Palestine
India may end support to Palestine at UN
In what is seen as a major shift in foreign policy, India may abstain from voting in favour of the Palestinian cause at the UN General Assembly, The Hindu...
EU backs Palestinian state and removes Hamas from terrorist blacklist
The European Parliament overwhelmingly backed the recognition of a Palestinian state “in principle” on Wednesday, following a series of votes...
Hague-based ICC accepts Palestine’s observer status
Palestine has secured an observer status at the International Criminal Court (ICC), which paves the way for the Palestinians to sue senior Israeli officials...
French vote urges recognition of Palestinian state
France’s lower house of Parliament voted Tuesday to urge the government to recognize a Palestinian state, in the hope that it would speed up peace...
Weary of Middle East conflict, France to debate recognition of Palestine
French lawmakers will today debate a motion urging the government to recognise Palestine as a state, amid growing European frustration at the moribund...
Israel criticises Swedish plan to recognise state of Palestine
Israel has described a plan by Sweden’s new centre-left government to recognise the state of Palestine as being ill-considered in the absence of...
At least 10 killed in Gaza as shells fly in both directions
Israel launched more than 20 aerial attacks in Gaza on Saturday, killing five Palestinians, and militants fired rockets at Israel as the conflict entered...
Egypt-brokered Gaza truce holds as peace talks set to begin
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that ended a month of fighting is holding for a second day, ahead of negotiations in Cairo on a long-term truce and...
Clashes spread after autopsy finds Palestinian boy was ‘burned alive’
Clashes sparked by the abduction and murder of a Palestinian teenager spread from east Jerusalem to Arab towns inside Israel on Saturday, as autopsy reports...
Innocents caught in the crossfire between Israel, Palestine and Syria
Israeli troops shot dead a mentally ill 27-year-old Palestinian who approached them in a West Bank refugee camp on Sunday, Reuters reports.
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