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Its brokers have earned their Nobel peace prize acclaim, but the truce in Tunisia is a brittle and fragile thing.
Elvis Costello has cancelled two concerts he was scheduled to play in Israel in protest against its treatment of Palestinians.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu tried to smooth over a breach in relations with the United States.
The Palestinians pulled out of peace talks on Wednesday as a protest at Israel’s approval for new homes in a Jewish settlement in east Jerusalem.
Egyptian security forces clashed with a pro-Palestinian convoy led by George Galloway, a British member of parliament.
European Union foreign ministers agree to drop their call in a draft document for East Jerusalem to be the capital of a future Palestinian state.
Palestinian authorities have begun a rare military trial of security officers accused of torturing a Hamas suspect to death.
The United Nations investigation of the January war in Gaza is the most damning indictment yet of Israel’s policies towards the Palestinians.
Rory McCarthy looks at the man who is set to become Israel’s foreign affairs minister.
In May the US state department told seven Fulbright scholars from Gaza their scholarships were cancelled.
One of Tzipi Livni’s greatest challenges will be to restore some integrity to the tainted Israeli political system, writes Rory McCarthy.
Controversial plans for the first new settlement to be built in the occupied West Bank in almost a decade have been revived by Israel.
Israeli police say they suspect the Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, of ”serious fraud” after questioning him for a third time on Friday.
Former Palestinian collaborators forge a new life in Israel. Rory McCarthy reports from Sderot.
Israel carried out a large-scale military exercise earlier this month as a warning to Iran, Pentagon sources confirmed on Friday.
Desmond Tutu stepped out of his armoured 4×4 and walked up to the Athamna family house in Beit Hanoun last week. Then the retired archbishop stopped and bowed his head in prayer…
The United Nations was forced to halt food handouts for up to 800 000 Palestinians last week because of a severe fuel shortage in Gaza brought on by an Israeli economic blockade.…
In the end it came down to a single-page letter, written in Hebrew and Arabic and hand-delivered by an Israeli army officer who knocked at the front door. The letter spelt the…
A Palestinian journalist who died in Gaza on Wednesday was killed by metal darts from a shell fired by an Israeli tank, doctors said on Thursday. Thousands gathered for the…
Officially Twayil Abu Jarwal, a village on the land where the Talalqah clan has lived for generations, does not exist. It is ”unrecognised” in the terminology that shapes the…
