Tag: Palestine

South Africa’s foreign minister, Naledi Pandor, said the country’s citizens fighting for the Israel Defence Forces in Gaza faced prosecution upon their return. This...

South Africa’s decision to take Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on charges of genocide has elicited polarised global responses. Critics accuse...

Israel’s response to the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023 has crossed the line and breaches the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of...

It only took a matter of days for the Somali terror group al-Shabaab to congratulate Hamas for its deadly October 7 attack on Israel. Al-Shabaab,...

A senior South African Parliamentary official wants “no effort spared” to rid the world of conflict with a Cabinet Minister calling for a “transparent...

The Palestinian Authority urged Sudan's government on Saturday to hand over assets it has seized as part of a crackdown targeting Sudan-based operations to...

President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa is committed to being part of international efforts aimed at reviving a political process that will lead to...

Department of International Relations and Co-operation (DIRCO) Minister Dr Naledi Pandor again expressed solidarity with the people of Palestine and Western Sahara in their...

Iran will support Palestinian armed groups as much as it can, Iran’s Supreme Leader said, urging Palestinians to confront a US plan for Israeli-Palestinian...

US President Donald Trump proposed creating a Palestinian state as part of a Middle East peace plan, drawing Palestinian condemnation for strict conditions and...

Egyptian naval forces fired on a Palestinian fishing boat allegedly killing a fisherman, Gaza's interior ministry said with an Egyptian military source...

Jordan said on Saturday it regretted a U.S. decision to halt funding to a United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, saying it...

The United States is cutting more than $200 million (£155.7 million) in aid to the Palestinians, the State Department said on Friday,...

A Palestinian taking part in a border protests was killed on Friday, Gazan medical officials said, bringing to 136 the number killed...

Palestinians are sending kites dangling coal embers or burning rags across the Gaza border to set fire to farmland and forests, in...

Palestinians rallied in Gaza on Tuesday for the funerals of scores of people killed by Israeli troops a day earlier, while on...

Israel said on Wednesday it had cracked a Palestinian militant cell suspected of having been recruited and handled by Iranian intelligence officers...

A Hamas security man and a member of a rival Islamist militant group were killed on Thursday in a confrontation in the...

Using photos of young women and Hebrew slang, the Palestinian militant group Hamas chatted up dozens of Israeli soldiers online, gaining control...

A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is more remote than ever, with the risk of generations of violence and radicalism unless...

An Eritrean migrant, shot by a security guard and kicked by an angry Israeli crowd that mistook him for a gunman, was...

Islamic State fighters have largely withdrawn from a Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus after expelling their main rival, several...

Islamic State fighters seized most of a vast camp for Palestinian refugees on the outskirts of Damascus from other insurgents on Wednesday...

In a statement read by a masked gunman, 10 armed Palestinian factions jointly condemned on Thursday an Egyptian decision to list the...

An Egyptian court on Saturday banned the armed wing of the Palestinian group Hamas and listed it as a terrorist organisation. The ruling...

The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas said on Saturday it welcomed a decision by the International Criminal Court to launch an inquiry into...

For someone nearing 80, President Mahmoud Abbas still knows how to shake things up. But his decision last week to join the...

Israel has decided to freeze a monthly revenue transfer to the Palestinians in response to President Mahmoud Abbas's approach to the International...

Egyptian border troops shot dead a Palestinian youth as he tried to cross illegally from the Gaza Strip on Friday, Palestinian and...

The Swedish government officially recognised the state of Palestine on Thursday, the first Western European country to do so, reflecting growing international...

A senior Palestinian official said on Thursday that European moves toward recognising an independent Palestine would bring them in line with global...

A week after the guns fell silent in the Gaza war, Israel and the Palestinians seem to have little appetite or incentive...

An open-ended ceasefire in the Gaza war held on Wednesday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced strong criticism in Israel over a...

A ceasefire in the Gaza Strip collapsed on Tuesday, with Palestinian militants firing dozens of rockets at Israel and Israel launching air...

The chief Palestinian delegate to truce talks with Israel warned on Tuesday that Gaza violence could erupt anew unless progress is made...

A renewed truce between Israel and Hamas appeared to be holding on Thursday despite a shaky start, after both sides agreed to...

A Gaza ceasefire crumbled only hours after it began on Friday, with at least 40 Palestinians killed by Israeli shelling and Israel...

A grim-faced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Monday of a protracted war in Gaza, dashing any hopes of a swift...

A top Pentagon intelligence official warned on Saturday that the destruction of Hamas would only lead to something more dangerous taking its...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pressed regional leaders to nail down a Gaza ceasefire on Friday as the civilian death toll...

Gaza fighting raged on Wednesday, displacing thousands more Palestinians in the battered territory as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said efforts...

Israeli air strikes on Gaza killed four more Palestinians before dawn on Friday, raising the death toll from the four day offensive...

At least 77 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed in Israel's Gaza offensive, Palestinian officials said on Thursday, and militants...

After escaping shelling in Damascus and terrifying bloodshed at sea, 14 month-old Palestinian twin girls are now among hundreds of people living...

Israel blamed the Palestinians for rejecting a call to hold face-to-face peace talks when representatives of Middle East power brokers visit the...

Violence across the Israeli-Gaza border escalated today with Israeli air strikes killing at least three people and Palestinian militants firing rockets deep...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday led a chorus of United Nations officials in stressing the need for a just and lasting solution to...

The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) endorsed a decision by President Mahmoud Abbas to request a United Nations Security Council vote on a...

A key UN Security Council committee could not reach consensus on whether Palestine should be accepted as a UN member, a draft...

Israel decided to accelerate Jewish settlement building and withhold Palestinian Authority funds, moves likely to further hold up international efforts to revive...