Tag: Palestinians

Homeless Gazans struggle during harsh winter

Azza al-Najjar struggles in vain to keep her two-year-old warm by wrapping him in blankets in her prefabricated metal home as a winter storm...

Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in Gaza stone-throwing clash

Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians in a stone-throwing clash near the Gaza border on Friday, a Palestinian medical official said. An Israeli military...

Iran to defend Palestinians ‘in every possible way’, vows Khamenei

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that Iran would support the Palestinian uprising against Israel “in any way we can”, and...

Abbas calls for ‘international protection regime’ for Palestinians

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas called Wednesday for the creation of a “special regime” for the protection of his people, as a wave of deadly...

Palestinians set fire to Jewish shrine; Israeli soldier stabbed

Mob sets ablaze parts of tomb of the biblical patriarch Joseph in Nablus Palestinians set fire to a Jewish shrine in the occupied West Bank...

Israeli troops kill 5 Palestinians, unrest spreads to Gaza

Fresh wave of stabbings hits Israel and West Bank, including a revenge attack by a Jewish suspect that wounded two Palestinians and two Arab...

Netanyahu calls for resumption of talks with Palestinians

Israel’s prime minister went to the United Nations on Thursday to call for an immediate resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians and to...

Abbas says Palestinians no longer bound by pacts with Israel

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared before world leaders Wednesday that he is no longer bound by agreements signed with Israel, and called on the...

Israeli defence minister sees no peace with Palestinians in his lifetime

Israel’s defence minister said on Tuesday that he did not believe a stable peace agreement could be reached with the Palestinians in his lifetime....

Obama ‘committed’ to two-state solution for Israel, Palestinians

US President Barack Obama is “committed” to a two-state solution for Israel and Palestinians, Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday on the stalled...

Palestinians want role in probing ‘terrorist’ killings of Chapel Hill Muslims

The Palestinian government on Saturday condemned as “terrorism” the killings of three young Palestinian-Americans in North Carolina and called on US authorities to include...

BBC reporter draws ire for saying ‘Palestinians suffer hugely at Jewish...

Tim Willcox, a BBC reporter, sparked anger during his coverage of a rally yesterday in Paris when he told the daughter of a Holocaust...

Israel mulls war crimes lawsuits against top Palestinians

Israel is looking at ways to prosecute senior Palestinians for war crimes in the United States and elsewhere in response to Palestinian steps to...

Palestinians set deadline for Israeli occupation

Israel suffered back-to-back diplomatic setbacks in Europe on Wednesday, while the Palestinians at the United Nations set a deadline for an Israeli withdrawal from...

Tired of talks and under pressure, Palestinians turn to UN

With peace talks exhausted, pressure building on the streets and increasing international support, the Palestinians are hoping the time has finally come for a...

JuD holds rally in support of Palestinians

Hafiz Saeed asks Imran and Qadri to include peace in Palestine in their charter of demand Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) Amir Hafiz Muhammad Saeed has called upon...

72-hour Gaza truce goes into effect

Hopes of an end to the bloodshed rose early Friday after US Secretary of State John Kerry announced that Israel and Hamas had agreed a three-day ceasefire