UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process Nickolay Mladenov warned Thursday that the prospects for an independent Palestine State are disappearing, adding "The time has come to ring the alarm bells that the two-state solution is slipping from our fingers."
Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi on Sunday said the Islamic states should unite in the fight against terrorism, the state-run Petra news agency reported.
"Fatma", a mother of twins with a demanding workload, was distraught to discover she was pregnant again. Her doctor agreed to perform an abortion, she says, only after she promised to pretend the procedure had been a medical emergency.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday that the Palestinians are holding dialogue with a number of countries to pressure for holding an international conference for peace in the Middle East to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged Thursday the international community to support an international peace conference to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks that Israel has improved ties with Arab states are untrue, a senior Palestinian official confirmed Friday.
The Palestinians are determined to internationalize their cause, as an option to end the unfruitful peace talks with Israel which have been stalled since April 2014, according to analysts.
Palestinians are more pessimistic to reach a permanent peace with Israel in 2016 amid ongoing violent tension since October, an absence of a political horizon and more than eight years of internal split.
An ongoing wave of violent tensions between Israel and the Palestinians has rendered the hope to make peace between the two sides even slimmer.
A senior UN official on Wednesday called for "unprecedented vision" by Israelis and Palestinians to take the bold steps necessary for peace in the Middle East, saying the current bloodshed between the two sides "should not be accepted as 'the new normal'."
The UN General Assembly on Monday marked the 38th annual International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people, again seeing Palestinian diplomat trading barbs with the Israeli representative.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday announced more measures aimed at fighting Palestinian attackers, as a two-month-long wave of violence persists.
Violent tensions continue between Israel and the Palestinians which left two Palestinians killed Thursday in separate incidents in southern West Bank city of Hebron, Palestinian authorities said.
While UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon's recent surprise visit to Israel and Palestine would be helpful to boost global attention to the Palestinian cause in the war-torn Middle East, real solutions to the calm the tensions between the two conflicting sides are still sadly distant, local official and expert said.
Israel said on Monday it is working to thwart a Palestinian proposal to a United Nations body to recognize the Jerusalem site of the Western Wall as a Muslim holy site.
More Palestinians shot dead by Israel after serial stabbing attacks, PLO urges votes for UN resolution
Surrounded by Israeli police, Israa Abed holds a knife in one hand and a cellphone in the other before shots ring out and she falls to the ground.
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