Israel and Palestine

Qatari official: War in Gaza was the ‘nucleus’ for Iran’s attacks on the Gulf, pushes for deal

Qatari Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Majed al-Ansari argued the conflict could only be resolved through a deal. Ansari claimed sanctions hadn't "yielded the results that have been expected."

Qatar's PM and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani visits Egypt
Chief Justice Esther Hayut and fellow Israeli Supreme Court judges at the High Court in Jerusalem

Court orders return for Jalud Palestinian families home after extremist settlers drove them out

A Palestinian house after an incident with Israeli settlers in Bruqin village near Salfit, in the West Bank last month.

How being pro-Palestinian has changed - opinion

Palestinian and Israeli flags overlook the Dome of the Rock and the Western Wall. A shared song on a Jerusalem street can offer a rare moment of connection in a city where identity and politics so often shape encounters between strangers. PremiumPremium

Singing together across the divide: What a Jerusalem chorus taught me - comment


Supreme Court orders government to permit Gazan women treatment in Israel

"Using a patient in desperate need of life-saving medical treatment as a 'pressure lever' is not compatible with the values of the State of Israel."

Israeli Supreme Court

Five times SodaStream bubbled over in the headlines

“The Israeli government did the moral and honorable thing to grant work permits to our employees, who can now provide for their families and also prove that coexistence is possible.”

Sodastream plant, August 8, 2018.

Palestinian analyst: Israel telling Hamas senior leaders are targets

Dr. Adnan Abu Amer, an analyst for Israeli matters in Gaza, claimed that the attack against a Hamas post with senior Hamas officials present at the time “is a message that Israel has the upper hand.”

The sun sets over the Gaza Strip, as seen from the Israeli side of the border May 15, 2018

Palestinians launch campaign to foil 'Pay-for-Slay' bill

Kadoura Fares, a senior Fatah official and head of Palestinian Prisoners Club, said that the Israeli bill was aimed at “undermining the Palestinians’ spirit of resistance."

A Palestinian prisoner, convicted of security offences against Israel, looks out of his cell at Nitzan jail

PA minister: Khan al-Ahmar school will defeat the occupation

“Today we say to the world that this school is like Palestine and the Palestinian revolution,” PA Education Minister Sabri Saidam said at the opening ceremony for the school.

Palestinian children attend class at school that began in 2018 in Khan al-Ahmar that will be demolished in the West Bank

IfNotNow gatecrash new Birthright group, go on east Jerusalem tour

IfNotNow participants state that they knew they could not go to east Jerusalem with Birthright, so were leaving the group to do so.

Diaspora youngsters enjoy a Birthright Israel trip to the Jewish state.

A last chance for Mr. Abbas

According to the Defense Ministry, the PA in 2017 paid $198 million to the so-called “martyrs’ families fund” and an additional $160m. to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club.

A Palestinian demonstrator protesting on ‘Nakba Day'

EU: The PA did not refuse to cooperate with us

According to Yesh Atid MK Elazar Stern, the PA is not cooperating with the Europeans, and PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah refused to give an accounting to the EU of the use of the EU funds to the PA

PA Prime Minister Fayyad with EU Catherine Ashton 311 (R)

25 years of Oslo failure slammed at Knesset conference

“Twenty-five years ago, the Palestinians were in a terrific situation. Israelis and Palestinians worked together in Hebron. How many people have been killed since 1993? We haven’t achieved anything.”

A gaping hole is left in the shop front of the Sbarro pizzeria after a suicide bombing, August 9, 2001

BBC finds comment on Israel and Gaza was 'misleading'

After complaint from British journalist, BBC promises to issue correction about 'lots of Palestinian kids being killed'

BBC's Andrew Marr Show, during the Conservative Party Conference, in Manchester, Britain, October 1, 2017.