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/ 8 December 2010
Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians appeared to have collapsed on Wednesday after Washington admitted its attempts have failed.
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/ 24 November 2010
The path to Middle East peace, already strewn with an array of daunting obstacles, has now got one more hurdle to overcome.
A senior Israeli intelligence official has warned of the dangers of renewed attacks on Israel by Hamas militants based in the West Bank.
For many, many years Christians have, on the whole, accepted the Israeli state narrative on Israel and Palestine.
World powers on Tuesday criticised Israel’s decision to build 1 300 new settler homes in east Jerusalem.
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/ 15 October 2010
At least 10 Palestinian children have been shot and wounded by Israeli troops in the past three months.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told Arab powers he may seek US recognition for a Palestinian state taking in all of the West Bank.
Direct talks with Israel will not resume unless it halts the building of Jewish settlements on occupied land, the Palestinian leadership said.
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/ 30 September 2010
US envoy George Mitchell stepped up the pace of efforts to save Middle East peace talks launched four weeks ago.
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/ 3 September 2010
Militant groups in the Gaza Strip said on Thursday they had joined forces to step up attacks against Israel, possibly including suicide bombings.
President Barack Obama steps into Middle East peace efforts on Wednesday in a bold bid to relaunch direct Palestinian-Israeli negotiations.
Israeli and Palestinian leaders head to the US this week to relaunch direct peace talks, but with neither side expecting a long-elusive breakthrough.
Israel and the Palestinians were waiting on Friday to study the wording of a US statement inviting them to start direct talks on a peace treaty.
Israeli shellfire killed a Palestinian militant and wounded another in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, Palestinian medical officials said.
Israel carried out air strikes on targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday after a rocket fired from the Palestinian territory exploded in Ashkelon.
Israel must lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip and invite an independent, fact-finding mission to investigate its raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.
The world worked together to help bring apartheid to an end, writes <b>Kader Asmal</b>. So why allow it to live on in Israel/Palestine?
Israeli defence minister warns that go-ahead
for Jerusalem park could prejudice peace talks.
Israeli planes and helicopters mounted at least seven missile attacks on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Friday.
Israeli troops and tanks left the Gaza Strip on Saturday, witnesses said, ending an incursion into the Hamas-ruled enclave.
Gaza’s Hamas rulers have suffered back-to-back setbacks with Israel’s successful test of a rocket shield and Egypt’s push to block smuggling tunnels.
Egyptian forces shot and wounded at least two Palestinians on Wednesday during a violent protest on the Egypt-Gaza border.
South African NGOs hope to invoke ICC law to prosecute individuals with links to alleged war crimes in Gaza.
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/ 1 February 2009
Gaza’s 1,5-million people are facing a food crisis as a result of the destruction of great areas of farmland during the Israeli invasion.
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/ 26 January 2009
Hamas officials stepped in on Sunday to offer cash handouts worth a total of $52-million to Gazans who had lost family members, homes or businesses.
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/ 21 January 2009
How many more Palestinians have to die before their suffering becomes a cause célèbre?
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/ 25 October 2008
More than 500 Palestinian security reinforcements deployed in the southern West Bank town of Hebron on Saturday.
Poet Mahmoud Darwish united the fractured and fragmented Palestinian people, writes Uri Avnery.