Tag: Palestine

JERUSALEM: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday offered an apology after he was accused of anti-Semitism for suggesting that historic persecution of European Jews...

CANNES: The Palestinian flag will be raised next week at the Cannes film festival, which will host their first ever national pavilion. Film-makers said the...

GAZA: Gaza’s ruling Hamas group blamed Palestinian Authority officials on Saturday for the attempted assassination in the enclave of Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah...

GAZA: Israeli troops shot dead three protesters along the Gaza border on Friday, Gaza medics said, hours after the United Nations human rights chief...

JERUSALEM: An Israeli former paramilitary policeman was jailed for nine months on Wednesday for killing a teenage Palestinian protester in 2014, prompting protests from...

LOS ANGELES: Hollywood actress Natalie Portman has snubbed a prestigious prize known as the “Jewish Nobel,” saying she did not want her attendance to...

BEIRUT: Waving Palestinian flags and wearing T-shirts proclaiming Jerusalem to be “the eternal capital of Palestine,” thousands of Israel’s Arab minority turned out on...

NEW YORK: Diplomats at UNESCO are hailing a possible breakthrough on longstanding Israeli-Arab tensions at the UN cultural agency. Israel's ambassador to UNESCO said the...

JERUSALEM: The Israeli military said on Monday that it was investigating a video that appears to show an Israeli army sniper shooting a motionless...

TEL AVIV: Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Sunday there were “no innocent people” in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip after days of protests and...

GAZA BORDER: Israeli forces shot and wounded at least 40 Palestinian protesters on Friday, Palestinian medics said, as thousands converged on Gaza’s border with...

GAZA: A Palestinian was killed by an Israeli air strike on the Gaza border early Thursday, the health ministry in the Palestinian enclave said,...

Dastgir offers to share Pakistan’s extensive counterterrorism experience with partners MOSCOW: Minister for Defence Khurram Dastgir has said that the international community should play its...

  Saudi King Salman reaffirmed support for Palestinians to US President Donald Trump, state media said Tuesday, after his son and heir apparent said Israel...

PARIS: France urged Israel on Sunday to show restraint following its military response to Palestinian demonstrations on the Gaza-Israel border that killed at least...

JERUSALEM: Israel’s defence minister rejected on Sunday calls for an inquiry into the killing of 15 Palestinians by the military during a Palestinian demonstration...

  The Palestinian president's spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudeineh on Thursday rejected statements by the US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, in which he called for...