Israeli authorities on on Tuesday added Muhammad Abu Khdeir, a Jerusalem teenager burned to death by Israeli extremists last summer, to a list of terror victims located in Mount Herzel, West Jerusalem. Israel marked Memorial Day on Tuesday to honor soldiers and civilians killed since the founding of the state[…]
The hopes of a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine question are “dead”, with virtually nothing left for a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. This is according to Palestinian politician, Awad Abdel Fattah who has called for a rethink to the possibility of a single-state instead. Abdel[…]
Israel has agreed to transfer in full hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes collected for the Palestinian Authority but frozen in a row over the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Palestinian president said. Mahmoud Abbas said that “There is an agreement; the money will be sent in full.” Israeli[…]
South Africans with a keen interest in Israeli politics will be able to gain more insight with the arrival of Palestinian politician Awad Abdel Fattah and his wife Husein Fathiya, an activist. Awad Abdel Fattah is the secretary general of the National Democratic Alliance, a political party with three seats[…]
The Palestinian Higher National Committee has lashed out against the “arbitrary decision” by Israeli military courts on Sunday to sentence Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) member Khalida Jarrar to six months’ administrative detention. In a statement released Tuesday, the PLO committee tasked with following developments at the International Criminal Court said[…]
The Palestinian Authority is providing new documents to the International Criminal Court to speed up a preliminary probe into possible Israeli war crimes, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Riyad al-Malki said Monday.The probe, which was opened on Jan. 16 by ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, is not a full investigation but[…]
Israeli police imposed restrictions on Palestinian worshipers entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Monday, one day after three Palestinians were banned from the compound for periods of up to 45 days. Witnesses told Ma’an that Israeli police briefly closed most of the compound’s entrances on Monday, leaving only the Chain,[…]
US President Barack Obama on Monday said it would be a “fundamental misjudgment” to demand Iran recognise Israel as part of a nascent nuclear deal. In a drive to sell the deal to a hostile Congress, Obama told US radio network NPR that demands for Iran to recognise Israel go[…]
Israel’s security cabinet is united in its opposition to the framework deal reached between world powers and Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement issued following a special meeting. Local media reported that Netanyahu had called a meeting of his security cabinet, including ministers, as well as[…]
Palestinian Christians said they would not tolerate a repetition of the Israeli restrictions to and violence which have in past years marred Holy Week festivities – culminating on Easter Sunday – and have vowed to pursue ‘other means’ if no marked changes are made. Speaking to journalists on Tuesday, community[…]
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