A Palestinian youth stabbed and wounded an Israeli girl at a West Bank settlement before he was shot dead on Thursday morning, Israeli officials said.
At least 82 percent of the Palestinians in East Jerusalem live in poverty, almost two times of the figure in entire Jerusalem, an Israeli research center said Wednesday.
Paris is now working hard to sell to the international community its initiatives to end the stalemate in the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, yet its efforts may not fare well in the face of plain rejection by the rival parties.
The winner of this "election" for Palestinian president was a 24-year-old lawyer from east Jerusalem, who defeated a woman and a Christian from Bethlehem. But this was reality television — not real life — and the vote came on a TV show called "The President" that is meant to educate young Palestinians about politics.
Three Palestinian teens from east Jerusalem were arrested for allegedly carrying out a stabbing attack in Jerusalem earlier in May, Israeli police said on Monday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed on Tuesday the remarks by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on the necessity of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
The Palestinians all over the world and in the Palestinian territories in particular marked on Sunday 68 years for al-Nakba (Catastrophe) Day, or the day when the state of Israel was created, where they insisted on the right of return to their homes in their towns and villages.
Depression and homesickness can be easily read on the wrinkled face of 82-year-old Palestinian Musbah Haniya. He spent 68 years of his life as refugee in the Gaza Strip after his hometown became part of Israel following the 1948 Israeli-Arab war.
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."
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.
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'."
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.
A total of 50 Palestinians, including at least 10 children, had been killed amid the recent flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian tensions since the start of October, Palestine's Minister of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday.
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.
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