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Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki has submitted Palestine’s dossier to the International Criminal Court’s Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda accusing Israel of committing war crimes during last year’s war and implementing illegal settlements on Palestinian territory. The move has raised eyebrows Read more
Tel Aviv refused Sunday France’s proposal for the resumption of peace talks between Israel and Palestine, necessary to end the stalemate and avoid a possible explosion of the region. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted the French Foreign Minister’s statements during Read more
The consensus government known as the Unity government between Hamas and Fatah could resign in the following hours after some officials of the Revolutionary Council of the Fatah movement who were present at a meeting held in Ramallah with President Mahmoud Abbas Read more
The Palestinian government has frowned at an Israeli government report on the 2014 Gaza war which lasted for 50 days that the U.N claimed killed around 2,200 Palestinians, mainly civilians, and 73 Israelis, most of them soldiers. The report prepared Read more
Stephane Richard, CEO of Orange, visited Israel to meet Netanyahu and former president Shimon Peres after his comments about his desire to leave Israel were criticized. Activists have been calling for the boycott of Israel and Richard stated in Cairo Read more
The meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Ministerial Council ended in Riyadh with a statement dwelling on all the issues confronting the Middle East and North Africa. The six-member body also criticized some countries for their actions against the Read more
Palestinian-Israeli talks could not be resumed unless settlements in the occupied territories are stopped. This was the reply of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to Netanyahu’s call to resume negotiations with Palestine “without preconditions.” President Abbas replied to Netanyahu from Serbia Read more
Israeli Defense Minister, Moshe Yaalon, expressed the Israeli government’s concern over Washington’s weapons supply to Gulf States to offset the Iranian threat. Speaking at a security conference about the need to maintain Israel’s “qualitative edge”, Yaalon has voiced the fear Read more
U.N Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has decided to forgo the recommendations of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui, to include Israel and the Palestinian Gaza-based Hamas organization in the UN blacklist of States Read more
On Wednesday, rockets fired from Gaza into Israel landed in open fields near the city of Ashkelon and the town of Netivot without any casualties or injuries. This is the second time that Israel has been targeted from Gaza in Read more