Veteran Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi resigns
In resignation statement, Ashrawi, one of the few women to hold a senior position in the Palestinian leadership, calls for ...
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Israel summons Russian envoy for calling Jewish state a Mideast 'problem'
Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov also suggests that Jerusalem’s ignoring of the Palestinian issue is the root cause for ...
'Missile used in Jiddah attack should have been fired at Eilat'
Houthi official Abd al-Wahhab al-Mahbashi says the Iran-backed militia should be attacking Israel but is "forced" to target Saudi Arabia, ...
World Bank: Palestinian economy to contract 8% in 2020
In its report, the World Bank says unemployment in the West Bank is at 18.2% and 48.5% in Hamas-controlled Gaza.
High Court rejects tougher sentence for soldier who shot 2 Palestinians
Families argued that plea bargain did not reflect severity of the shooting; soldier's attorneys: He was operating alone in very ...
Rashida Tlaib under fire for snark about Biden's pick for secretary of state
Rep. Tlaib (D-Michigan) says she is fine with Anthony Blinken as long as he doesn't "suppress" her right to criticize ...
The main goal: A united front against Iran
Despite increasingly warm relations, Saudi officials say that their government will stop short of open normalization with Israel, but is ...
Gaza's health system may soon collapse due to COVID-19
Seventy-nine of Gaza's 100 ventilators have been taken up by COVID-19 patients, said Abdelraouf Elmanama, a microbiologist who is part ...
UN panel approves resolution backing Palestinian self-determination
General Assembly's Third Committee passes the draft resolution in a 163:5 vote, with 10 member states abstaining.
German FM warns unilateral action could hurt Mideast talks
"Creating facts unilaterally won’t help us in this already difficult situation," Germany’s top diplomat, Heiko Maas, tells reporters after meeting ...