Agents of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service hacked into the computer of a senior Syrian government official a year before Israel bombed a facility in Syria in 2007, according to Der Spiegel. The intelligence agents planted a Trojan horse on the...

Israel is denying Palestinians access to even the basic minimum of clean, safe water, Amnesty International says. In a report, the human rights group says Israeli water restrictions discriminate against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. It says...

Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has announced presidential and legislative elections will be held on January 24. The announcement on Friday said elections will be held across the Palestinian territories including the Hamas-ruled Gaza...

Israel’s prime minister has instructed his government to draw up plans for a “world wide campaign” to lobby for changes in the international laws of war. The order from Binyamin Netanyahu follows a special cabinet meeting on Tuesday...

The two parties, which fought a week-long civil war in 2007 that killed over 100 people, are due to sign a deal designed to pave the way for a unity government on Oct 26, the foreign ministers of Jordan and Egypt told reporters in Amman on Monday. The...

Fresh dates and chicken soup were served up at dusk on the sidewalk in the well-heeled suburb of Sheik Jarrah this week, as the evicted Palestinian al-Ghawi family spent another night camped outside their former home. Their stone house in Arab east...

The Israeli military used reckless force during the fighting in Gaza earlier this year, resulting in needless deaths and damage, a group of former Israeli soldiers charged in a report Wednesday. In testimonies collected by the organization Breaking the...

The frequent claims by Gaza’s 1.5 million residents that they live in a “big prison” have become a cliché. But they have been given fresh force by new Israeli procedures that make it virtually impossible for Palestinians to leave Gaza...

There were several reasons why Moeen Deeb left his satisfying $800-a-month job as a telephone engineer at PalTel not long after the end of Operation Cast Lead in January. But one was an inability to cope with the daily, pitying, looks of his workmates....

One person has been killed in clashes as Palestinian Authority forces tried to arrest several Hamas militants holed up in the West Bank, the PA says. A member of the security forces died when the militants threw a grenade at them as they surrounded a...