-held Israeli soldier is imminent.

Share + Nov 23, 2009 1:15 pm US/Central GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip 1 of 1 Israeli soldiers of a tank squadron have a briefing at their position on the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border on Jan.

The remains of British hostage Alec Collett, who disappeared in 1985 during Lebanon's civil war while working for the United Nations, have been positively identified, the U.N. announced Monday.

Catholic nuns look up at a poster of Maria Alfonsina Danil Ghattas, not seen, after it was unveiled during her beatification mass at the Church of the Annunciation in the northern Israeli town of Nazareth, Sunday, Nov.

By PAUL STONE H-P Associate Editor A 80-year-old Palestine man was sentenced to 10 years probation Wednesday after being found guilty of threatening an Anderson County sheriff's deputy late last year.

Brazil's President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva is joining his Palestinian counterpart in calling on Israel to stop building new settlements in areas claimed by Palestinians.

Articles 21:18 11/18/2009 Frustration with Obama Increasing Hopes of Obama's 'change' are continuously raised but have yet to be fulfilled.

Community and staff, It is hard to fathom how close we are to the holidays. Just yesterday, or so it seems, we began the school year.

A condemned prisoner who volunteered for execution but in recent weeks changed his mind hoped a court would spare him from a trip to the Texas death chamber Wednesday evening.

A Gaza charity headed by the interior minister of the militant Hamas group on Wednesday offered $1.4 million to any Arab citizen of Israel who abducts a soldier.

Attorneys are studying state law to determine if the city of Palestine can buy Palestine Mall, operate part of it as a retail center, but turn the rest into quarters for a technical college, the city library and an early college high school program.

The European Union rejected requests Tuesday that it support a Palestinian plan for gaining recognition as an independent state at the U.N. Security Council without Israeli consent.

An update on construction projects is expected to be presented during Monday's meeting of the Palestine Independent School District's Board of Trustees.

The Palestinians say they are so fed up with the lack of progress in peace efforts that they are preparing to declare independence unilaterally.

Former President Bill Clinton, whose energetic efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal collapsed, urged both sides Saturday to end their decades-old conflict, saying they cannot escape their common future.