Israeli police stormed into the Al-Aqsa mosque on Wednesday to dislodge what it calls agitators in a move condemned as an "unprecendented crime" by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. The movement which rules the Gaza Strip appealed to Palestinians in the West Bank "to go en masse to the Al-Aqsa...

Thirty houses were burned and damaged, according to local officials, after dozens of Israeli settlers set them ablaze. Bezalel Smotrich, Israel's finance minister and an extreme-right settler, later said "Huwara needs to be wiped out", sparking widespread condemnation, including from the UAE, the UN, the United States and France.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said one person was killed in a pre-dawn Israeli army raid in Nablus in the northern West Bank, the scene of near-relentless violence over the past year.

Hamas confirmed its fighters were among the dead, saying in a statement the Gaza-based group was mourning members of its military wing killed "in an armed clash with the Zionist occupation". The early morning Israeli raid came amid a spike in Israeli-Palestinian violence and after days of what Jericho authorities...

During the three-decade rule of Islamist general Omar al-Bashir, Sudan was one of the staunchest supporters of Hamas and other militant groups, but since his ouster following mass protests in April 2019, the policy has been dropped. A spokesperson for Islamic Jihad, another Palestinian militant group, described the move as...

Gaza City, Palestinian Territories--Ramadan Abu Saif looked on as bulldozers ploughed into his neighbor's Gaza City home, knowing his could be next as an infrastructure project surges forward in the impoverished Palestinian enclave. Last month, Hamas that governs Gaza began demolishing 62 houses at Al-Shati refugee camp as they widen the...

Gaza City, Palestinian Territories--Israel conducted air strikes on the central Gaza Strip early Thursday, according to AFP journalists and witnesses, hours after intercepting a rocket fired from the Palestinian territory. New rounds of rockets were fired from Gaza after these strikes, and fresh explosions could be heard from Gaza City at...

Hours after Ben-Gvir's appearance at the sensitive site, Hamas and other militant groups held emergency meetings to discuss a "proportionate" response, sources within the movement told AFP. Overnight a single rocket was fired from Gaza, though it failed to cross into Israeli territory and the launch went unclaimed by any...

Hamas chief said indirect negotiations over a prisoner exchange were "interrupted because of the elections" in Israel. (AFP)

Gaza City, Palestinian Territories---Wearing sky blue overalls near Gaza's port, technician Mohammed Jerboa celebrates the chance to finally repair fishing boats after a 15-year Israeli ban on vital materials. It's a "great achievement", he said after sanding down the faded paint as part of a team of workers patching up...

Gaza City, Palestinian Territories— The Israeli air force said it had carried out overnight air strikes against sites of the Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip after a rocket was fired from the Palestinian enclave towards Israeli territory. The Israeli army reported on Saturday evening a rocket had been fired...

Israeli troops shot dead four Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said, and a suspected car-ramming attacker was killed after wounding an Israeli soldier, Israeli medics and the army said. The army confirmed its troops had fired on "rioters" who attacked soldiers in two separate clashes in the...

Since the last Arab League summit in 2019, several members of the 22-member bloc -- for decades a forum for strident declarations of support for the Palestinian cause -- have normalised ties with the Jewish state. The United Arab Emirates went first in a historic US-mediated deal that made the...

Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, was one of Assad's closest allies but left Syria in 2012 after condemning his government's brutal suppression of peaceful protests in March 2011, which triggered the country's descent into civil war. "The Hamas delegation arrived in Damascus on a two-day visit," during which Palestinian...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid met on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, a month after the countries announced the restoration of diplomatic ties following years of tensions. Lapid "brought up the issue of missing and captive Israelis and the importance of...

A rare operation by the Palestinian Authority security forces to arrest a Hamas member sparked clashes in the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday, killing one. A statement from the security forces confirmed the death of Firas Yaish and said they were "waiting for a medical report," on the...

Children make up nearly half of Gaza's population of 2.3 million. Most of them have never been able to leave the coastal territory.

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Wednesday urged Western powers to halt talks aimed at reviving a nuclear deal that he said would fill Iran's coffers and "undermine" Middle East stability. The 2015 accord, which is designed to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, has been on life-support since...

The fighting is the worst in Gaza since a war last year devastated the impoverished coastal territory, home to some 2.3 million Palestinians, and forced Israelis to seek shelter from rockets. Islamic Jihad, the primary target of Israeli attacks and many of whose leaders have been killed, has fired over...

Israeli warplanes raided the Gaza Strip before dawn on Saturday in what it said was a retaliatory strike for rocket fire from the Palestinian territory controlled by the Hamas.

