Tag: Palestine
Palestinians granted full membership in UNESCO
The United Nations' cultural agency granted the Palestinians full membership a step forward in their long-running efforts to achieve recognition before the...
Gaza violence simmers after truce announced
Violence between Israel and Gaza militants flared anew Sunday after Egypt said it had brokered a truce to end attacks that have...
Abbas faults Arab refusal of 1947 U.N. Palestine plan
Arabs made a "mistake" by rejecting a 1947 U.N. proposal that would have created a Palestinian state alongside the nascent Israel, Palestinian...
Abbas says to discuss PA fate with Hamas
President Mahmoud Abbas plans to discuss the fate of the Palestinian Authority with his rivals Hamas next month, raising questions over its...
Israeli soldier, Palestinians freed in captive swap
Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and hundreds of Palestinians crossed Israel's borders in opposite directions as a thousand-for-one prisoner swap brought joy to...
Hamas success may push Abbas further down U.N. path
The huge Palestinian prisoner release won by Hamas in exchange for a lone Israeli soldier has drawn praise from those in the...
Quartet to hold separate talks with Mideast parties
International mediators will meet separately with Israeli and Palestinian officials on October 26 in Jerusalem to try to revive direct peace talks...
Israel-Palestinian swap due in Sinai next week
Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit will be freed from five years of captivity in the Gaza Strip some time next week in exchange...
EU asks Israel, Palestinians to meet soon
The European Union said on Sunday it plans to invite Israeli and Palestinian representatives to meet "in the coming days" to discuss...
UNESCO meeting debates Palestinian membership and greater focus on Africa
The Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has concluded its latest session during which it debated...
Palestinians say will work with Blair
A senior Palestinian official added his voice to calls for the replacement of international Middle East envoy Tony Blair, but the office...
Palestinians unhappy with envoy Tony Blair
Palestinian officials are going public with long-whispered complaints that international Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, is...
Council takes first step on Palestinian UN bid
The UN Security Council took its first step on the Palestinian application to join the United Nations by handing it to a...
UN council discusses Palestinian UN membership bid
The UN Security Council met behind closed doors for a preliminary discussion of last week's Palestinian application for full UN membership, a...
UN will take weeks on Palestinian bid – Abbas
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he expected the Security Council to finish debating his nation's application for full United Nations membership in...
Abbas says no talks without Israeli settlement freeze
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas repeated his refusal to talk with Israel without a settlement freeze after international mediators, responding to his United...
SA backs Palestine’s UN bid
South Africa has given its support to the Palestinian bid for full membership in the world body, the United Nations, with President...
Palestinians confident on UN vote, but veto looms
The Palestinian foreign minister said he was confident the UN Security Council would vote to recognise Palestinian statehood and urged the United...
Abbas presses Palestinian UN bid despite warnings
President Mahmoud Abbas told the UN chief he would seek full membership for a Palestinian state at the United Nations, a...
Settler attacks raise West Bank tension ahead of UN
An escalation in Jewish settler attacks on Palestinian villages in the Israeli-occupied West Bank risks triggering retaliation, a Palestinian official said, pointing...
US vows to veto Palestinian statehood bid at UN
The United States said explicitly for the first time it would veto a Palestinian bid for full U.N. membership, drawing an immediate...
West Bank mosque hit after partial outpost demolition
Jewish settlers set fire to a mosque in the occupied West Bank Palestinians said, in a likely reprisal for Israel's dismantling of...
Palestinians keeping options open on UN
The Palestinians have yet to decide how they will press their statehood agenda at the United Nations this month, a Palestinian official...
Israel vows “tolerance” for Palestinian protests
A senior officer said that Israeli soldiers would show "much more tolerance" towards Palestinian demonstrations than in the past thanks to riot-control...
EU states divided on Palestinian statehood bid
European Union governments sought a common approach on Friday to a possible Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations this month...
US tries to stall Palestinian statehood bid – report
Washington has launched an effort to avoid a clash stemming from plans by Palestinians to seek recognition as a state at the...
U.N. panel faults both sides in Gaza flotilla clash
A long-awaited UN report on an Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound ship that killed nine Turks declares that Israel's naval blockade of...
Israel says Palestine upgrade at U.N. would be mistake
Upgrading the Palestinians' U.N. status would be a "strategic mistake by the world", a senior Israeli official said yesterday, cautioning that Israel...
Israeli army trains settlers to confront protests
Israel's military has been training Jewish settler security units to cope with any eruption of Palestinian protests alongside a planned bid for...
Israeli sends extra warships to patrol Red Sea
Israel said yesterday it had sent two extra warships to patrol the Red Sea but it downplayed reports that they were connected...
Israel says Gaza gets anti-plane arms from Libya
Palestinians in Gaza have acquired anti-aircraft and anti-tank rockets from Libya during its six-month civil war, enlarging but not significantly improving their...
Palestinian injures eight in Tel Aviv – police
A Palestinian from the occupied West Bank commandeered a taxi in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv before dawn Monday, stabbing the...
El Salvador recognizes Palestine as independent state
El Salvador recognized Palestine as an independent state in the midst of a drive by the Arab League to upgrade it to...
Stratfor: Israeli-Arab crisis approaching
In September, the U.N. General Assembly will vote on whether to recognize Palestine as an independent and sovereign state with full rights...
Palestine’s U.N. bid: Between history and hot air
President Mahmoud Abbas' attempt to upgrade the Palestinians' status at the United Nations, despite U.S. and Israeli opposition, signals a bolder approach...
Israeli air strike wounds Gaza gunman – medics
An Israeli air strike wounded a Palestinian gunman in the Gaza Strip before dawn and remains were found of another man killed...
Two months on, Palestinian unity proves elusive
Two months after announcing a surprise reconciliation deal to end years of feuding, rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah remain at loggerheads,...
Fatah, Hamas see new Palestinian government next week
Palestinian officials said they would be ready to unveil a new unity government at a meeting between Palestinian President and Fatah leader...
Stratfor: the Palestinian move
A former head of Mossad, Meir Dagan, has publicly criticised the current Israeli government for a lack of flexibility, judgment and foresight,...