Just as negotiations between the Likud and the Blue and White coalitions seemed on the verge of success in forming a national unity government, acting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the talks had failed, sending the process back to (...)
Palestinian political analysts and observers say they believe Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is taking advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic and panic around the world to achieve several goals. Most notably, implementing more steps in the (...)
The Egyptian Ministry of Awqaf [Endowment ] decided to cancel an annual religious festival due to the coronavirus (Covid 20219) outbreak, amid fears of increasing the number of infected people.
Minister of Endowment Mohamed Mukhtar Gomaa announced (...)
Pope Francis' Holy Week and Easter services, which normally draw tens of thousands of people, will be held without the public attending because of the coronavirus outbreak, a step believed to be unprecedented in modern times.
It was not clear how (...)
Pope Francis ventured into a deserted Rome on Sunday to pray at two shrines for the end of the coronavirus pandemic, as the Vatican said his Easter services will be held without the public for the first time.
Francis left the Vatican unannounced to (...)
The Palestinian Authority suspended prayers in mosques and churches in the occupied West Bank on Saturday to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, and Gaza's Hamas rulers said all the enclave's border crossings would be shut for travel.
The (...)
On 7 March, the United States announced cancelling its plans to buy more Iron Dome missile defence batteries from Israel due to problems in terms of integrating them into the US army's air defence systems.
The American decision came in response to (...)
Israel just completed its third general election in less than a year. The first two votes in April and September 2019 ended in an impasse with no party able to form a governing coalition of 61 Knesset Members (ie a majority of the 120-member body). (...)
The streets of Bethlehem were near-empty on Friday as Palestinian police wearing masks patrolled the traditional birthplace of Jesus, hit hard by a state of emergency declared over coronavirus.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced the (...)
Fleeing the tyrant king, Herod I, the man who ordered the massacre of all newborns in Palestine at the time of the birth of Jesus Christ, the holy family came to Egypt, searching for refuge.
The entire hunt for the family started due to three (...)
Do not put your faith in either of the two main contenders in the Israeli elections (Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud coalition and Benny Gantz's Blue and White), Palestinian analysts caution Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories. Both are (...)
تمكن خبراء من فك شيفرة رسالة غامضة محفورة على سطح صخري في فرنسا من القرن الثامن عشر، وتبين أن النقش الموجود في خليج بالقرب من قرية "بلوغاستيل-دولاس"، يصف الموت المأساوي لبحار يدعى، سيرج، منذ أكثر من 230 عاما، بحسب موقع روسيا اليوم.
وأقام سكان القرية (...)
Egypt condemned on Wednesday the decision by the Israeli government to allow the construction of 3,500 new settlements in the Palestinian West Bank, the Egyptian foreign ministry said.
"This violates international law as represented in the (...)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he was moving forward with a plan to build some 3,500 homes for Jewish settlers on the outskirts of Jerusalem, a project that had been frozen after international criticism.
"I have given (...)
Israeli police shot and killed a man who tried to carry out a stabbing attack in the old city of Jerusalem on Saturday, a spokesman said.
The suspect was armed with a knife when he came at police officers, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. The (...)
A nine-year-old Palestinian boy who was shot in the face by Israeli police in a tense east Jerusalem neighborhood last week will not regain vision in his left eye despite surgery, a local community leader who is in touch with the family said (...)
Before sunrise, thousands of Palestinians streamed toward the mosque in Nablus's Victory Square, swelling the usual crowds of morning worshippers to launch a new front in their protests against Israel and the United States.
The scene has been (...)
The US Middle East peace plan invites us to look back and try to learn the lessons of the 120 years of the Arab-Israeli conflict since Herzl first came up with his concept of a “Jewish state”. The Trump deal is hardly the first attempt to resolve (...)
The situation economically has become intense in the occupied Palestinian Territories. This week, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights revealed a list of 112 companies that are involved in building settlements in the occupied West (...)
Israel's prime minister on Sunday hailed what he called efforts by friendly states to stop the International Criminal Court opening an investigation into alleged war crimes against Palestinians.
The court's chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said in (...)
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday said he is "outraged'' by the U.N.'s publication of a list of companies accused of violating Palestinian human rights by operating in Israel's West Bank settlements.
In a statement, Pompeo said the (...)
The so-called “Deal of the Century” will threaten international peace and stability and spread the law of the jungle if urgent steps are not taken to stop the Trump administration from forcing it on the Palestinians, warn Palestinian observers and (...)
In January, the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz ran an article, “Secret Israeli Document Reveals Plan to Keep Arabs off their Lands.” I found the piece unsettling for several reasons.
Given the headline, at first I thought the story was going to be (...)
People may still recall the huge crowds receiving late Egyptian president Gamal Abdel-Nasser in Khartoum, Sudan, in wake of the earthquake that rocked the very foundations of the Middle East and still: the 1967 Six-Day War. At that time, the (...)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, appearing before the United Nations Security Council, angrily rejected US President Donald Trump's Middle East peace proposal on Tuesday as a gift to Israel and unacceptable to Palestinians.
Waving a copy of a (...)
