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Benoit Hamon, the French Socialist Party’s candidate to the upcoming presidential elections Wednesday announced on his facebook page he would recognize the Palestinian State when he is elected on April 23 or May 7. The candidate who met on Wednesday Read more
An extremist group in the Sinai Peninsula loyal to the Islamic State group has fired several missiles into Israel from Egypt on Thursday prompting retaliation from the Israeli Defense Forces. The missiles targeted the port town of Eilat, the southernmost Read more
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and many world leaders have condemned on Tuesday the law passed by the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, that gave legal status to what had been considered by Israel so far as illegal settlement outposts. Speaking at Read more
A law legalizing Israeli settlements built on privately-owned Palestinian land was approved by the Israeli parliament on Monday prompting strong condemnations from the Palestinians. Saeb Erekat, a leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, said the approval legalizes the “theft of Read more
President Donald Trump has sent his first message to Israel after it announced plans to establish a new settlement of 2000 homes in the West Bank saying the plan is unhelpful. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters that Read more
A senior Palestinian official has confirmed that the Palestinian Authority has received the $221 million transfer authorized by former US president Barack Obama hours before he handed over power to Donald Trump. Husam Zomlot, strategic affairs advisor to President Mahmoud Read more
Israel has issued a travel advisory warning against travelling or visiting Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and urging Israelis presently in the area to leave because of a “very high and concrete” threat of an imminent attack. A statement by the Counter Read more
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has warned U.S. President-elect Donald Trump against sidelining the nuclear agreement that was reached between the so-called P5+1 because it is a “finished” deal that has been “approved by the UN Security Council and has become Read more
The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) has announced that Hamas is behind a social media scam on Facebook seeking to lure Israeli soldiers into a relationship that it dubbed a “honey pot” trap to get access to the information on their Read more
Jordan’s Information Minister Mohammed Momani has warned US President-elect Donald Trump against going ahead with his campaign promises of moving the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Momani stressed that implementing the campaign promise “will definitely affect Read more