But the Israeli government retains control over all of Gaza's border crossings, except for the transit point to Egypt; the strip's airspace and coastal waters; and the population registry used to assign Palestinian identity cards. The Unit…

Three years ago the Israel-Palestine Centre for Research and Information (IPCRI), a think-tank in Jerusalem, conducted studies of some school textbooks on both sides. It found gradual improvements over previous years, but still a lot of pr…

JERUSALEM: An up-to-date Israeli government register shows that 32.4 percent of the property held by Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is private, according to the advocacy group that sued the government to obtain the data.The …

NABLUS, West Bank: Their worried parents call them the lost generation of Palestine: its most radical, most accepting of violence, and most despairing.They are the children of the second intifada that began in 2000, growing up in a territo…

Eisin said the Israeli government would continue contacts with Abbas. But she said those talks would focus on security and humanitarian issues, not the emergence of a Palestinian state. The new cabinet includes nine members of Hamas and si…

JERUSALEM, March 15 ― The Hamas-led Palestinian government, boycotted by the West since its election more than a year ago because of Hamas’s support of terrorism, announced Thursday a unity coalition with the more moderate Fatah movement i…

By Tim Butcher, Middle East Correspondent Last Updated: 2:21am GMT 05/03/2007 Saudi officials have been working hard to end the political stand off in Lebanon and last month they brokered a historic agreement in Mecca between the Palestini…

JERUSALEM, Feb. 25 ― The Israeli Army put the large West Bank city of Nablus under curfew on Sunday in one of the biggest military operations there in two years.The Israeli forces discovered an explosives laboratory in Nablus, the second o…

Russia and the US were at odds yesterday over relations with a planned Palestinian national unity government, revealing divisions that are likely to further hamper efforts to reinvigorate international backing for a Middle East peace initi…

But European officials appeared more willing to hold out the possibility of finding members of a new unity government with whom to work. "There are ways that we can be flexible," one European official said.The Russian foreign minister, Ser…

BERLIN, Feb. 21 -- European and U.S. officials on Wednesday sought to play down emerging differences over the new Palestinian unity government during a meeting of a high-level group that monitors efforts to end the Israeli-Palestinian conf…

The fight over Hamas began in earnest last year when the United States and Europe cut off most of the $1 billion in direct aid to the Palestinian government after Hamas took control by besting Fatah in legislative elections. Unable to cove…

AMMAN: Israel said Tuesday it would stop dealing with the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, if he went ahead with plans to join Hamas in a new government, as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Arab allies sought a way to break the…

Yet Mr. Shatat may be one of the few Gazans who see a ray of hope. Partly through his persistence, construction has begun on 300 homes in the sand dunes next to the former Jewish settlement of Rafiah Yam. Along with a neighboring school, t…

Israeli and Palestinian leaders are embroiled in a bitter dispute over what topics should be on the agenda of next week's trilateral summit. The summit, involving Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and…

JERUSALEM, Feb. 9 ― Israeli troops charged onto the grounds of Jerusalem’s most contentious religious site on Friday and fired tear gas and stun grenades at stone-throwing Palestinians who were protesting Israeli excavation work taking pla…

The United States will also be reluctant to dismiss what the Saudis have accomplished, given Washington's interest in creating a broader moderate Arab coalition, including Egypt, Jordan and the Gulf countries, to confront Iran's nuclear am…

ハマスの組織構成がよくわからん。ハリド・メシャルってどういう立場なんだ。 MECCA: The Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah agreed Thursday to form a unity government and settle some of the disputes that have led to months of violence between…

MECCA, Saudi Arabia, Feb. 6 ― Leaders of the two main Palestinian parties, Hamas and Fatah, on Tuesday began a two-day Saudi-brokered effort to agree on a unity government that could end a wave of violence in the Gaza Strip and the West Ba…

Concern is mounting inthe international aid community that policies aimed at isolating the Palestinian Authority's ruling Hamas movement have backfiredby further impoverishingthe people of Gaza andthe West Bank without seriously underminin…