Tag: Palestine

Israel mulls expanding settlement in east Jerusalem

JERUSALEM: Israeli authorities were set Sunday to discuss granting building permits that would create the largest Israeli settlement inside a Palestinian neighbourhood, a watchdog group...

I was born to become a rapper, says MC ‘Gaza’ Ghunaim

GAZA: Ibrahim Ghunaim, or MC Gaza as he likes to be called, raps to a different beat in an Islamist-ruled Palestinian enclave rocked by internal...

UN chief faces stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts in first visit

Guterres is likely to seek to push Israel and Palestinian leaders closer to renewed talks on their decades-old conflict during his three-day visit that ends Wednesday, but the interests of Israeli leaders lie elsewhere for now.

Palestinian teenager attempting to stab Israeli police, shot down

JERUSALEM: A Palestinian teenager attempted to stab Israeli police at an entrance to Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday before she was shot dead, Israeli authorities...

Palestinians demand action against Israel over settlements law

Senior Palestinian officials have called for the international community to punish Israel over a contentious new law that seeks to retroactively legalise thousands of...

Israel says will build 3,000 new homes in West Bank settlements

Israel announced plans on Tuesday for 3,000 more settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, the third such declaration in eleven days since U.S....

Palestinian president visiting Islamabad today

ISLAMABAD: Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, is due in the capital on Monday (Today) on a three-day visit. He will be accompanied by...

Palestinians welcome Paris summit statement: PLO

The Palestine Liberation Organisation welcomed the closing statement of Sunday’s Middle East peace conference “which stressed the need to end the Israeli occupation,” PLO...

Israelis called Trump to weigh in ahead of UN Security Council...

The Israeli government reached out to President-elect Donald Trump for help in pressuring the Obama administration to veto a UN Security Council resolution condemning...

Israel jails Palestinian minor for life for murder

An Israeli military court on Wednesday sentenced a Palestinian minor to life in prison for killing an Israeli woman, the army said. “The Judea military...

UNESCO’s Jerusalem resolution has angered Israel

UNESCO's executive board on Tuesday passed a resolution that Israel said denies the deep historic Jewish connection to holy sites in Jerusalem — and that has...

Israel slams UNESCO over ‘Occupied Jerusalem’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday blasted UNESCO for holding a vote Thursday on “Occupied Palestine” saying the Paris-based UN cultural body has...

Palestinians urge FIFA to act on settlement clubs

The Palestinian Football Association on Wednesday reiterated a call for FIFA to act against Israeli clubs based in settlements in the occupied West Bank,...

Israel risks FIFA ban over occupied land row

At an average match, Ariel City attracts fewer than 100 spectators at home in a West Bank settlement — yet they have been called...

I would recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital: Trump tells Netanyahu

US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Sunday told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that if elected, the United States would recognise Jerusalem as...

Palestinians’ Abbas seeks British apology for 1917 Jewish homeland declaration

Britain should apologise for its 1917 declaration endorsing the founding of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and should recognise Palestine as a state, Palestinian...

Israeli guards shoot unarmed Palestinian girl at checkpoint

Israeli guards shot and wounded an unarmed 13-year-old Palestinian girl on Wednesday after she did not stop at a checkpoint, officials said, the latest...