The most interesting thing about the World Economic Forum, held in Jordan Sunday, was the tweets Israeli journalists accompanying Israeli President Shimon Peres wrote. Those tweets poked fun at the initiative US Secretary of State John Kerry (...)
Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon stays in his office on the fourth floor of the Defence Ministry building in the heart of Tel Aviv until the wee hours every day; there's a lot to do. He is directly responsible for implementing the decision by (...)
While four occupation soldiers sweated profusely as they guarded the site, a group of Jewish settlers secured a mobile home in place on one of the hills south of Nablus in the north of the West Bank, to start a new settlement on land belonging to (...)
Ghazi Hamad, undersecretary for foreign affairs in the Gaza government and a leading Hamas member, could not believe his ears when he heard Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had started consultations to form a national consensus government without (...)
Every day Youssef Talaya, 51, leaves his home in the Berket Al-Wez district west of the Al-Maghazi Refugee Camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip and heads to Salaheddin Street some 200 metres from his home. He waits for a taxi to take him to work in (...)
Hassan Ouda, 19, a Gaza city resident, was very happy to hear the Israeli occupation has agreed to issue a permit for him to go to the West Bank to visit his relatives there. But Ouda realised when he approached the Erez Border Crossing connecting (...)
It was an awkward moment for the political leaderships in Cairo and Doha. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had given the impression that he was in favour of the resolution adopted in the last Arab Summit in Doha calling for a mini-summit in Cairo (...)
The head of the Hamas Political Bureau Khaled Mashaal has succumbed to pressure and withdrawn his plans to resign from the group's leadership, and as a result there are now fewer pressures to hold a meeting of the group's general council.
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Luxurious villas with red tile roofs dot the countryside surrounded by plush greenery and breath-taking natural beauty while traffic moves calmly in the morning as if all is well and normal. It is not. This romantic scene is from the settlement of (...)
The representative of the centrist Israeli Yesh Atid Party, which came second after the Likud Party in recent parliamentary elections, was surprised when Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu insisted on changing the topic of discussion with (...)
Ghazi Hamad, undersecretary of the Foreign Ministry of the Gaza government, lately has plenty of time to participate in political and cultural events sponsored by his ministry. Hamad now can afford to attend meetings with foreign delegations (...)
Professor Yehezkel Dror has not missed an opportunity in recent days to advise Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to take advantage of the upcoming visit by US President Barack Obama to Israel to improve Israel's strategic environment. And (...)
Nahla Ouda, 42, was annoyed that her neighbour, Tahani, knocked on her door early on Saturday morning. Although they visit each other often, it was obvious to Nahla this time that Tahani was coming in unusual circumstances; indeed, as soon as Nahla (...)
This is the phrase Israeli writer Gideon Levi used Sunday in Haaretz to describe a contradiction at the heart of Israeli policy on Syria as the country teeters on the edge of collapse, and amid Israeli air strikes that could accelerate the fall of (...)
Shaul Cohen, member of the Central Committee of the ruling Likud Party, was furious when he saw Yair and Avner, the sons of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, arriving with their father to the auditorium where Netanyahu would give an address (...)
In the darkest of nights, Hazem, 19, walks quickly through the labyrinth of orange groves, his head and face covered. He is carrying a Kalashnikov, and he is on his way to the beach east of the Al-Nosayrat Refugee Camp in the centre of the Gaza (...)
Yaakov Ahmir, a leading talk show host on Israeli Channel 1, could not believe his ears when Republican Senator Rand Paul was talking to him and other Israeli reporters at a hotel in occupied Jerusalem at the end of last week. Paul, visiting Israel (...)
Israeli Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz was conspicuously rattled as he answered questions posed by Ayala Hasson, the presenter of the news programme Yoman, broadcast on Friday evening on Israeli television's Channel 1. The topic was how the (...)
Over the past few months, political correspondents in the Israeli media were surprised that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was absent at a number of official engagements he was scheduled to attend. His office always said that he cancelled (...)
The offices of the Palestinian General Intelligence in Cairo are receiving an unusually high volume of phone calls, mostly from Fatah or Hamas senior officials wanting help from Egyptian Intelligence, which is mediating disputes between the two (...)
Journalists were relieved to find a foothold on top of the residential building that overlooks Green Square, in South Al-Rimal district in southern Gaza City, where Hamas held a celebration marking its 25th anniversary Saturday. Atop this building (...)
Hassan could not believe he was reunited with his family. Five years of exile ended this week when he returned to his family home in Gaza City after a boost in relations between Fatah and Hamas. Hassan returned to his family as one of 20 Fatah (...)
Ghassan Abu Semha, 49, was surprised when he found large amounts of fresh fish for sale at the local market in Al-Maghazi Refugee Camp in central Gaza Sunday. For years there was never this much fish on sale. Before buying his stock of fish, he (...)
Mohamed Kamel, 48, urged his wife and children to go to bed early in order to get up at dawn. It was time for the family to head out to their olive plantation near the village of Karyut south of Nablus in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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Five-year-old Youssef Al-Dalu was playing in his parents' bedroom Sunday on the third floor in a building where his extended family lived in Al-Nasr district in northern Gaza City. His parents and six siblings were watching the news about Israeli (...)