Palestine Politics News

Israeli inspectors trying to enforce a government moratorium on new building starts in Jewish settlements ran into defiance on Tuesday at an enclave in the occupied West Bank. About a dozen settlers turned out at a building site in the...

IsraelNN.com) Defense Minister Ehud Barak arrived via helicopter to the Samarian town of Beit El moments ago, accompanied by dozens of security and army personnel.

Israel will free 17 prisoners from East Jerusalem as part of a deal with Hamas for the release of abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, the London-based Al-Hayyat daily reported on Monday. Ten of those prisoners will be exiled...

Kadima's number-two man, former defense minister Shaul Mofaz, presented his plan for a Palestinian state with temporary borders to his faction at the Knesset on Monday, taking heat from other former ministers. Mofaz presented the plan two weeks after Kadima...

Hamas political bureau official Muhammad Nazzal said, “Hamas is not afraid of elections since we know we have the people's support,” but insisted that the party had to have some say in the makeup of the election commission. Nazzal, interviewed...

Palestinian history is at one of its most serious and important junctures. The peace negotiations that commenced with the Oslo accords in 1993 are at an end. Even hardened devotees of the peace process with Israel have now given up...

Young men had linked arms and performed the Palestinian folk dance, the Dabkha, with its fast, stamping steps. But this was not quite enough excitement for some in the crowd, and a brawl broke out...And as he led us away...

Hadar Shavit, 39, from the town of Lapid.   Shavit, a veteran pilot, revealed only upon boarding the helicopter that Ran Lapid, a distant relative of his, would be at the helm. Lapid was also killed in the crash. "I...

Medics and other witnesses said two of the air raids struck supply tunnels on the border between the blockaded coastal sliver and Egypt, whereas the strike in the eastern part of Gaza City targeted a weapons manufacturing facility...Gaza continues to...