The Jerusalem Municipal Committee for Planning and Building is expected to approve Monday the construction of two buildings that will include 13 apartments for Jewish residents in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem.

GAZA, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) — Israel has been preparing the ground for a new military operation in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian official said Thursday, following Israeli fire injured two people in northern Gaza.

There is no need to delve too deeply to assess the wondrous intentions of the Israeli government, which yesterday resolved to build “a detention facility for infiltrators” in the Negev. Indeed, the intentions are there for all to see, since...

ERUSALEM — Israel is awaiting written details of a US package of incentives being offered in exchange for a new ban on Jewish construction in the West Bank, a senior Israeli official said on Tuesday. “There are understandings between the US...

The Palestinian president has left the door open to continuing peace negotiations with Israel even if it resumes settlement construction in the West Bank, offering a glimmer of hope that a compromise will be reached in a key dispute that has threatened...

Israeli and Palestinian leaders are to hold further talks in Jerusalem, a day after discussing the core issues behind the conflict at meetings in Egypt. US Middle East envoy George Mitchell, who helped broker Tuesday’s delicate negotiations, said...

Israelis usher in the Jewish new year, or Rosh Hashana, at sundown Wednesday with a widespread sense of pessimism that a new round of U.S.-sponsored Mideast talks can achieve peace. President Barack Obama wants a deal within a year, but Israelis are...

“I wish these pictures reached leftists abroad,” my friend said to herself Tuesday as she watched Hamas police use rifle butts and clubs to beat her friends - activists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Although my...

Hamas chief Khaled Meshal on Tuesday called on all states to cut diplomatic ties with Israel and urged Moscow and Washington to make it end its blockade of Gaza, after nine people died when Israel raided Gaza-bound aid ships. Israel seized six ships en...

Israeli police have entered Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque compound to disperse Palestinian protesters who they said threw stones at police officers and Jewish worshippers nearby. Security forces fired tear gas canisters and stun grenades to...