Palestinian Territories News

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy's state visit to Israel on June 22-24 was striking for the candour with which he addressed his hosts.

There aren't many people who would build a replica of La Rotonda, Antonio Palladio's 16th century high Renaissance architectural masterpiece, on top of a mountain overlooking the troubled and impoverished West ...

Israel must reconsider its truce with the Palestinians in the wake of rocket fire breaching the cease-fire in Gaza, an Israeli official said Friday.

Hamas, which for more than 20 years has been the Palestinian militant movement that most fervently rejected peace with Israel, today finds itself in the odd position of being the group trying to get its comrades in arms to hold their fire against the Jewish state.

But the week-old truce - agreed upon between Israel and Hamas and contingent on Gaza's disparate armed factions keeping their guns quiet - looked closer to crumbling Thursday after militants again fired rockets into southern Israel. The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade struck Thursday two days after an attack by another group, Islamic Jihad.

I love Adam Sandler. From Billy Madison to Happy Gilmore to the Chanukah Song , the predecessor of the Superbad generation has effortlessly conquered the domain of slapstick comedy and inappropriate jokes.

Egypt made no pledges to the Israelis that it would link the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit held by Palestinian militants and the opening of the Rafah crossing on its border with the Gaza Strip, an ...

At least 21 Palestinians injured on Thursday by Israeli rubber shots fired by Israeli soldiers during a Palestinian protest against building a separation wall in the West Bank, witnesses said.

Is French President Nicolas Sarkozy able to trigger a revolutionary change in local geopolitics or will he join the line of dignitaries who failed to leave an imprint on Israeli-Arab relations? Freddy Eytan, ...

The poll, conducted in 19 countries, found that a majority of respondents in Spain, Britain, France, Mexico, China, the Palestinian territories, Poland, Indonesia and Ukraine, backed a total prohibition on ...

Palestinian National Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will visit the Czech Republic for the first time in history to discuss the situation in the Middle East, the Government Office said on Tuesday.

BERLIN - Countries at an international conference yesterday agreed to commit $242 million to strengthen the Palestinian Authority's police and judicial systems, sending what Germany 's foreign minister called a ...

Elsevier announced today Reproductive Health Matters ' May 2008 issue on the theme of "Conflict and Crisis Settings: Promoting Sexual and Reproductive rights". Under conditions of global economic and ecological ...

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert averted a split in Israel's restive coalition on Wednesday by striking a deal with his biggest partner, the Labour party, that stopped it backing a bill to dissolve parliament.

In preparation for possible dialogue, rival Palestinian factions of Hamas and Fatah handed out lists of their prisoners to a leftist faction to get them freed, an official from the faction said on Tuesday.

The brand-new soccer field and swimming pool in this farm collective abutting the Gaza Strip stand empty.

A federal appeals court has agreed to an unusual hearing by all its active judges in a major court battle over the murder of an American teen by members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Monday he hopes a Palestinian security conference taking place in Berlin on Tuesday will a send a positive signal to the region.

The head of Hamas, the group controlling Gaza, denies that it gets military assistance from Iran.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday urged a renewed focus on Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts with time running down on the Bush administration's goal of reaching an agreement this year.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday opened his first presidential visit to Israel, promising Europe's support for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and saying a deal ending the conflict could be reached ...