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Biden offers aid to Palestinians on Israel tour but no more

U.S. President Joe Biden will not come with a plan to restart the stalled Israel-Palestinian peace process when he visits the West Bank on Friday, at the end of the first leg of his Middle East trip, a senior administration official said. Biden will restate his backing for a two-state solution to the decades-long conflict […]

Biden settles on trip to Saudi, and Israel

U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Saudi Arabia and Israel next month and the White House is planning to announce the trip this week, a source familiar with the planning said on Sunday. Biden's trip, which is expected to take place around mid-July, could include a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, […]

Biden establishes U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs

The United States is restoring a line of communication for the Palestinians that had been canceled by the Trump administration. The move, announced before a possible visit by President Joe Biden to Israel and the occupied West Bank, is bureaucratic in nature. But it means the Palestinians will deal directly with the U.S. State Department […]

UN Human Rights Council says Israel must stop racist practices, occupation

An independent commission of inquiry set up by the UN Human Rights Council after the 2021 Gaza war said Israel must do more than end the occupation of land Palestinians want for a state, according to a report released on Tuesday. Israel’s ministry of foreign affairs called the report “a waste of money and effort” that amounted […]

BREAKING NEWS - Gulf states, Arab League condemn Israeli extremists as they storm Al-Aqsa

The Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council condemned on Sunday the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque by extremists and a member of the Israeli Knesset under the protection of Israeli police. Dr. Nayef Falah Al-Hajraf’s condemnation comes as tens of thousands of flag-waving Israeli nationalists marched through the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday. […]

BREAKING NEWS - Israeli protect Jewish extremist entering Aqsa mosque

Israeli police entered a flashpoint holy site in Jerusalem to clear away Palestinian protesters on Thursday, after Jewish visits that had been paused for the Muslim holidays resumed. Recent weeks have seen several rounds of clashes at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the third holiest site for Muslims, which is built on a hilltop that is […]

Elections won't distract us from defending against Israel, says Nasrallah

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday announced that Lebanon’s upcoming parliamentary elections will not prevent his group from responding to any Israeli hostile act. “I tell the Zionists that their planned exercises do not scare us but we will be prepared,” Nasrallah said in a speech marking Quds Day, referring to Israeli military exercises […]

Israel to end blockawe of Gaza, temporarily

Israel said Monday it will reopen its border crossing with the Gaza Strip to Palestinian workers after closing it for several days following rocket attacks from the Palestinian enclave. COGAT, the Israeli military body coordinating civilian affairs in Gaza, said the opening of the Erez Crossing on Tuesday would be conditioned "on the maintenance of […]

Israeli journalists lambast Jewish extremists over Aqsa incursions

A leading Israeli journalist has launched a scathing attack on the Tel Aviv government for the manner in which police and soldiers brutalized civilians and journalists at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Haram Al-Sharif over the past week, and called for a probe into their actions. Nir Hasson, who covers Jerusalem and the Palestinian […]

Jordan king warns Israel assault on Aqsa mosque threat to peace

Jordan's King Abdullah said on Monday that Israel's "unilateral" moves against Muslim worshippers at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque seriously undermined the prospects for peace in the region, state media said. The monarch, who was speaking with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, blamed Israel for "provocative acts" in the mosque compound that violated "the legal and historic status […]

Jewish extremists poised to attack Al-Aqsa mosque

Palestinians returned to the Al-Aqsa compound on Saturday following Friday's violent clashes between worshippers and Israeli forces, but tension and anxiety remain as extremist Jewish groups threaten to storm the mosque on Sunday. Nabil Faydi, a political analyst from East Jerusalem, said Jerusalemites feared the temporal division of Al-Aqsa Mosque between Muslims and Jews as […]

152 Palestinians wounded in Aqsa incursion, experts fear escalation

One year after events in Jerusalem led to war in Gaza, clashes during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan are raising fears of renewed Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with leaders on both sides warning of possible escalation. At least 152 Palestinians were wounded when Israeli riot police entered the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Friday to disperse Palestinians […]

Israel punishes family of Palestinian fighter with demolition

Israeli police on Tuesday demolished the east Jerusalem home of a Palestinian militant who killed an Israeli man and wounded four others in a November shooting in Jerusalem’s Old City. Fadi Abu Shkhaidem shot Eliyahu Kay, a 26-year-old immigrant from South Africa, and wounded two police officers and two other bystanders in November’s incident near […]

Amnesty brands Israel apartheid state

A damning new report by Amnesty International has branded Israel an apartheid regime, accusing the country of committing crimes against humanity. And the organization has called for a full investigation into Israeli actions by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. The report, released on Tuesday, said: “Israeli authorities must be held accountable. “Massive […]

Palestinian PM says two-state solution only cure for apartheid

The Palestinian prime minister has warned Israel that its refusal to accept a two-state solution to the century-old conflict would perpetuate a system of "apartheid" and eventually result in a one-state reality in which Israel loses its Jewish character. The Israeli government sworn in last June consists of parties from across the political spectrum, including […]

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