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh met publicly for the first time in over five years, on the sidelines of Algerian independence anniversary celebrations.

Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas on Tuesday published a video of an Israeli Arab detained for seven years in the Palestinian enclave and considered unwell by Israel. Hamas alleges detainee Hisham al-Sayed, 34, is an Israeli soldier but both the Jewish state and his family say he is mentally unstable.

Israeli warplanes hit Hamas military sites in the Gaza Strip on Saturday in retaliation for rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave run by the Islamist movement, the Israeli army said.

Four out of five children in Gaza suffer from emotional distress, Save the Children said Wednesday, 15 years after Israel slapped a strict blockade on the Palestinian territory. Israel imposed the measure in June 2007, as fighters of the Hamas movement took control of the densely populated enclave. Israel, and...

While the UN Human Rights Council had previously ordered eight investigations into rights violations in the Palestinian territories, this was the first open-ended probe, and the first to examine "root causes" in the drawn-out conflict. It was also the first tasked with looking at systematic abuses committed within Israel.

A year after its devastating war with Israel, Hamas is faced with a dilemma: to keep up the armed struggle or to lay low and reconstruct the Gaza Strip? On May 10, 2021, weeks of clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem...

Carved out of limestone and 22 centimeters long, the 2500 BC statuette was found by a farmer working his land in Khan Younis, said Hamas ministry of tourism and antiquities.

Jordan king called on Gantz to "lift all obstacles that could prevent (Muslims) from performing prayers" at Al-Aqsa.

Central Elections Commission chief Hanna Nasser said a number of candidates had been arrested for political reasons.

Hamas condemned Turkey's decision to welcome "the Zionist occupation president" as Erdogan revives relation with Israel.

Relations between the two countries were frozen after the death of 10 civilians following an Israeli raid on the Turkish Mavi Marmara ship, part of a flotilla trying to breach a blockade by carrying aid into the Gaza Strip in 2010.

At a landfill in southern Gaza, mounds of discarded batteries pile up, rusting cells that pose a growing health risk to Palestinians in the enclave.

According to analyst, PLO is loosing its popularity among Palestinian people as many are frustrated over its failures to hold open elections for key positions.

Palestinians have not been to the ballot box for 16 years and Israel's right-wing nationalist Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has rejected their aspirations for a two-state solution.

Kuwait will ban a new film adaptation of Agatha Christie's whodunnit "Death on the Nile" with a cast of Hollywood stars including Israeli actress Gal Gadot, authorities said Sunday. The film, directed by and co-starring Kenneth Branagh, is due for release this month in the United States. The story is...

The remains of a fifth century Byzantine church were unveiled in Gaza on Monday following a three-year restoration project, with the strip's Hamas Islamist rulers touting an embrace of their "Christian brothers."

It was unclear who fired the projectiles as Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group that controls Gaza, did not claim responsiblity.

Israel shelled suspected Hamas military sites in Gaza Wednesday after gunfire from the Palestinian enclave wounded an Israeli civilian, security sources in Gaza said. Two Palestinian farmers were wounded by the Israeli artillery fire which targeted four suspected sites used by Hamas military wing the al-Qassam Brigades, the sources told...

An electrical short circuit in a store containing oxygen supplies for Covid patients caused the blast that rocked a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, the Islamist group Hamas said Saturday.

No legislative or presidential election has been held in the Palestinian territories for 15 years.

Egypt is helping Gaza rebuild after the last bout of fighting between Israel and the Hamas in May.

Home Secretary Priti Patel announced the move to bring Britain into line with the United States, which designated Hamas a terror group in 1995, and the European Union. Parliament will vote on the proposals next week and if successful, could become effective from next Friday.

Qatari support is considered a crucial lifeline for impoverished Palestinians living in Gaza, which has been under Israeli blockade since 2007.

The total number of permits being granted by Israel to Palestinian labourers in Gaza is 7,000.

Jerusalem: An Israeli operation to dismantle a Hamas cell in the West Bank sparked fierce gun battles at multiple locations Sunday, killing four Palestinians, Israel's army and Palestinian official sources said. The Palestinian health ministry confirmed a total of four deaths from Israeli gunfire, including one in Burqin near Jenin...

The row underlined that progressives are becoming increasingly skeptical of no-strings-attached aid to America’s key ally in the Middle East.

Considered a pragmatist, Haniyeh has been head of Hamas' political bureau since 2017

Security sources with Hamas said the strikes hit training sites Israel said incendiary balloons launched from Gaza sparked four minor fires Israel hit Islamist militant sites in Gaza with airstrikes on Friday in retaliation for incendiary balloon launches from the Palestinian enclave, in the latest unrest since a ceasefire ended...