Ultraorthodox Jewish men are disrupting El Al flights, causing the carrier to be criticised for allowing it.
The annual global trends report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) paints a very bleak picture.
Three weeks later, Gaza City has almost returned to what passes for normal in this overcrowded, impoverished and war-ravaged strip of land.
Despite its prosaic name, E1 has the potential to kill off hopes for a viable Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, say opponents.
In Gaza, the emergence of militant organisations beyond the control of the ruling Hamas make the consequences of Israel’s operation unpredictable.
Israel’s continuing developments on the West Bank imperil Obama’s model for peace in the Middle East.
The Zata’ari refugee camp, opened by the Jordanian government to house 500 people, has swollen to a population of more than 26 000.
An aide to Mitt Romney says the US presidential candidate is wooing Israeli support by promising to back any attack on Iran by Israel.
A former member of the Palestinian national football team remains on hunger strike over his imprisonment by Israel without charge, or trial.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has stoked a volatile debate about refugees and migrant workers from Africa.
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu has sparked furious debate over refugees and migrant workers from Africa, claiming they threaten the nation’s security.
Governments of both Egypt and Israel have been trying to prevent a political crisis since Egypt cancelled a contract to supply Israel with gas.
Israel says an EU embargo on Iranian oil and additional sanctions — due to take effect from July — should begin now.
A house in the occupied territory has becoming yet another source of dispute in this conflicted area between Israel and Palestine.
Hamas will not do Iran’s bidding in any war with Israel, according to senior figures within the militant Islamic group.
Farra will be one of a four-strong Palestinian team eligible to compete in the Olympics under rules that exempt developing nations from qualifying.
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/ 27 January 2012
An Israeli military court has ordered the speaker of the Palestinian legislative body to be jailed for six months without trial.
Khaled Meshaal, the political leader of the Palestinian Islamist party Hamas, is expected to retire at upcoming leadership elections.
Israel’s president says the country’s ultra-orthodox minority is threatening national values, following attacks on "immodestly dressed" schoolgirls.
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/ 9 December 2011
About 20 Bedouin communities between Jerusalem and Jericho are to be forcibly relocated from the land on which they have lived for 60 years.
The relocation of 2 300 people in the West Bank to site a near Jerusalem rubbish dump would make contiguous Palestinian state impossible.
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/ 29 November 2011
Palestine says if Israel continues to withhold $100-million in tax revenues from it’s people, about 153 000 public sector workers will not be paid.
The US cut off funds to the Unesco as a punitive action after the Palestinian Authority was accepted into the United Nations agency as a full member.
Israel is to expedite settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in a punitive response to the Palestinians’ successful bid to join Unesco.
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/ 11 September 2011
Israel is facing its worst crisis with Egypt for 30 years after being forced to airlift diplomats and their families to safety.
Though there is no sign of Gaddafi, the invasion of his compound is hugely symbolic.
The two men, one a Palestinian, the other an Israeli Jew square up, the muscles in their faces clenched as they prepare to hit each other.
In the golden light of a spring evening, Yacoub Odeh climbs through knee-high grass to the ruin that was his childhood home.
Britain will lift its ban on members of the Libyan regime entering the UK if they renounce their loyalty to Muammar Gaddafi.
British author Ian McEwan launched an eloquently powerful attack on Israeli policies in his speech accepting the Jerusalem prize for literature.
The red carpet had seen better days. But this was Jenin, a long way from Tinseltown.
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/ 1 December 2010
Israel has approved a £15-million five-year plan to develop the area around the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site.