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.
After embracing Islam, Karen Jayes visits the West Bank to explore her new faith.
Wonder has cited the situation in the Middle East and his antiwar stance for withdrawing from the Friends of the Israel Defence Force’s benefit gig.
Despite international protest, Israel is going ahead with settlement plans to build 3 000 homes in a critical area of the West Bank.
Israel plans to build thousands of new homes for its settlers in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, defying a UN vote.
A bid for United Nations recognition of a state of Palestine is a last-ditch attempt to rescue troubled Middle East peace efforts.
The body of Palestine’s late leader Yasser Arafat has been exhumed by a team of international experts trying to discover if he was poisoned.
The Nkandla fire rages on, the battle in the Gaza Strip flares up and the new Bond film is set to hit cinemas with a bang. Stay in the know, watch Weekend 101.
Hamas’s charter includes the aspiration that "the day of judgment will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews [killing the Jews]".
An explosion has hit a public bus in the heart of Tel Aviv, wounding at least 10 people, says Israel’s ambulance service.
The United States has blocked a UN Security Council statement condemning the escalating conflict between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
US President Barack Obama on Sunday said it was "preferable" for the Gaza crisis to be ended without a "ramping up" of Israeli military action.
An Iranian lawmaker has denied his country had supplied Palestinian Islamist militants with missiles capable of hitting Israel’s commercial centre.
Israeli strikes in Gaza have pushed the death toll to 40 as the US claims militant rocket fire is a ‘precipitating factor’ in the conflict.
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu has called US President Barack Obama and the two discussed options for "de-escalating" the situation in Israel and Gaza.
Recent attacks on the Jewish National Fund can only be seen as part of the decades-long struggle to exclude Jews from the Middle East.
Israel was condemned on Thursday by much of the Arab world while securing Western backing and pressing its biggest air assault on Gaza for years.
Israel has killed the military commander of Hamas in an airstrike on the Gaza Strip, bringing the two sides to the brink of a possible new war.
Israel has announced it is considering resuming its contentious practice of assassinating militant leaders in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
The removal of a billboard graphically explaining the expanding Israeli occupation of Palestinian land looks set to culminate in a legal battle.
With the sponsorship of a SA organisation, the Bedouin villages of Umm al-Hiran and Al-Arakib in Israel will soon be wiped off the map.
Israelis like the idea of democracy, but openly advocate discrimination against Arab citizens. How can people embrace a word synonymous with evil?
Israel’s continuing developments on the West Bank imperil Obama’s model for peace in the Middle East.
Two-thirds of Israel’s Jews say Palestinians should not be allowed to vote if the West Bank was annexed, while three in four favour segregated roads.
The Israeli navy have boarded and diverted a boat carrying pro-Palestinian activists seeking to breach Israel’s naval blockade on the Gaza Strip.
There has been a mixed response to the controversial billboard campaign that graphically explains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.
Mitt Romney’s battered presidential bid has been hit by a secretly recorded video in which he sets out views on the Israel-Palestine issue.
Shaun de Waal reviews two documentaries about Israel-Palestine, both showing at the TriContinental Film Festival.
Israel has lambasted SA for requiring Israeli goods made by West Bank settlers to be labelled as originating from occupied Palestinian territory.
Egypt’s army has massed troops and carried out arrests to quell deadly militants in the Sinai Peninsula close to the borders with Gaza and Israel.
Palestinians have accused US presidential candidate Mitt Romney of undermining peace prospects by calling Jerusalem "the capital of Israel".