Palestinian Territories News

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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The two Palestinian rivals Fatah and Islamic Hamas have agreed to hold a last round of talks on July 25and sign a final agreement on July 28.

The chief Palestinian Muslim cleric is urging Muslims to visit Jerusalem, breaking a decades-long taboo against visiting the holy city because it would be considered support for Israel.

The blockade of Gaza is causing severe humanitarian hardship and the situation is getting worse every day, the head of the U.N. aid agency for Palestinian refugees warned on Wednesday.

For the 17th year in a row, Israeli and Palestinian teenagers have come together at a summer camp in the western Maine woods to make new friendships, understand each other's dreams and fears, and possibly lay a groundwork for peace in the Middle East.After January's bloody fighting in Gaza, the emergence in March of a hardline government in Israel ...

A poll taken in the Palestinian territories has shown Hamas support is declining among Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

Dozens of Jews from the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar rioted in the nearby Palestinian village Asira al-Kabaliya Monday evening.

Spain's National Court on Tuesday decided to shelve an investigation launched by one of its judges into a 2002 bombing by Israel on Gaza Strip, judicial sources said.

A delegation of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement arrived in Egypt on Saturday headed by Ahmed Qurei to take part in the sixth round of the Palestinian dialogue in Cairo.